Inspiration Archives

B. Lynn Goodwin

The Transformative Benefits of Journaling

It's easy to tell others to take risks. It's harder to live by that rule, especially if you're wise enough to consider the consequences. Have faith. Take a leap and trust that someone will catch you. Weigh your choices. Don't hesitate to give to a stranger but don't give everything away. Be who you are. Everybody else is taken. Life is short. Have the courage to leave a miserable job, if you've tried everything you can. The same is true of a miserable relationship, as long as you're not hurting your children. If you're afraid you might be, weigh the…

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- Always give more than you hope to receive, whether in business or in your personal life.
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Don’t Look For Happiness in the Wrong Places

Happiness is not in your bank account. It's not in your closet, your waist line or your garage. Don't go looking to your list of, or lack of, invites, happiness isn't keeping count. Happiness doesn't know the difference between this season's shoes or last season's jacket. It's not sitting in first class on the way to Italy. Happiness didn't arrive on fine china. It's not marinated with filet mignon or dipped in Belgian chocolate. Happiness can't count how many Twitter followers you have or who you're connected to on LinkedIn. It hasn't liked your latest status or analyzed your influence…

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- I dare you to engage unstoppable confidence and belief with a wealth of fantastic resources to achieve your goals, realize your hopes, and manifest your dreams.
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Today’s Brilliance from Seth Chernoff

There are no coincidences in this universe; everything operates in perfect equilibrium. When we are ready, the right opportunities in life present themselves, whether in the form of people or things; and regardless of whether we see, hear, feel, or read it, it will speak to us. Irrespective of whether we agree or disagree with information as it is presented to us in life, it serves an important purpose to help us open our eyes to the world around us, to continually question what we believe, and to subsequently look within for the answers we seek for our truth. The…

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- The people who seem to keep you in restraints have no real hold over you. Once you believe in yourself, not allowing others to influence your decisions, you will notice that the cuffs that once bound you are no longer visible and you are free.
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Today’s Brilliance from Polly Campbell

You are good enough - right now. You are good enough to make a profound and positive difference in the world. You are good enough to love and be loved, to pursue your dreams, to achieve success, and live in peace and abundance and joy - right now. You don't have to be anything different. You don't have to go back to school, or meditate in Tibet, or lose 35 pounds. Nothing has to be perfect, or just right, or different then it is for you to know that right now, right in this moment, you are good enough to…

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- Make living a wonderful art!
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Today’s Brilliance from Donna Gates

Life is not supposed to be easy. We come here to learn to be a kinder, more loving and more courageous soul. Just as we grow from a small infant to an adult, our soul must grow from infancy to maturity as well. Sometimes babies are diagnosed with a medical condition called, "failure to thrive". Too many of us suffer from "soul failure to thrive" simply because we are afraid to fail. But failure is good. If we try and we fail we learn humility, a wonderful quality to master. But failure is a great teacher only if we have…

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- The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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Getting Fired: The Best Gift of My Life

At 50 years old, I got maybe the best gift anyone could every get. I got fired. Of course, at the moment it didn't seem like a gift. After a wonderful, 30 year career, I found myself at a new chapter in my life with a burning question: What next? Should I get a new job and feel like I was a spectator of my life and not living it? Or should I stop and try to finish a book that I had started a few years before, on positive thinking and well-being? How wonderful to think about this project…

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- Everything can be holy–every moment we live can be holy–and all we need to do to experience that state is to make the decision to do so. Through that intention, we can truly
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Today’s Brilliance from Jerry Smith

My life is a story about overcoming rape, tragedy, abandonment, rejection, murder and then at age 64 given a "death sentence," after being diagnosed with an incurable lung disease and given six months to live. Today I am the happiest that I have ever been in my life. So how did I find happiness? I learned that you can choose to have happiness by making up your mind to be happy, instead of choosing to dwell on the past. The difference between being positive instead of being negative is critical in changing attitudes, and attitude is a major factor affecting…

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- To be someone you’re not is to waste who you are.
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Today’s Brilliance from Sondra Sneed

To "inspire" comes from the Latin inspirare, which means "inflame; blow into." If such a word could have so much spiritual significance, then would it not be possible we are being inspired by God when we fool ourselves into doing what we want to do, instead of what others want us to do? The reason I suggest this is because only God has the power to blow into us that which is our own nature, that which we were born to be. Most of the time we don't trust that, and we look to the world to tell us what we…

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- We all have greatness within us that is waiting for us to believe. Once we believe, the foundation is in place for our greatness to take a foothold and grow.
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Use Your Intuition for Success

Do you ever get the sense that there's more to life than this? Do you ever feel like you are living a life of quiet desperation? If the answer is yes, listen to the voice of your soul. The voice of your soul is your inner guidance system. You were born hearing it clearly. You once believed that anything is possible. But you were taught to focus on your five physical senses and logic, which didn't nurture the magnificent and magical part of you - your intuition. That intangible source of wisdom was muted, but it is always speaking to…

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- What are you doing about what you aren’t doing?
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Embrace Your True Self

Being brilliant in this world is not possible if we have dimmed our light, because the light is who we are. And if all physical manifestation happens by lowering light into form through thought, we are the light, that chooses the thought, that creates light taking form. We are, ultimately, the light of the world. Through our focus and choice, we form the world of us, and that world then is pooled into the collective whole and affects the whole. Wow. Big responsibility, or big blessing. It all depends on your perspective and choice, about how you want to look…

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- The single greatest ‘people skill’ is a highly developed and authentic interest in the *other* person.
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Today’s Brilliance from Tim Hutchinson

Forgiveness You cannot move toward the future if you are chained to the past. Clinging to the frayed threads of hope in a pain-filled life cannot sustain you, and telling yourself to "hold on" or "hang in there" does nothing to move you forward. The first step to emotional freedom and healing is to let go of the past. Understand that not every injustice in the world will be punished, at least not in this lifetime. Carrying the hurt and resentment of negative experiences does not affect the offenders, it only affects you. Forgiveness is liberating. When a person is…

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