MOTIVATION
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The Experimental Motivation Project
Declare your Dream. See a Dream. Motivate yourself. Motivate others.
What if you fall?
Morning Motivation When creating anything there’s always a feeling of walking a metaphorical tightrope with no safety net. What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Is this any good? Will anyone like it? Where will it go? You might fall off any second into failure, which for many of us is avoided as much as death. It shouldn’t be. Failure is temporary. Death is not. What if you fall? Lean into it. Enjoy the ride. Create something on the way down. Then get back up again. Create some more. We fall, we climb, we fail, we create....
read moreWhere do you start?
Morning Motivation No matter what you want to create—health, peace, a rested body, happiness, a business, art, love, a connection—you have to start. The sun rises and sets every day. The earth is in constant motion. The Universe never stops expanding. It never stops creating. We can’t either. Even if you don’t know where to start just start somewhere, anywhere, small, big, in between—doesn’t matter—as long as you start creating from wherever you are with whatever you have right now. Take the first step. That’s creating...
read moreWhat are you planting?
Morning Motivation Whatever you plant is what will grow. Ideas, energy, feelings, connections, opportunities—all seeds you plant with every thought, every word, every action, every second of every day. What are you planting? Is it exactly what you want to grow? Is it the seeds of what you want to create? If not, change it! You control what you put in your body, you decide what you say to others, you determine what actions you take out in the world. Consciously plant positive seeds for your health, your mind, your relationships,...
read moreAre you ready for takeoff?
Morning Motivation Instead of thinking you need your bags perfectly packed, your itinerary mapped out to the last minute, and all the appliances unplugged before you can get out of the starting gate, just take off from wherever you are with whatever you have right now. Waiting takes away your power. Taking off feeds it. By taking off towards your goals, your aspirations and your dreams from where you are with what you have, you immediately begin to take control over where you’re going. Empower yourself by creating from what you...
read moreHow do you view you?
Morning Motivation The most important view you have is the view of yourself. Do you see your potential? Are you looking down on yourself? Are you looking up? Where are you looking at? Where are you looking from? Who are you looking to? Do you recognize all that you have to create with? If you don’t like the current view, change it. Look at yourself with x-ray vision and see beyond the external, beyond your past, beyond ideas of who you or anyone else thinks you are. See the unique beauty and colorful light of who you are...
read moreWhat’s your dream?
The Declare Your Dream Experimental Motivation Project is underway! Inspired by Think Outside The Box Inside The Box’s theme to “create from what you have,” Founder Kelli Joan Bennett and writer, filmmaker, artist Leslie Ann Owen created the Declare Your Dream Experimental Motivation Project to motivate people to stop waiting to create, to declare their dream and to begin creating it from what they have right now. To spark creativity, motivation and action, people are being invited to anonymously contribute to the Declare Your Dream...
read moreWhat time is it?
Morning Motivation Instead of worrying about how much time you have or whether you’re wasting your precious time, shift your thinking to clearly see what time it really is: right now. And right now you can do anything! Take stock of what you have—literally as well as figuratively—from the shoes in your closet, to the contacts in your phone, to the beliefs in your heart. See it all. Give thanks for it all. Get creative with it all! Look for new combinations, fresh ideas, unseen opportunities. Create something from what you have...
read moreWhat do you really need to create something from?
Morning Motivation We live in a world that wants more of everything it has and doesn’t have, and then some. More, more, more. It usually takes a war or a crisis—financial, health, emotional—to make us slow down and take a look at what we already have in our lives, appreciate it and do something with it. Don’t wait for a crisis. What do you really need to create something from? You need exactly whatever you have right now. You always have enough to create something from—a smile, kindness, ideas, intelligence, talent, love. No one...
read moreWhere are you going?
Morning Motivation The roads of your life are waiting to be created. You decide the direction. You choose the way. You control the building blocks. Do you know where you’re going? Begin building the map for your path from what you already have. This is an adventure into the unknown of the known and a quest to see where it leads and what it creates. Join in. Pave the road of your life, one creation at a time, from what you have. Be courageous. Begin the adventure. Create something. Go somewhere…from what you have. What are...
read moreHow brave are you?
Morning Motivation Instead of thinking that waking up is an entitlement, shift and see it as the gift it is—another chance to create meaning, purpose and art. Your actual, literal life is the most obvious, the most basic and the most important thing you have to create from. You woke up this morning. You’re alive! Are you brave enough to let the fact that you won’t always be motivate you to make the air in your lungs count every day? It’s easy to take your life for granted. Don’t. Each inhale, each exhale is a breath to create...
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