Tag: motivation

What do we do to inspire ourselves each day?

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What do we do each day to inspire ourselves?

Do we read books that are likely to make a difference and help us create something that matters or do we read the Metro?

Do we listen to educational podcasts or listen to just music?

Do we read blogs or articles that inspire and educate or just trawl through click porn on Facebook?

Do we stop and ask questions to learn from others or do we chat about weather?

Obviously, we can’t spend all our time getting inspiration and education and there is no harm to chatting about the weather. 

However, as with everything in life, we can choose just how much inspiration we have each day in our life and how we can use that to move closer to our dreams and goals, whatever they may be. 

What to do first?

Posted on by philipdodson

All of us struggle at some point, or even every day, to decide what to do first.

However, if we paused for a moment and stopped to ask these two things, then it would be a whole lot easier to decide.

What to do I fear the most?

What matters to me, as in really, really, matters?

It’s likely to be the thing you fear doing the most is the thing that really, really, matters most.

Fear is the barometer and something that matters the most is the inspiration to motivate us to take action.

As Mark Twain said ‘take the biggest ugliest frog first each day and eat it’ or words similar to that. The most important thing that will make a difference to our life, is the thing to do first and carry on until it’s done and if it can not be done all at once, then break into chunks, but start on that thing first every day.

Often the fear of success prohibits us doing the obvious and we busy ourselves with ‘avoidance’ tasks that make us feel like we are ‘on it’. We are not, we are putting off the things that matter simply to avoid facing our fears.

Don’t think, just start, small steps every day, but do something you fear and something that matters.

Our moments of greatness in life all start now with the first magical step into the unknown of doing things we care about.