Self Improvement and Motivation

Have an inspiration problem?

Read on to get a heaping helping of courage.

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Every day the Createyoumind Team combs the earth looking for self improvement and motivation under every rock. We have provided you our top motivation quotes.  There is our Success and Opportunity Readiness Track podcasts and our current Success and Opportunity Achievement Track.  It’s not until you read a story about Joannie Rochette that you find the true meaning of self improvement and motivation.

If you haven’t heard the story by now, be prepared to pull out the tissue.  Before, I start feel free to read it at YAHOO.  Joannie is a 24 year old Canadian Olympic athlete competing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver in the figure skating sport.  Just before hitting the ice to take her practice run with only three short days before competing for a gold medal and reaching a major lifetime goal the worst happened.  Her mother died.  She practiced anyway not only seven short hour after hearing of her mother’s passing, she also came out the next day as well.  At the time of this post she is ranked 3^rd in the ladies short program.

It’s stories like these where you have to take a good hard look at ourselves and ask “What have I had to overcome”?  Most times if we really look it those “challenges” we will realize that as enormous as they may have appeared they probably were more ant hill than mountain.  As you all know from reading our blog, Glenn and I have had our set of challenges and all of them added together aren’t worth a hill of beans compared to what Joannie has had to go through.

For those of us who struggle with self improvement and motivation we need to go back and review our lives.  Have we given up to easy?  Have we let our problems be bigger than us?  Did we lose the battle that takes place in the six inches between are ears?  Well, let’s commit to be more like Joanne Rochette.  No longer will we allow our challenges to stop us from achieving our goals and dreams.  She could have curled up in a ball and given up and she didn’t.  Why?  I don’t know her and I bet if you asked her she would say in some way that her Goals and Dreams are bigger than her, her mom and the whole country of Canada!  As an American, I root on Team USA in every event but for women’s figure skating I am a fan of the Goals and Dreams of one Joannie Rochette.  If this doesn’t give you self improvement and motivation than nothing will.

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Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and the Createyourmind Team.

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