Go find a mirror. The person you see in that mirror can either be your best ally, strongest advocate, your outstanding champion, your most enthusiastic cheerleader, your terrific coach… or the greatest opponent you will ever face, sabotaging you both subtly and bluntly, undermining your strength, your resolve, your will, your confidence.
Your choice: How will you craft yourself? Sculpt your thoughts? Set your sail? Will you stand guardian at the gate to your mind? You may not yet be able to control the thoughts that come to mind, but you can certainly learn to control the thoughts that stay in mind. Will you feed your spirit nourishing, uplifting thoughts? Continuously grow and develop yourself toward your best self, more often? Create and follow a written plan for your life? With action plans and accountability check points? Keep a journal to encourage self-reflection and develop your self-knowledge and EQ? Go regularly to sources of inspiration and wisdom and drink deep?
It is your one and only precious life; it is my devout prayer that you do not drift through life, that you do not fritter away this treasure you have been given, that you treat this gift with reference and respect.
Closing Quotes:
“Think you can, think you can’t—you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Self-doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” – John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” – William James
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – James Allen
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
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