Regrets are in the Past

Humans have a tendency to regret the past. But not many understand that the decisions one took was based on the wisdom and knowledge at the point in time. Today, you're definitely wiser and knowledgeable and its clear to you that you could done things better.

So, don't waste your time regretting because that's the best you could do at that time.

The point is ...did you learn somethng from the experience.

Don't Compete, Don't Regret

The tendency to compete breeds regret sometimes. You always want to do better than before. But try it and you're sucked. You want to do better even tomorrow. Life never ends its challenges. Its best to live life in the present without competing and certainly without regrets.

If Things Go Wrong, They Will
Regrets seep in when things are not going good in your current life. Think about how you could resolve your problems and find a way to be content and happy. Think about the past could ruin the present too.

Think about it.

If you give up you don’t succeed in anything. Behind success is a lot of failure, criticism, pain and intense determination. Are you ready to follow your passion.

Giving up is the easiest thing to do, and that’s not the reason why you start on a journey. Persist, be obsessed. FAIL. FAIL. TRY. FAIL. TRY. Succeed.

Read the story of these celebrities who were seized by an idea and were determined to succeed despite repeated failures. At times, they were the only ones in the world to think the idea would succeed.

Success is also about long periods of loneliness.

When Jack Canfield Needed Soup?
Jack Canfield’s Chicken Soup for the Soul was rejected by 144 publishers. But each time, he and his co-authors went back to the drawing room to improve the quality of the book. Eventually, the book sold 8 million copies and was translated into thirty two languages. Says he, “Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

Henry Ford’s Bumpy Ride
Henry Ford, the legendary founder of Ford Motor Company, went bankrupt 4 times before he learnt to launch a successful car. His first company Detroit Automobile Co., had to be shut down in the face of customer complaints of high prices and poor quality (Ouch!).

His second venture Henry Ford Co also ran into trouble. But men of steel have a way of bouncing back and Ford finally made it when investors backed Ford Motor Company, which rolled out an automobile in 1896.

The rest is history.

If you keep pursuing your dream and not give up, you will ultimately find your destination. Inspiration often comes when you seek it, more often from the deepest of your heart.

Dream big and dream daily, be seized by the passion of the moment and you'll surely reach the shores of success.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Vince Lombardi

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Al Neuharth

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

A great many people seem to end up over the hill without ever having actually climbed it!
Anonymous

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

Just remember that once you're over he hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson

Often the difference between happiness and despair is our thinking. The way we see things and our ability to challenge life's situations and dare to overcome them is what separates ordinary folks from achievers. The never give up spirit coupled with an urge to do brings us success and happiness.

Just see things positively and do things with confidence and you'll see change. Plenty of change. Almost magical results await you.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr Wayne Dyer

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assis

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Anonymous

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant

Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Schwartz

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you.
Brain Tracy

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us.
Helen Keller

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown

Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.
Catherine Pulsifer

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
Denis Waitley

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Anonymous

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

When one is truly ready for a thing it puts in its appearance.
Napoleon Hill

You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you
Jim Rohn

You can do it if you believe you can
Napoleon Hill

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Napoleon Hill

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands but in the heart itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A goal that is not written down is merely a wish.
Les Brown, Live your dreams

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
Jim Rohn

If you cannot make a change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou

You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.
Jim Rohn

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.
Les Brown

My daughters’ school starts at 8.30 am we all wake up by 7 am on weekdays and on weekends it is 8.30 am. So you see we were not early risers. But all that changed one day - she wanted to get up early for her exams.

So she asked my father-in-law, during a recent visit, to wake her up who is up by 5 am in the morning. He is 74 and has been waking up early, when birds chirp, the last 60 years or so. My father-in-law is an inspiration for all of us.

He finishes his exercise, makes his own cup of tea, reads books and waits for his morning newspapers. (He reads a whole lot). When we are out of our bedroom his, “Good Morning” refreshes us and inspires us to look forward to the day with great enthusiasm.

The next day my father-in-law woke up my daughter for her exams, and as I wanted to give her a boost (mother’s contribution), I too woke up.

Because of my early rising I was able to give valuable tips to my daughter for writing her exams, and finish my daily chores by 10 am, and had lot of spare time, which allowed me to complete all my pending work. (Blogging, completing tax returns, filing, banks…).

I felt energetic, seeing the red sun; usually I couldn’t see the sun,
That day was my D –day, the deciding day when I thought that one early day could give so many benefits, and then imagine if I woke up early my entire life …

So hold my hand and come with me and I will let you know how I did it.

Know Thyself
- Socrates

Think Big

Think Positive

Face Truth

Live Happily

Dream Big

Why Not?

Trust People

Set Goals

A young man from the village went to meet a Buddhist monk whose fame had spread far and wide.

“Master I want to become your disciple,” said the man.

“But why?” asked the monk.

“Because I want to find God,” said he.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Former American President

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach, author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingstin Seagul

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Anonymous

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan, champion basketball player

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
Anonymous

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie, author of Effective Public Speaking and many other books

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Anonymous

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot, American Business Tycoon

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Anonymous

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
Anonymous

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them
Maya Angelou

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Zig Ziglar

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.