No Motivation, People…

I usually do but today I have no motivation.  Some days I am just not grateful for  lessons learned.Today is one of the first beautiful days of the year.  It is 80 degrees outside!  I have NO need for a coat.  I want to go outside & play.  I stood for a moment with another entrepreneur friend & we watched the easy going slow pace that so many on the hot city streets are moving at today.  For only few moments, we stopped.  A quick shake off of the feathers & we were back to work mode.  I’d rather lazily wander the streets of this city.  I do not want to work on the costume or, market anything or return e-mails or create the rehearsal work plan or anything else I need to work on for that matter.  And yet, I will.

Motivation Ribbon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In spite of how I feel, I will still do what is on the ‘to do’ list to be done for this day.  Today is not one of those days where I am not mentally overshadowed.  I can actually choose to work in spite of what I feel like doing.  How I chose to do it however, is at a much slower pace.  I am not trying to finish everything quickly so I can move onto the next list item.  I am working on one thing at a time.  It does not lessen what needs to be done.  However, I feel much calmer doing it.

Here’s to taking deep breaths & slowing down the pace.  There will always be more to do.  I have accepted that the list will never do done.  It simply gets adjusted.

These moments remind me both of the need to slow down & take a full stop sometimes as well as the ability to keep it moving in spite of mood.

Here’s to a great week!  What is everyone up to?

i watch you while you work (Photo credit: xtopalopaquetl)

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12 Quotes That Get Me Through

Nolan Bushnell (Photo credit: P1r)

If I were to do a full quotes I love blog this week, we’d be here until next year.

With all the craziness in the news from politicians (Republicans feel free to exit my parts please) to innocent children being murdered (Travon is unfortunately only one that got media coverage) to outrage at a Hunger Games character being a sweet black young lady…  I have to tune out of that madness and back into the love I’m trying to bring into the world thru my work & being.  So here are just a quick dozen in no particular order…

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s

 

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” – A student in Warren G. Tracy’s class

 

“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
- Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American hair care products and America’s first black female millionaire

Madam C.J. Walker in an early automobile (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” – Roy Ash

 

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

 

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” – Confucius

 “I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”
- Anita Roddick

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare

 

“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.” – Thomas Traherne

“Each body has its art…” – Gwendolyn Brooks

“I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.” – Shakti Gawain

Please add any of your favorite quotes in the comments section.  We can all come here when we need a little lift of inspiration.

Love, Peace & Essence