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Why People Settle For Less?

4 May 2012 – 17:46


We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
-Romans 8:37

 
Haven’t we heard so much, that it makes our ears ring, about people settling?
 

By settling, I’m referring to the fact that they do see a better way, a better plan, a better relationship and a better situation; nonetheless they choose to settle for their existing mediocrity seat. When you can grasp ‘better’ but choose to settle for ‘lesser’, you are in fact settling for mediocrity.

 

On this journey that we call life, we have, at one time or another, found ourselves so reluctant to step out of our comfort zone. Mediocrity is a choice and likewise, excellence is choice.

 

We have heard many a times that people make poor decisions and bad choices. When they are left with the ability and responsibility to choose between good and great, or mediocrity and excellence, more often than not, people choose the former before the latter.

Now the question is this. Why do people settle for less than they deserve?
 
It is so plainly simple. Because mediocrity is safe. Mediocrity is comfortable. Mediocrity is easy.
 
And the danger is this. The more you dwell in mediocrity, the more it begins to appear like excellence.
 

There’s no risk at all. Hence it is an excellent choice.
I’m more comfortable with this. Hence it is an excellent choice.
It’ll be easier for me. Hence it is an excellent choice.

 

Be careful what you allow your mind to believe because as Henry Ford quoted, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you are right”.

 

So if you believe in mediocrity, you’ll settle for less. When you believe in greatness, you’ll strive to become more.

 

Let us encourage you to change the way you think, change the way you feel, and change the way you believe.

 

Raise the bar and scale greater heights. Don’t settle for mediocrity because you have the potential for greatness.

 

Happy en(reach)ing lives through everyday excellence!

 
This week, we are linking up with yeah write, an en(reach)ing writer’s community.
 
 

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hope quotations

The Fruit Of Long Suffering

11 April 2012 – 22:31
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God,
forgetting we have just had one.
-Mignon McLaughlin

This fruit is closely related to patience. Many of us tend to lose patience, get easily irritated and overreact. Hence, we need the fruit of long-suffering – in learning to be slow in anger, love unconditionally, forgive without grudges and be merciful without revenge.

 

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
-Arthur Helps

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
-Tennessee Williams

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
-Robert G Ingersoll

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
-John Calvin

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
-Aristotle

Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
-James 1:2-3

Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
-Helen Keller

You’ve got to love what you’re doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
-Gordie Howe

I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry.
-Psalm 40:1

 

I believe it has never been easy to be patient, and especially now, in this light speed world where everything is available in just a few clicks of the mouse away. Fortunately, patience is a virtue we can cultivate and nurture in time. Grasping the essence of long-suffering can impact the quality of your life, tremendously.

How do you instill patience and overcome the ‘mountains’ in your life?
 
 

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encouragement quotations

The Fruit of Peace

10 February 2012 – 23:21
But the meek shall inherit the earth,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 
-Psalm 37:11

 

Peace is what we need for the world today. Peace is the essence of loving relationships and meaningful living.
 
That’s reason over the times, people have been rallying for peace.
 
This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. 
-Peace Pilgrim

When my heart is at peace, the world is at peace.
-Chinese Proverb

Peace is always beautiful.
-Walt Whitman

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
-Mother Teresa

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
-Winston Churchill

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-Nelson Mandela

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
-Napoleon Hill

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, But counselors of peace have joy.
-Proverbs

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
-John Wooden 

 
For me, peace is a state of emotion we seek from within. There is no roadmap to peace and you cannot find its exact coordinates. Nonetheless, peace can be found… when we search deep within.
 
Do you agree that peace births only the most pleasant in life?
 
 

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happiness quotations

The Fruit of Joy

18 January 2012 – 15:55

For the joy of the LORD is your strength.

-Nehemiah 8:10

Where there is love, there is joy.
 
In today’s fast-paced generation, joy is the essence that many strive to find and preserve. In reality, joy doesn’t dwell in us all the time. But wouldn’t you agree that some people are definitely more fulfilled than others.
 
Let’s hear what the great people in the world have to say about joy.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

-Melba Colgrove
 
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
-Mahatma Gandhi
 
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner
 
Joy delights in joy.
-William Shakespeare
 
I do it for the joy it brings, ’cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.
-Ani Difranco
 
A merry heart does good like medicine.
-Proverbs
 
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
 
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
 
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
-Margaret Bonnano
 
Joy is very infectious; therefore be always full of joy.
-Mother Teresa
 
I believe happiness is a state of mind. You wake up in the morning and make a decision to be happy, and you do it over and over again every single day.
 
What is your favourite quote on joy and happiness?
 
 

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love quotations

The Fruit Of Love

15 January 2012 – 00:15

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God.
-1 John 4:7

There is a myriad of quotations/sayings about love in relation to dreams, marriage, friendship and love for one another. Let me share with you some of my favourite love quotes.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

-Aristotle
 
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Robert Frost
 
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Hellen Keller
 
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
-Song of Solomon
 
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius
 
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
There is only one happiness in life – to love and be loved.
-George Sand
 
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
-Steve Jobs
 
My heart is ever at your service.
-William Shakespeare
 
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
-Mother Teresa
 
Truly, the greatest of all is love. It is the beginning and the end of all things that matter.
 
What is your favourite love quote?
 
 

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