I am now receptive to the idea that it is time for me to stop whispering and to start living out loud. Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!
Living out loud means having the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. It means admitting your mistakes without beating yourself up. It means not taking who you are and what you have for granted. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live out loud if you are hiding behind what was. Living out loud means focusing on what is, right now, and that is you!
To live out loud means showing up as your authentic self, without your makeup or your toupee. It means acknowledging your shortcomings and celebrating your strengths. Living out loud means broadcasting your needs, your likes and your dislikes as they relate to your fears and frustrations. It means that you let people know exactly who you are and expect them to be as thrilled as you are about who you are.
In order to live out loud you must have faith in yourself and in the process of life. You must have principles you live by and standards by which you can govern and gauge yourself. Most important, in order to live out loud you must love yourself enough to tell yourself and everyone else the absolute truth about you. When you can do that, you can live out loud and be very proud about what the world will hear about you.
Until today, you may have been living your life in a whisper. Just for today, take one step toward pumping up your volume. Stand up in yourself! Stand up and be yourself!
Living out Loud
Iyanla Vanzant
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. Jim Rohn
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. Brian Tracy
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.' Anthony Robbins
You have your life to live, how you live it and the choices u make, are up to you. Live out loud, starting now.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
MASTER TIME
I feel so good and well. I wouldn’t have it any other way after all I chose to feel good and well regardless of what is visible to me. I am really amazed by the amount of time people spend on social networking sites doing one thing or the other, interesting enough there is never an end to what they do on these sites after all there will always be something you want to upload, something you want download, something you want to comment on,something you want to add to your profile and it goes on and on. I heard productivity dropped in company in asia because the staffs were facebooking at work instead of working. What time do you have left to really do something of value to yourself?
It has been said that time is the currency of the world. What am i doing with the time i have now?am i investing it or burning it? Readers are Leaders they say, how will i become a leader if I don’t take the time to read and know what leadership or any other subject is about. I remember when I had the excuse of not having time for not doing something, now that I have the time what is my excuse?
I spend my time reading,studying and connecting with people who are doing the same, socializing and chatting is good, it even helps me in self development since I don’t know it all, but a line has to be drawn between when it’s a valuable use of my time and when it is a waste of my time.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Anthony Robbins
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Brian Tracy
Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
I feel motivated to make better use of my time, quality-result-producing use. Do something worthwile with your time.
It has been said that time is the currency of the world. What am i doing with the time i have now?am i investing it or burning it? Readers are Leaders they say, how will i become a leader if I don’t take the time to read and know what leadership or any other subject is about. I remember when I had the excuse of not having time for not doing something, now that I have the time what is my excuse?
I spend my time reading,studying and connecting with people who are doing the same, socializing and chatting is good, it even helps me in self development since I don’t know it all, but a line has to be drawn between when it’s a valuable use of my time and when it is a waste of my time.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Anthony Robbins
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Brian Tracy
Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
I feel motivated to make better use of my time, quality-result-producing use. Do something worthwile with your time.
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