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| Dan Millman World Champion athlete (1964), motivational speaker, author of several books, martial arts instructor Source of the photo: https://bolstablog.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/millman/ |
“Talent is about 20 percent innate, body type and so on for sports, but about 80 percent can be developed.”
“And I realized being able to do handstands and somersaults didn’t helped me much when I went out on a date and those skills really didn’t apply directly when I got married or had children and dealt with financial challenges and career decisions and all the challenges of everyday life we all face.”
“It’s not as if you have a story, you are a story in the making, you’re a novel being written and you never know what the next chapter is going to be.”
“At any time we face some adversity, some challenge we start to reflect and look at our lives once again and wonder if we can make some changes.”
“If you want to help people, of course, do what your heart tells you to do, but don’t neglect the work on yourself, because that’s what’s going to give you the clarity, the courage to know how to exert the right leverage at the right place at the right time and really make a positive difference in the world.”
“Two fundamental approaches to change, to doing what needs to be done and the first approach is very popular. It sounds something like this:‘first you need to quiet your mind so you can create empowering beliefs to raise your self-esteem so you can practice positive self-talk to find your focus and affirm you power to free your emotions and visualize positive outcomes so that you can find the courage to generate the confidence to make the determination to form the commitment to feel sufficiently motivated to do whatever it is you need to do’. That’s one approach. I recommend the other which is ‘just do it’. Life is always going to come down to that whether it takes us a few minutes, a few months or years, the question always remains before us: what will you do now in response to the circumstances?”
“We don’t have a spam filter in our heads, a lot of junk mail comes through and that’s perfectly natural.”
“Somebody came up to me after a seminar or a talk workshop I gave in ‘Dan, I don’t know, I have to tell you. I feel so inspired.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry, it will pass’. Because it’s true, isn’t it? Inspiration comes and goes, motivation rises and falls. The question remains: What will we do?”
“You made a resolution you stuck with. You’ve set aside a time every day for your exercise routine.”
“A little of something is better than a lot of nothing. In other words, it’s fine to dream big, but start small and then connect the dots.”
“The lesson is simple, the student is complicated.” (Barbara Rasp)
“Here and now, breath and relax.”
“I’ve had many troubles in my life, most of which never happened.” (Mark Twain)
“Most of our troubles are self-created about past and future. Regrets, anxieties, but right now we can handle this moment.”
“Life comes at us in waves of change. We cannot predict or control those waves, but we can become better surfers.”
“Learn to surf the waves of change here and now each moment. We can always handle this moment and the quality of our moments become the quality of our lives.”
