40% of what we do daily is based on our habits and happens almost entirely on autopilot.
What we do daily shapes our life. We don't decide our future, we decide our habits and they create our future for us.
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled." A little progress each day adds up to big results.
5 GREAT QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOU TO ESTABLISH SUCCESSFUL DAILY HABITS
1. "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier
2."The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it." – Gary Keller
3. "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." – John Dryden
4. "You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." -John C. Maxwell
5. "Sow a thought, reap an action;
sow an action, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap a destiny."
– Stephen Covey
Bonus:
"The greatest reflection of your priorities is your time.
Whatever you say about what matters to you, the true test is where you place your time." - Nick Crocker
A few ideas to help you with new daily rituals:
1. Establish a structured morning routine to create momentum and get into the right mindset.
2. Practice gratitude, positive thinking, eating healthy, mindfulness, meditation and exercise. It can help to eliminate stress and boost your energy.
3. Have "To be" and "To feel" lists in addition to your "To do" list.
Live on purpose. Each day, decide what YOU WANT TO BE, how YOU WANT TO FEEL. What do you want to be each day - a good friend, parent, or leader? How do you want to feel - happy, fulfilled, excited, inspired?
Each day is the beginning of anything you want. Reach for the stars!
Keep smiling and keep shining! Have a super powerful day! ❤
“Healing doesn’t come through perpetuating the lies of the abuser, but through embracing the truth.”
There is a truth buried deep inside our heart and soul, a sense of our own internal belief system, when we are ready to listen to the whisper of our own soul, the truth will heal us.
On this my own life changing journey, I am walking my own path to find my way back to me without hurting others.
We are all of us walking a path towards healing the child within our adult body from a childhood that many were forced to endure.
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is YOU. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only YOU can." - Neil Gaiman
Celebrate your you-niqueness - your super powers! There is a magic in these that only YOU own.
We are successful, when we do our best! We are the happiest when we are passionate about what we do.
Remember to say to yourself today: "I am success! I am incredible!"
We are what we say we are!!!
Have a super powerful day! ❤
"Excellence is not BEING the best; it's DOING your best."
I don't think many people around me know how hard I am to myself. How there are so many days when my frustrations would get to me, and more often than not, how I would just keep all the broken pieces inside my head and let them eat me from the inside.
That is why I will always have a special place in my heart for the silent cheers. For the corny jokes to perk me up, the warm hugs. Those simple gestures, those beautiful people—they're the ones that pull the pieces of my world back together.
And I know for a fact that even after winning all the battles I have in life, they're the ones my heart will always remember.
HAPPINESS
You're going to realize it one day.
That happiness was never about your job or your degrees or having a relationship.
Happiness was never about following the footsteps of those who came before you; it was never about being the same as others.
One day, you'll see.
That happiness was always about discovery, hope, listening to your own heart and following it where it chose to go.
Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself, it was always about embracing you, the person in the making.
One day you will understand it and follow it where it chose to go.
Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself, it was always about embracing you, the person in the making.
One day you will understand it.
That happiness was always about learning to live with yourself, that happiness was never in the hands of the other person.
It was always about you.
One thing I learned the hard way this year is, you can never control people but you control how you respond to them. You can never expect people to stop bothering you unless you do it yourself by cutting ties with them. Your peace will be the most expensive thing you can give to yourself and some people can't afford that for themselves. Do not let them cloud your mind. You do you. The universe favors the purest souls. 🤍
I reached the point in my life where goodbyes don't hurt as much as they used to. It's not because I've gone numbed or I don't value people anymore, but more because I've learned that life's too short and way too busy to keep everyone inside our bubble. No one told me this, but burning bridges in life is necessary. It allows us to focus on the people we really love, those who stayed, while letting those who were meant to just pass by enjoy their story.
I'll be forever grateful for everyone who found it worth their while to know me. Whenever people say goodbye—and most times they don't say it in words—I learned to accept it with an open heart. I still thank them inside my head with a promise that I will never forget the piece of themselves that they shared with me. And then I move forward, with hope that I can make the best out of those who chose to stay to the right of me, and those who stayed to the left of me.
It's crazy how so many of our dreams had to take the backseat for reality. I don't even remember some of them anymore, but sometimes, I know that I still long for them. Sometimes, I just lay on my bed for hours, thinking of the might-have-beens, trying to fall asleep.
I may have stopped going after a lot of the colors now, but I'd still like to believe that my canvas isn't finished yet. that I just needed to focus on the parts that matter the most, and then one day—I hope that one day—I can set off again and chase the pieces I lost without needing to think of the compromises. Without holding back and without the weight of the world on my shoulders—just a simple soul wandering for all things beautiful.
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Prayer and Thanksgiving, before you ask and think you are in lack be thankful for whatever you have in the present moment ❤️🙏
How do you manage when your pain is not understood?
Pain can be eased when we share our feelings with others, but if we are unheard, it often worsens the pain.
When we get emotionally wounded, our heart becomes very heavy. Many thoughts and questions run through our minds. If someone is there to listen to us, we are able to release our emotions and feel light. But when our feelings get disregarded, we keep them in our hearts, slowly damaging us from within.
Don't carry resentment in your heart. Try to speak to your family or friends. If you feel there is no one, use silence to pray and meditate and heal yourself with your own love.
#heal #silence #share #emotions
When you pray, pray that you don't feel unwanted in your most desired places.. pray that you don't witness your best moments becoming a far dream.. pray that your deepest fears don't become a reality.. pray you don't stop being a good person.. pray for inner peace.. pray for a beautiful soul.. pray for the strength needed to forgive yourself and others.. And above all, pray you can always find your way back after losing sight of what's important.
CHOOSE TO LET GO OF OTHER PEOPLE'S SCHEDULES AND EXPECTATIONS.
Trust the timing of your life and enjoy the journey. Wherever you are right now, is exactly where you need to be. Your timing is perfect for YOU!
“You’re not behind in life. There’s no schedule or timetable that we all must follow.
It’s all made up. Wherever you are right now is exactly where you need to be. Seven billion people can’t do everything in exactly the same scheduled order.
We are all different with a variety of needs and goals. Some get married early, some get married late, while others don’t get married at all.
What is early? What is late? Compared with whom? Compared with what? Some want children, others don’t. Some want a career; others enjoy taking care of a house and children.
Your life is not on anyone else’s schedule. Don’t beat yourself up for where you are right now. It’s YOUR timeline, not anyone else’s, and nothing is off schedule.” - Emily Maroutian
After all: all we can do is our best. Excellence is not perfection.
When we do our best, we are practicing excellence. When we put forth an honest effort and work from the heart, we are excellent!
Keep shining and keep smiling! Look in the mirror and remind yourself how gorgeous you truly are!
Smile and have a perfectly powerful day! ❤
Do you have a giving heart?
A giving heart represents an open heart full of compassion, empathy and kindness. If we all open our hearts, we can change the world we live in.
Giving is a beautiful form of humanity. When someone is willing to provide support, it means they can feel your pain and understand the situation you are going through. Giving is not just about material help but presence, time, and reassurance is also a form of giving.
Keep your heart open, help others, and support the ones who need it. You don't need much to help others but a willingness to bring change.
#give #empathy #support #MakeADifference
Understanding is so much deeper, so much more involved than knowledge.
There can be really many people who know you.
And knowing you can differ on so many levels too.
But when it comes to truly understanding you ... Not so many.
For it takes up so much more soul time, so much more desire to understand someone's inner being, than just having knowledge, than to just know them, or know of them ...
Having only a couple or even just one friend, one loved one who does understand the real you, is a very rare extraordinary, very costly gift.
And how amazingly wonderful is it, when someone looks you in the eye and tells you, you truly get them!
This is the foundation of soul sisters, soul brothers ... Soul mates ♥️
Family being best friends too, doesn't just happen because of the blood bond.
No, like any other friendship to blossom, it takes conscious decision to work at it and love one another despite of, and because of. Even more so than in regular friendship.
Blessed are families who also choose to be friends! It's a beautiful, wonderous gift! 🧡
Can you let go?
Believe it or not, most have a hard time letting go of the trauma, loss, and lacking in their past. The terrible decisions we may have made in the past.
We continuously relive that suffering and usually it is unconscious. Indeed, most don’t even realize that they do it. They just know that they don’t feel good about it.
As an imperfect human being, we have to understand that all of us have made questionable decisions in our life. They are not always going to be the best for us. But we still have to keep moving forward.
It’s is ok to learn from the past but we cannot keep reliving it. We cannot punish or cause more suffering to ourselves by focusing on those decisions that didn’t fare well.
There will be trauma, loss, and lacking in each and every one of our lives. We learn to feel and grieve through this process. But we have to make a conscious decision sooner or later to let go. To stop focusing on that moment. To experience and learn from it and move on. It’s just a decision. Just a moment. Just like the decisions you have to make to keep moving forward.
Let go of what doesn’t serve you and your best interest. Don’t focus on it. Don’t keep reliving it. Don’t suffer anymore.
You have the power to change your focus and thoughts at any moment you wish. You just have to decide.
Let go of the imperfect past.
Choose not to suffer anymore.
Use your power of influence and focus to create a different life.
One that is more enjoyable. More exciting. More nurturing.
It’s all your choice.
Always has been.
#choices #focus #past #imperfect #learn
Some people are unaware of just how amazing they really are. The way they make people laugh, lift others up, or spread some extra love and joy.
They do this even though they are struggling too, and I think it makes them such beautiful human beings.
"People are not as beautiful as they look and talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as they care, as they share." - Ritu Ghatourey
"Don’t tell someone they look tired; they already know that. Tell them they are doing a great job; they may not know that."
Be the encouraging and understanding friend, the one who spreads love, positivity, joy, smiles and laughter…. and who always spreads kindness.
If speaking kindly to plants can help them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.
Kindness is the new cool. Be that kind of cool, cool with kindness!
What are you trying to add to yourself to make you feel more fully yourself? A lover, spouse, child, new outfit, new car, new house? The list is endless. I hope today you can meditate on the fact you are already yourself to the fullest and this desire you have to add something is just a belief from the past. Let that go, come on, you can do it.
"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." – George Lucas
Focus on what you want. Clarity is power, it creates simplicity. Simplicity attracts wisdom. It makes decision making super easy.
Instead of trying to juggle too many things, focus on what's important. Urgent is not always important.
Simplify, get laser-focused on what matters the most and say no to everything else.
Energy flows where attention goes. Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. What you focus on will grow.
F - Follow
O - One
C - Course
U - Until
S - Success
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." – Will Durant
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." – Oprah Winfrey
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." – Socrates
Open your mind to possibilities. Keep smiling and keep shining brightly! Remember to smile - it makes you extra gorgeous! :))
Nothing is ever as beautiful as the first isolated moments with someone who might be able to love you — with someone you yourself might be able to love. There is nothing as silent as these minutes, nothing so saturated with sweet anticipation. It is for these few minutes that we love, not for the many that follow. Never again, they realize, would anything so beautiful ever happen to them. They might be happier, more impassioned, too, and infinitely satiated with their own bodies and with each other’s. But never again would it be so beautiful.
Are you finding it hard to start all over again?
Starting again can seem very difficult because it feels repetitive. When we do the same thing over and over again, we lose interest in it, but if we see it as a new chance of life, we can regain our enthusiasm.
There are times in life when achieving something needs multiple attempts. When we make it our first time, we are more energetic and enthusiastic, but as the number of attempts increases, our motivation and enthusiasm decreases. With the lack of motivation, we do not achieve the results we desire and it becomes a vicious cycle.
If you have to try several attempts, make sure you give your mind some rest, analyse your past mistakes and improve yourself. With an experienced and improved self, you will be able to see it as a new opportunity and every attempt will be full of zeal.
#Start #again #startup #attempt #enthusiasm #new #chance
“Only you can decide your worth because no one knows you better than you know yourself”.
Low self esteem stems from how we feel about ourselves. We often disregard ourselves because we look at what we don’t like about ourselves or get impacted by what some people make us feel about ourselves.
Whether it is about our looks, performance or capabilities, if we don’t embrace ourselves ,we always feel inferior and it leads to low self esteem.
Admire the goodness in you and work on what you think can be improved. Only you know how good you are, how hard you worked and what you are capable of, don’t let anyone make you feel any less.
Sometimes the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside you.
It's a fact that we need physical contact for mental and emotional health. Therefore we need to work at building our healthy physical social network, especially our close inner circle.
But long distance connections can be very meaningful and shouldn't be underestimated.
"To me, one of the most heartwarming blessings in this world is a quality conversation with a kind hearted human being who shows you their vulnerability and allows you to share yours, ending up feeling safe, connected, validated, recharged, and ready to face the world again. Thank you to those who allow me and others this kind of space."
I think we all should accept this truth
That no matter how strong you are
There will come days on which you feel weak.
No matter how brave you are
There will come days on which you feel scared
No matter how hopeful and cheerful
You will feel down and sad
I think we all should embrace the fact that no matter what happens nothing is a constant and everything is meant to change.
And no you can’t stop the fact that
No matter how hard you try
You will still have some bad days
And I hope you know that
It’s ok. It’s ok
NO, IT’S NOT OKAY: The plant experiment
This is just a reminder that abuse is not okay. Disrespect is not okay. Being treated like you don’t matter, is not okay. Being told harsh words is not okay.
An experience was done on plants. Two plants were spoken to everyday for weeks. The one that was told positive words grew and blossomed, the one that was bullied didn’t grow and slowly faded.
If words can affect plants, imagine what they can do to humans. People don’t realize how powerful words are. Words can build or destroy. All it takes is a second to hurt someone and years for them to recover from those words.
You are a human. You have a heart. You have emotions and feelings. Don’t be okay with people mistreating you. Choose yourself. Protect, love and take care of yourself by staying away from negativity.
The reason why I hide the side of me that still grieves: if only people would see how much of tears I had held back and secretly cried once I am on my own, they would get overwhelmed and drowned by the ocean of it. I know anytime soon, I will be needing a rescue—for I might get swamped by it.
People always say that life isn't a race or a competition. That we shouldn't be comparing our progress with others' because we all have different privileges, goals, timelines. And while I know it's true, a part of me is guilty—the part that usually keeps me awake at night.
I guess I'd like to believe that it's fair to long for the good things, too. For the rewards and the comfort after a long day. I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect that after braving up and trying so hard to catch up with the world, you at least get to have something that will make your heart peaceful.
Sometimes, it makes me a little sad when I find myself comparing. If the things I long for really aren't meant for me, I hope to find my calm.
Even in our darkest hours, we still can find happiness.
It may not be earth moving intense
It may start with just a small soft whisper.
And it may not be easy and quick.
This I know ...
But the key is remembering
you have an eternal light within.
Remembering you have to turn on the light to dispell darkness.
And so often the switch is to simply turn and reach out to someone else in need ...
Find the light switch in your darkness and turn on the light to your happy!
Start walking towards it, one step at a time, if you can't run.
You can do it!
I can’t make the world peaceful
I can’t stall tanks from roaring down roads
I can’t prevent children from having to hide in bunkers
I can’t convince the news to stop turning war into a video game
I can’t silence the sound of bombs tearing neighborhoods apart
I can’t turn a guided missile into a bouquet of flowers
I can’t make a warmonger have an ounce of empathy
I can’t convince ambassadors to quit playing truth or dare
I can’t deflect a sniper’s bullet rom turning a wife into a widow
I can’t stave off a country being reduced to ash and rubble
I can’t do any of that...
the only thing I can do is love the next person
I encounter without any conditions or strings
to love my neighbor so fearlessly
that it starts a ripple that stretches from one horizon to the next
I can’t force peace on the world
but I can become a force of peace in the world
because sometimes all it takes is a single lit candle in the darkness
to start a movement
“Lord, make me a candle
of comfort in this world
let me burn with peace."
@Aalia
