Challenge 2011: Create and Sustain Your Personal Motivation

As the end of January nears, the resolutions that were strong only just a few weeks ago begin to wear off for some and habits from the past return.  How will you sustain your personal motivation in 2011?  Perhaps some of these quotes can offer an interesting perspective and serve as healthy reminders. 

"It is better to follow the Voice inside and be at war with the whole world, than to follow the ways of the world and be at war with your deepest self."

- Michael Pastore

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change."

- Carl Rogers

"Man is what he believes."

- Anton Chekhov

I welcome the opportunity to learn how you are using tools and information to sustain your goals for 2011 and can be contacted at 248-740-3231 or through my website - Troy Michigan Business and Personal Coach.

Positive Motivation and Momentum To Start 2011

2011 will offer many opportunities for change and challenges for both personal and professional growth.  As these opportunities and challenges enter our lives, it is helpful to maintain a balanced perspective towards the positive outcomes that are developed from creating sustainable change.  With this in mind, here are some thoughts to consider:

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

- Dostoyevsky

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds:  Your mind trancends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.  Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed of yourself to be."

- Patanjali

"I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future so I want to be reasonably sure what kind of future it's going to be.  That is my reason for planning."

- C.F. Kettering

"People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I don't know what your destiny will be but one thing I know:  the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to server."

- Albert Schweitzer

I welcome the opportunity to learn how you are using tools and information to sustain your goals for 2011 and can be contacted at 248-740-3231 or through my website - Michigan Business and Personal Coach.

Motivational Quotes For Your 2011 Preparation

Motivation will play a big factor as you prepare your personal life and career for the New Year.  With this in mind, we encourage you to take a few moments and to read the quotes below and reflect on how you plan to make 2011 your best year yet.

The entire team at Barry Demp Coaching wishes you a happy and prosperous 2011. 

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.  It's the way it is.  The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

- Virginia Satir

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

- William James

"Everything that happens to you is your teacher.  The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it."

- Polly B. Berends

"In the world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life.  The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn."

- John Naisbitt

"Life is a daring adventure our it is nothing."

- Helen Keller

Launching a New Life in the New Year

As we launch ourselves into a New Year I thought I would share a series of quotes from a book called Life Launch by Frederic M. Hudson and Pamela D. McLean.  Enjoy!

"Your past cannot be changed, but can change tomorrow by your actions today."
-  David McNally

"The daily pressures to act, to do, to decide, make it difficult to stop and think, to consider and to examine your life goals, directions, and priorities - to find the best choices you have managing your own world."
- Roy Menninger

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if the can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Developing a mission means seeing a pattern in the things and though that get you moving; assessing your resources; then formulating your feelings into words."
- Charles Garfield

"Is there something in your life you would like to change?  If so, first change your perception of the problem.  When you can see yourself and your situation differently, you have already taken on the responsibility for your success."
- Marilee Zdenek