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#travelfar #wowplacestogo #mustdotravels #triplover #traveltrip #worldpackers #travelchallenge #iwanttotravel #travelescape #travelislove #travelgoal #mytravelstory #travelandexplore by @margarett.willson

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Embrace fear, insecurity and uncertainty as the doorways of opportunity that they are.

What’s holding you back? Are you fearful of an outcome, doubting your abilities, worried about making a mistake? These are normal human emotions that only become problematic when not addressed. Interestingly, it’s when you push past these three emotions that you often see an opportunity.

Without first experiencing the fear of failure, the trepidation of doing something wrong, of failing to deliver on expectations, you might not be amped up enough to take notice of what’s going on around you. Being so caught up in fear, you might be blinded to reality.

When, however, you make the decision to confront your fears, whatever they are, you may find that they’re not as bad as you thought, that you exaggerated their significance or allowed them to stymie your forward momentum. What’s on the other side of fear? Only you can find out. It’s up to you to open your eyes to possibility and that can only be revealed once you move past fear.

Actually, welcome the push that fear provides.

What about feelings of insecurity? How can they be a doorway of opportunity? Consider that everyone compares themselves to someone else. We worry that we’re not as smart or talented or that we lack the right connections. We mistakenly believe that we’re going to be stuck where we are and that what we have might be taken from us. But insecurity has its origins in the same place as fear – and it can provide similar motivation to brush it off and keep moving forward.

Will you be successful in your ventures? Will you achieve your goals? Those butterflies in your stomach signaling uncertainty are excellent fuel to motivate you further.

No one knows what tomorrow will bring. Use the fear, insecurity and uncertainty you feel today to spur you to action. Opportunity awaits and often springs from these emotions – if you allow it. by @margarett.willson

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If we didn’t spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

You wake up and immediately think of all the stuff you have to do today. Some of it is a real chore, while other tasks are less onerous but still something you’d rather not do. Yet it isn’t the planned to-do list that often bothers you but those situations and problems that require you to take action. Here’s the difficulty: You’re reacting to things – and that bothers you.

Granted, everyone experiences the unexpected. How can you deal with these situations without instantly going into reaction mode so that they bother you? It may be tough at first, but you can do it.

Take this as an example. Your boss suddenly drops a hot project on your desk and that throws your evening’s activities with the family off the agenda. You dive in, not without some disappointment at what you’re missing out on and not without a tinge of resentment toward your boss.

To prevent reaction from escalating into full-blown bother, take a few deep breaths. Remind yourself that you are fully capable of handling this task, and your boss has confidence in your abilities or you wouldn’t have been given the assignment.

Run through a mental list of how you’ll tackle this project in a step-by-step fashion. Enlist help if you need it. Don’t be afraid to ask the boss for more time if it is warranted and won’t jeopardize the deadline.

Let your family know you’ll be tied up for a while and reschedule the activity you had planned with them. If that’s not possible, pledge to spend time with them in another special activity – and keep your promise.

While you’ll still have to do the work your boss gave you, you’re now more in control of the process and the timing. That eliminates the reaction and erases the bother to a certain degree.

It might also help to remind your boss that you’ve come through on this urgent assignment and ask for time off to compensate for it. You are worth it and your boss knows it.

Other situations and things that tend to cause reaction and bother can be dealt with in the same way. by @margarett.willson

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Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows, especially when a relationship is fading yet your brain does not want to let go. When things go sour it is difficult to reconcile your heart and your mind so that both want the same thing. Your mind may tell you that it is time to let go and move on, but your heart can not seem to accept this fact and it keeps wanting what you no longer have. Memories from times when the relationship was going well embed into your heart and these can be hard to overlook and erase once things get rocky. Many men and women stay in a damaging relationship long past the time when they should have walked away.

Women who have been battered and beaten still often cling to the hope that things will get better in their heart, even though these same women know in their mind that things won't change. Men also stick around even when there are obvious signs that she is not the one or that she will never be loyal. If your mind says one thing yet your heart says another this means it is time to make some hard choices. You can continue to hang on and hold out hope, but the facts speak for themselves. Burying your head in the sand and following your heart often leads to further heartbreak and prolongs the break up process. This can prevent you from moving forward and finding someone who IS right for you. by @margarett.willson

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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

If you want to fully realize life, you must embrace all kinds of experiences. The good and the bad, the normal and out-of-the-ordinary, the expected and unexpected. Filtering out all that might prove distasteful, disappointing, time-consuming, sad or painful or any of a hundred different negatives is not only a mind-boggling effort, it’s also fruitless. Things will happen, regardless. And trying to ignore or avoid them won’t make you any happier or more fulfilled.

Expecting nothing, on the other hand, and being open to any and all experiences, will enrich your life, deepen your knowledge, add to your skills and ability to make good decisions.

The path is unknown for a reason. Life is mysterious, sometimes deliciously enticing and other times seemingly deliberately misleading. We venture down a path thinking it will lead to a specified outcome, yet are surprised when it reveals something completely different. We may have a plan and feel bound to rigidly adhere to it, despite opportunities that now present themselves, and thereby miss the deep and enriching experience altogether. But a willingness to step along the mysterious and unknown path, even with reservations and a little anxiety, will serve to add zest and variety to life.

The knowledge that you can stop at any point should also be comforting. There’s no need to put yourself in harm’s way. Indeed, making use of good judgment to avert danger and take a less perilous path is a sign of maturity. Just take a different path and be open to what you encounter along the way.

Consider that some paths you’ve been down have turned out quite unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. These become memorable for their differences, especially the exposure to something new, to meeting new people and involving yourself in an activity you’ve never done before or possibly even thought about doing. You might conclude that you don’t like the experience or just the opposite, but you benefit from going through it.

It might not seem like it at the time, but in retrospect, it will.

Allow you by @margarett.willson

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

This time of the year, everything feels dark and empty for some people. It may be due to the recent death of a loved one or that the holidays cause the pain of loss to resurface with a vengeance. Your personal light can be extinguished also because of overwork, stress, illness, lack of companionship, even a bout with sadness that won’t go away or a melancholy you can’t put your finger on.

Losing the joy of life is never pleasant, but it doesn’t have to be permanent. Fortunately, we can have our light rekindled, often by the love, support and encouragement from others.

This spark, so generously shared, can do wonders to allow light to spontaneously return. Instead of darkness and emptiness, there’s a feeling of hope that begins to emerge, however hesitating and small at first.

Having experienced the ache of loss on more than one occasion, I know full well how painful such darkness feels. In the depths of my sadness, I thought that nothing would ever feel good again, that the pain I felt would last forever. How I got through those agonizing weeks of grief is much like the healing path that so many others have gone through. It took time, being willing to go through the stages of grief, forcing myself to be with others, to attend to routines, to put one foot in front of the other and keep going.

As an adult and a parent, I know that life isn’t always wonderful and carefree. Challenges never end. Neither do situations where hopeful outcomes appear slim. Yet I’m encouraged by the constancy of goodness offered freely by others, even those with no stake or apparent gain for so doing.

I’m ever grateful for the love and warmth of those individuals. I hope I’ve been able to repay them, if not personally, by passing along my own spark to someone in need of having their light rekindled.

It is with the knowledge that life is precious and short that I wish to extend to each of you my heartfelt gratitude for being there for me. I hope to be there for you as well and that’s why I create Daily Th by @margarett.willson

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“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

When we hear someone say, or use the statement ourselves, that we don’t have a choice, that’s skirting the truth. We do have choices. In fact, there is at all times an infinite array of choices from which to select.

Why, then, does the habit persist to deny our freedom of choice?

In retrospect, many of the choices I’ve made in my own life – and, I suspect, others can identify the same in their own choices – have come after first making the categorical statement that I didn’t have a choice. Most of those choices may not have been the best. Perhaps I selected them because they offered a quicker solution or an easier option.

We do what we do for our own selfish reasons much of the time. It takes a certain maturity to be able to make well-informed and responsible choices that take the well-being of others into consideration as well as our own.

Still, staring at an infinity of choices can be a bit unsettling. After all, how in the world are you ever to figure out which is the right one?

The only way to make choices is through careful examination of the pros and cons, the potential consequences or ramifications of a course of action compared with another.

Sometimes you make the right choice, sometimes you don’t. There’s always next time or the potential to revise your choice, to correct a mistake or alter your decision to incorporate new information and consideration.

Having been on the wrong end of several decisions I’ve made, I can honestly say that it is a learning experience that never ends. Even when I’m happy with my choices, I know there might be better ones. Thus, I remain open to them, with the knowledge that I’m free to make new choices.

I’m also responsible for my choices – all of them. There’s no escaping the ramifications of my decisions. Similarly, I can take pride in knowing that I’ve made a few good ones.

Intent means a lot when it comes to making choices. I like the fact that there’s an endless

s stream of choices I can select from, rather than feeling limited in m by @margarett.willson

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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Getting your hands dirty isn’t the only sign that you’re wrestling with something difficult or that you’re experiencing a struggle. This also happens when you’ve given what you think is all you’ve got and you still wind up less than successful. It’s at times like these when you’re tempted to give up. Don’t. That’s when you really find out when struggle is good.

Struggle helps define your character, shape your integrity, show your values.

Struggle even helps you find the best of yourself. That’s because when you’re at your lowest point, when you’re undergoing the worst of all possible scenarios, you find out what you’re made of. You discover your true self.

Without an obstacle, where would we find motivation?

If not for challenges, how could we convince ourselves to go beyond our limits and try something new?

If all of life was the same, wouldn’t it be boring?

This is not to imply that we should always want to struggle. Just that when struggle happens, it has implications of good. It’s what we do and how we regard the struggle that makes the difference.

After all, if you want to get off the ground, sometimes you have to go against your instinct and fly straight into the wind.

Another way you know when struggle is good is when you finally are successful. You can look back at your earnest efforts and realize that you did achieve your goal. Despite all the hurdles, no matter how long or difficult the task, you came out a winner.

A good struggle also serves as a reminder the next time you run into a roadblock, tough issue or impossible situation. You’ve been there before and learned the lessons from your experience. by @margarett.willson

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