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Only two of these ten items are circumstances we can’t do something about.  We can’t control the choices other people make - we can’t force anyone support us.  We can’t control what the Universe places in our path - everyone experiences setbacks.  Both of these are matters of our own perception to a certain degree.  We can’t necessarily change them, but we can change how we see and consciously respond to them.

Things that can Destroy your Motivation

1. Not having goals. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t know what they are.

2. Choosing goals that don’t inspire you. You won’t be able to keep on going if the prize at the end doesn’t really matter to you.

3. Expecting immediate results. Anything worthwhile is a battle and a struggle. It takes times and effort to bring about a change.

4. Lack of support. We all need someone to believe in us and to be our cheerleader when we start to feel discouraged.

5. Not believing in yourself. As Henry Ford so wisely said: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

6. Feeling bored. Most success involves a lot of humdrum work, and repeatedly doing the same kind of stuff. But each day brings you closer to achieving what you want.

7. Inaction and laziness. You have to work the plan before the plan will work … and dreams are only dream till you turn your thoughts to actions. Also, it’s crucially important that you manage your time well, and you don’t get distracted or procrastinate.

8. Being around negative people. There are plenty of people who only see the flaws, and whose eyes are on the problems, and the absence of solutions. If you hang out with them, you will lose your zest and passion, and your positive outlook will soon be undermined.

9. Comparing yourself to others. We each are individuals, and we start from different places; we all face our challenges, and work at different rates. Remember “it’s your journey”. Be patient with yourself.

10. Encountering setbacks. No matter how great your plans, or your level of commitment, you’re bound to face some setbacks and encounter obstacles. That’s a normal part of growth – just keep going when life’s tough.

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“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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Snow geese flying in a cloudy sky. This was just a small segment of the numbers that were in flight just then. There’s a sound, maybe you can hear it toward the end of the video, like a huge crowd roaring at a distant stadium, like countless voices yelling far away. Sometimes I hear it even when there are no geese nearby, often when thousands and thousands of them are taking off from the quarries at once. I feel a kind of awe when I hear it. Just when I took this I could hear that distant sound but I could also see geese in every direction like a huge loose moving net across the sky. Btw they aren’t migrating. They usually stay in Nazareth’s quarries from November to February, flying out like this to feed every day.

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Inner ☽❍☾ Bohemienne turned 12 today!

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Landscape painter

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Ben Bulben, County Sligo, Ireland

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“And a neglected Looking-Glass

And the Child cared nothing about the Looking-Glass”

By artist Eleanor Vere Boyle, c.1868. Watercolor for 'The Story without an End' by author Sarah Austin

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Beautiful pyrography brooches by Gill Rippingale

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Ófærufoss waterfall in Eldgjá chasm, Iceland

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Oliver Sacks, July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015 ~ Physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.  The world will  be a lesser place without him.  Adieu...

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June 26, 2015 : Equality

“...all Americans are entitled to the equal protection of the law, that all people should be treated equally regardless of who they are or who they love...marriage equality is about our civil rights, and our firm belief that every citizen should be treated equally under the law.” ~ President Barack Obama

I wish my brother had lived to see this day...

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Keeping Quiet

by Pablo Neruda

Now we will count to twelve

and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,

let's not speak in any language;

let's stop for one second,

and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment

without rush, without engines;

we would all be together

in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea

would not harm whales

and the man gathering salt

would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,

wars with gas, wars with fire,

victories with no survivors,

would put on clean clothes

and walk about with their brothers

in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused

with total inactivity.

Life is what it is about;

I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded

about keeping our lives moving,

and for once could do nothing,

perhaps a huge silence

might interrupt this sadness

of never understanding ourselves

and of threatening ourselves with death.

Perhaps the earth can teach us

as when everything seems dead

and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve

and you keep quiet and I will go.

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Desert valley near Vermillion Cliffs, Arizona. 

*Photo by Aya O. 

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Beware The Rise of the Pseudo-Intellectual

“ We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion — and for precisely the same reason articles of fashion are worn, which is to make the wearer look better and to feel à la mode.

We must be careful to make a distinction between the intellectual and the person of intellectual achievement. The two are very, very different animals. There are people of intellectual achievement who increase the sum of human knowledge, the powers of human insight, and analysis. And then there are the intellectuals.

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. Starting in the early twentieth century, for the first time an ordinary storyteller, a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, a playwright, in certain cases a composer, an artist, or even an opera singer could achieve a tremendous eminence by becoming morally indignant about some public issue. It required no intellectual effort whatsoever. Suddenly he was elevated to a plane from which he could look down upon ordinary people.

Conversely – this fascinates me – conversely, if you are merely a brilliant scholar, merely someone who has added immeasurably to the sum of human knowledge and the powers of human insight, that does not qualify you for the eminence of being an intellectual. “

~ author Tom Wolfe, excerpt from commencement address to Boston University, c.2000