A slide version of the SunWALK holistic education model – on what it is to be fully and positively human:
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Category: Motivation
Set your goals to motivate your success – through ‘singing’ your ‘uni-verse’
In my work as a life-coach I lead people to develop and focus their life-force so that they can get from where they are at, to where they want to be.
Getting in tune with your self and your life’s purpose is central to such achievement and success.
Getting in tune with you self and your life’s purpose is a matter of harmonization – of vision, goals, plans and action and of head, heart and circumstances.
To ‘sing one’s song’ is a metaphor for finding and staying tuned with your life’s purpose.
Harmonization is also a matter of getting in touch with our inner wisdom. Chinese wisdom places great emphasis on harmony. Inner and outer harmony are both important.
Outer harmony depends on inner harmony.
Inner harmony depends on being, doing and having in relation to our life purpose – i.e. getting alignment.
We need to get alignment between head and heart, and between the activities of our inner and outer lives. Then we get ‘flow’ – when we are able to function in energized harmony – like an athlete ‘in the zone’.
Episodes of silence are vital.
If we are in a situation we don’t see as getting us toward our dream then ‘see it differently’ – that is see it as a stepping stone, as opposed to a mill-stone!
Decide on your life’s purpose – don’t worry it will evolve via experience – and further reflection.
Locating, tuning and singing your ‘song’ also requires a sufficiency of silence and experiences of living in the now – see my Eckhart Tolle articles and better still read and listen to Eckhart Tolle.
Just DECIDE and START! (‘Ready. Fire. Aim!)
Set your goals – and work your goals day by day. How? – here’s one way great way.
For every day draw 4 circles.
1st circle = My Lifelong Dream,
2nd circle = My Year,
3rd circle = My month,
4th circle = My day.
Keep the 4 circles of your personal universe in harmony via working to your daily goal-setting.
The ‘universe’ as Wayne Dyer reminds us means ‘one song’.
Live your life singing your single, harmonised, song and you will succeed.
Harmony here is what enables us to be focused, and motivated.
Plan and work every day to achieve toward your monthly goals – etc.
Periodically adjust them all according to each other, so you have the motivation of always operating in a single, harmonized universe.
Keep the dream sharply visualized.
Don’t be afraid of adjustments – think of life as a ship’s journey – course corrections are inevitable and necessary.
Occasionally remind yourself of these two quotations;
1 “If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have one.” Henry Ford
2 “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke’s statement takes us even deeper by telling us that we create our future by what we are.
Balance doing, knowing and having with being. The current master of ‘being’ is – Eckhart Tolle.
If you don’t plan your journey don’t be surprised if you end up somewhere you don’t want to be!
Have fun singing your song – literally as well as metaphorically.
Keep the dream – even if a ‘credit crunch’ means you have to do stuff that is a temporary delay.
Sometimes just surviving is the biggest step you can make that particular day – but that day in the future will be seen as being just as important – because you didn’t give up!
Survival is sometimes progress.
Sometimes survival is the best singing of your song possible on that particular day. It’s still worth celebrating – you can’t sing at your own wake!
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I once used What’ll we do with a drunken sailor as a class song but be careful, a full rendition of all verses would remove all desire to go on living! Others might be shocked as to how brutal was the British Navy of that time.
What’ll we do with a drunken sailor,
What’ll we do with a drunken sailor,
What’ll we do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-aye in the morning?
Chorus:
Way hay and up she rises
Patent blocks o’ diff’rent sizes,
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-aye in the morning
1. Sling him in the long boat till he’s sober,
2. Keep him there and make ‘im bale ‘er.
3. Pull out the plug and wet him all over,
4. Take ‘im and shake ‘im, try an’ wake ‘im.
5. Trice him up in a runnin’ bowline.
6. Give ‘im a taste of the bosun’s rope-end.
7. Give ‘im a dose of salt and water.
8. Stick on ‘is back a mustard plaster.
9. Shave his belly with a rusty razor.
10. Send him up the crow’s nest till he falls down,
11. Tie him to the taffrail when she’s yardarm under,
12. Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.
13. Soak ‘im in oil till he sprouts flippers.
14. Put him in the guard room till he’s sober.
15. Put him in bed with the captain’s daughter*).
16. Take the Baby and call it Bo’sun.
17. Turn him over and drive him windward.
18. Put him in the scuffs until the horse bites on him.
19. Heave him by the leg and with a rung console him.
20. That’s what we’ll do with the drunken sailor. Source
You won’t believe the background to this song see WikiPedia HERE
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NB This article was inspired by Steve Chandler’s brilliant ‘100 Ways to Motivate Yourself’, one of my Top 10 Personal Development texts.
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Captain Bob, adventure, self-education, motivation and tall ships!
What do you get if you add self-education, adventure, reflection, motivation and tall ships. Answer you get Captain Bob!
Tall-ships training – just one of Captain Bob’s projects for youth
I found this remarkable man and his site whilst looking for stuff on motivation. It is a treasure-trove of great ideas.
There is much to learn from him re many areas of life.
Here are his ‘revolutionary’ (but common-sense) views concerning the way we deal with (abuse) our youth. He is talking about the USA abut things are about as bad in the UK and other countries;
Our Society is at WAR with Our Youth!
The following articles illustrate the urgent need for education reform. Teenagers, in increasing numbers, are walking away from the public education system. Some high schools have a 70% dropout rate. More money is not the answer, the answer is found in alternative education methods.
We are at WAR with 30% of our teenagers, the one’s who drop out of high school. We are loosing this war, because our weapon is to pass MORE laws that pressure them to comply with the system. This has not worked and never will. These young people need alternative opportunity, NOT JAIL CELLS! After all, there is not much difference between a classroom where one is not wanted and a jail cell where one is not wanted. To many, a classroom is a prison without bars.
Many of these teenagers are highly intelligent, but they cannot adapt to passive learning environments, they reject the classroom form of education, therefore, they simply choose to walk away from the system. Through self-fulfilling prophecy they consider themselves failures and become a burden on society. In a different learning environment they can discover their natural talent, develop it and become productive citizens.
- Mindset of Street Gangs
- They are highly intelligent, ambitious, want to learn, and be recognized as an achiever.
- Wiz Kids go to Jail
- Wiz kids are put in jail because they refuse to conform to passive classroom learning environments. Because the education system labels them FAILURES, they turn to criminal activity to be recognized.
- Drugging Students to Accept the Status Quo
- Society is now drugging our youth with behavior control pills, nulling the skill that makes them creative. They learn to accept the status quo. This new generation may make a comfortable living, but they will have lost the ability to be innovators. Soon, America will have a generation of people who can earn “A’s” in the classroom, but have no vision in the real world.
- Teaching Young Students to be Failures
- The typical high school teaches 30% of its students to be failures. This is because the curriculum only recognizes academic skills and students intelligence is measured by this standard. Non academic skills and associated intelligence are ignored, skills these students could excel at.
To go to Captain Bob’s website including the ‘let’s-care-better-for-our-youth’ section click HERE
His Table of Contents is useful because it is a large site
Is this the No 1 site on experience-based motivation?
I think it is pure gold. The issue is how to get local governments and communities and education authorities to listen – really listen and really committ sving the millions that youth-gone-toxic cost our societies – let alone thir own misery!
He’s collected some pretty good quotes as well. E.g.;
“Leadership is constantly changing, and survivors learn to change with it.”
“Yesterday, natural resources defined power. Today, knowledge is power. Yesterday, leaders commanded and controlled. Today, leaders empower and coach. Yesterday, leaders were warriors. Today, they are facilitators. Yesterday, managers directed. Today, managers delegate. Yesterday, supervisors flourished. Today, supervisors vanish.”
— Dr. Denis Waitley, The Toastmaster, December 2000.
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SEE also Learning Motivation for Success
All postings to this site relate to the central model in the PhD.
Summaries are HERE
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Inspiring quotations help keep your motivation high – vitamins for the heart, soul & mind – take one per day!
Inspirations to Motivate us for Success – vitamins for the heart, mind and soul!
New project – starting on 26th May -first monthly installment of quotations that I find inspiring and motivating.
Here are my late-May & June ‘get-motivated-for-success’ favourite quotations. They are ones that inspire and motivate me and I hope that they will help to develop further your success, happiness and prosperity!
Send me your favourite inspirations for success, happiness and prosperity and I will share them with others
As with multi-vitamins take one per day!
Enjoy – and let them be the wind beneath your wings!
MAY
26 “The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
27 “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great!” – Zig Ziglar
28 “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
29 “You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.” – Anon
30 “Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.” – Ambroce Bierce
31 “We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.” – Winston Churchill
JUNE
1 “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten”. – B.F. Skinner
2 “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen R. Covey
3 “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
4 “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley
5 “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake
6 “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
7 “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
8 “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Lander
9 “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
10 “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that
wants our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
11 “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale
12 “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
13 “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia
14 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine Saint-Exupéry
15 “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” – Brain Tracy
16 “I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gaugain
17 “Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up’s” – Peter Davies
18 “Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation.” – John C. Granville
19 “One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.” – Robert Collier
20 “You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be.” – Dexter Yager
21 “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves
without wondering.” – St Augustine
22 “What is it to function holistically? My answer = To proceed in all particulars with a sense of the whole.” Roger Prentice
23 “Concepts are delicious snacks with which we try to alleviate our amazement.” – A J Heschel
24 “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
25 “The utterances of the heart— unlike those of the discriminating intellect— always relate to the whole.” Jung
26 “Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them… they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.” – J. Marriott
27 “He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.” – Goethe
28 “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” – Wayne Dyer
30 “One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.” – G. K. Chesterton
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All postings to this site relate to the central model in the
PhD. Summaries are HERE
SEE also Learning Motivation for Success
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