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Tag: achieve

  • The burden of necessary achievement

    “Lift the weight of necessary achievement.” When I realized I wasn’t a prodigy, I could exhale, I could join the larger world. Too often, we become burdened by the high expectations of others, as well as the unrealistic, self-imposed pressures to achieve. We find ourselves living within a closed room of our own making, walled…

  • Consciousness | Growing, Pain, Healing and Joy

    “We cannot go back. We can only go forward.” -M. Scott Peck, M.D. Here in-lies a bittersweet truth of evolving into consciousness. Once we see, we can never unsee. We can never go back. Find comfort in knowing that ignorance is, in fact, not bliss. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. Growing…

  • Favorable Conditions Never Come

    “If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” -C.S. Lewis

  • Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) | Baz Luhrmann

    “If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience… I will dispense this advice now.

  • 7 Secrets Of Success From My Room

    7 Secrets of Success… I found the answers in my room. Roof said: Aim high. Fan said: Be cool. Clock said: Every min. is precious. Mirror said: Reflect before you act. Window said: See the world. Calendar said: Be up-to-date. Door said: Push hard to achieve your goals.

  • 5 Ways to Accomplish Your Goal

    Does a track record of letting your determination ebb leave you feeling like you can’t reach your goal? Maybe you want to compete in a triathlon but you’ve never finished the 1-miler or you want to read War & Peace but can’t sit through the Sunday morning funnies. Maybe you want to eat more vegetables…