Dying To Yourself (Old Self)

One must die in order to live. What?

In a sense, a good part of the population are walking corpses. No identity other than the one what we have picked up from what society tells us we should be.

We buy into the lies that we need to be a certain way because of the way we look or the color of our skin, or the heritage and places we hail from.

All simply programs running that cover up our true identity.

So when I say dying to yourself, I mean dying to the you (and me) that we have created in order to meet in a manner that we think it wants us to meet it as.

Once this happens, or begins to happen, there is a flow to the world for us.

We no longer case as much, or at all what people think about us. Fear is in a sense, diminished as we no longer are attached to outcomes.

A childlike essence manifests itself as we are now able to live from a more true vantage point, more congruent with our true essence. The one we we born with and simply covered up.

So dying to yourself means that you are killing off any part that we “thought” was the self. The real self. That ended up just being the mask we wore.

From this point, we can really relate to the quote from Fight Club:

“It is only after you’ve lost everything, that you are free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden

This freedom, comes after we “lose” what we aren’t. And gain back our true identity.

But how do we do this?

I am glad you asked.

Here are some tips I can offer you that can help you die to your old self, force a dark night of the soul. And emerge from it in an entirely new light.

Let’s begin!

4 Tips For Transformation 

Be OK With Not Being Understood

We all have an addiction to being accepted, being popular, going with the grain. And yet, we are sheep in this manner. And where are sheep led? To slaughter. Or they walk right off the side of a mountain together. One after another.

This is a metaphor for the spiritual death we lead ourselves to when we are not leading our lives. Doing what is congruent to our souls. And living a life on our own terms.

So in order to die to yourself, you and I need to be saying what we mean and meaning what we say. Let go of the primal need to be accepted by the group.

This spans back to where we lived in caves. And if we did anything bad, we would be kicked out of the cave and made to survive out in the wild. Where death was pretty much certain, being alone.

Nowadays, that isn’t the case anymore. If we get kicked out of the group, we can still go home to our safe haven. We can find another group. Or we can simply be completely safe and survive, as well as thrive alone.

So dying to ourselves simply means living a life on our own souls terms. You and I know deep down what we want to do in our lives. What we want to do for work, pleasure, who we want to date. How we want to present ourselves to the world.

Sure you are going to meet resistance, when you venture into the realm of the unknown. When you take a job that your family didn’t want you to take. When you choose a political party that isn’t congruent with “your” beliefs. When you date someone that may not be “right” for you when it comes to the “type” people think you should be with.

F*** em! We begin living, when we get to this level. When we become Hootless. When we no longer give a hoot! This is dying to ourselves, so we can rise beautifully out of our own ashes.

Cut Ties 

We know the people we shouldn’t be hanging out with. Some people are just not meant to exist in our new world.

They may have served a purpose before. And yet, there are people to whom are anchors to use. That we need to cut links with if we are going to go to the next level.

And by all means, I am not saying that we are perfect, maybe we are an anchor to them too.

But who is a person in your life that you know is more so pissing on your fire, instead of adding fuel to it?

Cut them off. Lets commit together, right now, to do so. That they just have to go, most likely completely. In order for us to breakaway from bad habits that are keeping us down. And adopt good habits because we are no longer under the influence of a toxic relationship.

Get Rid of ONE Bad Habit

There is an awesome book called the One Thing. It is written by Gary Keller whom owns Keller Williams Real Estate.

He talks about we can always trace our day back to ONE thing that can make the entire difference in our day, week, month or even life.

That we can keep chipping away at things until we eliminate everything but one thing. Then we commit a certain amount of time to doing just that FIRST.

If we do that first, then everything else either becomes a lot less important or totally irrelevant.

What is the ONE bad habit that you and I can give up that can make all the difference in our world?

Maybe for you, it is giving up alcohol because if you do so, not only will you be more effective at work, but you will also have enough energy to hit the gym everyday. And because you feel better, you will treat your wife and kids better.

For me, I have to give up dabbling with pharmaceuticals. I would taking them sporadically to get away from my thoughts and darkness.

And yet, it will catch up at some point.

We must go through things to grow through them. The more we resist, the more it persists.

Thus is life.

So in order to obliterate our ONE bad habit, we need to bring the most pure form of our own vibration to it.

We need to take a stand. Use the power of disgust. Get so disgusted with our old toxic habit, that we commit to never going back to it. Ever again.

Let me know in the comment section below, what habit you are committing to give up.

And don’t look at it as giving up, look at it this way:

“From now on I refuse to give up, the only thing I ever gave up is using.” – Eminem 

Giving up this bad habit, is going to make you and I so much more powerful. We are giving up to gain is what we are really doing.

So today, lets take a stand together and threaten our bad habit, with the wholehearted commitment to never go back to it, ever again.

This will have us die to a big part of ourselves, in a big way!

Slowly but surely, we will meet the world with a new energy and vigor. And be vibrating at a higher consciousness. Which will help us give up other bad habits because we are born anew and more powerful.

Embrace Pain

Pain is part of the process of life. The things that suck the most end up bringing us the most gratification and satisfaction.

So in order to die to ourselves, we need to cut away a lot of fear we have. And the only way to do so is to meet fear with a higher intensity than it meets us.

So when we are scared to do something, how do we meet that fear with a higher vibration than the fear itself?

ACTION.

Fast action.

So lets say we are scared to ask someone out. WE go to worse case scenarios right away. And because we allow those thoughts to creep into our mind, we don’t take action. And then we feel bad about ourselves because we didn’t take action.

We either put it off for another day, that we know realistically, may never come. Or we decide to give up on conquering that fear.

My friend. We only live this life once.

No matter what happens with our fears, our life will be over soon anyways. So if we make a big flop of ourselves through acting upon our fear.

Well first off, because we acted, we showed ourselves that we can overcome other fears. So we will meet other, even bigger fears with more courage.

We will also realize that it wasn’t as bad as we thought it was going to be.

Most people do not act upon their fears. So we can die to our old self very quickly if we start facing fears we have.

Face them, right on the spot.

Lets commit to each other today. That you and I, next time we meet a fear, we will punish it with fast action.

It is said, that if we don’t act within 5 seconds, we will most likely not act. As the fear will win. It will start to look, feel and act bigger than it is. This front makes us stall and ultimately probably not act.

So you and I , today, will start to act on our fears with speed so fast it’ll make fears head spin.

Conclusion To Dying To Yourself

So that is it today my friends. 4 quick tips on how to die to your old sef and emerge anew. Refreshed, and better than ever.

As our bada** self is residing underneath our old skin right now.

It is time to shed that skin and show the world what we are really made of.

I hope you enjoyed the article.

Let me know your advice about the topic below. I really look forward to hearing your perspectives on the subject.

Also, let me know what fear you are most excited to transcend and overcome in the comment section below!

Chat soon.

With gratitude,

Chris Cucchiara

 

 

Quotes About Accomplishment

Accomplishment can mean a lot of things to people. One may be having a million dollars in the bank. For another it may mean raising beautiful and smart children. And for another it may even be simply doing better than the last generation. There are so many takes on what achievement is. As we will see in the list of quotes about accomplishment below.

All in all, my personal opinion about what accomplishment is, is that it is staying true and congruent in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Going after things in life because you wan them. Not someone else. Your goals, your dreams, your ambitions.

And even if you haven’t achieved, just the pursuit of yours and I’s worthy ideas are success and achievement to me.

And whenever we are not, we don’t feel good about ourselves. We are less optimistic, and have less hope for the future.

As when there is little hope in the future, there is a lot less power and energy in the present. Compared to what we could have if we were constantly in pursuit of what we truly wanted in this life.

Again, that is just my opinion on What is Success and Achievement.

Although I would love to hear what it means to you in the comment section.

So check out the list and let’s chat after you are done!

101 Quotes on Accomplishment

“It is important that when we make resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the action necessary to accomplish that goal.” – Steve Maraboli

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain

“My accomplishments may seem small to others, but they have brought big blessings into my life. And for that, Lord I’m forever grateful.” – Myrna Gamas Cajilog

“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.” – Wilma Rudolph

“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.”_  Heywood Broun

“You measure the size of accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington

“The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.” – R G Letourneau

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling but rising every time you fall.” – Vince Lombardi

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

“Nothing builds self esteem and self confidence like accomplishments.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Todays accomplishments were yesterdays possibilities.” – Robert H. Schuler

“It is perhaps life’s greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one’s wits, one’s sense of humor, one’s health and one’s charm.” – Yehudi Menuhin

“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“I get up every morning, determined to both change the world, and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.” –  E. B. White

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo DaVinci

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.” – Henry Rollins

“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished but, raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.” – Mia Hamm

“To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities, in all walks of life, we must strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies, and develop our minds to the limit of our capabilities.” – Joseph N. Flates

“To continue to succeed, you cannot sit on your accomplishments of yesterday, but rather continue to strive for your accomplishments of tomorrow.” – Briana Walker

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama

“Keep moving, mo matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination.” – Unknown

“A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo

“There is no magic to achievement. It is really about hard work, choices and persistence.” – Michelle Obama

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken towards it’s achievement.” – Bo Bennett

“If you have a heartbeat, there’s still time for your dreams.” – Sean Stephenson

“All dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“It always seems impossible til it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Excellence is never an accident, it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see the obstacles as opportunities.” – Aristotle

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F. Kennedy

“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown

“Success is not an activity, but a process.” – Unknown

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – OScar Wilde

“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“Even the smallest achievements pave the way to great success.” – Mary Kay Ash

“Without failure, there is no achievement.” – John C. Maxwell

“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

“Every achievement big or small, begins in your own mind.” – Mary Kate Ash

“Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Unknown

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.” – Albert Einstein

“It’s not about perfect, it’s about effort. And when you bring that effort, every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” – Julian Michaels

“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.” – W. Clement Stone

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” – Zig Ziglar

“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill

“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

“Always do your best. What you plant now will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

“Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” – Albert Einstein

“Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.” – Robin S. Sharma

“Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.” – Robert K Greenleaf

“A great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou

“Behind great achievements there are much greater sacrifices.” – Sahina

“Sometimes carry on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” – Unknown

“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.” – Denis Waitley

“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself, and to be worth of your own approval.” – Dennis Waitley

“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” – Kalpana Chawla

“It is not the position but the disposition.” – J.E. Dinger

“The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.” – Og Mandino

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.” – Harold Wilkins

“One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.” – Napoleon Hill

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Unknown

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

“You will come to know what appears today to be a sacrifice, will prove instead to be the greatest investment you will ever make.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown

“If my mind can conceive it, my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

“The greatest achievement in my life thus far has been to love you and be loved by you.” – Unknown

“Life is not about achievement, its about learning, growing, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love and joy.” – Jack Canfield

“Achievement results form work realizing ambition.” – Adam Ant

“Every accomplishment was believed to be impossible at one time.” – Unknown

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”- Eleanor Roosevelt

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine

“Success is no accident. It is hard work. Perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Unknown

“If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision passes the time. vision without action can change the world.” – Joel Barker

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J Meyer

“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown

“Vision without action is hallucination.” – Don Chilton

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard for it.” – Unknown

“Everyone can rise above their circumstance and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you want to achieve success, then don’t doubt your dreams.” – Ryan D’Souza

“Patience is not a virtue, it’s an achievement.” – Vera Nazarian

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

“Help others achieve their dreams, and you will achieve yours.” – Les Brown

The first thing to achieving your goal is to take a moment to respect your goal, know what it means to you to achieve it.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals, and win big successes.” – David Joseph Schwartz

“Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.” – Lailah Gifty

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time but a dream.” – Napoleon Hill

Conclusion To Achievement Quotes

There we are my friend. A myriad of quotes on achieving in life.

Let me know what your favorite achieving quote was for you and which one brought you the most motivation.

Also, I would love to hear your advice on the subject of achieving. What your biggest achievement has been yet so far.

Along with what achievement would mean the most to you if you got it in this life.

Chat in the comment section!

With gratitude,

Chris Cucchiara

 

Affirmations For Relationships

Great relationships, both Romantic relationships and platonic ones, add so much dimension to our existence. They make our world so much more colorful. Because of this, I wanted to offer you a myriad of different affirmations for relationships so we can really get the most out of our people in life.

I wrote out both ones to strengthen current relationships if you are in one. As well as positive affirmations for love for us so that we can really find that right one and feel as if we have all it takes to attract the love of our life.

So wherever you are on the spectrum, you can enjoy powerful affirmations to both attract love along with find love in this world!

Enjoy my friend.

How To Use Affirmations

So there is an old saying that any technique will work for us as hard as we work for it. So when it comes to the utilization of these positive affirmations, we can really master our world with them if we use them often.

I am not talking about just relying on them to change things. Although they will. We can really start to us them thought, when we monitor our thought process. When we catch ourselves getting caught up in limiting beliefs.

Self mastery is a great process of monitoring ourself and our thought process. And then essentially punishing those limitings beliefs with positive and self empowering beliefs.

So that is my tip on using affirmations. Of course there is power in repetition. But again we can really start mastering our relationships through simply replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts.

So for example when a negative thought comes up about your relationship, say that you feel as if you aren’t enough for your mate. Then you immediately replace it with a positive one saying that you are more than enough and that this fact is felt deeply by your mate.

OK, lets get into it!

Single Affirmations For Relationships (Getting Into One)

I am attracting my soul mate.

I am all that one would ever want and need.

I am enough for a beautiful and thriving relationship.

Although I know I am enough without a relationship, I open myself up completely to attracting a great mate.

Everything is happening in the perfect timing for me to attract a mate.

I know a relationship isn’t happening for me as fast as I want, and yet I focus on growing myself while waiting for the perfect one.

My future mate is looking for me as hard as I am looking for them.

I am sexy, confident, and desirous and people are attracted to me because of it.

I see myself, right here and now, happily in love with a mate who was made for me and I made from them.

I am committed to fight through the tough times as I remember why and how I feel in love with my mate.

I am worth of love and I have so much to give to my next mate.

Sure I may find others attractive, and yet this doesn’t get in the way of my love for my mate. This is just life.

I commit to adding spice to our relationship, as I know it is natural with time, for me to take things for granted.

I am so lovable and my mates knows this and acknowledges it.

I give myself permission to demand the best out of my relationship, and I commit to doing the same for my mate.

If it isn’t working out, and nothing is getting better, I love myself enough to leave it temporarily or permanently.

It is perfectly OK to voice my truth in a relationship without fear of being judged. Authentic communication is my goal.

I seek to nurture and love my mate fully and I get the same treatment from them.

I am open to the perfect relationship outside of the image I have of someone perfect.

In everyday and every way, I am attracting the perfect relationship.

I know it will take work to find the right partner, I am brave and courageous enough to put myself out there.

Any rejection I have experienced recently or in the past, is not rejection, it is redirection.

The universe is conspiring in every way for me to find the perfect mate in the perfect timing.

Affirmations for Current Relationships

I am falling more and more in love with my mate everyday.

I always find the best in my mate.

I am so grateful for my relationship.

I am the luckiest person alive to be with/married to my wife/husband.

I will do whatever it takes to make this work.

I am so excited to fall more and more in love with my mate.

I find deep fulfillment through my relationship.

My relationship is exceeding my wildest dreams for what I could want in a partnership.

I look forward to a lifelong romance.

My mate finds me more and more attractive every single year.

There is no one I would rather be with, and they with me, in our partnership.

I am intuitively in tune with my mates needs and satisfy her/him because of it.

I am all that my mate would ever want and need in a partnership.

I see us getting more and more happy and in love each day, week, month and year.

I am so grateful to have a loving mate.

I know I am not perfect, as is my mate, and yet I choose to dwell on the positives and work on the negatives.

I commit myself to a lifelong relationship with my person.

I am constantly dwelling on attracting my mate, not the lack of a mate.

I know I attract what I am, therefore I am always working on myself through self help to attract the perfect person into my life.

I love myself enough to see red flags, and yet am open to people who aren’t “perfect”.

It is OK to see counsel to balance out our relationship. I see it as an investment, not a negative.

Affirmations For Friendship

Another realm of our world is friendships. Having friends offer us an outlet when we are down, people to celebrate our wins with and just in general passing the time with joy and humor.

Here are a few affirmations for friendships to attract more and better people into your circle.

I am attracting life long friends into my life.

I am grateful for my current friendships and am hopeful for the great ones to come.

I am enough to have healthy friendships.

I have enough to offer to be considered a valuable and great friend.

People view me a wonderful friend and someone they can confide in me with their life secrets, pains and joys.

I only allow good and positive people into my life.

I see my value, which shows me that I will not tolerate people treating me bad in my circle.

I give as much as I take in my relationships, adding much harmony to my friendships.

I love my friends so much and they pour love into my existence.

Conclusion To Relationships Affirmations

The fact of the matter is, we have the power over our thoughts and emotions. We always need to remember it.

Let us venture into this world with that power and knowing.

And take it into this world in every area of our lives. Especially relationships.

I hope you enjoyed this list of affirmations for relationships.

Let me know your advice on the topic.

Do you have any good affirmations for good relationships to add?

Which ones are you most excited to use in your life?

Can’t wait to chat with you in the comment section below!

Thank you for stopping by my friend.

With gratitude,

Chris Cucchiara

We have all been in a situation in life to where we know we should change, and yet we can’t seem to muster up the energy, willpower of motivation to do so.

So when it comes down to it, we end up not making much change, if any at all.

We are frustrated that we haven’t made a change. It weighs on us. Even more so subconsciously. It will come up throughout the day, and yet we will do whatever it takes to push this feeling back down, because it can be painful.

The more we do this, the more it festers. Which can be a good thing.

What Chris? You may be saying.

What I am saying is that the more we do this, the more powerful these nagging feelings get.

Now I am not at al la supporter of feeling suppression. Not at all.

And yet we need to get to a point where enough is enough. A feeling of absolute disgust.

When we get to this point, things can change, and they can change rapidly. You have to essentially be ready to die to your old self.

So I want you to first off embrace the fact that you are disgusted. Don’t see this as a bad thing. See it as the fertile soil in which you can plant and nurture new beginnings.

A chance to start new with brand new roots that you can water and grow strong.

So allow yourself to marinate in this disgust. Not self loathe. Just feel the disgust with yourself and with the particular habit or thing you have been doing.

Once we be fully present with this disgust, we can acknowledge it fully and then move onto transforming part of our entire life because

But how do we do this?

Let me offer you a couple tips on how to use disgust to your benefit for change.

3 Ways To Change After Reaching Disgust Status

Let Go of Your (Old) Identity

One of the biggest human needs of all time is to stay congruent with who we think we are. You probably hear people all the time saying “well this is how I have always been”.

But we know this is BS. We have not been this way forever. At some point we simply chose, either consciously or subconsciously to be and act a certain way.

Maybe it came from parental suggestion and influence. Or maybe it came from something else entirely.

And yet, we need to recognize the positive in this. That WE CHOSE to be this way. Anything you are doing in life, you chose that thought that is at the origin of anything.

That means YOU AND I can change the way we are by changing the way we think.

So lets just say you are simply getting disgusted with the fact that you drink alcohol to numb feelings of the past. Or that you use it as a vice way too much to come down from your stress at work.

Now you need to create a new identity other than the one that supports these habits. So you combine disgust with a new story you tell yourself throughout the day.

At first it will feel like work. Because these new thoughts will be loudly conscious. But the more you and I do this, the more they start becoming our new identity and get cemented in to our subconscious.

So instead of saying “this is just what I do, I drink to come down from work because I need it.” OR something like that, instead say:

“The new me doesn’t do that, instead I read a self help book when I feel stressed, because it helps me come down more effectively and efficiently. I am different from everyone else.”

Which another tip is to weave in another human need. Which is significance. If you can make yourself feel significant for choosing this new self empowering positive habit, you are more likely to stick to hit

Replace Bad Habits With Good Habits

Right off the bat, if you need any help at all with this, I have these resource for you:

List of 333 Good and Healthy Habits

199 Bad Habits (The Ultimate List)

It is said that once someone is an addict, they always are an addict. I think there is truth in this as I have given up bad habits in my life by only replacing them with good habits.

It is very hard to let go of a bad habit completely without introducing something in it’s place because there is a void that is still there. That in my opinion, needs to be filled.

That is why it is crucial for us to replace it with a good habit. So maybe right when we reach for a beer at the end of the night, instead we work on a side hustle that can make us feel more productive and have more hope for a better future.

Or maybe instead of watching porn, we go for a run. It still provides us with a nice endorphin rush.

Then we just repeat these patterns of thought until they become our new “story”.

As we are all telling ourselves our story, over and over and over. Why not make it empowering?

Envision Yourself Breaking Through

I don’t mean just try creating a picture of you achieving your goals. Or becoming a new person entirely.

I am talking about venturing into the world of true possibility.

Where we are connected to universal intelligence. Which as Albert Einstein said:

“Imagination is the preview of coming attractions.” –

So if this is true, why not envision the most outlandish things possible? Envision your goals and you reaching the next level in life as if ANYTHING was possible.

From that point, then start your envisioning process. Holding in mind that anything and everything can come true.

Default to that when wanting to go back to your old self. See yourself, the new self, in your head, over and over and over.

Paint this mental picture until it is engrained into your subconscious. So then we start acting out the new us without much thought.

Dwell Upon The Disgust

At the peak of our disgust, we will feel it completely. We will want to change, and vow to change. And yet as this feeling of disgust wears off, we may be tempted to go back to our old ways.

Revisit that ultimate moment where “you had it”. Enough was enough. Go there again and again when you are tempted to go back.

It is said that if you have a WHY for living, you can endure almost any how.

So go back to you WHY. That day or night of reaching the full moment of disgust. And then use it as a reminder each time that you slip back, to never go back to your old ways.

Conclusion To Using Disgust To Change Your Life

So that is it my friend. A quick blurb about how we can make massive changes in our lives if we simply reach the point of being fully disgusted.

Remember, don’t feel less than, or that you should deny these feelings and act as if everything in the world is just perfect.

Give yourself permission to go through it. As what we go through, we go through. If we go through it fully and completely.

Let me know what your advice is on the topic.

Have you ever reached the point of being fully disgusted in your life? Where you just couldn’t go back to the old you. The idea of remaining the same was completely unbearable?

I know I have for sure.

I would love to hear your experiences with it. And what tip you are excited to implement from the tips I shared above.

And again, allow yourself to feel disgusted. It isn’t dirty. You aren’t less than. You and I are actually more than most, as we are being real with ourselves. Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows.

Sometimes, as JK Rowling said, rock bottom can be the firm foundation in which we rebuild our lives!

Chat soon my friend.

With gratitude,

Chris Cucchiara

 

Quotes About Ambition

Ambition is really fleeting, it can come and go and some people have more of it and some have less.

But I believe that no matter how much or how little you have, you can get more. And I think it starts with who you hang out with.

No for some of us, it can be very hard to go meet people super ambitious and then go convince them to hang out with us all the time!

But all of us have access to this blog! And here is where I wanted to offer you a resource on quotes about ambition, so we can get dozens of perspectives on what ambition is and how to have more of it!

Below are 87 different quotes for ambition that show us how to turn up the motivation and ambition levels in our life to the max!

Enjoy my friend.

87 Quotes About Ambition

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali

“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything them.” – Martina Boone

“Ambition is a dream with a v8 engine.” – Elvis Presley

“Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.” – Jay Leno

“Big results require big ambitions.” – Heraclitus

“Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.” – Oscar Wilde

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most because that’s the one that is going to help you grow.” – Caroline Myss

“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Ambition is not a vice of little people.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”- Frank Tyger

“I got a great ambition. To die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” – Thomas Carlyle

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sate back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.” – Edmund Burke

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley

“My ambition cannot be stopped.” – Cao Cao

“Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I will never turn down my ambition because someone else is uncomfortable with the volume.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain

“One way to keep momentum going is to constantly have goals.” – Michael Korda

“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”- Shiv Khera

“You can be as great as you want. Set realistic goals and give 110 percent to accomplish those goals. Never give up.” – Susan Polgar

“Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.”- Addoo S. Mukhtar

“Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action.”

“Work hard for a cause, not for applause.”

“Ambition is like the sea wave, which the more you drink, the more you thirst.” – Alfred Tennyson

“I’m ambitious and I’m determined and I know where I’m going to be. It’s not where I want to be, but where I’m going to be.” – Ricky Whittle

“Better to live one year as a tiger than a hundred as a sheep.” – Madonna

“Never give up because great things take time.”

“I’m coming for something they said I couldn’t have.”

“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” – Theodore Roethke

“Ambition, never is in a greater that than I, it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never give up because great things take time.”

“Ambition is in my blood and in my air and no one is gonna stop me from becoming famous.” – Jhon Platero

“Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.” – Henry S. Haskins

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz

“Individual ambition serves the common good.” – Adam Smith

“Stay positive. Stay fighting. Stay brave. Stay ambitious. Stay focused. Stay strong. Mentality is everything.”

“Woman who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary

“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.”

“She’s a dreamer. A doer. A thinker. She sees possibility everywhere.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Failure separates the hard workers from the dreamers.”

“2016: The caterpillar. 2017: The cocoon. 2018: The Butterfly.”

“Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.” – Stewart Butterfield

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.” – William Congreve

“Motivation is not a matter of will-power. It is a matter of want-power.” – Paul Karasik

“Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.” – Wilfred Owen

“Ambition is the first step to success, the second step is action.”

“Ambition is believing in yourself even when no one else in the world doesn’t.” – Wale

“Far from what I once was but not yet what I’m going to be.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – William Shakespeare

“Put work into your dreams.” – Lesley D. Nurse

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

“Be brave for what you believe in and make your dreams a reality.”

“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success’.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Our ambitions should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and tre progress is to know more, be more and to do more.” – Oscar Wilde

“The higher you aim for dreams, the larger you appear to those who cannot reach the sky.”

“I am attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?” – Tom Brady

“Don’t compromise.” – Steve Jobs

“Ambition is my drug, success is the only cure.”

“My strength comes from knowing I have the ability to do anything, my weakness comes from the desire to do it all at once.”

“A man without ambition is like a bird flying without directions.”

“Limits, like fears are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan

“A dream without ambition is like a car without gas. You’ve not going anywhere.” – Sean Hampton

“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” – Pearly Bailey

“It is a grand thing to rise in the world, the ambition to do so, is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.” – Anthony Trollope

“Big results require big ambitions.” – James Champy

“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.” – Baruch Spinoza

“Get obsessed, totally obsessed. There is no use just like what you do. Get obsessed with it.” – Mario Testino

“Ambition is a so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Just be yourself, hold true to yourself and your dreams and ambitions.” – Patrick Rahn

“Ambition is more than mere desire. It is desire plus incentive. Determination – the will to achieve the desire.” – Herbert Armstrong

“Be ambitious. Get shit done. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and head up.”

“Dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Tis immortality to die aspiring.” – George Chapman

“In life, when ambition is the prologue, victory becomes the epitaph.”

“Criticism is the price of ambition.” – Robin S. Sharma

“What ever you’re thinking, think better.”

“If you have no ambition, your talent is worthless.”

“Surround yourself with people who have dreams, desire and ambition. They’ll help you push for and realize your own.”

“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, I’m self esteemed, I know exactly what I want. I always stand for myself and for the right things as well. I have a empowered pen and voice. If that makes me arrogant, it’s okay.” – Ishadora Tripath

“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ambition is the germ which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” – Oscar Wilde

Quotes About Ambition

There we are my friend. A list of quotes about ambition.

I hope you enjoyed it.

I would love to hear your advice on the topic. How do you become more ambitious when you are down and out.

What short and long term goals make you the most ambitious and excited for your life?

Let’s chat in the comment section below!

Thank you for stopping by.

With gratitude,

Chris Cucchiara

Affirmations For Fear

We all deal with fear. Fear is a part of this life. And yet, we have all be blocked up by it. We’ve let it get the best of us. We have surrendered in the face of it. No one is off the hook when it comes to this.

And yet, we have to acknowledge that is is going to be part of our life until the day we leave this place (hopefully not in the next place we go to LOL)

So knowing this fact, we can now have affirmations for fear to face our fears with. It is like going into a construction job knowing you have every single tool on your belt, and more, to face whatever needs to be faced in order to get the job done correctly and with the most efficiency as possible.

That is what this list of fear mantras provides. The ability to have the tools necessary to breakthrough your fear. For you and I to be equipt with sayings and affirmations for fear that we can use to lessen the power that our fear supporting thoughts will have.

I am not saying fear will evaporate because of them.

All I am saying is that it helps to be prepared. No matter what you do in this life, it is better to go win prepared than just to show up!

That is why I wrote this list of mantras for fear. For us to have in our back pocket at all times my friend!

Let’s jump into it.

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67 Affirmations For Fear

I am strong and confidence in the face of fear.

It is OK for me to feel fear, but I have everything it takes to move forward in spite of.

I see fear as an indicator that I am about to have an awesome breakthrough, so I move forward.

I welcome fear, as I know what I resist, persists.

Fear is nothing but energy in my body.

I see fear as excitement and a positive feeling, instead of a negative.

I am so courageous and brave.

I venture into the realm of the unknown with faith that everything will work out perfect.

Everything is working out to my higher good right now.

I am not the only one with these fears, I know that others have mastered them before me, and therefore so can I.

I am chosen to conquer this fear, and therefore I will.

There really is nothing to fear but fear itself. And I will conquer this feeling, so everything else seems much more deoable.

I know that each time I triumph over a fear, I will become that much more courageous and able to face any other fear I come accross.

I give fear the power, I know this, therefore I dictate the level of fear I am feeling.

Fear really only has as much power as I give it.

I go over the worst case scenario when dealing with fear, knowing that the worst case scenario is highly unlikely to come true.

I accept fear as part of life, knowing that it means I am human.

I celebrate and take joy in overcoming my fears.

I right now, envision myself conquering the fear I am so scared of right now. Then I live in that feeling.

I never cower to fear, I am fears master, not the other way around.

Fear really is here to pass, not here to stay.

I face my fears head on and as fast as possible, for I know that the more time I give it to fester, the bigger and stronger it becomes.

I bully fear, not the other way around.

I feel the fear and do it anyways.

I am stronger than any fear I am facing or ever will face.

I laugh at fear, directly in it’s face, and therefore I breakthrough it with ease.

Fear will never, ever again, have its strong hold on me.

I see myself being physically and mentally much larger than my fears.

I see fear for what it is, a roadblock to my growth that I can breakthrough with ease.

Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.

The energy that creates fear in my body is much smaller than the actual feeling it feels. Scientifically it is smaller than a tiny little bubble.

When fear pushes me, I push back harder.

I LOVE breaking through my fears. I feel amazing during and afterwards.

Fear is nothing but a state of mind, and I have power over my own mind to change that state I am in.

Fear either strengthens or weakens by the way I use my body. Therefore I stand/sit powerfully whenever I am feeling or about to feel fear.

I have faced fears before and risen above them, showing myself that I can do so with whatever fear that ever comes into my experience.

I do not overthink my fears, I acknowledge them as real, and then move forward without thinking anymore about them.

Often times, fear can be partially a lie. It is trying to look bigger than it actually is to keep us safe. See it’s falsehood.

I simply allow myself to take one step at a time which doesn’t overwhelm me.

I live in the moment, where fear is little to none.

I accept where I am with no fear for being behind. It is what it is right now, and I will move forward most effectively from now on.

Just because I didn’t breakthrough a fear in the past, doesn’t mean I can’t breakthrough on the same fear now.

I give love to my fear, for love is the most powerful force in the world and it allows me to be in a power position. Because now I am looking at it with empathy.

I am letting go of today, my need to be in control all the time.

My energy is vibrating much higher than this low level fear.

I am protected by the universe, this fear is in my life because the universe knows I can handle it and will guide me through it.

I let my intuition guide me for there is no fear in this still little small voice.

I am my own rock. I am stable and stronger and do not waver when the winds of fear blow.

I am safe in the here and now.

I recognize my power to overcome fear right now.

Fear is simply an alarm, that it is something that I need to acknowledge and then move forward. It is not an indicator to retreat.

Instead of tensing my body in fear, I simply relax instead, showing fear who is boss.

I believe in myself.

I am powerful beyond measure.

Everything that scares me, is worth fighting for and overcoming.

My mind is the most powerful tool I have, and it can be used to overcome my fear with ease.

I fear no evil.

I embrace change, I am no longer sacred of it. I get excited about it.

I know that fear is primal, to alert us of fatal danger. But we live in a world where this is no longer usually the case, therefore I see it as blown out of proportion.

I have everything I need to move forward in spite of fear.

I am well capable enough to handle any fear that comes my way.

I deserve to live a life of courage.

I see myself in the best and most brave light. The image of myself in my own head is powerful and courageous.

I see setbacks as only a set up for a comeback.

I am grateful for my fears as well as my ability to overcome them.

I don’t judge myself for not facing fears in the past, I simply deal with what is at hand, knowing I can obliterate the fear in front of me.

I walk with faith that I am on the perfect path.

How To Use Fear Affirmations

It will help to be in a quiet space when your mind is most quiet for affirmations. And yet, what you focus on expands, so using these positive affirmations ANYWHERE and ANYTIME will help you immensely when it comes to how to break through fear.

Use them as much as you need be until the fear dissipates.

I also like to move my body with them as I say them. They are called incantations.

Lastly, I feel as if we are all image thinking people anyways. When we think, we see images, not words. So it can be beneficial to attach an image to our affirmations for fear.

Seeing is believing. And seeing ourselves in the body of the mantra for fear, will allow us to believe it is possible for us to breakthrough this fear in the material world.

Conclusion To Mantras For Removing Fear

So there we are my friend, affirmations for fear and mantras for fear and anxiety.

Remember, never to feel shame for feeling these feelings of fear. Know you are human and that you always have the power to choose how you react to anything in this life. Including feelings of fear.

I believe in you my friend.

Now, lets make it agreement today, to face the world boldly together. To breakthrough fears when they come up. Right away. And live this life relentlessly because of it.

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading this list of fear affirmations.

What is your advice on fear?

What fears have you faced in this life? And what helped you break through them and face them?

Lets chat in the comment section below!

With gratitude

Chris Cucchiara

 

Quotes About Achievement

Achievement can mean different things to different people as we will see in the variety of ideas about in in the quotes about achievement below.

To me, I think it means living life on your own terms. Because achievement can mean making a billion dollars to one person, and to another, it can mean raising children to become great adults.

Or it could mean having a flashy car and nice clothes, or it could simply be being the first to get a degree in your whole entire family.

That is why in my opinion, I think achievement is really just setting out to do something that is on your heart. And following through with it until the end. Doing whatever it takes to reach your goals.

And usually, it will make you get out of your comfort zone. It will also make us confront our limiting beliefs, and do so my staring at them directly in the face.

It will forge us into a tougher, stronger and more resilient human being. That can face much more adversity without breaking down and giving up.

Essentially making the best out of us. Tapping into more and more latent potential. And because of it, we live a life that would leave the old us pondering how the heck we came so far.

So lets check out the list of quotes about achievement below. I believe they will fire us up to keep going in spite of the adversity and trials we are going through.

To ultimately rise up and be triumphant.

Quotes On Achievement

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public gloris, never teh private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” – Brian Tracy

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Walt Disney

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.”

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo

“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – R. Colier

“When you feel like quitting, remember why you started.”

‘Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Without failure there is no achievement.” – John C. Maxwell

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill

“Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at a time.” – Jim Rohn

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

“If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you just need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them.” – Darren Hardy

“Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success is if you love what you are doing you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

“Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.” – Darren Hardy

“The future belongs to those who believe in their beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” – Arnold Taynbee

“If my mind can conceive it, my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

“Keep your yes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“To achieve your highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities, in all walks of life, we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies, and develop our minds to the limit of our ability.” – Joseph H. Pilates

“To live a creative life, we must lose the fear of being wrong.”

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. Only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward it’s achievement.” – Bo Bennett

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.” – Vince Lombardi

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

“There’s always a way if you’re committed.” – Tony Robbins

“Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” – Abraham Lincoln

“There is no magic to achievement. IT is really about hard work, choices and persistence.” – Michelle Obama

“Do today what everyone will do tomorrow.” – Jean Cocteau

“Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.” – Mary Kay Ash

“Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“The longer you wait for something, the more you appreciate it when it finally arrives. The harder you fight for something, the more priceless it becomes once you achieve it. The more pain you endure on your journey, the sweeter the arrival at your destination.” – Unknown

“Criticism is easy, achievement is difficult.” – Winston Churchill

“Stay positive. Work hard. Make it happen.”

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering

“Success is walking from failure to failure with not loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – E’stee Lander

“The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

“When they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” – Helen Keller

“Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

“Big thinking precedes great achievement.” – Wilfred A. Peterson (MY FAVORITE!)

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Stauback

“There will be obstacles, there will be doubters, there will be mistakes, but with hart work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

“When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices. You can go back to sleep and dream you dreams or you can wake up and chase those dreams.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.” – Denis Waitley

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney\

“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in peoples lives.” – Michelle Obama

“The best achievement in life is doing something you think you can’t do.”

“I’m not afraid of having achievements, I’m more afraid of not having goals.”

“Each small step, taken on it’s own seems doable, while trying to summit the peak can seem incredibly daunting.” – Welton Chang

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford\

“A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.”

“To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and mater three might forces; desire, belief and expectation.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

“Imagine with all your mind. Believe with all your heart. Achieve with all your might.”

“80 % of success is showing up.”

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything, “I will try” has performed wonders. – George P. Burnham

“Our achievements of today are but the sum total or our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you you.” – Blaise Pascal

“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.” – Adam Ant

“Little steps, big achievements.” – Roger

“There is no one big step which can make you reach your destination. The only way is adapting to the tiny steps which drops you at the other side of your dream door.” – Megha Goya

“Obstacles are the raw materials of great accomplishment.” – Tommy Newberry

“You have to go whole heartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

“Every great achievement was once considered impossible.”

“Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” – Helen Hayes

 

“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

“It’s hard to fail, but it’s worse to have never tried to succeed.”

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges wish for more wisdom.” – Jim Rohn

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best you can become. – Harold Taylor

“Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude. – Ralph Marston

“Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.” – Leon Brown

“If it is important, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo

“Your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

“The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.”

“If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.”

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“All great achievement require time.” – Maya Angelou

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me!” – Winston Churchill (Funny Quote About Achievement)

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged people who kept working.”

“Don’t stop when your tired, stop when you are done.”

“Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

“Do not wait, the time will never be ‘just right’, start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

33 Quotes about Achievement Of Goals

“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set goals that are attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent or potential.” – Steve Garvey

“Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.” – Og Mandino

“The difference between setting a goal and achieving it is in having a good plan and working it.” – Les Brown

“People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.” – Lynda Field

“The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.”

“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.” – Les Brown

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

“Follow your dreams. If you have a goal and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can do to get there, and one day it will come true.” – Lindsey Vonn

“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” – Viktor Frankl

“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau

“A dream is just a dream, a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.” – Harvey Mackay

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

“If you set your goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” – Les Brown

“Set ambitious goals and along the way you will discover yourself.” – Rob Suomi

“Begin with the end in mind.”- Stephen Covey

“You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.” – Charles C. Noble

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal. A commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti

“A dream written down with a ate becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.” – Greg S. Reid

“Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up, with goals so strong that obstacles, failure, and loss only act as motivation.”

“Set your goal, ignite your fire, fight for it and never stop until you have achieved it.”

“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching an striving for his goals.” – Aristotle

“Don’t wait until you reach your goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud of each step you take toward reaching your goal.”

“It’s not about the goal. IT’s about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.” – Tony Robbins

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the filed and never score.” – Bill Copeland

“Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up, with goals so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as motivation.”

“Achieving a goal is nothing .The getting there is everything.” – Jules Michelet

“Setting goals takes desire, but completing them takes determination.” – Ron Hawks

“Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.” – John Maxwell

Conclusion To Achievement Quotes and Sayings

There you are my friend. Quotes about achievement. I hope some of them deeply resonated with you.

Share with me what achievement means to you. Do you feel as if it is more of a monetary pursuit? Or do you more emphasize on growing your family and seeing them become all they can be?

Or do you see achievement in a spiritual sense? To where if you reach a state of enlightenment or one with God or the universe, then you feel as if you have achieved and accomplished a meaningful existence?

Share with me what your definition of achievement is in the comment section below.

 

Peace,

Chris

 

How To Wake Up With Energy (Energy Hacks)

Look you and I both know the feeling of waking up feeling like we didn’t even go to sleep at all? So knowing this big time fact, and when it comes to how to wake up with energy, how the heck do we do it!?

I’m glad you asked.

And before we get into it, you are one my page today, and this page is linked to a web of personal development articles.

So I want to definitely start off with a mindset tip when it comes to how to wake up motivated.

So that you are able to more so, hit the ground running. With excitement and anticipation.

Lets get going!

21 Ways To Wake Up Energized

Simple and Powerful Morning Routine

We have to be listening to motivating content. We are not going to wake up with good energy if we are tuning into negative news or jump right into social media or emails.

The fact of the matter is, most of what we see on our phones in the morning is going to cause stress and/or be negative.

So please, lets do ourselves a favor and resist the temptation to just naturally default to jumping on the news or social media/email.

Instead, what has helped me, and I feel can help you is doing a little meditation. As the benefits of meditation are incredible.

I find that with meditation in the morning, it allows me to really go deeper with my practice. My mind silences a lot faster than it would if I tried to do so mid-day. The mind is already quiet when we wake up, so it makes sense to build off of that positive momentum.

Then I make my bed. This gives me a feeling of accomplishment and is known to release dopamine, the reward hormone. That can give us a tad more energy.

(For more positive morning routines, check out this post I wrote for you: Morning Routines Ideas)

Then, I listen to positive audio on the way to the gym. But if you aren’t hitting the gym in the morning, that is OK. You can simply lie in bed for ten minutes and listen to so motivational audios from youtube. Or a good audiobook.

(Best Self Help Books – For Morning Motivation) 

Go To Sleep At The Same Time Each Night (And Wake Up At The Same Time)

There is power in routine. It can either work for you or against you. If our routines are us waking up and going to sleep at sporadic times, then our mind and body will follow suit.

There is a beautiful thing called a circadian rhythm. And when we lock it in with going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time, our body is primed for wake up energized at this time, and get tired at the same time of night.

We can guarantee a certain amount of sleep if we do this. As we know what we will get tired at the same time each night, hence hitting the hay at a good time for optimal rest.

This honestly changed my life. I hated waking up early, but wanted to do so to get my day going. Get to the gym early so I could get to work and just have it done.

The first couple nights I had to take some melatonin to get to bed. But after that, I was able to go to sleep early and wake up early. Sleep at 9:30 wake up at 5:30. I feel better than every energy wise.

Use The Power of Gratitude

When you are thankful and grateful, you feel good. That is a known fact. You are focusing on abundance rather than lack.

And I believe, what you focus on expands. And because of the fact, we will most likely find much more to be grateful for if we are focusing on it.

And like energy attracts like energy, so we will attract more positive things and people into our lives.

But don’t believe me. Let’s check in with the science!

A great article talks about a study done in which giving gratitude triggers the release of hormones that provide positive regulation of our immune systems. It actually alters the way we see the world in a positive manner.

Due to the fact that it improves our health, it can provide us with more energy and vitality.

Hence we can use this in the morning to get a little boost!

Bathes for morning energy

Monitor Burnout

 

Burnout is definitely a real thing. Most people who experience burnout give up, as we all feel like it isn’t meant to be, then we are tempted to throw in the towel.

Also when it comes to just general life, burnout is something that can keep us feeling consistently tired. A feeling like we are never going to be energized anymore.

Then general rule I like to follow through with is simply to listen to my body.

We know us the best, so when it comes down to it, no one will really know when we need to take a load off more than ourselves.

Maybe it is time off from the gym. Or off of work. Or even off of everything.

The fact of the matter is, sometimes we need to check out. Do it when you feel the need to. Otherwise we will fight feelings of fatigue over and over.

Sure working out can be both physically and emotionally gratifying, but when you really let go and take time off, I believe it is best if we just do nothing at all.

It will allow our central nervous system to right itself. As well as micro injuries in our bodies to heal. To come back stronger.

Find activities that bring you peace, and/or are known to bring you peace and engage in them for a day or more straight.

Resource: 29 Things To Do For Inner Peace 

Power Breathe

Lets face it, out breathing pace is very slow at night. Our heart rate isn’t beating as fast. We just generally need less oxygen when we are resting.

And yet when we wake up in the morning, we need as much as we can to really get going and feel alive and awake.

One of my favorite breathing exercises, that I think can help you have more energy in the morning is one were you are in a seated position.

As you breathe in, you push your fits us in the air, then as you exhale, you shoot your elbows back down.

You then proceed with 20 repetitions.

I like to do this for 3 sets of 20. Take about 30 seconds rest in between each set.

This will fill your blood stream with oxygen rich air and give you a nice boost in the morning.

Cold Shower/Water On Face

If you are brave enough, take a cold shower and/or throw cold water on your face.

The process doesn’t have to be long. Simple a 30 second to a minute cold shower.

I tell you what, for me, it is like having half a cup of coffee in my blood stream after I do so. I feel alive and invigorated.

I will confess I need to do this more consistently. And yet, it works really good to have more energy in the morning!

Use Your Bed Only For Sleeping

When it comes down to it, playing with our phone, using the computer, stretching, etc is great. But not when it comes to our sleep and getting the most restful nights sleep possible

So do those things in maybe a chair next to your bed. Or in the living room.

This will encourage your body to go directly to sleep when you get under those covers.

You can also utilize eye shades to create the most darkness, get blinds that block out the majority of the light coming into the room in the morning. Along with keep your room cool, around 65 degrees.

Eat (The Right) Breakfast

Of course, we have all heard it, breakfast is the most important meal of the day! I got tired of hearing it for a while, I heard it so much!

There is definitely some Harvard Science behind this claim.

To have energy in the morning, the best foods to eat are going to me your oatmeals, proteins in the form of greek yogurt and eggs, or even make a smoothie with fruit and wheat germ along with things like tofu and even some good healthy protein powder.

Resource: 39 High Protein Breakfasts

Use Blue Blocker Glasses At Night

You can snag a pair of these on Amazon Prime for 15 to 20 bucks. At night, if we are looking at our computer and phone we are exposing our eyes to blue light exposure. Blue light blockers can help our eyes and mind rest. As blue light suppresses the secretion of serotonin.

This includes blue light in your lights in your house too. Turn them off, have a little nightlight to do your reading and if you have to use electronics, make sure you are sporting those blue blockers!

Don’t Drink Fluids Before Bed

This will avoid us breaking out sleep patterns unnecessarily. Otherwise, we’ve all been in that position where we wake up to pee, lose the “tiredness” and are tossing and turning for the rest of the night!

No Snooze Button!

I know you hate more for this one, and yet hitting that snooze button can do more harm than good. That 8 minutes you get until the next snooze, can allow us to go back to sleep, but not go into a full sleep cycle, hence waking up groggy as the sleep cycle has been disrupted!

A little sleep hack that I use is to put the phone in the far corner of my room. That way, when my phone alarm goes off, it isn’t right where I can tap it and go back to sleep.

I have to get up in my cold room, and resentfully slam it off LOL.

That way when we are up, might as well stay up.

If you have to lay in bed, instead do some visualizing of being energetic and achieving the goals you want to achieve that day.

Drink Coffee Wisely

I know if you are like me, the first thing we do is think about getting to that cup of coffee as fast as possible! First thing’s first!

A great article talks about how we should time our coffee when our cortisol levels are at its lowest. As this will give us the most efficiency out of the caffeine in our blood stream.

Lemon Water In The Morning

This does two very positive things for more energy in the morning. First off, lemon can boost the feel good hormone serotonin, allowing us to feel more optimistic and positive.

Also, drinking more water can rehydrate us, as at night we are all dried out from lack of fluids all night.

It can also break down phlegm in our throat allowing us to breathe better, and help overall immune function.

So keep a Yeti full of it right next to your bed. So when you wake up in the morning, instead of hitting the snooze button, you do a full send of a nice tall yeti of lemon water.

Essential Oils

I mean this won’t be like putting caffeine into your blood stream. Although it can help us wake up with energy. The best essential oils for energy include:

Some of the best essential oils for energy include:

1. Spearmint
2. Peppermint
3. Sweet Orange
4. Lemon
5. Rosemary

Sunlight In The Morning

Basking in the sunlight can not only feel great, it can also produce melatonin in your body. If you can, sit out in the sun a bit before it gets dark to encourage your melatonin levels to be high when going to sleep. As adequate levels of melatonin are crucial to good sleep.

Have a A Good Nighttime Routine

It is one thing to go to bed at the same time, as this is what will set our circadian rhythm nicely. It also helps us immensely to have a go to routine that we do each night that lets our minds and bodies know that it is getting near time to go to bed.

Nighttime rituals if you will, that prime your body for good sleep.

Maybe you can read a good book, meditate, take a shower or bath, have tea or pray. No matter what it is, it is essentially something we do religiously each night that winds us down. Instead of just trying to jump right into bed after going 100 miles and hour, and try to sink into dreamland ASAP.

Resource: 11 Nighttime Routine Ideas

A great thing to do at night is envision your goals coming true the next day. Or to find things to be grateful for.

Scents For Morning Energy

I know that this is far reaching, and yet desperate times call for desperate measures. My good friends at Entrepreneur talks about scents in the morning that can boost our moods and productivity.

Those scents include:

1. Lavender
2. Lemon
3. Cinammon
4. Peppermint
5. Jasmine
6. Rosemary

These scents all have qualities that help with concentration and focus, boost energy, stimulate thinking, and even have depression fighting qualities.

It’s worth a shot right?

Banana In The Morning For Energy

An apple a day may keep the doctor away. And yet an banana in the morning will keep that morning fatigue away!

They are packed with potassium and they have enough fiber in them to slow down sugar release into our bloodstreams. They also provide us with a healthy dose of B vitamin and magnesium to help our mood.

Avoid Super High Carb and Sugar Meals in the Morning

We don’t want to crash after our high. Sure these meals can make us feel better right off the bat, but the benefits are only short lived.

When we eat high sugar and carb meals, the crash can take us out for the rest of the day. Making us feel groggy and unmotivated.

Have Goals and Vacations To Look Forward To

My favorite thing to do is have a list of goals going all the time. Of course it can change and transform as time goes by.

But when there is hope in the future, there is energy and power in the present. Enjoy the moment of course, and yet always have something exciting in front of you that you are chasing.

Resource: 201 Bucket List Ideas 

Address Stresses In Your Life

The fact of the matter is, if we are feeling tired and stressed, we may not be sleeping good because we are burnt out on things that we are doing in our lives.

We may need to switch careers that allows us to express ourselves more fully. As doing something we don’t like to do, day in and day out, is soul draining. And it is impossible to have enough energy if we are in a career that is doing this to us.

Maybe it is time to see a therapist to get past issues and let go of the past.

Or simply have talks with people that we need to forgive. Right forgiveness notes. Simply mastering our emotions can help us wake up with more energy and have more sustainable energy as we are now carrying around a lighter load.

Resource: 301 Quotes About Forgiveness

Conclusion To How To Wake Up Feeling Energized

So there it is my friends. How to wake up in the morning with energy!

I hope you enjoyed the article and have found some good tips on how to wake up energized.

Let me you know your advice on the topic. Did I miss any good tips that you can add in the comment section below??

Looking forward to hearing from you my friend.

With gratitude,

Chris

57 Relaxing Things To Do

Burnout can be a real thing. And denying it or trying to fight it can only prolong the inevitable. That is why I created this list of relaxing things to do for us. Because I need a reminder that it is OK to take time off and find inner peace and to recharge,

Maybe you can feel the same?

So when it comes down to it, lets give us the freedom and right to listen to our bodies and take a load off.

To recharge, whether it takes a day or a week, to come back stronger and happier and healthier.

57 Things To Do To Relax (In General)

Do Breathing Exercises (That Help Anxiety/Tension)

If you are like me, you may be more on the intense side. Maybe you are super driven towards your short and long term goals. Or maybe you simply just want more out of life.

Regardless, we can gain more control over our anxiety and tension by focusing on our breathing.

Here is a post I wrote for you if you feel as if good breathing exercises would benefit your life.

If you don’t have time, I get it. A simple one you can do without reading the entire article is to simple draw breathe into your belly through deep nasal inhalation. Push out your belly softly while inhaling. Then when exhaling, bring your belly button back towards your spine.

This is diaphragm breathing. Do 20 repetitions of these, and you will feel much better.

13 Breathing Exercises For Anxiety 

Journal

There is so much going on in our heads. Each thought we put on paper, the more quiet our minds become.

Don’t over think it. Just start jotting down things. Stream of consciousness. Whatever comes to mind, put it down on paper. Don’t judge yourself.

Then later on, we can start targeting subjects that cause us pain and anxiety. At first, just keep it simple.

Stretch

The benefits of stretching are endless.

And when it comes down to it, if nothing else, it can ease tension in our body and make you feel more calm.

Nothing wrong with that, right?

Keep it simple. Stretch your quads, calves, hips, spine, lats and hip flexors. If you have time, you can stretch out smaller muscles like your biceps, triceps, forearms and neck.

Resource: Full Body Stretch Routine 

Walk Through Nature

Nothing calms me more than this. For whatever reason, it brings tranquility to me like no other. I am able to be super present in nature. Especially if there are tall trees around, it is easier to simply feel immersed in a peaceful environment.

Relaxing Things To Do At Home

Take A Bath

A bath is likened to getting us as calm as a meditation session.

To supercharge your healing and relaxation with your bath, add these healing things to it:

• Ginger
• Peppermint Oil
• Seaweed
• Epson Salt
• Coconut Oil
• Lavender
• Oatmeal
• Honey

Have A BBQ (Even just By Yourself)

Even if the meat is just for yourself, it is super relaxing to grill up some meat and veggies. This could be a great opportunity to relax and store some food for the next coming days.

IF possible, have some friends over and feed them!

Go to A Dog Park

Dogs are the happiest and kindest animals in the world. They truly know how to live in the moment.

Meditation 

You can meditate anywhere. And yet I find it easiest to do at home as I am most comfortable and feel the most safe and secure in a known environment. Plus less distractions.

The benefits of meditation include more peace of mind, better immune system, more empathy and more energy.

If you have never meditated before, I wrote an article for you to get you on the right track. Check it out:

Mindfulness Meditation (Meditation For Beginners)

Read

Reading can allow us to forget about the world around us and let go for a bit.

There was a study done that talks about how reading alone can reduce our stress levels by 68 percent. There is a reason for adding reading to our daily schedule.

Take A Snooze

For me, I always get so much more done and feel much better throughout the rest of my day when I take a nap. I try to do so on my lunch break each day. It is like an extra cup of coffee!

Go Get A Massage

I read in a great book called Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. He talks about allocating 10 percent of your money to investing, saving and then blowing on fun stuff.

I think it is a good message.

And you are a hard worker, why not treat yourself.

Not only will this be a relaxing thing to do. It will also allow you to reward your brain, which will produce dopamine. Encouraging you and letting you know that you have worked hard, you deserve good things. The cycle will continue through this process.

If you can’t spring for a real massage, grab an at home device. Small enough to even bring to the office so you can use it when you feel stressed at work.

Relaxing Things To Do Before Bed

Write Some Poetry

Not only is this mentally challenging, it is incredibly relaxing. For me, it is like a meditation process. My mind forgets about the world, and is super focused on the task at hand.

Resource: How to Write Poetry: 11 Must Know Tips 

Soak Your Feet

After a long day, nothing feels better than soaking your feet in some hot water.

It can relax us enough to sink into bed and fall asleep fast.

You can always buy a foot bath for detox purposes, and knock out two birds with one stone. Getting healthier while relaxing.

Tune Into Binaural Beats

There are so many benefits of listening to binaural beats, other than simply stress relief. Some of those benefits being: increased focus and attention, more creativity, better mood and even pain management.

Go For A Long Drive

Every time I go on a long drive, I am able to clear my head. I try to drive somewhere where there aren’t too many distractions.

Somewhere out in the country where there aren’t too many cars. Just coast along and chill out.

Call A Friend And Reminisce

Friend or family. I guarantee they would love to hear you. We are all looking to build good relationships, and it is always good to think back on the past and think about all the good and funny times you had with people.

I know this is super relaxing, and it helps me sleep better when I talk to a buddy or loved one before bed.

Cook A New Recipe (Or Meal Prep)

I am not the best cook, but I can lose myself in the process when cooking. I also feel great about myself when I pre prep my meals for a couple days or the entire week.

Watch A Comedy Show Or Funny Movie

Psychology Today talks about a study done that talks about how night time laughter can raise melatonin levels in the body. And that chemical helps us sleep better.

They talked about how women who watched a Chaplin movie had elevated levels of melatonin through the process of analyzing their breast milk every two hours.

Pretty cool!

Do Some Gardening

Not only can this help us de-stress, it can also help us save money on our grocery bills if we get a nice little organic garden going. Maybe even a side hustle by selling some of the produce!

Win win!

Hit The Gym

If you like are me, then you actually come down nicely from a workout at night. If you don’t have time to go to the gym at night, then take a nice little jog or walk in the neighborhood or city.

I know I actually calm down more when I am walking through a bustling city. It is like being at a coffee shop and getting work done. I feel as if I can get more done when it is loud at a coffee shop then at home!

Does that make sense??

Plan Out Your Next Vacation

Nothing makes me let go of my worries then planning out a stress free vacation. The excitement builds and the anticipation sets in!

It can also let us get through the tough parts of our day with more ease, as there is light at the end of the tunnnel!

No matter how much you love your job and life, we all need to escape and rest and recover and just take a load off.

Sip a Little Tea and Honey

Some nice chamomille tea at night with some honey always helps me wind down. Here are some of the best teas for sleeping better:

Best Teas For Good Restful Sleep

Listen To The Waves (Or Audio)

There is something super soothing about listening to the ocean crashing onto a beach. If you can’t be at the beach, tune into an audio of waves crashing.

There are a ton of great guided meditations on Youtube that can get you Zen in no time!

Adult Coloring

Thought this was a thing of the past!? Think again. Studies show that adult coloring can bring one more calm and peace.

It talks about how low stakes make it a more fun and relaxing thing to do. You are focused on the present moment, outside of yourself.

It allows one to reap similar benefits of that of mindfulness meditation.

Play A BoardGame

You can’t deny this. Anytime the whole family gets together and plays some sort of board game, stress melts away.

Again this is placing the focus on something other than our monkey mind.

Playing board games can also help you us learn how to set goals, be more patient along with improve our cognitive function.

Dance and Sing

Whether it be in the car or in the house, I know every time I crank up the music and just vibe out, I feel less stressed out!

Rise and Shine Before the Sun Comes Up

There is something peaceful about the early morning.

There are less noises, less distractions. Double up on relaxation by reading a good book. Or simply just laying in bed, listening to a positive podcast.

Fishing

Not only is this relaxing, maybe you can catch yourself some dinner. Whip up some fish tacos with your big catch of the day!

Fly fishing can be even more relaxing once you get the hang of whipping the line.

Cloud/Star Gazing

Day or night, we can gaze up into the vast sky above us. Daytime, we can float with clouds that pass by.

At night, we can try and find constellations.

Go To An Aquarium

One of my most peaceful memories has to be me going to the aquarium with my mom as a young boy.

It seemed that the outside world just didn’t exist any more. That everything was right in the world.

Ahhh I feel relaxed just thinking about this memory!

Go On A Hike

For me, I like to go alone, without anyone. I put my earphones in and just go at my own pace. It really isn’t a fitness experience for me. I truly try to be present with my senses. Feeling every step I take. The wind on my face. And the sights around me. The birds chirping.

Go For A Bike Ride

Just cruise and cruise and cruise. Maybe hit a trail or even just a nice ride around the neighborhood.

Smile at the people you pass. Just let go of all worry!

Squeeze a Stressball

Those little stress balls are all something we can think back about. We all at one point got our paws on one of those little things and felt a bit better afterwards!

Simply Stretch Out Like A Dog

You know in the morning where we take a big stretch before getting out of bed? It feels great!

Why not just do this right now? Jump on your bed and bang out a couple sets of these stretches. It can make you feel better.

Roll A Ripple Ball Under Your Feet

A few minutes of torture can reap many benefits of ripple ball rolling. Some of those benefits include: Decreased anxiety and stress, preventing injury, improved circulation and even better sleep.

It makes sense as our feet our one of the most used structures on our body. They are holding up all of our weight and need some love too.

Celebrate Something

Find something to celebrate. Even if it is simply just a small win that you had during that day. I mean lets face it, we can’t really be stressed when celebrating right!?

It is focusing on the positive in life. And what we focus on expands. We naturally default to the negative. So in a way, it is consciously reseting our default mechanism to a positive space.

Set Short and Long Term Goals 

I know that when I set and tweak my short and long term goals, I feel much better about my life.

It gives me hope that my life is getting better. That in the next year to 10+ years, I will be doing more with my life. Saving more, giving more, living more.

Resource: 201 Things To Do Before You Die

Watch a Sunrise or Sunset

If you are like me, I have the most anxiety at night. So for me, I know one the most relaxing things for me to do is watch night sunsets. Although morning sunsets can bring us a nice calm start our day.

Side Hustle

Engaging in a side hustle around my passions or simply just to make an extra buck, has always allowed me to feel more calm.

I think it is getting my mind off my daily life. Breaking up the monotony and also feeling productive as you are richer that you were when you started.

Utilize Guided Imagery

According to studies, guided imageries main purpose is to create harmony between our mind and body. It can create more harmony in our blood pressure, respiratory patterns along with offer more hope in courage to attack the world with.

Do a Body Scan

If you are like me, you hold a lot of your tension in your shoulders and trapezoid area. It can be hard to subconsciously relax sometime.

So what can really help is to consciously become aware of our body. Do a scan starting at the tips of your toes, and then all the way up to the top of your head.

Try and identify areas in your body that you need to release. A couple of conscious efforts to relax tight spots will help a lot in creating more harmony in your body.

Hire Someone To Do A Chore For You

Maybe it is someone coming out and washing the car at your house. Maybe it is cleaning your whole entire house. Or maybe it is to do your yard.

We can bring relaxation to our lives by simply outsourcing the things we don’t want to do. Sure it may cost you some money, and yet the things that we don’t want to do, end up taking much more time to do them, compared to someone who loves doing it.

It can give us some time to relax as well as work a bit extra as we aren’t doing the things we dread. Or give us time to focus on a side hustle.

Do a Youtube Yoga Class

Yoga is insanely relaxing. It is like meditation as well as you burn some calories doing so. Also, if you don’t want to do yoga, why not try to do a different workout that you aren’t used to doing. Like kickboxing, ropes or circuits?

Create a Vision Board

A vision board can allow us to think far ahead. Set up times in our lives where we can visit the places our heart desires too. To do things like getting married, falling in love, becoming more through self growth, breaking through comfort zones, starting that business.

Resouce: 450 Vision Board Ideas

Turn Your Phone Off For A Certain Amount Of Time

I know for me, when I didn’t have a smart phone for a while, my anxiety was way down!

It is truly an addiction for me, I will admit this any day. When I disconnect from my phone for a bit, it feels nice, as well as feels like a solid breakthrough when I do it.

The thing that helps me most is to not look at it for the first 30 minutes to an hour when I wake up.

It allows me to more naturally come into my day. Not worrying about whats in my inbox, texts and calls I have to respond to, along with keeping up with the Jones on social media.

Smile at Everyone You See Out

Not only will this make someone elses day, it will make yours as well.

It lets us harness the power of gratitude and simply spreading some love.

Vent To A Friend

We all have things in our lives that are internally driving us nuts. I know I bottle things up a lot.

Then someone that cares about me will ask me, not how I am doing, but how I am ACTUALLY doing.

Haven’t you hd this happen to you too?

Someone that actually cares, really digs deep. Then we vent a little bit, and we feel more optimistic about our world!

Why not schedule these little happenings? Vent with a buddy once a week. Just let it all out. Give each othe the freedom to simply just be an ear to listen to them with.

Learn a New Skill

Learning something new can be both challenging and relaxing. It also gives us a sense of accomplishment that can boost self esteem.

Here is a resource that I made for you if you want some ideas on new skills to learn.

Resource: 53 New Skills To Learn

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive muscle relaxation is a wonderful stress relieving technique that we can ad to our tool belt when we are looking for relaxing things to do.

At it’s essence, this is all about taking one body part and tensing it completely. As tight as possible with hurting yourself.

Then slowly releasing this tension.

Usually you hold the tension for 15 seconds then slowly release over the course of about 30 seconds.

Keep Your Jaw Happy

Maybe slap away on some gum, or eat something crunch like carrots or celery sticks. The crunch or constant motion of chewing gum always makes me feel a little better as it helps relieve the tension in my jaw.

Put Your Head Between Your Legs (Below Your Heart)

This is known to reset the Autonomic Nervous System. It can really allow us to reset our body and mind and feel more calm.

Visualize A Calm Body

It all starts in our mind, if our mind is peaceful, than so is our body. If our mind is chaotic, than our body is going to feel out of wack and tense.

You can simply see yourself relaxing in a tall field of grass. Chilling out and just letting go completely.

You can also envision your dreams coming true. Feeling yourself already having, doing and being the person and things you want in this life.

Punch a Punching Bag

For a while I was going through a really tough time in my life, and when I would feel out of control, I would simply go punch the bag. I picked one up off Craigslist of like 50 bucks and was in business.

I felt way more calm after my boxing sessions. And know this can help you too!

53 – Declutter Your Space

It is said that when our mind is chaotic, so is our environment. So why not just switch it up and clean up our space. Throw away things that we don’t use anymore.

Do a little spring cleaning no matter what season we are in?

It will make us feel more calm and happy.

Binge Watch A TV Show

Even if it isn’t something that is incredibly captivating. It is purely for the purpose of letting a load off. Get to know the characters. Get lost in their world temporarily!

Resource: 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time 

Go Camping

Even if it is a one night stay, just go get out in nature and not have to worry about what you look like for a day and night. Do a little hike, go fishing, cook over a fire, tell some stories around the fire. Get off the map!

If you can, just leave your phone at home or at least completely of.

Staycation

I guarantee that if we plan it right, we can grab a pretty awesome deal at one of the resorts near by our place. Live in lavish on the cheap. Live it up, grab a massage, float in the hot tub and pool.

Conclusion To Things To Do To Relax

 

 

Passion truly is the essence of life. Once we tap into our passion, our soul literally lights on fire. It gives life so much more meaning.

Our existence is more vibrant. We are happier, colors seem brighter. And we almost have a child like essence to us.

It is the congruency with our soul, that is what I think passion it. Doing something we love, because we are meant to be doing it.

And it can even give us more sustainable long term energy.

I think the purpose of life is to find your passions, and then spend as many hours as possible engaging in them.

This is what I refer to as a life well lived.

Below there are a myriad of different quotes about passion, to ignite or add fuel to our desire to keep our passions alive and well in our life!

Enjoy.

Quotes About Passion

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” – Ferdinand Foch

“A great leaders courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion not position.” – John C. Maxwell

“Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.” –

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” – Denis Diderot

“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” – Fabienne Fredrick

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Galileo Galilei

“Don’t chase they money, chase the passion. Because that’s what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.” – Tyra Banks

“I’ve studied life through books. The passion has never left me.” – Anatole France

“The best leaders not only inspire us, they develop and empower us to lead with passion from whatever position we currently hold in life.” – Ty Howard

“A passionate leader denies every form of followership, only if one understands what it is to be passionate.” – Krishna

“None, but people of strong passion, are capable of rising to greatness.” – Comte de Mirabeau

“The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are, and knows what they were  created to do.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes

“Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success. If they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.” – Nelson Mandela

“I would rather die of passion, than of boredom.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.” – Joseph Campbell

“Find your passion and it’s no longer work.” –

“Follow your passion, it will lead to your purpose.” – Oprah

“To succeed, you have to believe in something with such a passion, that it becomes a reality.” – Anita Baddick

“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“There is not passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

“Passion + consistency = Success.” – Lilla Liptak

“Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life.” – Debasish Mridha

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Just because your life changes, doesn’t mean your deepest passions have to.” – Shannon Miller

“Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling.” – Joyce Meyer

“All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.” – Yanni

“The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy or passion.” – Terry Orlick

“Have the courage to follow your passion, and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.” – Oprah

“When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.”  Deena Kastor

“A leader has a passion for winning. In other worlds, getting by is never good enough. A leader wants to win, he wants to be the best, produce the best, and bring out the best in others.” – Dr. Alan Zimmerman

“Never apologize for being alive, find your purpose and embrace life.” – Gift Gugu Mona

“Serving someone such as by charity and if not money, simply by helping people in pursuing their passion or motivating them.” – Lisa Adams

“Skills are cheap, passion is priceless.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Discover your passion. Pursue your passion. Then your passion can enrich your life and the lives of others.” – Donna Satchell

“When you have passion for something, you find a way to make it happen, this i the panacea of success.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.” – Jahangir Khan

“Do it with passion, or not at all.” – Yashika Khubele

“A goal has limits, but a passion has none.” – Tapan Ghosh

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. Angelo

“The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits and purpose.” – Tony Hsieh

“When I began to have a mad, passionate love affair with my own life, the rest fell perfectly into place.” – Katrina Mayer

“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.” – John Wesley

“My mission in life is to not merely to survive, but to thrive, and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style.” – Maya Angelou

“Being passionate is about giving your best to whatever is in front of you, with your full attention, energy and might.” – UV

“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionte about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-yo Ma

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” – Chin-Nig Chu

“Vision will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our committment to do whatever it takes to achieve excellence.” – Tony Dungy

“The most successful people follow passion, not paychecks.” – Unknown

“You can’t fake passion” – Barbara Cororan

“Happiness is when your passion and career collide, and you can look forward to Mondays.” – Ellduclos

“People are prettiest when they talk about something they really love with passion in their eyes.” – K.V.H.

“Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender. It’s violence which you get hooked by pleasure.” – Isabelle Adjani

“Chase your passion, not your pension.” – Denis Waitley

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Ronald Dahl

“Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent any day.”- Dave Ramsey

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money. It is the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You can’t find your passion thinking about it in your head. – Marie Porleo

“I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it’s not the same financial success, it’ll lead you to the money that’ll make you the happiest.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“If you feel like there’s something out there you’re supposed to be doing. If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” – Wanda Skyes

“Screw finding your passion, you already know what it is, you’re just ignoring it.” – Mark Manson

“You must find your passion in life to truly live your potential.” – Unknown

“Finding your passion is the key to your success.” – Tracy Kauffman

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.” – Charlotte Eriksson

“Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate. – Jane Porter

“Do small things with great passion.” – Lolly Daskal

“A life without passion is a slow way to freeze to death.” – Unknown

“You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus and the support.” – Sabrina Bryan

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, and change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence. Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable.” – Andy Andrews

“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” – Donovan Bailey

“We must act of passion before we can feel it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Love what you do, and do what you love. Passion is the key that opens the door of joy and abundance.” – David Cuscheieri

“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” – Marian Wright Edelman

“If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you, like a fever.” – Sam Walton

“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerbeg

“I think I overcame every single on of my personal shortcomings by sheer passion I brought to my work. If you love your work, you’ll be out there everyday trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around you will catch the passion from you life a fever.” – Sam Walton

“My advice to you is this. Whatever your passion may be, writing, reviewing, para-sailing or teaching, whatever, don’t let that passion simmer down and die. Chase your dreams, be strong and most importantly, know yourself, only then will the world be yours to conquer. You might fail, but failures make the greatest stories.” – Chamera Sampson

Conclusion To Quotes on Passion

There we are my friends. Quotes about passion to show us a colorful myriad of perspectives about passion and what the true essence of the word means to people around the globe.

I would love to hear what your favorite passion quote was?

Did I miss any?

Let’s talk in the comment section below!

With gratitude,

Chris