5 Quotes that inspire worthwhile goals

We are not bestowed the qualities we desire. We are merely given opportunities to embody them

If you wish you were patient, courageous, maybe a leader, pay attention when opportunities present themselves to temper those qualities. If you fear failure, don’t. Know that your God placed these abilities deep within you and will be with you always on your path to success.

A vision of your best self and best life is there waiting to be uncovered

An artist will visualize a sculpture inside a piece of rock. Their job is to cut away the pieces that are not part of their final vision. If you struggle with the pain of past friends and loves or lost jobs, view them as the pieces of your life that had to fall away in order to uncover your best life.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. –Vincent Van Gogh

Great artists spend a significant amount of time in stillness visualizing what they want to create. Great athletes spend a significant amount of time in stillness visualizing victory over their opponents. Goals worth achieving take time and process so that it sinks into your soul and comes out of your pores. Allow yourself the gift of all consuming imagination and limitless possibility.

Give yourself permission to follow your instincts.

Whether you wrote in a journal everyday or just on occasion, make a habit of going back to older journal postings to read any observations you made on past decisions. Hindsight is 20/20. Did your instincts lead you down the right path? If so, this is a great way to hone your instincts and to teach yourself to trust in them.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. –Hellen Keller

Gratitude for the small things that come to us in life is easy to identify (a gift from a friend, a roof over our head). Gratitude for bigger picture items especially those that don’t seem like a blessing are never easy (the loss of a loved one).

Remember there is beauty in all events of life and we will find it if we are open to it. (A loved one who suffered a great deal of pain in their last days but is now free of suffering and reunited with her father who passed away when she was an infant)