Motivation for Your Best Future
There are many lessons we can employ to inspire and motivate us. One of the quickest, and my favorite, is to read an inspiring quotation and sit for a moment thinking about it. Give a moment to each of these inspiring quotations and see if they help motivate you to create your best future.
Your Life Can Be like the Garden of Versailles
Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities.
Remember you have three choices: Take it, leave it or change it.
—Marsha Petrie Sue
Why Fear is Powerful and How a Failure Can Help You Succeed
Fear can manifest in many different ways. Sometimes it’s even so well disguised that we call it something else. For instance, have you ever used one of these crutches: waiting, explaining, doubting, or remaining in your comfort zone? Don’t let fear keep your life from progressing. Progression is a journey that leads to accomplishment, to moving on, to developing a better you, a better life.
And Then There was Aretha
Our individual definitions of respect have as many shapes and colors as there are women. Every woman instinctively senses what respect feels like in our bodies and souls. The mystery is how can this be when some women seldom feel respected by anyone around them? Do we know respect in the coding of our souls? Or do we know respect because we know denigration, condescension, abuse, and tolerance so well? Feeling respected by those around us may be elusive, and will be more forthcoming the more we respect ourselves. The more we value ourselves, the more we are perceived as having value.
What Are Your Relationship Beliefs?
Inside relationships it’s important to first understand who’s coming into the relationship, and not just your partner. You need to understand yourself first.
—Lisa Nichols from The Secret
How You Can Use the Law of Attraction to Create a New You!
Change Your Thoughts and Your Life Using this Powerful Tool
Do you want your life to be different? Do you wonder how to create changes in your life? Have you ever attempted to shift your life, your perception of you, and not known exactly how to go about it?
The Law of Attraction is one of the most powerful tools to use when you want to change your reality. The Law of Attraction, or the Boomerang Law as some know it, is one of the most powerful ways to make the changes you desire in your perceptions of your life, of yourself, and of all that is available to you.
The Law of Attraction simply states that which we breathe into the world is that which we bring back to us multifold. And yes, this is a rather simple explanation for one of the most powerful laws of the Universe, and yet, it is just this simple. The challenge is that we do not tend to monitor our thoughts or our breaths!
In the Beginning there was Eve
Don’t Let the Good Girl Image Keep You From Your Spiritual, Intellectual and Emotional Fulfillment
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked; and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
— Eve Ensler
The desire to be a “good” girl is still deeply ingrained in all of us. Imagine all the energy we use to make ourselves sexier, more adorable, skinnier, and more successful. Then, imagine instead using all that energy to make a difference in our world! Now imagine all the money we would save if we directed our finances toward what we believe in rather than making ourselves over. What stops us from exploring our passions?
Do You Know What Scientists Say Will Create More Joy in Your Life?
I’ve faced so many difficult life situations myself—healing from sexual abuse and family dysfunction, divorce, having my leg amputated as a child, facing race and gender discrimination, learning to be a Mom, home-schooling, and more. I’m passionate about using the research and information that is out there because I know it made a difference for me.
Reduce Stress in your Life Using the Law of Attraction
Even when moments are positive and beneficial, there is something about our current culture that seems to layer on stress for most of us. How we each deal with stress and stressful times defines the quality of our lives and our life experience.
If you find that you are dealing with a great deal of stress; if you find that you awaken each morning wondering what else is going to happen to create an even more difficult life experience, you most likely are not using the tenants and reaping the benefits of optimizing The Law of Attraction.
Create the Future of Your Dreams: Adjust Your Foundation!
Like any building, your life requires a foundation. Have you ever considered the foundation you’ve built? You began building your foundation when you were very young. Your foundational beliefs, the ones you absorbed during childhood, are now running your life, invisibly and insidiously. Is this what’s best for you?
Inspiration vs. Motivation: You Need to Know the Difference to See Why It Matters to Your Success
Motivation and inspiration have important differences. Knowing how to notice these differences and how to steer yourself in your desired direction can be important in your life.
Use the Goddess for Coping with Stress
Many of you are familiar with the rise of interest in the Goddess in modern times. You know that a parallel to this enthusiasm is a revival of interest in the ancient symbol of Gaia, the primal Greek goddess who personifies Earth.
Today our lives are busy—the chaos and debris of daily life challenges our calm. The stream of information coming to us leaves us feeling that the world is becoming too complex for us to handle.
I suggest that we do have a resource immediately available to us, the one from whom we drew our first breath. I’m not exactly talking about prayer, although prayer is helpful to many. I’m talking about accessing the power of the Goddess, our mother Earth, through visualization.
Allowing the Law of Attraction: Your Life is an Outcome of Your Beliefs
At this point in your life it matters little what event or events caused you to create the belief, what matters is whether or not you want to retain each separate belief—whether or not the belief supports you by allowing the law of attraction to create the life you desire.
A Cup of Tea with Mare
Mare showed us a woman proud to be a cancer survivor but not defined by the illness she had survived, not once, but 3 times.
How To Develop Your Wisdom Mentor
Take a look at just a few of the powerful changes I’ve seen in coaching clients who use one of my favorite tools for wise living-the Internal Mentor. You don’t need a coach to utilize an Internal Mentor in your life, and this article will show you just what to do. Gain the wisdom that is perfect for your life path.
Mothers, Daughters, and Egos
The mother-child relationship involves intense emotions and expressions ranging from tender, caring and nurturing, to playful and creative, to fierce mama-bear protectiveness that seems unreasonably heightened when the child is a daughter. Above all, the parent wishes for a successful, happy child who grows up to be a successful, happy, well-adjusted adult.
Inspirations To Start Your Day Right!
I invite you to look inside your own heart. What do you see? Is it full of pain, darkness and lack, or are you filled with peace, joy, happiness and love? If you’re looking to transition to the higher energetic frequencies of light and peace, it seems especially important to start your day with inspiration.
Understanding Yourself by Asking “What if?”
Learn who you are by playing a simple “What if” game.
Weight Loss: Turning “Those Pants” into “Your Pants”
Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in big-girl pants, and no matter how hard you’ve tried, you can’t get rid of them—for good? In fact, you can’t figure out how you’ve allowed yourself to get stuck in those darn pants in the first place.
Unlock the Abundance and Joy that is Here for You Now
Have you ever felt that you’re spinning your wheels in some area of your life? What if you had a method to break free of all the sticky mud and burst through any invisible ceilings?
Visualize, and a Door Will Open For You
At the tender age of 25 I hadn’t experienced a whole lot outside of the Military. Every door I knocked on was quickly closed. I had no idea of what I wanted to do until an unexpected encounter showed me the possibilities.
Fame
Doris Lessing Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. Oprah Winfrey If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Dorothy Parker I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing.Read more of this article…
Quotable Quotes
Original Quotes from Women’s Quotes Readers Mary L. Bennett Do not measure balance daily, but over months and years be mindful of the rhythm of your life. Jackie Kammerer Are breast cancer scars badges of courage or mere chinks in the armor? Kate Hawkes Some things matter hugely some things not a jot. The trick,Read more of this article…
Be True To Yourself If You Lose Your Way
No matter what you think you should have done, or wish you learned, you didn’t get to where you are by accident. You did something to arrive where you are, and often that something is by not doing anything. If you aren’t living your ideal life there is only one explanation: Somewhere along the way, you lost your self, and you haven’t asked for directions.
Motivation for Exercise in 8 Easy Steps
When I was asked to write this article on How to Get Motivated to Exercise, I assumed everyone knows the textbook answer as to why we should exercise. Exercise is my career and passion so I know what I think, but I wondered what others are thinking. So, I emailed my clients and students in various exercise classes and asked them 2 simple questions. I thought I’d share the results with you.
Inspirational
Inspirational Quotes by Women – Use inspiring quotations by women to start your day towards a brighter future.
Success Secrets from a Blind, Disabled, Unstoppable Author
An inspiring author describes the spiritual principles of value, gratitude, and faith needed for your success over the problems life will bring your way.
Environment
Irene Stillings, Executive Director, California Center for Sustainable Energy Sustainability is living as if the future matters. Elizabeth Goudge Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect forRead more of this article…
Trust
Mary Renault How can the people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? Agatha Christie Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. George Eliot Those who trust us, educate us. Shirley MacLaine I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, thatRead more of this article…
Work
Anne Frank Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Madeleine L’Engle Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. Anna Pavlova No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. Margaret Thatcher: Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough,Read more of this article…
Women
Charolette Whitton: Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Madonna (Madonna Ciccone): I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. Marya Mannes Nobody objects to a woman being a goodRead more of this article…
Understanding
Winifred Holtby: The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. Emma Goldman: The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another. Frances Cornford: More piercing, more unbearable than blame / Is to be understood. Gwen Bristow: Nothing’s easier than believing we understand experiences we’ve never had. L.E. Landon:Read more of this article…
Truth
Byron Katie : I’m a lover of reality. When I argue with What Is, I lose, but only 100% of the time. Emily Dickinson : Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Agnes Repplier: There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Lillian Hellman: What a word is truth.Read more of this article…
Travel
L.E. Landon: Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love. Ilka Chase: To me travel is a triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. Fanny Burney: Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. Freya Stark: The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feelingRead more of this article…
Talent
Erica Jong: Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Madeleine L’Engle: We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. Marilyn Monroe: A career is born in public – talent in privacy. Carol Haney: The onlyRead more of this article…
Success
Marsha Sinetar: Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you. Eva Le Gallienne: What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts. Dr. Joyce Brothers Success isRead more of this article…
Sex
Ann Landers: Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough (2) Too much. Marya Mannes: All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Mae West: Sex is an emotion in motion. Ann Landers: More divorces start in theRead more of this article…
Possessions
Sigrid Undset: All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them. Agnes Repplier: The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to lookRead more of this article…
Nature
Maya Angelou: Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ”I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.” Pearl S. Buck: Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that IRead more of this article…
Motherhood
Louisa May Alcott: What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles? Victoria Billings: The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tenderRead more of this article…
Money
Leslie Ford: Anyone pretending he has no interest in money is either a fool or a knave. Edith Wharton: The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. Katherine Mansfield: I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it that I hate most. Mary PettiboneRead more of this article…
Memory
Elizabeth Hardwick: Memory – the very skin of life. Willa Cather: Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Mary H. Waldrip: Memory is the diary we all carry about with us. Amelia E. Barr: I wear the key of memory, and can open every door inRead more of this article…
Marriage
Ann Beattie: The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children. Arlene Dahl: Take each other for better or worse but not for granted. Candice Bergen: I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someoneRead more of this article…
Love
Jill Cook-Richards: Love is a choice so always choose love. There is no love without forgiveness. And there is no forgiveness without love. Love is why you forgive and forgiveness is how you love. Love and forgiveness is one the same. Agatha Christie: A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordialRead more of this article…
Life
Faith Baldwin: Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson: Dying is a wild night and a new road. Eleanor Roosevelt: When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.Read more of this article…
Leisure
Mary Wilson Little: There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do—and not doing it. Vernon Lee: Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind—What being at leisure means is moreRead more of this article…
Laughter
Doris Lessing: Laughter is by definition healthy. Francoise Sagan: There can never be enough said of the virtues, the dangers, the power of a shared laugh. Jessamyn West: A good time for laughing is when you can. Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs, lasts! Eva Hoffman: Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticismRead more of this article…
Knowledge
Anne Tyler: Peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. Carol Pearson: It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly. Eleanor Roosevelt: To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people.Read more of this article…
Imagination
Brenda Ueland: The imagination needs moodling, – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Cristina Garcia: Imagination, like a memory, can transform lies to truths. Emily Dickinson: The Possible’s slow fuse is lit / By the Imagination. Ethel Watts Mumford: Imagination makes cowards of us all. Gertrude Atherton: The curse of human nature is imagination.Read more of this article…
Ignorance
Irene Peter: Ignorance is no excuse – it’s the real thing. George Eliot: Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. Proverb: Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. Mignon McLaughlin: The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. Proverb: What you don’t know can’t hurt you . American Proverb Sayings of American Origin:Read more of this article…
Humor
Author Unknown A Woman’s Poem: Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray for a man who’s not a creep, One who’s handsome, smart and strong. One who loves to listen long, One who thinks before he speaks, One who’ll call, not wait for weeks. I pray he’s rich and self-employed, And when IRead more of this article…
Housework
Angela Davis: Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. Celia Gilbert: No longer will we [women] agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves. Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because itRead more of this article…
Hope
Barbara Kingsolver: The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Emily Dickinson: “Hope” is the thing with feathers – /That perches in the soul – /And sings the tune without the words – /And neverRead more of this article…
Happiness
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Guilt
Anais Nin: Guilt is one burden human beings can’t bear alone. Audre Lorde: I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earthRead more of this article…
Gossip
Laurie Colwin: I don’t call it gossip, I call it “emotional speculation.” Liz Smith: Bad gossip drives out good gossip. Patricia Meyer Spacks: Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic. Rachel M. Brownstein: Good gossip approximates art. Erica Jong: Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.Read more of this article…
Gardening
Dorothy Frances Gurney: The kiss of sun for pardon, / The song of the birds for mirth, – / One is nearer God’s heart in a garden / Than anywhere else on earth. Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not a rational act. Phyllis McGinley: Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It isRead more of this article…
Friendship
Anna Cummins: Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. Anais Nin: Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it’s only by this meeting that a new world isRead more of this article…
Feelings
Charlotte Bronte: Better to be without logic than without feeling. Susanna K. Langer: The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling – a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions. Audre Lorde: Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Marya Mannes:Read more of this article…
Family
Curran Dolores: Healthy families are our greatest national resource. Jane Austen: Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Jane Howard: Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever youRead more of this article…
Faith
Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come. Diane Comtesse: Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart. Edith Hamilton: Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Gladys Taber: Faith is a curious thing. ItRead more of this article…
Equality
Bella Abzug Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. Bella Abzug We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. Bella Abzug I am not elevating women to sainthood, norRead more of this article…
Enthusiasm / Passion
Anais Nin: The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality. Eleanor Roosevelt: It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason! Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion is what the sun feels for the earth / When harvests ripen into golden birth. George Eliot: There’s no blamelessRead more of this article…
Education
Abigail Adams: Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Edith Hamilton: To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is to be educated. Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation toRead more of this article…
Dogs
Mary Bly: Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later. Sue Murphy: Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. Diane Bethel: Love is what extended her life. She had to give it asRead more of this article…
Creativity
Lynn V. Andrews: Creativity is like a great receptive womb. Anna Freud: Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. Gail Sheehy: Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. Anita Roddick: Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying you’re in love with the anarchist. Margueritte Harmon Bro:Read more of this article…
Communication
Diane Ackerman: A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Emily Dickinson : A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Myra Drucker: One of the most important skills to haveRead more of this article…
Clothes
Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Gilda Radner: I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch. Maya Angelou: Content is of great importance, but we must not underrate the value of style. That is, attention must be paid to not only what is said but how it is said; toRead more of this article…
Choice
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between good and a lesser good. George Elliot: The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Helen Keller: We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. Liv Ullmann:Read more of this article…
Children
Hazel Scott: There’s a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born, and it’s a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. Buchi Emecheta: If you don’t have children the longing for them will kill you, and if you do, the worrying over them will kill you. ElizabethRead more of this article…
Childbirth
Gracie Allen: I was so surprised at being born that I didn’t speak for a year and a half. Rita Mae Brown: I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment. Madeleine L’Engle: To be born is to start the journey towards death. Joyce Armor: Hard labor: A redundancy, like “working mother.” Diana,Read more of this article…
Character
Abigail Adams: It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed—The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons ofRead more of this article…
Cats
Leila Usher: Alone I am free – I am THE CAT. Cynthia E Varnado: It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. Hazel Nicholson: A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. Colette: The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave theRead more of this article…
Body
Martha Graham: The body is a sacred garment. Louise Nevelson: I believe that the physical is the geography of being. Marilyn Ferguson: Over the years our bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of our lives. Martha Graham: The body says what words cannot. Yeshe Togyel: ThisRead more of this article…
Art
Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Rebecca West: Art is not a luxury, butRead more of this article…
Advice
Erica Jong: Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: I give my self sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it. Marie Dressler: No vice is so bad as advice. Ayn Rand: It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicitedRead more of this article…
Actions
Alice Koller: I’ve arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I’ve been doing. Anne Tyler: One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that otherRead more of this article…
Ability
Mariah Burton Nelson: I also learned that fear and insecurity are just feelings, as ephemeral as the smoke from a starter’s gun. They’re part of what happens to me when I try something new. Then I tap into something deeper and more substantial; a belief in my ability to succeed. Eleanor Roosevelt: In a democraticRead more of this article…
