Surround Yourself With People Who Share Your Passions

30 Second Motivational Challenge: Surround Yourself With People Who Share Your Passions – Enthusiasm is contagious, so when you are around people who are passionate about the same things you are, it’s easier to remain motivated toward achieving your goals. Don’t waste time with naysayers or negative people. Seek out friends, co-workers and acquaintances who share your goals and interests and who will be supportive of your efforts to achieve them. Your time is too important and valuable to surround yourself with people who complain and contribute nothing positive to your mission. Remember, when you share your passions your passions will then share you. 

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The Power of Gratitude

30 Second Motivational Challenge: Be Grateful- Say "thank you" more often than you do now. People appreciate it when you appreciate them. Being grateful creates humility, and humility leads to grace which is a fullness of the heart. By practicing gratitude until it becomes second nature, the list of things in your life that you are grateful for will grow larger each day. Gratitude is also the opposite of complaining. So being positively grateful, you can avoid the negativity of complaining. Start the act of being grateful, it can change your life. Remember you were born for two reasons, to do great things and greater things. 

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How to Live Your Dream

Is living your dream only for a select few or can we all realize our dreams? Here's six tips to help you live yours.
1. Create a Great Purpose - The greater the reason you have to live your dream the greater your motivation. Think of those who have achieved greatly in their lives. Their purpose wasn't limited by a personal agenda but by a purpose which was far greater than themselves. A few years ago, Sir Bob Geldof spoke at a conference. During his keynote speech he spoke about how "Live Aid" began. He said, "...our goal was to raise $75,000 to help feed people in Africa. Now millions and millions of dollars later we're still doing it." Create a great purpose for your dream - world abundance, world peace, feed the world, make poverty history or whatever resonates deep within you, almost as if you were born for this purpose to be realized.
2. Explore Your Dreams - What are your talents and gifts? What are you deeply passionate about? What do you love? Everyone has talents and gifts. Everyone has unique contributions to make to our world. However if we just follow everyone else hoping to be liked and approved of, we may miss our calling. Ask yourself - what do you truly love doing? Do you lose track of time when you're doing this? Would you do it even if you never got paid?
3. Create a Vision - Get a blank sheet of paper and markers. Now imagine anything is possible. Then draw a vision for your ultimate dream, one that feels absolutely fantastic! It's the feelings that will energize your vision into reality, so let them soar! Put the vision somewhere you will see it daily and reconnect with those feelings as if your dream is already true.
4. Take guided action - In the world in which we live, the planets remain in orbit, the sun rises daily and we can also manifest our dreams. What do you need to do? Let go of the need to figure "how" your dream will happen, trust in yourself and watch for opportunities that arise. These opportunities may come to you, or your intuition may urge you to take guided action. Whichever way they arise, gently seize these opportunities!
5. Give Thanks - A thirteenth century philosopher, Meister Eckhart once said - if the only prayer we ever said in our lives was "thank you" it would be enough. Never cease to feel gratitude for the manifestation of your dreams. Your feelings of gratitude is the energy which fuels the magical manifestation of your dreams. No matter how slow or fast the progress, celebrate every step of the way!
6. Your Greatest Gift - Finally and most importantly remember even if your dream doesn't come true, be forever grateful for the greatest gift of all - the gift of your precious and unique life. And know that this world is a better place because ... You have dared to live your dream!

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How to Live Your Dreams Without Any Fears

The above statement is undeniably true as most of the time we are surrounded by fears, fears of losing our dreams and not being able to fulfill our desires. On the other hand, looking back in history we can see that some of the greatest stories have been materialized by those who were able to break free of those fears and achieve complete freedom. Maybe this is the secret of how to achieve our dreams in spite of being surrounded by fears. All we need to do is find that small whole that will take us to a new world where there are no fears.
In order to live our life to the fullest, we need to learn how to control our fears, get over them and make a great story out of it. Perhaps the biggest fear we have in our minds is the fear of failure and this is what prevents most of us from taking risks. We do not want to risk our relationships, jobs or money. Most people want to walk on safe and secure grounds and to avoid any failures or tragedies in their lives. So how can we follow our dreams in a world surrounded by fears?
The first and most important step is to choose to face the fears. If we look around, we will see many fearless people. They are fearless not because they never had any fears in their lives but because they have learned to overcome their fears. For example, if they feared speaking in public, they arranged public speakings until their fear was gone. And if they feared leaving their current job although they were not satisfied, they just did it. These highly successful people acknowledge fear in their lives and still learn to live fearlessly despite the fear.
Here are some simple guidelines that can help you get control over your fears and live your dreams.
Acknowledge your fears
Rather than sweeping all your fears under the carpet and not admitting their existence, gather some courage and learn to face them. Release them out into the open rather than keeping them buried deep inside you. Look straight into the eye of the fear and discuss openly about it. Learn to face your fears and you will discover that many of the fears that developed around you are actually baseless.
Recognize your fear as normal
It is normal and acceptable to have fears and you should accept that these fears are there for a reason. Fears warn us when to move cautiously and guide us in avoiding dangers. However, we need to evaluate how rational our fear is and whether there is a logical reasoning behind it. In that way we can determine the severity of the danger, the risks involved and whether we should trust or face our fear.
Reach to the source of your fear
Find out the root cause of your fear and where it comes from. This will help you see the clear picture of your fear which is very often different from what you originally thought. Consider all the limitations caused by your fear and evaluate whether it is worth sacrificing all these moments because of your fear. Then you will understand that your fear is not as bad as it seems to be.

Think without your fear
You can start by dreaming without the fear. Imagine how you would behave if your fear was not there. Look back in your life and remember those situations where you moved ahead and you were successful although your fear was there. Take a small step at a time and start practicing living your life without your fears. Now that you have accepted your fears, it is time to try to step out of your comfort zone, gain the confidence to walk over your fears and gather the courage to do what you have to do.
Most of us are not living, as we are stuck with our fears and we let our dreams disappear. We all come across those GREAT moments sometimes in our lives but we hardly ever notice them, as we are too obsessed with our fears. Fear of failure discourages us from taking unknown paths. And it is the fear of the unknown that keeps our feet and dreams without the wings they desire. However, it is better to try and fail rather than live with the feeling of not having tried at all.
Once you start thinking as if your fears are not there and you actually learn to control them, then you will have developed a strong belief system. And it won't be long before you turn these beliefs into words and these words into actions. And these actions will not suffer from fears or negative emotions. You will soon be congratulating yourself for bringing into your reality your values, words and actions in order to accomplish your goal.
Stop wasting your energy by simply talking about your dreams. Instead, go ahead and chase your vision by living your dreams. You have already spent enough time thinking about your dreams and how to overcome your fears. Now is the right time to put these words into action. Go ahead and break those shackles of fears holding you back and live the life you truly deserve!

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