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"Opportunities don't happen. You create them," and other quotes to propel you forward.
Small Win - Great Rewards. A Tribute To the works of D. Alexandra Porter. Vocal creator.
The small thing which I did was read a story by D. Alexandra Porter and recommend it for a Top Story. Which she did receive. The great thing is that we became great Vocal supporters and friends.
By Novel Allenabout 9 hours ago in Motivation
The Failure Resume
THE RESUME NOBODY SHOWS Every successful person has a hidden resume of catastrophic failures, humiliating rejections, devastating losses, and terrible decisions that they rarely discuss publicly because success narratives are expected to be clean upward trajectories rather than honest accounts of the stumbling, falling, and crawling that actually characterize every meaningful achievement, and this sanitized presentation of success creates a false impression that successful people were always successful and that failure is a sign of fundamental inadequacy rather than a necessary component of growth. The failure resume concept, popularized by Stanford professor Tina Seelig, involves documenting your failures with the same pride and detail you give your achievements, because your failures contain more useful information than your successes and because reviewing them reveals patterns of risk-taking, learning, and resilience that are far more predictive of future success than any list of accomplishments that were probably built on the foundation of prior failures you do not mention.
By The Curious Writerabout 14 hours ago in Motivation
7 Things Successful People Do Before 8 AM
WHY MORNINGS MATTER MORE THAN YOU THINK The hours between five and eight in the morning represent the highest leverage time in your day because your willpower is at its peak, distractions are minimal, and the decisions you make during this window set the trajectory for everything that follows, and research consistently shows that people who establish structured morning routines outperform their peers across virtually every measurable dimension including career advancement, physical health, mental wellbeing, relationship quality, and financial success. This is not about being a morning person versus a night owl, because morning routine benefits come not from some magical property of early hours but from the practical reality that mornings are the only time most people can consistently control, before the demands of work, family, and the world begin consuming your time and energy and pushing your priorities to the margins.
By The Curious Writerabout 14 hours ago in Motivation
🌱 Ways to Make Money & Attract Wealth
Making money isn’t just about working harder or chasing every opportunity. It’s more like planting seeds, taking care of them, and patiently watching them grow. Some seeds grow fast, some take time—but all require intention, consistency, and a little bit of belief.
By Zidanea day ago in Motivation
When Reflection Feels Like Accomplishment
There is a subtle experience many people recognize but struggle to name: the feeling of having done something meaningful without having actually changed anything. It often follows long periods of thinking, talking, organizing, or refining ideas. The mind feels clearer. Tension feels reduced. There is a sense of closure or completion. And yet, when examined closely, nothing in the external world has moved. No decision has been enacted. No behavior has shifted. No responsibility has been embodied. What changed was internal orientation, not external reality.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 days ago in Motivation
