Listen to Lewis Howes short message explaining that the successful face their fears and gain success after taking action against their fears. 

  
The hard times we face in life represents the heat that brews the greatness within us. The harder the times are the better we will be when we make it through. It is difficult to see how we are being prepared for greatness when we are in the middle of our hard times. We can trust and believe that on the other side greatness will be there ready to embrace us. Let’s embrace the greatness that is within each and every one of us. Let’s share our greatness with others and encourage others to embrace and share their greatness. 

  
We control our own lives through the decisions we make. We are where we are because of the things we had decided to do in the past. If we are not satisfied with where we are now, all we have to do is decide to do something about it. We can learn a new skill. We can stop doing things that are holding us back. We can start to do things that moves us forward in the direction we would like to go. It is up to us to make these decisions. There are consequences for each and everything we decide to do. There are good or positive consequences just like there are bad or negative consequences. Good or positive consequences are often called rewards. We have to know what rewards we are looking for because that is what will motivate us to make the good or positive decisions in order to receive the reward. Let’s start making the best decisions for ourselves so that we can receive the rewards that we want. 

  
Sometimes we will find ourselves surrounded by darkness. When we find ourselves in the darkness that comes and goes throughout our lives we must keep faith. The faith that we keep is the light that keeps us on the path that we intend to be on. Without that faith we will end up wondering in the darkness aimlessly and without a purpose or guidance. We will be so far off track from where we want to be and not know where we are how we got where we are when we do not have faith. We have to never be without faith. Sometimes we might loosen the grip we have on our faith when things are going good but when bad things come up and the darkness approaches we are not ready for the darkness becaus we have not been practicing faith. We felt like we did not need the light that faith produces while we were in the light. Let’s choose to keep faith and the light it produces. When darkness comes the light will already be on guiding us on our intended path. 

  
The day we were born we won the lottery. It was an instant winner. Some of us are holding on to our winning ticket because we have not realized that it is our winning ticket. Once we notice that we have won our actions will start to change. We will begin to go places we have never been to before because we were too afraid to go. We may have thought we did not have enough of something to belong in those places with people that had more than us. Today, we can live the life that we want to live and do all the things we have always wanted to do because we have won the lottery and have everything we need to accomplish anything we set out to do. 

  
Your heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen, and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. You can give your love with no conditions; you can be generous with your love because you have a magical kitchen in your heart. Then all those starving people who believe the heart is closed will always want to be near you for your love. 

Excerpt from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz 

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Habits really control the life we live. Habits are what we do on a regular basis. It takes doing the right things to accomplish desired goals. We also must be doing the right things at the right times. Sometimes we can do the right things at the wrong times and that is not helpful to us in achieving what we want to do. We must make sure that we have aligned our actions and times accordingly. We all have set specific goals for ourselves and we must learn and practice habits that will get us to the goals we have set for ourselves. There are necessary changes that we must go through in order to get to where we want to be. For example, if we set a weight loss goal there will be some things that we will have to give up in order to reach our desired weight. When we give up something we have to pick up something to put in its place so that what we gave up does not make its way back into our habits and keep us from reaching our desired goals.