Start early today

8 Inspirational Quotes to Start & Win the Day

“Aim above the mark to hit the mark”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Set audacious goals and workout a plan on achieving it. But as you take steps be not attached to the fruits of your labor. Stay flexible on ways on getting to your destination and be open when plans change. Your goals may change too, so be attentive modifying your goal and ways to get there daily.

“Yesterday’s home runs, don’t win today’s game”

Babe Ruth

Most people self sabotage during their peak. Notice if you are getting complacent. Today, you do your best and you might achieve such great heights, but know that tomorrow is another day.

“We Can Complain Because Rose Bushes Have Thorns, or Rejoice Because Thorn Bushes Have Roses”

Abraham Lincoln

It is not the thing itself but how we perceive the thing. Make a commitment to see the good side of things. Beauty is always there for those who have the eyes willing to see. As you think so you become. So think good thoughts so more of it comes.

“The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary”

Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon revolutionalized women’s hairstyles in the post-war years and created an international hair-products empire which proclaimed “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.”

Get clear on what you want to achieve within a timeframe. Alot a certain amount of hours each day dedicated to achieving that specific goal. Be open to plans changing and the goals changing. Success is the progressive pursuit of a worthy ideal. Be careful in obsessing and feeling that success is outside of you. It is not the achievement of the goal that makes you successful but the person you are becoming as you are in pursuit of something worthwhile. So get to it, the moment you put in the work you are already successing!

“If you start to think the problem is “out there”, Stop yourself, That thought is the problem”.

Stephen Covey

As within so without, never blame situations that are outside of you. Take responsibility and be accountable for where you are right now. Nobody else put you there but you. Quit stinking thing and always affirm the good and observe positive change.

“Be like the duck, calm on the surface but paddling hard underwater”

ancient proverb

Work in secret, let the results of what you do tell the story. Bragging about working hard is unnecessary. Results are what matter. We can take inspiration from nature, it always does a good job without bragging, complaining or opinions.

“A calm sea doesn’t make a skilled sailor”

Franklin Roosevelt

Are you getting too comfortable? Start the day with hydration and immediately changing your environment. If you are seeking to being a high performer you must deliberately get out of your comfort zone. You need not to go out in a stormy ocean. A nice brisk walk will do the trick.

“Do what you love, it is the best way to relax”

Christian Loubotin

Make time to create and design the life that you want, design your environment, neglecting to do this you’ll end up with the environment designing you. Find that noble thing that stirs you up, nurture your curiosity and once you find that thing, go all in.

Hope these quotes got you inspired and fired up to make the most of everything that you got right here, right now.

This playlist gets me in flow. Give it a try. Peace and love ❤️

7 Benefits of Stress You Need to Know

 The term “stress” was coined by Hans Selye in 1936, and his definition is “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change”. “Stress” is also defined as literally a function of every adaptation to change. Since its rise in popularity in the 50’s, it has been perceived negatively as something to avoid and totally prevent. But let us pause and take a look at this word with a new pair of lens. This article was inspired by Kelly Mc Gonigal. Let’s get to it!

1. Improves Cognitive Function

 You are stressed out when you are about to encounter an event wherein something important to you is at stake, your brain fires up new neural connections, your heart pumps more blood to the brain, your options get clearer, you become a version of yourself who is capable of overcoming this unavoidable event. When faced with a stressful situation, your values get exposed, you untap hidden cognitive functions of the brain, you enter a state called “Pause and Plan” and you immediately get creative on ways of solving the problem. This biological instinct called “Pause & Plan” decelerates your heart rate, increases focus, and helps you remember your goals and values. So moderate amounts of stress gets your cognitive function in tip top shape.

2. Boosts your Immune System

Moderate stress stimulates the production of a chemical called interleukins and provides the immune system a quick boost to protect against illnesses.

3. You Become Resilient

Exposing yourself to moderate stress stretches out your capability to adapt. And adapting to new and always changing things is a very good skill to acquire. Upon resolving a stressful situation, you have then become a newer version of yourself. Your domain of familiarity expanded and now open to more worlds that offer more opportunities and ready to venture new worlds.

4. Increases Focus and Learning

In the pursuit of your goals, you will be facing stressful situations, uncertain things, different personalities and inevitable chaos. This will call you to become more focused and be quick on your feet on learning what works and what is needed to be let go. So if there is a stressful thing you need to do, just muster up the courage to face it, get focused and learn as soon as possible. So make a commitment to daily rise up to moderate stresses and soon enough you’ll increase yourself beyond that stress if you deliberately face it. Use stress to your advantage to get more focused and be a better learner.

5. Oxytocin is increased

When stress becomes overwhelming, we are left with no choice but to reach out for support. Friends, family and social contact enhances oxytocin. Oxytocin a.k.a the love hormone dilates blood vessels and decreases blood pressure.

6. Better Memory

Mild and short lived stressors cause new stem cells in the part of the brain called the hippocampus. This is the part of the brain responsible for stress response and memory. If you’re going to a certain place and you encounter something stressful, it’s important to remember exactly what caused the situation in order to avoid that situation in the future. Moderate stress increases your brain’s capability to remember.

7. Use Stress to Increase Confidence

Going through something overwhelming and accomplishing it creates a new person in you that is now more confident and capable. Use visualization getting through a stressful situation and it will be likely that the expected stress won’t be enough to overwhelm you. Try preparing yourself through visualization and turn overwhelming stress to manageable stress.

Conclusion and tips

According to Kelly Mcgonigal, Stress is neither good or bad. It is how we perceive them. Running away and avoiding turns stress to chronic stress and will cause damage to the body, meanwhile perceiving stress as a tool to get you focused, a better learner, more confident, alert and courageous. One very inspiring thought that closed Kelly’s Ted talk was. “It is better to chase meaning than to avoid discomfort, and trust yourself that you can overcome”

Hope you have a slight shift in the way you see stress and use it to enhance your life.

Always remember to start early!

Link to the talk here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU&feature=shares