Category: Brilliance

Each day, we ask our Luminary to answer, “If you only had 500 words to share, what wisdom would you want to pass on to humanity? What have you learned that matters, and what doesn’t?” We’ve featured wisdom from Sir Richard Branson, Guy Laliberte, Seth Godin, Marci Shimoff, Debbie Ford, Neale Donald Walsh, Mariel Hemingway, Jack Canfield, Janet Attwood and hundreds of additional Luminaries…. and it’s all available to you for FREE in the archives below!

Synchronicity – Are You Where You Are Supposed to Be?

The door opens. The path is lit. A missing piece falls into your lap. The phone rings and the caller is someone you thought of just moments ago. The ever-famous "magic" parking spot opens up. I love it when I seem to just bump into someone I really want or need to see. What are the odds? There are 1,440 minutes in a day. What if I had walked a different route, took an extra minute to read my mail, veered left instead of right? There are 1,439 odds against me bumping into that person...if one goes simply by mathematical…

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Today’s Brilliance from Les Brown

I think we can all agree, life is getting tough. It seems as if everything around us is collapsing, and crumbling before our very eyes. Many people are uncertain about the future, money, relationships, health, and careers. In fact, we are beginning to question the very nature of life itself. In these uneasy times, even as a world-renown motivator, my advice is simply: When things go wrong, don't go with them. Have you watched the news lately? It's quite depressing isn't it? With all of this mess going on around us, you have to monitor your mind and mouth. I'm…

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Live As If It Were Impossible to Fail

Here's what I've learned in 27 years... Family is everything. It is so important that no matter what you do or where you go, keep family at the forefront. In your dealings with all, strive to be the greatest provider of Value - shun the quick profit and maintain integrity. This will bring you much honour, respect and lasting prosperity. There are so many ways in which we are often expected to govern our lives - some of these ways work and make sense; others do not work and do not make sense. The trick is to find the way…

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Reach Out and You Won’t Miss A Thing

We face so many challenges as individuals. It seems that the more personal the challenge, the deeper within ourselves we must seek to overcome it. We are told to do it this way. Encouragements like, "Look Within Yourself" "Find Yourself," and "Be True to Yourself," are everywhere. Everywhere is this indispensable advice. Just ask yourself and you'll find the answer. It is meaningful to practice self-reflection and we feel very rich when we are able to solve our own problems. But it's not that simple. Individualism, resolve and self-empowerment do not address a deeper challenge, a pervasive fear that I…

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Six Key Elements to a Good Life

For a long time, I thought the formula for a good life was setting and meeting goals, achieving, being good, being nice, being perfect, hiding vulnerability and weakness, and not making mistakes. What I've learned from my life experience and from my research with people who live great lives is that a good life is just the opposite-and these six key elements are key: YEARN--Life isn't about getting what you want or meeting your goals; it's about following your deeper yearning. I was good at meeting goals--being a good student, succeeding at my career, losing weight--but meeting goals didn't make…

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Acceptance and Respect – The Keys to Life

It took me a long time to realize that to accept and respect — yourself and others — is the key to a happy life. In going around the country speaking about bullying, it dawned on me that the answer to bullying and many of society’s other ills really come down those two simple things. Having been bullied myself, I didn’t have enough self-respect to counter the taunts of the bullies at my school by walking away feeling good about myself in spite of their insults. And I didn’t accept myself to be okay enough with who I was to…

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Your Beliefs Can Save Your Life!

When I was 26 years old, a man pointed a gun at my head and shot me four times. I responded with love and compassion, and so today I am alive and well. Had I reacted differently, I would have died that night. What happened? My search for answers has led me to great heights and great depths. I have explored one marvelous topic my whole life: Consciousness. It has kept me fascinated and entertained for decades. When you use awareness to examine awareness, things get slippery. It's like standing between opposing mirrors and seeing an infinite array of selves…

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Amanda-Richardson

In Truth We Find Peace

Live your truth and you will be free. Because in truth you know exactly who you are, the lines of your personality, the depths and valleys of your soul, what it is that you lack and where you overflow. In truth, you don’t apologize for who you are. You live divinely in your own skin, without the heaviness of another persona lying on your back. In truth, you know what you want, in all of its complexities and nuances, difficulties and joy. You are not bound by others’ expectations of who you must be, of what is common or normal…

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How To Live Each Day Fully

Every day is a present and requires you to be present. To master living an inspired life, live each day fully, because life does not contain an endless supply of days. Life is happening now in this very moment and no further days are a given. When you stop and realize that all of life fades away and your days on the planet are scarce you can remind yourself to bring in more passion in each and every moment and to live for each moment. This means live NOW in a meaningful and vivacious way. The number of days you…

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Permission to Fail is Permission to Live

To give yourself permission to succeed, you also have to give yourself permission to fail. The truth is that real life has mistakes in it. All creativity, live performance, all real exchanges between people and anything that is authentic, will go wrong now and then. Even the most experienced ritualist will make mistakes. Real life has no airbrushes to hide the flaws, no photoshop to take out the wobbly bits, no editor to polish it. Life is lived in one take, with no pausing, rewinding and redoing options. If we hold ourselves to the standards of polished, professional media, we will…

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10 Ways To Start Living Your Life Now

Life - it's what we do between the time we get here and when we go. We only get one, and despite what other folks might suppose, it's ours to determine what to do with it. We don't measure life in hours and minutes. We measure life in memories and moments. What do you think of when you read this sentence? "It was the time of my life". We don't say that often enough. Life either happens to us, or we take hold of life and live it. Here are 10 ways start living your life. Give yourself permission to…

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Be Happy, Living Inspired Daily

How many lives do we get in this world? The answer is ONE. This is one of life’s facts that we cannot add more time than we have. However, we can make the most of the time we've got and that is what can bring us happiness. Millions of people spend their lives searching for happiness when all the time it is right in front of them. Finding joy in the little things may seem rather trite at times, but true happiness is not a place or a time, but a state of being. If you cannot enjoy the little…

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3 Ways to Take Charge of Your Life

It's true we live in a time of questionable economic stability, nobody knows where to step or what's coming next. It's also true that without balance, timing, and know-how, surfing is impossible. Realizing that navigating the waves of flux in the economy is as simple as reading the landscape, balancing on an unsteady platform, and timing your market are they keys to success. More millionaires were made during the great depression than during any other time in history. We stand at the forefront of a tremendous opportunity to top that record. But everywhere I look I see opportunities that go…

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Achieving Your Potential, Despite Adversity

Life is an adventure, a journey through many valleys with many mountains to climb. You're going to get tired, you're going to be hungry, you're going to feel lost. Some nights will be cold and filled with scary things. Some days will be long, hot and without comfort. Take the time, even when it's hard, especially when you don't feel like it, to stop and look back to see how far you have come. Look at your life in awe for what you have accomplished and know that you have the ability, the grace and the wisdom to continue moving…

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Living in the Flow

As I've grown and matured I have noticed a recurring pattern in my life. Things move the easiest - business, family life, friendships, my goals - when I am in a state of Flow. What do I mean by "Flow"? It is a feeling of happiness in the present while having a positive expectancy for the future. But let me break it down further. The state of Flow has been described in different ways by different people. Tony Robbins calls it "State". Jose Silva calls it "Expectancy". I believe they are both referring to the same thing. Flow is composed…

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The Power (and Art) of Letting Go

How many of you have been told that the final piece of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and ‘Manifesting’ process is to ‘Let it go’? How many of you struggle with ‘letting it go’? The concept seems so simple – just let it go and trust the Universe – right? Sure, simple in concept – but then our emotions kick in and the idea of ‘letting it go’ gets thrown out the window. Why do we struggle to ‘Let it go’? The plain and simple answer is that even though we want to trust the Universe, we feel much more likely to…

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Decide To Shine Wherever You Are

Don’t be afraid of becoming who you are. The minute you decide that you are going to become who you are meant to be in this world, is the moment you begin to soar. Criticism stops us at times. But look at your critic as a person, not as a god. When we place critics in the proper perspective we can get on with our life’s mission. Some nuggets of criticism may be valid. Look within and pick the kernel of truth. Correct. And continue to soar. Refuse to be placed in a niche. You are meant to have an…

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How Do You Define Success?

I have been asked this question thousands of times because I walked away from a successful corporate career to follow my passion. No one understood when I explained I was living the life someone else designed. When we live our lives by the design of others, we get caught up in their poor choices and toxic mindsets. However, when we are courageous and discover, and follow, our inner “calling”, our lives will take on new meaning and purpose, and it becomes apparent that success is defined within. I learned that I must discover, define and design my life. Regardless of…

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What If…?

What if we could be here for the moment, be right here in this moment? It's just the world seems to be spinning fast, faster than ever, and we're still here on this ride, traveling at 66,000 miles per hour through space, 106,000+ kilometers per hour; it would be good to hang on for a moment, to feel right at home, just to be free from-- hang on it's a call-- free from distractions, stress, free from fear, blame... What if we had some kind of unlimited energy? Some kind of fuel, that when you use it, more comes right…

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Be Joyful, No Matter What

Learn how to let go of negative thoughts and focus on the positive instead. Live in appreciation of all the amazing miracles that life offers everyday, and of the miracle that you are. Live in the moment just like a child and look at everything with a beginner’s mind. If you are able to practice this until it becomes second nature and if we are able to teach our children to retain this ability that they already have, then you will be amazed at how life is always joyful. Remember that we are human-beings and not human-doings. Therefore focus on…

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