Overcoming obstacle

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
- Jean-Baptiste Moliere, French playwright

Things to reflect:

What are the biggest obstacles I have overcome in my life?
How are the obstacles hindering me?
Who or what were the biggest aids to me in overcoming the obstacle?
How did it feel upon my success?

Transmute negativite into positive

View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative.
A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints.

- Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder of Sales Power Magazine

Things to reflect:

What can i learn from my negative experience?
How will I view my next negative experience?
Do i get knock down by negative experience?
How can I create positive prints from my negative?

Happy today!

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be.Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx, Entertainer

Things to reflect:

What do I say to myself when I wake up?
Are they thoughts that will contribute to a great day?
How am I going to remove the negativity?

Ancient chinese vow

不求同年同月同日生，但愿同年同月同日死。
"Although we are not born on the same year, same month and same day, we wish that we could die together on the same year, same month and same day.

- Vow of brotherhood made by Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu in Romance in the Three Kingdom

Things to ponder:

Do I have friends that I am willingly to dead for?
Whom can I really trust?

Short of time?

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- Jean de La Bruysre, 17th century French essayist

Things to reflect

What is shortness of time to me?
How have I managed my time lately?
What are my biggest opportunities to improve my management of time?
Who can i delegate to gain more time?

Success

I can give you a six word formula for success 'Think things through - then follow through.'

- Eddie Rickenbacker, pilot

Things to reflect:

Do I take the time to think things through?
How am I at following through?
In what phase of my life would this advice be most helpful today?
How often do i follow through first before thinking?

Kindness

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

Things to reflect:

Where have I seen and heard kindness recently?
How kind have I been to those around me lately?
How do I know?
When is the last time I perform a kind act?

Make a move!

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Things to reflect:

Why do i fail to do anything and regret later?
What decisions do I expect to face today?
What is the right thing to do?
When should I do nothing?

Yes or No

You can never get more by saying 'no.' You can hold a current position by saying no, but you can only move forward by saying 'yes'.

- Marshal Sylver, motivational speaker

Things to reflect:

What events in life might have gone differently if I had said yes rather than no?
Which do I use more, "yes" or "no"?
When is a better time to use "yes" or "no"?

Opposition

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

- Alexander Hamilton, U.S. Statesman

Things to reflect:

Why do I oppose things?
Do I examine my reasons for opposition?
Are my reasons sound?
Do I oppose as a resistance to changes?

An unimportant day

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott, drama critic, author

Things to reflect:

What can I do to remind myself of each day's importance?

What things make my days important?

Why do I think the day is wasted?

When is the most unimportant part of my day? And why so?

Security

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller, American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer

Lets reflect on:

How do I view security?

How important is security in the decisions I make?

Why do i need security to begin with?

In any of those cases, is my view hampering me, or leading me to poor decisions

Over-cautious

He that is over-cautious will accomplish little.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller, German Historian

Let's reflect on:

• When in my life have I been over-cautious and what have been the results?
• What can I risk today?
• Where do i draw the line between cautious and over-cautious?
• Why am I over-cautious?
• Who can help me by giving me feedback in my cautiousness