Daily Reflections for Living Strong

Don’t resent any obstacle for being in your way. That’s my thought for today. We all have obstacles. We’re all on a journey. We’ve set our goals. We’ve created a plan of action. And along this path there are obstacles that will get in your way. So don’t resent the obstacle for being in your way.

Figure out how to get over it or go under it or go around it or through it. It’s not the end of the world when things fail to go your way or that obstacle is there in your way.

It’s the beginning of your quest. Your defining moment to turn things around and make a positive difference.

Breaking through the obstacle gives you the right of passage to the wisdom and the real life lesson and experience that will bring appreciation to the life that you desire to live.

If someone disagrees with you or criticises you, there’s no need to take offense. Instead take the opportunity to learn something valuable about that person’s perspective.

When you make an attempt, and it doesn’t work, that’s no reason to quit. You’ve just gained priceless experience. So put it into good and effective use.

When life is negative, your best response is to be positive.

In fact, you’ll find the best opportunities in the worst situations. So choose to make the most of those opportunities. Create your defining moments.

A key ingredient to success is seeing that it can happen and it can happen whenever you choose.

So until next time, live your greatest defining moment now and have a great day.

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Do you wish to live an extraordinary life? Then be sure to give value, respect and appreciation to the ordinary moments.

A rich and satisfying life is built over time. Most of that time comes packaged as ordinary days, ordinary moments, ordinary tasks and circumstances.

In every ordinary moment, you have the opportunity to give your best, to create new value, to make a difference. The more of those opportunities you make full use of, the more fulfilling life will be.

There is no magic wand you can wave to instantly ease all your burdens and fulfill all your desires. However, you can work the magic of your own effectiveness, bit by bit, in each moment that comes your way.

By doing that consistently, your burdens will indeed be eased and your dreams will absolutely come to life. By harvesting the value of each moment as it arrives, you can create a life of meaning and fulfillment.

This day is filled with ordinary moments, each with its own opportunities. Act now, and work to gather life’s treasures as they flow steadily into your world minute by every ordinary minute.

Have a great day.

Whether something is possible or impossible for you depends more on what you do about it than on any other factor. Your persistent, focused action is what brings possibilities to life.

Certainly there are obstacles that stand in your way. And you can choose to use those obstacles as excuses for not taking action.

Or, you can choose to get up, get motivated and get busy working your way toward the results you seek. Once you begin to take action, the obstacles lose their power to stop you and instead become steps along the pathway to achievement.

The actions necessary for success can often seem to be difficult, complicated, inconvenient, embarrassing, uncomfortable, tiresome or demeaning. Realize that those undesirable qualities are, for the most part, mere inventions of your mind, and your choice to take action will override them every time.

When you know what you must do, then go ahead and make it happen. Stop focusing on the excuses and start moving toward real, valuable achievement.

Your actions have the power to change your life and to change your world.

So get up, get out and whatever it takes, get it done.

have a great day.

There’s a big difference between anticipating difficulty and worrying about it. When you make plans, it is reasonable to expect that you’ll meet with some difficult hurdles. To the extent that you anticipate them in advance, and take steps to minimize their impact, you make your efforts that much more effective.

Worrying about potential problems brings a completely different dynamic. Worry sets you up to be held back by obstacles that may not ever materialize.

What are you being prevented from accomplishing because of your worries? If there’s some aspect that you’re concerned about, take positive, active steps to alleviate that concern. Then throw away your worry and get on with the program. Work your plan.

There is always the possibility of failure when you attempt something ambitious. Yet if you never even make the attempt, failure is not just a possibility, it is certain. Instead of worrying about what might happen, move forward and use your energy to deal with what does actually happen. That’s the way to get things done.

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The more profound the challenge that faces you, the more it clarifies your vision. If something offends you, or disturbs you, or angers you, or disgusts you, ask yourself why. Why does it conflict with your vision of how life should be? The things that elicit a negative response in you, can help you to understand and strengthen your own positive vision.

Consider the diamond, one of the rarest of gemstones and the hardest of all known substances. Diamonds are a crystalline form of pure carbon. So how does the same carbon that forms the soft, black graphite in your pencil become a hard, clear diamond? It happens only under extremely high temperature — more than 1,500 degrees Celsius — and pressure — more than 65,000 times the normal atmospheric pressure. Only then do the carbon atoms line up in just the right way to form the clear, sparkling diamond.

Similarly, only when your vision is subject to the challenges and pressures of life, does it become clear, strong and unyielding. Whatever makes you deeply uncomfortable touches your vision and serves to clarify your very essence. Be a diamond in the making. Let the challenges bring out your best.

If you want something out of life, it will be challenging. Once you accept the fact that life is difficult, you begin to transcend it.

It takes courage to stand up and make a difference. To believe in yourself.

What you have, what you are, is a result of what you believe you deserve.

Get in the habit of giving more than you’re paid for. Go the extra mile. Don’t go where the path may lead, but go where there is no path, and leave a trail. When you have your own vision, you don’t have any competitors. Be your best, do your best and don’t worry about the rest.

Make the commitment to work on yourself. Many people never realize their greatness because they get sidetracked. Distracted.

You deserve to get some prime time from yourself.

Focus on the things you love and on your talents. Develop your gifts. We all need an area of life in which we have a special competence. It will give you confidence, and a larger vision of yourself. It takes work, focus and a determined effort to make the best of what you have. The reward is that you’ll accomplish great things, and you’ll always be in control of your destiny.

Until next time, be black belt strong and live life courageously!

Hi everyone this is Peter Liciaga, your Mount Laurel martial arts guy with your black belt strong morning brief.

Today is a day to be thankful.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life is a miracle, and there is no end to the possibilities for joy, fulfillment, meaning and value.

Every day is a day to be thankful, and the more we remember to do so, the more we have for which to be thankful. Life’s blessings multiply when they are fully realized and put to good use.

Be thankful today and every day, not because you’re supposed to be, but because you can. Experience the warm sensation of true gratitude just because it feels so good.

Keep yourself aware of your good fortune, and through that awareness, your good fortune grows. Focus on the good things, and you make them even better.

Remind yourself how good life can be, and suddenly you see new ways to expand that goodness. Your life and your world become what you hold in your thoughts most persistently, so hold all the good things there with your thankfulness for them.

Today is a day to be sincerely and overwhelmingly thankful. Seize that great opportunity now, with all the richness it brings.

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Right here and now, this very day, you have the power to think, the power to dream, the power to make decisions, the power to act, to create, to learn, to influence others, to change things, to experience and enjoy.

On top of all that, you have the power to invent, to innovate, to change your mind, to understand, and to move in a new direction.

You have the power to persevere, to work with discipline and focus, to manage your time, to recognize opportunities, to take responsibility and to act responsibly, to solve problems, to effectively utilize your resources, and to make a positive difference in your world.

Some people take these very same powers and achieve great things. Others live as if they didn’t even know they had them. Still others destroy the value of their own positive, living powers by directing them toward negative pursuits.

You have the power to do great things. How will you make use of that power today? It is an incredible opportunity and an awesome responsibility. It is real and it is yours. Challenge yourself to transform that power, with your thoughts and actions, into your own special greatness… GET UP. GET OUT. AND GET IT DONE.

Until next time, be black belt strong and live life courageously!

Use it

If you had a fast sharp sports car, would you drive it? Of course you would. If you had a big, beautiful, warm and comfortable home would you go inside it to sleep at night and protect yourself from the cold? Of course you would.

So many people focus on what they have and what they’re going to get. Yet what you have is only a small part of the picture. What really matters more than what you have is what you do with it. When you look at life from that perspective, you’ll discover enormous value right there in your own life — value that is waiting for you to put it to positive use.

You are blessed with a powerful and intelligent mind with the ability to choose. So use it! You have a body that can move you from place to place, and enable you to take action. So use it! You have challenges which will help you to grow when you stand up and face up to them. So use them! You have desires, you have passion, you have knowledge, experience and skills, so make use of them all!

Worrying too much about what you have or don’t have will prevent you from seeing the opportunities for actually making use of it all. Look beyond what you want and dwell on who you want to become. Rather than being limited by what you don’t have, let yourself be empowered by putting to use all the good things you do have.

until next time… live black belt strong and have a blessed day.

Hi everyone this is Peter Liciaga, your Mount Laurel martial arts guy with your black belt strong morning brief.

Let’s keep this simple… “Be here, now.”

This moment is what you have. Live it, and all it is, here and now.

This task, this activity, is what you’re doing. Focus on it, without being distracted by thoughts of other things you might be doing.

Free yourself from your own resentments, wishes, judgments, worries, and doubts. Give the whole of your self and your awareness to the experience of being here now.

Exercise the power that exists in you, in this time, in this situation. Allow yourself to be enough, to have enough, to be fully at peace with all that is.

There is nothing you need in order to be you, nothing you need in order to be here now. Realize how free you are, right now, to give, to achieve, to love and live without condition.

Nothing can take now away. With confidence, pure focus and gratitude, be here now, and live it well.

Have a great day.

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