Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
Interpretation
Pursuing significant goals can bring both excitement and fear, and that combination drives personal growth.
This quote encourages individuals to set ambitious and challenging goals that ignite a sense of excitement and fear, as it suggests that reaching for such goals can lead to profound personal development. The interplay between exhilaration and anxiety can push one beyond their comfort zone, leading to richer experiences and achievements.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students about their future aspirations.
Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
You will be amazed at how much free time you have when you never have to think about money.
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.
People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldnβt take a risk because of what could happen. While some of what they say may be true, you should never allow them to get their negative anchors into your mind because, like them, you too will begin to sink. Next time this happens, throw them a life-line, and ask them what is good about their situation.
Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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