|
Hello All My AdlandPro Friends and Family!
Small actions done consistently can yield big results. In less than one minute, you can read the message below for a positive tone for your entire day. The day to improve yourself, help others and be happy is TODAY. In this defining moment, you can make that choice. Set the example by being the example.
--------------------------------------------
Watching
What do you do when you're sure no one is watching? When you have no need to impress others, what is it that truly impresses and fulfills you? The foundation of success is built in the moments when no one else is watching. What you do in those moments, when nothing is expected of you, is an excellent measure of who you really are.
Others can encourage you and nag you and intimidate you into taking action. Yet the real and lasting accomplishments will come when you take your own initiative, and express the best of who you are.
When you are free to do exactly as you please, what is it that you do? When nothing is expected of you by others, what do you expect of yourself?
The moments when no one is watching are moments of great opportunity. For they are your chance to determine and develop the person you most want to be.
You can go through life merely appearing successful, or you can actually experience true success and fulfillment. The difference depends on what you do in the moments when no one is watching.
---------------------------------------------
Do Something!
If you can't take a big step, take a small step. If you can't take a small step, take a tiny step. Maybe there's not a lot you can do right now. Yet there is surely something. There is surely something, no matter how small it may seem, that will get you moving in the direction you want to go. Rather than just sitting there worrying or complaining about what's wrong, get going and do something to set it right.
Five minutes from now, you can be well on your way. Five minutes from now, you can be enjoying the real, substantial, positive momentum and confidence that will come from taking action.
Even the smallest effort will provide you something upon which to build. So even if all you can manage right now is a tiny step forward, go ahead and take it.
Take action, and you will no longer merely think you can do it. After even the smallest step, you'll know for sure.
---------------------------------------------
You
There is the you that the rest of the world sees. And then there is the you that is really, truly you. Sometimes you can become so very concerned about your image, and about what others think. And that beautiful person, the real person inside, gets smothered under it all.
There's much more to you than what people see. And if you pay attention, you can feel that person inside yearning to truly live.
The you that is really you is not there to cause pain, but to experience fulfillment and joy. The pain in fact comes mostly from keeping the real you hidden away.
Outer success may appear to require that you keep the real you repressed and forgotten. Yet anything that is gained by denying who you truly are, is empty, meaningless and not worth the effort.
Real success comes when what is on the outside finds strength and substance from what is on the inside. Life has true meaning when what you do is based on who you know you really are.
---------------------------------------------
Marilyn L. Ali
|