Victor Hugo once said “Each one should frame his life so that at some future hour fact and his dreamings meet.”

There is a story told that years ago, while unearthing an ancient Egyptian tomb, an archaeologist came upon seeds buried in a piece of wood. When they were planted, the seeds realized their potential after more than 3,000 years!

There are seeds of possibility in all of us still. Allow yourself some waking DREAMING… what do you see for yourself?

It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me how we create every aspect of our lives - and when we get truly alert - or conscious, we begin to see how we get to SEE in life only that which we have already SEEN in mind..

Do you know where you’re going to?
You’re going wherever you SEE yourself going…
Take time this week - randomly set an alarm during the day - and when it goes off ask -

is what I’m doing right now taking me where I want to go?

Do you like the things that life is showing you?
It’s showing you what you were able to see in the past.
If you don’t like what you are seeing - Start SEEING it differently.. Scripture tells us - without a vision, the people perish… Without knowing where you are going - you’ll dissipate the energy on things that are meaningless…

How do you see yourself? Where do you see yourself in a year? What are you doing? Who are you being? In 5 years? And ultimately - what’s your REAL AIM in life? Women in midlife have the perfect opportunity to ask these questions.

SPEND Time EVERY day picturing what you would have your life to be…

-Create Treasure Maps if you’re visual -

-Tell yourself if your auditory…

-Test drive the car if your kinesthetic
You KNOW to do these things– are you doing them? And,
If not, why not?

You probably have about one third of a lifetime - at least - left. Don’t let being a woman in midlife stop you.

This truly can be your age of miracles.

Are you tired of feeling that you are losing your time in unnecessary business? Are you frustrated after finishing your day with a sense that you haven’t accomplished a thing?

Many of us are so caught up in our daily routine that we don’t even consider the remote possibility of getting passionate about what we do.

Here are 5 simple steps that will help you organize your day and get motivated again to accomplish something that is meaningful to you:

1. Make a list of all the things you would enjoy doing today. Yes, not a regular to-do list, but a list of dreams and goals you have always left for some day when you would finally have time. Think of your strengths and talents you’ve always wanted to develop. Write down that course you were going to take one day, or that book you thought you would write once you grew up. Lay out a step-by-step plan to accomplish this goal by doing a little bit every day and determine to start today.

2. Now you write down a list of what you have to do today. These are your daily duties you are responsible for. Don’t put too much on that list, it will overwhelm you and ultimately lead to frustration. If there is a bigger task you need to accomplish, divide it into little bites and determine to deal with them during several days.

3. Do the second list first. Rank the items on your list according to their urgency and importance. If you are constantly leaving your duties for later, they will lurk like a dark cloud over everything you do during your day. While you are in what might feel like your daily treadmill, motivate yourself by thinking of the fun stuff you will do later.

4. Start checking the items you have already done. This will give you a marvelous feeling of accomplishment. There is no way around our daily duties, but we should celebrate a bit to feel satisfied once they are accomplished.

5. Now you can dedicate time to your first list without a bad conscience. You can finally start developing in that area you never had the time for. And there is nothing more fulfilling than getting on with what God has put in your heart to do.

If you do this each day, you will not only accomplish your daily duties efficiently, but you will also have made the important step of taking the time to pursue your dreams consistently.

If you’re reading this, you should be keen to boost your motivation. Are you? Spot on, I’ll start of with one simple thing and that is motivation is not a one-time process. Its not something in which you are boosted one day and it will last a life time.

No.

It’s a constant process. You need to feed yourself everyday just like to feed the nuggets of inspiration and motivation each day.

Many people do not constantly live their life in a tip-top level of coming out of bed and feeling great each day and wanting to make their lives the best of it all.

So how do we actually not kill your motivation or rather slap yourself with all the positive stuff all day.

You killed your motivation without knowing. Start with something small first and yet reap big benefits later.

Wake up each day and think, “What can I do today that others don’t so that I can achieve what others can’t tomorrow?” Think about it.

You see the mind works such that we need to constantly keep pounding ourselves with such instigating information that will help make us motivated.

If you have not been doing the necessary motivation, you have been missing the many things that you could have improved your life so much more. Imagine the opportunity cost that you have incurred in your personal life!

What I want to get across to you is that by helping yourself in just a few minutes a day of motivation could help you in the long run. Hence, it’s important to learn to keep empowering your life in one way or another to achieve greater things.

To enable the individual to start the motivation engine and fill up with “fuel” is by all means getting the motivational resources up to you. However, start the basic with your thinking – positive.

Human Beings by nature enjoy seeing other people depend on them. Even a new born baby would be happy seeing some people depend on him/her. The irony there is that in as much as people love to gain other peoples’ total dependence/submission, all are not willing to pay the price attached to this great status. While the price might be too high for some people to pay, to some, it is much cheaper than the price of being dependent (by this article, am sure you are in the later class).

So if you are among the later category, read on for this article is for you. Making other people depend on you is much more easier than you ever imagined. The whole art is summed up in a phrase “Learning and Sacrificing to meet other peoples’ need”. I found this to be true while in the University. I spent most of my time learning something new to teach my friends and also sacrificing my comfort for other peoples’ pleasure. It hurt at the initial stage but I later come to term with it.

The joy that I derived from seeing people genuinely depend on me greatly outweighed the initial sufferings. Below are the qualities that you must posses to make people depend on you without limit: Thick skin to the temptation of immediate self gratification: This may sound too obvious but this is one area where many people get it all wrong. Getting people to have trust in you takes a lot. So much immediate gratification has to be foregone. This will put you in a position to reach out to more people with the little resources at your disposal. Be a good learner: In this our present time, learners has finally come to inherit the world. learning so much will put you in a position to have something (knowledge) of value that people can tap from. Statistics has shown that people tend to get closer to those that has something new to give to them at all times. Be a helper:

Always be on the look out to take “advantage” of opportunity to help people. This will not only make people have confidence in you but will also make them LOVE you and this in turn will bring you peace of mind that money cannot buy. Ziglar summed it all up in his his Golden rule philosophy ” You will get all the things you need if you can just help enough people get what they want”. Be a good listener: People appreciate you more when they realise that you have a good listening ear. This will act as a bait that will always bring them to your door step whenever they have problem. You understand peoples’ predicament when you listen to them and this in turn will make you give appropriate help (advise wise or material wise). Be compassionate: Compassionate heart will no doubt make you have feelings for your fellow human beings. A compassionate heart is the power house of “help and goodness”.

If you want people to trust in you, demonstrate to them that you have heart large enough to accommodate their problems. Compassionate heart will give you that “Large heart”. Be a “good-finder”: The society we live in today has made it almost impossible for people to be good. “Nice guys don’t survive” is the reigning slang. I can say it without mixing words that you will get people to have total confidence in you if they discover you are a good-finder and not a fault-finder. Have a forgiving spirit: We all err at one time or the other. As a matter of fact, we cannot live our life here on planet earth without offending people or people offending us. What matters is our ability to quickly throw whatever wrong that people must have done to to us behind and position our self to help them if need be. I can almost assure you that people will come to love and trust you if the find out you have a forgiving heart. Though some people may want to take advantage of this character but never mind.

It is amazing sometimes how many people cannot find the motivation to do the things they need to do in their daily lives. Yet, when a major catastrophic hurricane comes along they seem to find the motivation to get out of the way and get out of town during the mandatory evacuation. If someone had that sort of motivation in their lives and took things more seriously that they do perhaps they would have a reason to propel themselves forward and achieve their goals.

A hurricane is a very motivating factor indeed. In fact hurricane Katrina motivated the President of the United States to fly back to Washington and the United States Congress to standard $200 billion to repair the Gulf Coast of the United States of America. After seeing the destruction in New Orleans when the levees broke from hurricane Katrina it has motivated us to build the levies stronger when we should have done it all along.

Had we had significant motivation prior to this to monitor and make sure that those levees were secure, safe and super strong they may not have broken in the first place. Hurricanes can be a very motivating factor indeed.

Next time you are having trouble finding motivation in one of your daily endeavors or projects perhaps you’ll consider this 2006 Atlantic tropical hurricane season and the motivation it provides people to do something and tap into that if you want to accomplish your objectives. Please consider this 2006.