CounterCultureWarrior on Hope:
Hope helps our ideas grow and bear fruit. Hope is not a dream, it is a force that gives our life meaning.via Customer Review of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit by CounterCultureWarrior.
To open the doors of perception we need to go beyond this world. Which is not easy because it is familiar to us and provides a foundation for us. But if you really want to step beyond this world, all you have to do is step – and you are out.via Photography Always Shows What We Already Think We Know by Colin Pantall.
Seth Godin on Discovery:
Discovery is what happens when the universe helps you encounter something you didn't even know you were looking for.via Search vs. discovery by Seth Godin
Earth, air, water, and the light was the last fire of the sun, and it kindled every thing together into a bloom of evening beauty. I always try and choose to put myself in the way of beautyvia Kindling (Mon 05 Oct 2015) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Patrick McHugh on Anxiety and Growth:
Some can be paralyzed by their feelings. Is the key to look at every situation that produces anxiety for us as an opportunity to grow?via Checking in from the Airport by Patrick McHugh.Reframing ones feelings is often the best way I have found to help me deal with issues of anxiety and thus can be a great coaching tool.
Steve Magness on Uncomfortableness and Growth:
One of the best lessons I've learned, is to put yourself in uncomfortable, anxiety inducing situations; they are where we grow as a person.via twitter by Steve Magness via Checking in from the Airport by Patrick McHugh.
Iain S. Thomas on Happiness and Memories:
Happiness isn't forgetting. Happiness is finding new things to remember.via The Haunted Quiet by Iain S. Thomas.
So obviously true, but mostly forgotten or neglected. Thanks for the timely reminder, Iain.
When we feel humiliated the best reaction is humility.
via Archive: Notes to Inspire by Notes to Inspire.
Good advice for someone who has spent his whole life feeling guilty about being alive, about his good fortune in life, to have felt the things he has felt, to have been to the places he has been, to have seen what he has seen - to have experienced life the way he has and hopes to have. Maybe these thoughts of guilt show a humility that I had not recognised in myself and that I should not feel guilty about that (guilt - it's an endless loop, you see :-)). It just might show a humbleness and a clarity of purpose on a life being well lived.
Not sure where these words came from and again they might appear a little self-indulgent for a so-called humble person. I love it when a few well crafted words, like those above by Notes to Inspire, take you on a small journey to a place you didn't even know a few minutes earlier. Thanks Notes to Inspire, I appreciate your daily emails and Words of Wisdom.
Tim Winton on Looking and Stories:
It was a picture you fell into. You could look at it for the rest of your life and still wonder what the story was.
At the end of the day, it should be about the pictures. [..]via On Process (Further Down the Rabbit Hole) (*) by Jörg Colberg (*).
So I look at the pictures first – are they any good? – and then at the process.
preparation (*), connection (*) and release (*). It seems to me the simple cycle of what we do in the boat [/and Life in general]. [..]Drew then expands on the concept of release (*):
Release and get excited I like because no matter what happens we have the power (*) and capacity (*) to see (*) and respond (*) to our experiences (*) in a way that best serves us and those around us.And finally::
it is fascinating to think about how our mind set (*), emotions (*) and the manifestation play out physically.via What's on the RADAR (*) by Drew Ginn (*).
[..it's] what matters most and [..] learning (*) to keep it at the surface of awareness can have a huge impact on performance (*).
The greatest performance (*) enhancer is self-belief (*).He expands
Wiping away those doubts (*) of uncertainty (*), of losing, the fear (*) of getting beaten. Gone - GONE! - are those limiting thoughts (*), replaced by the phrase made famous by the first black president of the United States: 'Yes We Can' (*).via Guest blog: The greatest performance enhancer is... (*) by Scott McGory (*).
The unstoppable force of self-belief (*) is so often the missing ingredient in an athlete's journey (*) along the road to success (*). [..] The strongest weapon in any sporting endeavor is the mind (*).
I remember the overwhelming (*) vastness (*), losing a sense of myself, and then pointing my camera (*) into that space (*), [..] When you open yourself up to the vastness, with no points of reference (*), you feel (*) an incredible sense of release (*).via Photographer Murray Fredericks' favourite things (*) by Ali Gripper (*).
Persistence (*) is doing something again and again until it works. [..]via Tenacity is not the same as persistence (*) by Seth Godin (*).
Tenacity (*) is using new data to make new decisions to find new pathways to find new ways to achieve a goal when the old ways didn't work.
