Motivation Monday: Believe in your magic

“Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

What do you believe you can do?

Motivation Monday: I Am

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.  Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.  Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.  Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.  Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”  — Mahatma Gandhi.

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”  — Dale Carnegie.

Mahatma Gandhi. Dale Carnegie.

Two men. Two cultures. One thought.

We are what we allow ourselves to believe we are.

Who are you?

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Motivation Monday: Dreams and Hearts

Our dreams are what keep us going, whether it’s the nightly dreams of our subconscious rolodexing our lives; or our dreams of a vacation in Sedona; or our dreams that our (photos, coffee mugs, books, collected sonnets, whirlygigs, wigets) will catch the public’s imagination on fire.

But Neil said it best: “There are so many fragile things, after all.  People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”  (Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.)

What has captured your imagination?

Motivation Monday: Experience: The Ultimate Teacher

Experience, aka Life, is an incredible teacher, if we allow ourselves to see it as such.

I know usually I’m guilty of being so immersed in what-I’m-in-the-middle-of that I don’t recognize the lessons I’m being taught until way after I’ve come up for air. I have to consciously stop myself and “be in the moment” to participate actively, as opposed to participating reactively. It’s very hard to do.

Marketing one’s work is an active experience teacher. We have to send work “out there” and hope it resonates with viewers (or readers, or listeners or customers, etc.), but we have to be aware of which delivery method succeeds, and which doesn’t, and modify accordingly. We have to monitor the perceived value of our message and content. We have to compete with all of the images that bombard our viewers every day.

Marketing never rests.

I want my work “out there.” I offer daily e-mails via Fiverr. I create book covers. I am waiting for my CafePress shop to go live, so that my images (with and without motivational quotes) can be put on note cards, calendars and coffee mugs, among other things.

It’s all to get the work into your hands.

So tell me, what can I create for you?

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Motivation Monday: Attitude is Everything

Like many people, sometimes I feel like Mondays are a drop, but usually not. Mondays are a fresh start, just like every day is, and I like to meet it bright-eyed.

Sure, as my search for a “regular” office job continues, some days are harder than others, but it’s still my choice how to face each day.

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.  Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.  Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.  Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.  Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”  ―    Mahatma Gandhi.

Values – integrity & professionalism – are important to me. I left my last job because of the diminished professionalism of the company, and being told by upper management to deposit a check we weren’t entitled to. My work, whether it’s in an office for a paycheck, or created free-lance, or for the subscription service, is held to high personal standards; that is, I give you, my client or my employer, the high standards I myself would expect to receive if our positions were reversed.

So tell me, what can I create for you?

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Live As Only You Can

Just a little something to contribute to the Motivation Monday category, as I continue to learn my way around WordPress.

What can I create for you?

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View my photography portfolio (with music) on YouTube. More images may be seen on Flickr.