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Positive Mantra

POSITIVE MANTRA is a favorite website of mine.  With an ENDLESS archive full of inspirational quotes and stories, there is always something amazing to stumble upon..  The most recent post:

6 Inspirational Failure to Success Stories

Six stories of Ford, Jack Canfield, Michael Jordan, Disney, Edison, Einstein - famous people who did not give up on early failures and eventually turned successful.

If you give up you don’t succeed in anything. Behind success is a lot of failure, criticism, pain and intense determination. Are you ready to follow your passion.

Giving up is the easiest thing to do, and that’s not the reason why you start on a journey. Persist, be obsessed. FAIL. FAIL. TRY. FAIL. TRY. Succeed.

Read the story of these celebrities who were seized by an idea and were determined to succeed despite repeated failures. At times, they were the only ones in the world to think the idea would succeed.

Success is also about long periods of loneliness.

Read the stories HERE.

Do what you fear and fear disappears

Little Manhattan

Some movies are life changing.  This was one for me.  A story about first love with the most adorable cast and an amazing message.

Live your dreams

Focus on what you want and it has to come

You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be no other way...The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous—you attract more of all of those things.

--- Abraham

From "The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham" # 334

Only when we are no longer afraid...

I came across an article titled, "Embrace fear and find your center" from one of my favorite websites, tiny buddha.  It's a perfect story of learning to let go of control and start living your life.  Remember that every failure is just an opportunity to give up or try again.

Thomas Edison said, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."  He should know, he made over 1,000 lightbulbs until he invented one that worked.  When asked about his failures, he said, "I have not failed 1,000 times.  I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."  Imagine if he would have gave up after the first 5 tries...

Learn to say "So what! It doesn't matter!"

Photo by flickr.com/kkanouse

Todays service at the Hollywood Temple was truly inspirational and spot on.  I've never been big on religion in general, but the Self-Realization Fellowship is a place to come and meet some wonderful people, meditate and listen to some positive messages- no matter what your religious background or beliefs.

Todays topic at service was "God's Vital Laws of Health and Well-Being".  The topic of Karma was touched with an emphasis on eating right - cutting meat out of your diet and not overeating.  I loved this as I have realized first hand the past week that eating right can really change your life drastically.  He told a story of when he was little, he HATED broccoli, and his mom would serve it with every meal.  So for a while he would sit there and miserably eat it until one day he looked around and saw everyone else enjoying it and thought to himself, "If they like it maybe I can like it".  So he ate the broccoli saying to himself "MMM this is good! I love this!".  He still hated it.. So the next day he did the same thing.  At the end of that meal he still didn't like it but thought to himself, "I can kind of see why someone would like this".  The next day he did the same thing, and by the end of that meal, he loved it!  Just goes to show you that happiness comes from within and is not dependent on your outside situation.

Another good lesson was learning to say "So what! It doesn't matter!"  How many times have you gone through life feeling bad for yourself because someone didn't understand you or you didn't get something you wanted.  Learn to say "SO WHAT!" instead of sitting around feeling bad for yourself.  Brush it off and move on!  You will miss so many amazing opportunities if you are focusing on the negative instead of reaching for the positive.

Jim Rohn- Setting Goals

Jay-Z

Wow, amazing.  "So many people are afraid of failure, but what I've learned is that failure is a great teacher, and if you're open to it every mistake has a lesson to offer." -Oprah

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.  Oprah Winfrey