personal-growth

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths.

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

Where your soul meets your purpose is the azimuth known as your passion and from there you can plot points of inspiration and achievable goals.

If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.

Use the information you__e been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you__e heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don__ ignore that voice to follow rules that don__ fit. When a jacket doesn__ fit anymore, it__ time to donate it. Same principle applies for rules which no longer serve you. You don__ have to curse the rules or condemn them. In fact, there might be someone else who would benefit from them at the exact moment you no longer need them. Just step into all that you can be and all that you can do.

While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with __hat if._ Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don__ regret it.

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.

Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

It's the business of your life...and you're the CEO!

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

A great friend can act like a trash can with a hole in the bottom. To listen to someone else's personal garbage with the same empathy you would spend listening to their joy, and then release that garbage just as quickly as you hear it, without absorbing it, makes you a wonderful friend to that person--and an even better one to yourself.

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.