Josh Hinds Motivation and Inspiration Journal

It was speaker and author Napoleon Hill who said, “Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.” Well said, and so true.

Yet…

There have been times in my life where I’ll be darned if I could have seen how Mr. Hill’s words of wisdom rang true. But alas I’m getting ahead of myself.

Whenever I speak to companies and organizations, immediately following my introduction — the one where the person introducing me is gracious enough to recite all my personal and professional successes… I usually start by saying — funny, it never seemed to flow quite like that during the journey.

Then I begin to share my personal story — the real meat and potatoes that led me to where I am at this point in my life. Yep… the adversities, the challenges, and at times… the bone headed mistakes

I’d like to share with you a glimpse into my past in the hope that you can relate it to whatever challenges and adversities you may be working towards overcoming. I preface with the point that I don’t share my past to give power to it — my adversities are not my reality. Just as yours are not yours.

You may find them to be in the now — true, but you have all the power inside you to change your current reality just as I did, and continue to do in my own life. So my hope is that you will find courage in my story to move forward in pursuit of your own personal greatness.

Josh, the young years…

I was not what you might consider a brilliant student. I could have applied myself more perhaps, but I still had some very real challenges. I was diagnosed with a learning disability in math in grade school, and not to long after that I was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome.

If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a quick overview. It’s a neurological disorder which can have any number of symptoms that appear in many different forms. TV for some reason sensationalizes it by focusing on the very rare symptom of uncontrollable obscenities (a symptom that I and most people with TS never have to deal with I might add).

In my case, I was and am blessed that I always had a very mild case of TS (Tourette’s). Yet, I still had Tourette’s and at a young age let me tell you — it can be a challenge no matter the severity. I also had very bad handwriting. If you’re wondering my point for mentioning that — I’ll touch on it more below.

Josh the teenage years…

Aside from the obvious challenges I experienced growing up our family lived a fairly fortunate lifestyle. We were blessed with a lot of abundance, in the form of monetary resources. My father was an excellent businessman.

The exact year escapes me, but just prior to entering teenagerdom our family experienced a VERY big lifestyle change. Through a business deal gone bad all that my father (and of course our family) had achieved was gone. We found ourselves in the unfortunate place of having to start over.

Just to make the point of how dire the circumstances were that we found ourselves in — there was a point where we had a car, which was heavily relied on by the way that had no reverse in it. Not to make light of this, but you would absolutely be surprised how near impossible it can be to find a parking place where you don’t have to back out of it.

At around 18 years old, my old buddy TS showed up with an interesting new symptom (i.e. challenge) for me. Allow me to explain. Though I’m really not sure what the official name of the symptom is, nor do I really care, imagine if you will a sensation where you know exactly what to say, but for the life of you, you can’t spit it out.

I refer to it as a blocking tic. And like it or not — this interesting adversity was now there in all its shining glory for me to deal with. Along with I might add anxiety which at times came in the form of, of all things hearing a phone ringing — for fear that upon answering it I’d not be able to say a word and the person would just hang up (which did actually happen at times).

There were other challenges of course, but if I only recounted the adversities I’d be missing the point wouldn’t I?

So upon reading the above part of my story I’m guessing you can see why I had such a hard time relating to Mr. Hill’s words about every adversity carrying with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Fortunately, over the years and along my personal development journey I’ve been able to see first hand that what Napoleon had to say was right on and absolutely true!

Allow me to explain…

Let’s go back to my “young years”… remember how I mentioned I had terrible hand writing? Well I also was blessed to have an incredible teacher by the name of Ms. Presley.

As much as anyone she helped to instill in me a foundation of personal development I now teach to everyone I come into contact with through the speaking, writing and coaching that I do. That is — finding a work around. Not accepting the challenges that come our way as the end result.

Here’s how she did it. My reality at the time was that my hand writing was near illegible. You had to be able to break code to make out my writing What was the solution you ask? At a time when folks didn’t rely on computers near as much as we do now in the classroom, she taught me how to type. That was my workaround. Simple, perhaps even obvious, but she did it.

And that, for me was a major step in my eventually formulating the idea that there’s absolutely, positively always a workaround that can be applied for whatever personal success we as individuals strive for.

In fact, looking back I can see clearly now how the idea of the workaround helped me to overcome my disability in math. You see, while conventional wisdom might say we should be good in math if we hope to excel in business endeavors — my experience with the workaround told me that all I really needed to be good at was working a calculator or a spreadsheet. And of course as I learned later on — I just needed to make the choice to work with folks who complimented my weaker areas and skills.

Hopefully the examples above are helping to illustrate the truth that every challenge in fact gives us the chance to grow and become the person we were meant to be.

I’m not done yet though…

Allow me to go back to my “teenage years”…

While it is true that the financial lifestyle change was a challenge — one that I would not wish for anyone to ever have to experience. I now see clearly that it is responsible as much as anything in my life for shaping me into the person that I am today.

Allow me to tell you why I say this. First, but certainly not least I was suddenly (for the better) in a place where I had only myself to give to anyone that I wanted to become friends with. There were no fancy perks that came with “being Josh’s friend”.

I learned to accept people at face value, and to be the best person I could be — as I was banking on the idea that you attract the type of people to you by the type of person you are (over time I’ve come to realize that’s an absolute truth in life). To this day I am still in close contact with many of the friends I met during that time of personal adversity.

To put it frankly I don’t think I’d be the same person I am now had it not been for what I just mentioned.

Interestingly enough, we started a new family business (kudos to my father for understanding and teaching me through example that you can’t always control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react to it). Times were still very lean of course — and we didn’t meet with immediate financial success, but we were taking the actions necessary to head in the right direction.

So it was that at 15 years old I had the chance to work in the family business. Fortunately, there were no extra resources available at the time for me to do odd jobs and such and be paid minimum wage, so a position was created for me.

I would be calling on prospective clients (via the phone) to pre-screen and set the appointments for my father and the other commissioned salespeople who worked in the company.

I should add that there aren’t many times I can count in my life where not knowing what’s supposed to be impossible have proved so right. So I accepted the new position that was created for me. I did surprisingly well with it.

My teenage years moved on with increased levels of responsibility and then about the time I turned 18, my old “friend” TS (Tourette’s) reared its head one more time. I was on the phone getting ready to schedule an appointment when what seemed to be without warning I could not for the life of me spit out what I wanted to say. I sputtered out what I was trying to say as best I could, and the woman I was speaking with, bless her actually helped and said, don’t you worry it’s all ok. But it was not, I thought — all ok.

Here I was at a point in my life where I thought I had things pretty well figured out. I’d been a student of personal and professional development since I was 15 years old (thanks to one of the salespeople who encouraged me to start taking my development seriously). With all this acquired knowledge and skill at my disposal it appeared to me at the time that I suddenly had this most basic of needs near nonexistent (my ability to communicate).

It was a major adversity let me tell you. Fortunately I didn’t give up, I certainly could have done more, but I did the best with the resources I thought I had at the time and continued on making the best of things (or so I told myself).

As time moved on the chance opened up for me to move to Louisville, KY. While I wasn’t there all that long it was an incredible time of personal growth for me. I was exposed to a bigger outlook on business in general. I met some incredibly talented people and really learned how to expand my thinking — and in turn begin looking beyond what people had achieved from a point of simply being in awe — and instead saying, if they can do it, so can I.

Flash forward and I relocated back to my home town of Tuscaloosa, AL. — along the way I registered my first web site address — which was the first step in what I do now.

Though at the time I had no idea that tiniest of actions would lead me on the path I am now. Life is like that though, if you follow your passion — you don’t have to know all the details in advance. You do have to take real action and be willing to give your dead level best to all you do, and in doing so the details present themselves and your eventual success always unfolds.

As you’ve read what I shared above I do hope that you’re able to use it as a catalyst for whatever challenges you may find yourself faced with. Life is not an end game. It’s not about the getting there as much as the enjoying it (often times right where you are) in the moment. Truly it’s about the journey.

Here are a few more key points that I’d like to expand on from my story above.

While I was dealing with my blocking tic, and the occasional anxiety as a result of it, I was always looking for my workaround. I knew I had the strong desire to work in the personal development industry, but the thought of speaking professionally seemed a distant dream at the time.

What could I possibly do to compensate for my sub-par communication skills I wondered? I would write them rather than speaking them from the stage. If you’re thinking to yourself, well that’s easy for him, he writes for a living, let me assure you, I have absolutely zero formal training in writing, nor journalism (which I’m reminded of on occasion by people who take the time to critique something I’ve written…lol

What I did have was the knowledge and thoughts that I knew would help others. So I just fired up my old word processor and wrote what I had to say just as if I were speaking it. It worked, and years later I’m still doing just that.

While some may read what I just said about my need to resort to writing and see it as a weakness — my life experiences have shown me first hand that the particular adversity was in fact a blessing in disguise.

Here’s what I mean…

Because I had to hone my ability to effectively communicate my thoughts through the written word, I got better at it. In doing so, the articles and essays I’ve written over the years have appeared in countless places. They have been solely responsible in many cases for leading to the opportunities I have now to speak professionally to companies and organizations.

So the question is, was it really a hindrance — or something that I needed to experience to get to the point where I am now? Makes you think doesn’t it?

And so it is with life’s challenges and adversities. The obvious approach — the easy approach is to assume that the given adversity is meant to keep us from doing or having what it is that we desire.

Yet, the reality is that on the other side of every adversity lies the opportunity to unleash our own personal greatness!

It’s your life, LIVE BIG! Josh Hinds

* Josh is a professional speaker and trainer who gives motivational keynote presentations on overcoming personal and professional adversity and turning them into triumphs. For details on having him speak to your group or organization visit http://GetMotivation.com/speaker/

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As I’m writing this I’m looking at my vision board (if you’re not familiar with what that is, don’t fret, I’ll touch on it more below).

On it are several things (goals) I want to see manifest in my life. At the top it reads very simply… ‘Vision Board — with the saying, “Thoughts Become things”. By the way, I’m fully aware that some folks would read that and make the assumption that just because a person thinks they want something, and give thought to it, that it is simply not enough to necessarily achieve it. To which I would concede, that’s partially true.

Notice I say only partially true, because we’re not just talking about fleeting thoughts here. What I’m referring to is one’s dominant thoughts. Those thoughts which are so ingrained in our mind that we naturally, and often I might add, more easily take the necessary actions which are needed to see them through to the point at which they become a reality. There is a BIG difference between a dominant thought and simply thinking you’d like to have something.

When it’s a dominant thought, it sticks with you (think of it like the difference between Super glue and the Elmers glue you used to use in grade school). You are always asking yourself how you can go about making your particular endeavor a reality, and when you find that one plan of action doesn’t work out as you’d hoped it would, you don’t run for the hills thinking, well I tried that and it tanked so I quit… No, when something is a dominant thought you understand that each attempt is simply a part of the learning process from which you can grow — and by trying another approach you will get that much closer to what it is that you truly desire.

So hopefully you’ll give me the benefit of the doubt and believe me when I say there’s a lot of truth in the saying “thoughts become things”.

Now here’s the rub… Assuming that’s true, that the thoughts and ideas we focus on most become real and tend to show up in our lives it’s worth pointing out that the old saying doesn’t discriminate. Listen up, because it’s that important. Here’s what I am saying… if you’re focused in on negative things, you’re going to see negative results and events creep into your life. Just the same as if you were focused in on positive things or events.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it works both ways.

Here’s a little illustration to make my point. Recently I was having a conversation with someone who was telling me about their new manager. This person was just absolutely sure that it was going to be a disaster.

They’d literally made their mind up before the new manager had ever even appeared in the office for the first time. Well guess what? The first week was absolutely terrible! This person almost transferred to another department.

Fortunately, time was given (ironically, not that long) and low and behold, things weren’t nearly so bad after all. Isn’t it funny how life works like that? You see, this person was so absolutely sure it was going to be awful that it literally became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Quite simply, her thoughts, became her reality.

Now I’m happy to report that the last time I talked to this person she told me she was surprised that it might actually end up being a good thing. Now she’s seeing things through a positive lens, and guess what she’s getting? You got it, more of what she’s focused on.

Now I will say that in absolutely every instance this might not work out exactly as I’ve said. However, I think the quote by Zig Ziglar makes a terrific point with regards to that. He says, “positive thinking won’t let you do everything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking”. While I may not have gotten Zig’s saying quite right, I think the point is made just the same.

So assuming you’ll concede that our dominant thoughts (either positive or negative) tend to become our reality — doesn’t it make sense to think (and take action on) the things you want to see in your life, rather than those you don’t? Remember, either way you’re going to get something… so it might as well be of your choosing don’t you agree?

Now before you think I’ve broken my promise from above to cover vision boards, here’s a quick overview, it’s by no means exhaustive, but I think it’s worth mentioning in case you’re not familiar with them.

First, there are any number of ways to make your vision board as elaborate as you’d like. I won’t attempt to say you have to include all the bells and whistles on yours for it to be effective. It’s a personal preference.

Personally, I’d have to admit that the one I’m currently looking at of mine is pretty blah — but it isn’t the design or layout that’s powerful, it’s the thoughts/things that are on it. It’s a piece of cut out cardboard where I have included some written goals and pictures which represent the things I’d like to see transpire in my life.

Again, it’s not particularly attractive, but that’s not really the point. What is important is that when I focus on those things on my vision board, my mind can more easily go to work doing the things which will drive me towards taking the necessary actions which are needed if I want to see those things become a reality.

Consider it a powerful reminder of what you want to achieve. Plus, like your success journal (hopefully you keep one) it can end up being quite an incredible source of personal validation as you’re able to see quite literally, the things on your vision board come to fruition in your life.

So that in a nutshell is what makes up a vision board. Again, nowhere near an exhaustive overview, but I think it gets the point across. Needless to say it can be an incredibly effective tool to use in your personal journey towards achieving your goals.

Vision boards work, because they help to keep us plugged into those things which we want to achieve. But like anything, you can’t just keep your vision board hidden away where you never see it. Think of it like a billboard, but instead of advertising (which are things others want you to notice) you’re putting thoughts about your goals and dreams — those things which are important to you into your mind on an ongoing basis.

Action Steps:

One, create your own vision board. Include pictures, or write something, anything that will represent what you want to achieve.

Two, in addition to the more traditional vision board mentioned you could play around with what I call a mini-vision board. Take some 3×5 index cards and basically do the exact same as you would with a vision board. The index cards approach will be a lot easier and convenient to carry around with you then a traditional sized vision board would be. Remember the old out of sight, out of mind saying.

Finally, whatever you do, do something. The more you keep the things you want firmly in mind — and sight, the better the chance you will give yourself of making them a reality in your life.

– To your success, Josh Hinds
http://GetMotivation.com

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Have you ever noticed how often we hear the term, “take massive action”? Sure massive action is great, but it’s also a bit relative from person to person isn’t it? Plus, just think about the word itself. Doesn’t it imply that it’s going to be hard, or overly difficult to accomplish?

Sure working on your dream is going to take some level of effort. Most anything truly worthwhile does. But hard? (Massive makes me think of mountains… personally climbing a mountain makes me think I’d better be ready to sweat!..lol) Where’s the enjoyment in that? (the sweating, not the mountain climbing

So while I’m certainly not going to claim that taking “massive action” is a bad thing at all… I am going to say that even the smallest of actions can be a very good start towards stepping in the right direction towards achieving your hearts desire…

Have you ever heard the saying, “success begets success”?

Essentially what that means is with each sense of accomplishment you experience (no matter how seemingly minuscule you may see it at the time) very often it’s enough to move you forward towards the next target you’ve set your sights on.

Consider a person whose just started running or jogging — and eventually moves up to the level where they are ready to run a marathon. Rarely does he or she start out feeling as though they could finish the race, much less enter one prior to building up to that point in their training.

Yet, overtime as they get in better physical shape (i.e. experience one small success after another) they eventually reach the point where not only do they believe they could give running a marathon a chance, but they could even finish the thing, and perhaps have a shot at winning it.

That my friend is what we are talking about when we hear the saying, “success begets success”. You see, each time we stretch beyond one of our self-imposed comfort zones we are in essence experiencing… success leading to another success. Our belief system expands to the point where what once appeared inconceivable is suddenly no longer quite the challenge we once saw it to be.

It’s a lot like building muscles. When you start out with an exercise program chances are, your body is not going to be used to it, and as such, you may feel as though you’ll never get to a point where you could ever imagine enjoying it.

Stick it out however, and before long you won’t feel good unless you’ve gotten that work out in before the day’s over. That’s the old saying, “success begets success” in action.

Give some serious thought on the quote above. Really ponder it in your mind for a bit. Write it down, repeat it throughout your day when you’re faced with challenges. And as you force yourself to move through those challenges (no matter how uncomfortable they happen to appear at the time) notice how the feeling of fear towards the particular thing has lessened once you have reached the other side and attained personal achievement in your particular endeavor.

It’s your life, LIVE BIG! Josh Hinds

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I’ve heard it said before that if you want to be successful you’ve got to learn to be uncomfortable at times. I think there’s a lot of truth in that statement.

Think about it… What’s comfortable about putting yourself out there and asking for a job promotion? What’s comfortable about asking someone to use your company’s product or service? What’s comfortable about reaching out and making contact with someone you don’t really know that well initially? What’s comfortable about taking the first step towards learning a new skill?

Not a whole lot is there?

Of course this is not all bad news. For one thing if you’re willing to be uncomfortable just a bit from time to time you’re going to put yourself in a much better position to take advantage of a lot of the opportunities that are all around us — even if we don’t always notice them.

In most cases the reason that most folks don’t achieve greater levels of success is because they either don’t recognize the opportunity in the first place, or they lack the ability to move past their self-imposed comfort zones and do the uncomfortable actions necessary to get on with finding success in their given endeavor.

Keep this in mind - if you always feel comfortable it is likely that you’re not giving your success the full chance it deserves. If you are always comfortable, you may be limiting yourself in ways you may not even fully realize.

Action Step:

Develop the mindset to try new things - always be on the lookout for new opportunities and be willing to reach beyond what you think you are capable of and go for it. Even in a worse case scenario where it doesn’t work out, you’ve still gained an invaluable life experience.

It is through trying new things that we grow to the point where we realize that we’ve got every resource we need inside us to live our perfect life.

– To your success, Josh Hinds
GetMotivation.com

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I was reading a magazine recently when something caught my eye. The article mentioned that most people that exercised regularly (and as a result tended to be in the best shape) were those guys and gals that didn’t so much plan out when they would work out, but rather simply worked out regularly without giving much thought to specifically when they would make time to do so.

At first I thought to myself … self, how on earth with such busy lives that we lead do these folks ever find the time to get their work outs in?

After a bit of pondering on this it became glaringly obvious that by taking this approach they weren’t allowing themselves to fall victim to the part of us that over analyzes things. You know the one I’m talking about.

The part of us that says I don’t have time to work out — I’ve got to get home in time to make dinner. I’ve got to stay late at the office. I’ve got to (insert whatever you’d like here). No, they simply acted on their initial impulse to work out. To get that bit of exercise they felt they needed.

Such a simple thought, to do that set of push ups or go for that walk or run instead of going through all the trouble to schedule it in.

I couldn’t help but think, by how applying this same approach to just about any of our goals we wouldn’t find ourselves getting more accomplished.

Consider how many lost goals and otherwise would be achievements we experience simply because we wait around for the right time to get started — and in the process never get the necessary action going to get started in the first place.

Take a moment to really give the above statement some thought…

Is there ever really a “perfect time” to set out in pursuit of your goals? I mean really. Is a month from now, two weeks, or a day from now going to be any better than right now at this very moment. Probably not. That’s just the way things work.

Life is filled with any number of things that will shift and change and inevitably occupy our limited time, if we don’t first take the initiative to fill it with those things we want to implement in our lives.

Each of us is given the same number of hours in the day (24 — last I checked). The same number of days in a week — 7. And days in a year … 365 (unless it’s a leap year).

Starting now get into the mind set that time — or a lack there of won’t stop you from working towards achieving those things that you want to see manifest in your life. Instead of looking for the right time to get started, just get going on them and allow yourself the wiggle room to move and adapt to any change that might be necessary to get you to where you want to be.

As the saying goes, “you don’t have to get it right starting out, you just have to get going”.

Change is inevitable, and in some instances it is true that we can’t control every single thing that happens to us. Even so there are active steps we can take that will help to guide us in the direction of those things we desire. Simply sitting still and idle is one sure way to keep yourself from realizing your dreams.

Dream big and feed your dreams with the necessary amount of action and as a result you are sure to attain your own definition of success.

Keep this thought in mind: Even the best laid out goals are simply dreams until you add the fuel of action that gets you on the path towards achieving them.

– Here’s to your success, Josh Hinds
http://GetMotivation.com

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With each new sunrise we are given the opportunity to start fresh and paint the canvas that is our life. Provided we are willing to acknowledge that we can do so. That’s right, no matter how many things may have gone wrong for you up to this point in your life, if you’re willing to do so you can start over and put any negative events behind you.

Your past doesn’t have to define your future — as long as you make the commitment not to allow it to do so.

The sooner you get to where you can move past life’s shortcomings the sooner you will be able to start taking more advantage of the vast opportunities that life affords those who don’t allow themselves to stay stuck in the past.

As the saying so eloquently goes… The past is in the past, the future we do not know yet, and the present is a gift we can give ourselves. Perhaps that’s not exactly how you heard it said, but I think the point is still clear.

Here’s wishing you all the best as you make the move towards leading your own personal definition of success. May you find the happiness and achievements that are yours.

– Here’s to your success, Josh Hinds
http://GetMotivation.com

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How do I know when I am successful? Boy, talk about the grandaddy of open ended questions eh? Please bear with me though as I believe we would all do well to give it some serious thought.

Have you ever noticed how many folks choose to equate success with a monetary figure — they place a dollar amount on it and assume that once that figure is attained they’ll suddenly feel successful.

Unfortunately it’s rarely as easy as saying that once we have x number of dollars in the bank we will somehow magically feel as though we’ve truly lived a life of worthwhile achievement.

With that said the question is how do we get past the point where we’re only equating success with a sticker price?

Take your success personally ….

Years ago I heard success defined as, “having the freedom to be yourself” and I think that is about the best definition I have heard to date. It is the gauge I use in my own life to know whether I’m leading a successful life.

My feeling is that as long as I have the resources necessary to move through life fully able to pursue the goals and dreams that are important to me then I am a successful.

At first the above definition might appear to be a bit open ended, but it should get you really thinking if you give it some serious thought.

For starters it gives us the room to dream and really think about what it would take to live out our goals and dreams — the things that we truly place personal value on — not just those things that outside forces may deem as important.

Say for example you want to be the best parent you can be. That doesn’t take a lot of money does it? (unless you think to be a good parent you’ve got to have ample amounts of money to care for your kids).

You see, the point here is not what amount of money you have, or lack there of. In fact only you will be able to decide what is enough for you and your loved ones.

It is far easier to take our due credit for our past achievements when we’re not holding ourselves up to someone else’s standard. Competition isn’t a bad thing, but when it’s the only measuring stick we use it can end up working against us if we are not careful.

In my humble opinion success is best measured on a personal level. If we attempt to put a frame around what we see as being successful or not — if we view others and say, they have this many material possessions so they must be successful we’re missing out.

You see when we frame what constitutes living a successful life around those things that we personally see as valuable then we enjoy where we are now more. Life seems to offer up opportunities to us that we never seemed to notice before.

By the same token when we set out to do the best we can do inevitably great opportunity finds us because we are doing what truly makes us happy. We’re in alignment and ready for the opportunities that life will put in our path.

Don’t misunderstand me here. I’m not saying that acquiring wealth is not a result of achieving success. I’m simply saying that at best it is a result that comes from following your dreams. Working towards achieving those things that you deem to be most important. I’d also suggest that lack of financial rewards most definitely is not the only currency with which we should measure our level of success.

Keep this thought in mind: Success is a personal thing. Define it according to what you value most and you are far more likely to achieve it as well as enjoy it once you have it.

– Here’s to your success, Josh Hinds
http://GetMotivation.com

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Sometimes you hear a song, watch a movie, or read a book that literally moves you to the point of inspiration. It’s as though it immediately fills you with a renewed belief that you can achieve whatever it is you set for yourself.

Finding these inspirational nuggets can be far and few between, but when we uncover them we know we’ve got something special that we can look back on when we need to re-live that same inspiring feeling.

And so it was that I knew I’d found another motivational gem when I’d finished watching the movie “Cinderella Man” earlier tonight. I’m certain this was the first of many times I’ll find myself going back to watch it. Everyone needs a good motivational pick me up from time to time and for me this was just such a treat. My hope in sharing this with you is that you will spend time making a point to be aware of inspiration points you can use to further fuel your own achievement — they’re showing up all the time, but you have to stay on the lookout for them.

– Here’s to your success, Josh Hinds

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Every day is an adventure. One in which we can write a story line filled with new life experiences. Positive relationships and new found success. Or it can be one in which we see little joy in and sit back believing that success is something that is reserved for only the lucky few.

Truly, the choice in which we see our potential in life is our own. Greatness and abundance is yours as much as it is anyones, but you must be willing to believe that is so, as well as be willing to do the things that are necessary to attract greater success in your life.

Always keep firmly in mind that we create our own luck through a four letter word called “work” and six letter one known as “effort”.

– To your success, Josh Hinds
* Josh is the author of Why Perfect Timing is a Myth: Tips for Staying Inspired and Motivated Day in and Day out! Grab your copy at http://www.getmotivation.com/booklet/

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“The best ideas and education in the world won’t help you if you lack the willingness to apply the necessary action to get started and the persistence to see things through.

Always make action and persistence your secret ingredient on your path to success.”

To your success, Josh Hinds

* Josh is the author of Why Perfect Timing is a Myth: Tips for Staying Inspired and Motivated Day in and Day out! Grab your copy at http://www.getmotivation.com/booklet/

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