Motivation Manifesto Part One

1. We Shall Meet Life With Full Presence and Power.
2. We Shall Reclaim Our Agenda.
3. We Shall Defeat Our Demons.
4. We Shall Advance With Abandon.
5. We Shall Practice Joy And Gratitude.
6. We Shall Not Break Our Integrity.
7. We Shall Inspire Greatness.
8. We Shall Slow Time.

… And so we keep ourselves down: We forgot to set clear intentions and standards, and too often failed to voice our desires and dreams. Randomness and mediocrity too often ruled the day, and the loud and the needy dictated who we were and what we should do – our lives becoming subject to the tyranny of fools. If we can be vulnerable and brave enough to admit such missteps, we might see the potential we left unrealized; we might see a shining new path. We are too often lost in the abyss of unawareness. We regularly miss the energy and blessings around us, and the importance of this very moment. It’s as though we prefer to be elsewhere doing something else, as if we are living in distant time zones, hours behind or ahead of the joyous bliss of now. We have forgotten that the natural foe to life is not a distant death, but a present, in-the-moment detachment from the living. Should we wish to be free and alive with full power, we must decide to bring the full might of our conscious mind to the present experience. We must choose to feel again. We must set intentions for who we are, for what roles we wish to serve, for how we’ll relate with the world. Without a vibrant awareness, we cannot connect with others or ourselves, nor can we meet the demands of the hour with grace. For this, we now declare: We Shall Meet Life With Full Presence and Power.
-Brendon Burchard

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”
-Konrad Adenuer

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
-Epictetus

“Life is like a grindstone: Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you’re made of.”
-Anonymous

“The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick harder when we’re sliding down.”
-William L. Brownell

“The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.”
-James Branch Cabell

“One way to get the most out of life is to look at it as an adventure.”
-William Feather

“The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.”
-J. Harold Wilkens

“Presence is more than just being there.”
-Malcolm Forbes

“Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action.”
-Henry Chester

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”
-Glenn Clark

“If your presence didn’t make an impact, your absence won’t make a difference.”
-Unknown