Whether we choose to admit it or not, everyone has something that they don’t like about themselves. Some go through pricey surgeries and great pains to fix their imperfections and create their version of their perfect self.
While others choose to accept and embrace their flaws. Which will you choose?

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One example of this is biting your nails. I’ve always had a habit of biting my nails from a young age. I wouldn’t just bite the tips of my nails, but I would bite the cuticle and skin around my nails as well. Needless to say, my nails were not a pretty sight.

When asked why I did it, I would blame it on my father who would bite his nails down to the core, or say it was a nervous reaction. Over the years, I made several attempts to break this habit. However I always seemed to slip back into my old ways.

After reading this quote, I realized it made perfect sense. Instead of focusing on not biting my nails, I began to focus on making them look pretty, by shaping and polishing them as they grew out.
After seeing how attractive they could look, I didn’t want to jeopardize my hard work by returning to my old ways. By redirecting my focus, I slowly but surely weened myself off of my nail biting ways.

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How is that possible? How can something work against you, yet work in your favor at the same time? Consider the obstacles that stand in the way of you and your desires. Those very obstacles could be protecting you or even preparing you for the next chapter of your life.

Why you may ask? Perhaps you may not be ready for it, because you still have some growing to do, more knowledge to obtain or additional experience to gain. At the moment you may be recovering from a disappointment. Like that job you got passed up for that seemed so perfect for you or rejection from that special someone.

Just brace yourself, when things seem the worse is exactly the time when the tide will turn. It may not be clear to you right now, but there’s something BIGGER and BETTER in your future.

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Your imagination has the ability to form new images and sensations when they are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses.

Every now and then when life seems too much to bear, it’s a good idea to separate yourself from your circumstances and from your environment. As unrealistic or difficult as that may seem, it is possible.

• Read biographies of people who are doing what you want to do.
• Encourage yourself everyday by repeating affirmations.
• Write your vision for the future, envision it and be consistent in your pursuit of it.
• Last but not least, surround yourself with positive people that are going to challenge you.

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Have you ever seen a movie or a tv show that made you dislike the actor or actress playing the protagonist? You get so caught up in the role, you forget that they are only playing a part. That’s not who they really are.

It’s just like judging someone by their outward appearance without knowing who they are personally, or being judged by someone who doesn’t know you personally.

So the next time you have the urge to start passing out labels, ask yourself is this reality or is it just a false perception?

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This is an interesting concept to say the least. Nevertheless it’s human nature to strive to do better than the next person. Competition can be found everywhere, from school, to work and even at play. Some experience it externally while others go through it internally. Externally meaning that you are in an actual competition, where all eyes are on you with the expectation that you will perform above the rest. Internally meaning that you are competing with someone in your mind, a self-imposed battle. I can relate to this all to well. Sometimes the other person is not even in a competition, judging yourself by the accomplishments of others.

Switch your focus from what the next person is doing and set it on yourself, your journey, your goals. Strive to better yourself first and the rest will fall into place.

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If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will–
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclasses, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!” Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)

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Thoughts Are Things

I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies
and breath and wings:
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.

We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose then thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate.

–Henry Van Dyke

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