Inspirational & Motivational Articles

Inspirational & Motivational | By Peggy Champlin @ Thursday, 4th September 2008 @ 11:52 PM

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground cof... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Thursday, 4th September 2008 @ 5:05 PM

Bear with me for a moment on this one, it really does make sense. Einstein once said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." I have found this to be so very true. You can't do something over and over in the same way and get a different result, correct? This means you must somehow expand your thinking to create a new approach and a different solution. You must go out of your old mind and find a new mind to think... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ron Subs @ Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 11:27 AM

Life is good. When you think with a positive attitude, your whole demeanor changes. On the other hand, as you look at life as negative, negative things will follow you. Test it out. I'd rather you tested out thinking positive about every day things and watch your life improve. Your entire feeling of well-being will improve. For example, if you are waiting in line and sick of standing there, try to think of others that wish they had the money to buy the items you are purchasing. Be gr... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 9:34 AM

One of the biggest barriers to living fully in your spirituality and in your life is an ever-so-deeply-conditioned, limiting, and self-defeating belief system. This is the core and the root of self-destructive behavior, sub-satisfactory results and negative thinking. Over the years of working with thousands of individuals, I've noticed there are a few primary beliefs, more prominent than others, which create the most havoc and often set people up to settle for less than they deserve... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 4:33 AM

Live according to your purpose, and you'll discover a natural passion for life; and within that, you'll feel a great deal of personal power. If you want to feel totally empowered, learn who you are and be 100% of you 100% of the time! You may need to do some soul-searching and uncovering in order to discover your true self and determine your bigger connection in life. All this requires is a willingness to become more aware, to heal and/or regain yourself, and claim your greatne... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Tuesday, 2nd September 2008 @ 9:18 PM

This is about the law of gravity inverted...sorta. Nature always strives to create balance, which is otherwise known as homeostasis. Examples would include day and night; high tide and low tide; summer and winter; and, of course, up and down. Gravity, however, seems to create a skewed dimension because it pulls everything down. In day-to-day life terms, especially from an emotional perspective, the "down" energy can seem as powerful as gravity, and henceforth, very challenging. <... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Joe Martin @ Monday, 1st September 2008 @ 1:41 AM

It was the middle of the school year, and I was going through a rough stretch when it seemed like nothing I tried was working with one particular class I taught. I must note that although I wasn't a beginning teacher, I was still considered a new teacher with less than three years experience. I found myself complaining to a colleague who always seemed to possess a positive attitude no matter what the circumstances. I told him that I felt very uncomfortable about the progres... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Jackie Lee @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 10:53 PM

Many times as we grow up our dreams are squashed by well meaning people in our lives. People who love us and want the best for us including not getting hurt. As an adult you can choose to create big dreams and aspire to great heights. You can set your life up to be anything you want it to be. Your life could be absolutely amazing. If only you would learn to aspire higher, think bigger, dream to the stars. The biggest thing holding most people back from their dreams is the word impossible... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Jackie Lee @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 10:37 PM

In life, every moment you are offered choices. You might say that life itself is making choices. You may choose to have a pessimist's view and live a self-defeated life or you may choose to take the optimist's route and have a challenging and fulfilling life. Optimists expect the greatest. Because of the law of attraction they tend to get the greatest. No matter what form it takes they are able to see the benefit or the gift in any situation they end up in. They tend to think d... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Jackie Lee @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 9:32 PM

Being happy isn't as hard as it appears to be at times. The first thing you have to do is make a choice. That's right. Decide you want to be happy. Once you make that decision you will find you attract more and more things to be happy about. Just like the snowball of bad things you can create an avalanche of things that feel good. Here are 12 ways you can get started feelign good. Make sure to keep your eyes open for things to be grateful for while you are out there feeling go... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Don Dewsnap @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 5:55 AM

Who wouldn't like to be more successful? However you measure success, whether in money or friends or the size of the flowers in your garden, more is usually better. More money is especially nice. But there is the clue. Rather than spending your efforts on the more, spend them on the better. The common way to achieve more is to work harder: longer hours, faster weeding, doing extra favors. The problem with this approach is that it has limits: you can only do so much. Then when you hit... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Thursday, 28th August 2008 @ 8:45 PM

Abundance...this word has become quite popular these days as one of the latest "metaphysical buzzwords". "Creating abundance", "manifesting abundance", and "living the abundant life" are just a few of the abundance of abundant cliches these days. All of these sayings are trying to convince us that this abundant Life is just out there waiting for us to step into it. So you may be asking the $50,000,000 question: "How do I do that?" Quite frankly, I&... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Joy Kapur @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 7:44 PM

There are hundreds of self-improvement, goal setting and positive thinking, wealth generating programs you may have tried. If you're honest with yourself, they have never yet delivered for you. Here's the real "Secret" behind "The Secret" You may have been led to believe that you can just lay on your back thinking about stuff and be able to manifest oodles of money, love relationships, new friends, better health, a brand new home etc. I'm here to tell... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Danette Hibberd @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 10:59 PM

Too often we hear of people who strive for success but don't quite make it. Sadly, they give up before they reach their goal. Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the centre of the page and call the line "Success". We know that about 90% of people today are on the left hand side of the line. These people often stop about a centimetre or two before reaching the line because they either can't stretch themselves to get out of their comfort zone, or simply quit. How sa... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By George Symond @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 8:59 PM

For many people, Cosmic Ordering has become an easy and very successful way of manifesting what they want. Not just the well known Cosmic Ordering celebrities like Barbel Mohr or Noel Edmonds but ordinary folk like you and me. Others simply write it off as new age mumbo-jumbo. Cosmic Ordering gives people the vehicle with which to express their innermost desires. And in part this is where Cosmic Ordering is very powerful, it requires you to STOP and THINK about your life, about what is i... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Joe Martin @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 7:56 PM

If we ever have the pleasure of meeting each other, whether it be at an education conference, a teacher workshop, or in a classroom, other than my size (I stand only 5'-6"), you'll notice that I will adorn two bright red bracelets - one on each wrist. I never take them off. Both are bands I specifically created for a pre-determined purpose: to keep me focused on what's most important when it comes to building my character as a teacher. One band reads "Integrity&quo... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 7:12 PM

What do you fear, and how real are your fears? The most common fears I see and hear from clients (and others!!) include the fear of rejection, the fear of failure, the fear of change and - believe it or not - the fear of success. As real as these fears may seem, most of them are only imaginary (not real) and totally made-up (fantasy). I like to refer to these made-up scenarios as stories. Part of our humanness includes an amazing ability to make up stories and assumptions, and then to be... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Peggy Champlin @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 6:38 PM

I love parables. They contain wonderful lessons in a form so easy to digest that children can understand them. I grew up hearing the ones in the Bible, and one of my favorite books contains Zen Buddhist parables. Every culture has their versions of these stories. This little parable is an old story, but one of my favorites. It never fails to give me needed perspective when the world seems aligned against me, and it has that "never say die" attitude we all need when the going gets ... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Ken Donaldson @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 3:50 PM

When making changes in your life, if you feel uncomfortable, insecure, vulnerable, or weird, know you are probably right on target. Why? Because to achieve anything new you have to create fresh strategies, approaches, and systems. Most anything new will feel strange until you get used to it. So, live the Attr-Action model of life. Remember, there is no Attr-Action without the right corresponding action. Through your vision, purpose and values, you'll become a magnet and draw t... more...

Inspirational & Motivational | By Rosemary Lichtman @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 9:00 AM

The full range of female athletes on the 2008 Olympic teams makes it clear that age and family responsibilities are not the barriers to participation in the Games they used to be. Stories from Beijing highlight the courage and resolve of the mothers of the world - as they demonstrate their athletic prowess and win gold or silver medals. Significant are the 20 mothers on the USA Olympic team, including past medalists - swimmer Dara Torres, basketball player Lisa Leslie, and softball playe... more...