Quiet Desperation (from a motivational video)

This inspiration is from a motivational video: Quiet Desperation.

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The time when people are feeling a great deal of anxiety and fear, and reservations about the future. A time when people are going to work and don't know whether or not they will have a job when they get off.

Look at your life right now. Whatever you've done up to this point in your life, your life is working. Whatever you have produced, it came out of you, but as a result of the kind of person you've become, as a result of your choices, as a result of your consciousness.

Now, you have to ask yourself, are you satisfied with what you have produced? Is this what you want? Would you like for things to be better than this?

And if you don't know what it is that you showed up to do, you don't know why you're here, I encourage you to find out what your purpose is here. What is the meaning of your life?

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Which really stops certain people from being successful because they have so many barriers, so many obstacles to overcome that they never really get to success. Either they can't see it, or at some point they thought that they saw it, and they let somebody talk them out of seeing it.

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It's a natural inclination for us to put ourselves down. See, we are born negative I think, in a negative consciousness because we live in a negative world.
Begin to guard your mind against negative programming, like turn off the television, don't watch news.. More people have a sense of hopelessness and anxiety about life when they look at the news. You cannot feel good at the news. Don't pick up the newspaper and read it. No! No! Just try this, just experiment with yourself. So, you've got to guard the kind of things that you put in your mind.
See, if you don't program your mind, your mind will be programmed because human beings are goal oriented.

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Where's all this leading to? What's going on here? Most men live in quiet desperation. Most of us go through life running scared. Why is it that most people don't pursue their dreams, don't do better than what they are doing, if they are capable of doing it?
The reason that we don't explore the possibility of what to do is because subconsciously, we don't believe that we deserve it.

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How much time do you spend working on you? How much time do you spend everyday working on your dreams? In the last ninety days, how many books have you read? In the last year, what new skill or knowledge have you acquired? What kind of investment have you made in you?

Fear kills dreams. Fear kills hope. Fear puts people in the hospital. Fear can age you! Fear, Ladies and Gentlemen, can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself that you're capable of doing, but it will paralyze you!

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Success does not require you to look out the window, it only requires you to look in the mirror. The one person you need to be successful is looking right back at you. And if you're willing to make a commitment to that person in the mirror, if you're willing to look at that person in the mirror and say, 'I can make a commitment to you from this day forward, whatever it takes, I'll do whatever it takes'.

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Listen to me, I'm gonna tell you... that from the day you came here, you can jump up, you can be excited when we give away money. But listen to me, you're never gonna be successful until...

You won't be successful until you say I need that money. Some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success. The time you could've used to be successful, you using on a cell. And a cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill.

Most of you say you wanna be successful but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it bad than you want to party. You don't want it bad as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!

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Do you somewhere in the back of your mind, or in your heart, feel there's some other great work for you to do, there is something else that life has for you? That's why you're here. That nothing can fear but fear itself.

Start encouraging yourself. Start saying that 'I can do this'. I can make this happen. C'mon man, get yourself together. You can handle this, you've not just figured it out yet. It's alright... It's a situation you have to pay for what you don't know.

You can do this. Get some people that can teach you some stuffs you don't know, get some people that have done it successfully. Take some seminars, workshops, read some books on how to manage a business. Change the way you see yourself, and begin to term to the personal details. Understand that nobody is gonna take care of your business better than you.
Take the plunge. Go into action. And Ladies and Gentlemen, you'll be surprised at how things will come together.