I am putting every ounce of myself to becoming a better blogger, writer and communicator. More importantly is that I am trying to make a positive change in life. Thank for visiting if this is your first time here. Welcome back visitors, feel free to leave comments.
What motivates you?
My best friend Anne Marie kicks my bum in tennis and probably anyone else’s. When we were playing at university we were great partners. We spent our time between matches actually doing cartwheels on the court. We were paired up with a couple of Chinese guys who were so serious about tennis. One day our coach pulls us aside and assigns us new partners. ‘Not the Chinese, Not the Chinese’ we chanted – they’d kill us at tennis. Sure enough, Anne Marie and I found fantastic new partners.
I’m building bridges here.
Stay with me folks. There IS a reason I’m telling you this.
The reason is this. When I am in the class room in front of my students I ask them ‘What motivates you most?’ Is it someone who comes over, puts your hand on your shoulder, smiles, and says good job, or is the person who gets behind you and yells ‘DO IT!’?
When I was on swim team in high school, my sister was my best motivator. She’d follow me back and forth across the lanes and scream ‘Go Julie!’ Her coaching strategy was swim toward the chocolate cake and away from the shark.
Just pretend
Be a kid and pretend you are the best. Walk across the room at this moment as if you have a cape on your back, I don’t care if anyone’s watching – all the better. Our mind will literally follow suit.
When Anne Marie and I were back playing singles tennis, she’d say ‘Julie – You’re going down’ with such conviction, I had no other choice then to let her win. Ha ha ha, Anne Marie, who’s getting the last laugh now?
Point is, get out there, do your best. That’s all we can ask, isn’t it?
Have a nice day and thank you for visiting.
Swim away from the cake reminds me of using the skill of visualization. Pretending is a very valuable tool in my motivational tool box of my mind too.
I liked a few of your archives I read.
Thank you very much for sharing this.
Kindest regards,
Tom Bailey
Nice blog. Sweet.
Lets avert to the motivation behind you for writing this blog.
*Was it your taste on writing motivated articles?
*Was it your mood at the time of writing sounded that?
*Or was it Anne who was the source of motivation behind this entry?
Motivation may not always be in tangible form. It can be hidden and more than one also.
Thank you for the excellent questions that make me think. I love it! I’d say the reason I wrote these articles came from a profound desire to share things I’ve learned lately. This summer I went to a garage sale in Los Angeles with my mom and there was an angel of a lady who saw I was having a hard time communicating with my mom. We were having an argument over shoes. I thought she didn’t need any more especially ones that didn’t fit. This lady selling the shoes actually GAVE me free things. I bought some great books too. The books I bought were Wayne Dyer Motivation, Gregg Braden’s The Divine Matrix and finally this angel lady gave me a set of six CDs to listen to by Byron Katie. Oh yes, I also got Living, Loving and Learning by Leo Buscaglia. Some were all names I had heard of when younger but never knew more. Since I live in Italy I have limited access to English books. I just DOVE into them.
Anne Marie has been my best friend for over 20 years and continues to be a motivator to me. I truly thank God she came into my life at the time she did. My mom was going through cancer therapy in 1986 so it was around that time. Let me just sum up by saying I don’t think it was the mood at the time I decided to write this but perhaps a culmination of ideas coming together. How about you? What motivates you?
Thanks for listening. And making me think.
Your writing style feels like I’m sitting in your living room drinking tea and shooting the breeze. No wonder you have so many followers. I also wanted to say thanks for looking at some of my articles and leaving such encouraging comments. During this recession/depression I lost 3 businesses and a sailboat. I’m looking at 2010 as the greatest opportunity of my life….because it is. My wife and I have always wanted to visit Italy because she has relatives there that she has never met. We both love to look at art and eat Italian food. Count me as a regular reader.
Jeff Burke
Jeff, my best to you and yours especially today as tomorrow is Christmas. You can probably sum up that I love to write and I think people see that. I’m passionate about life. This blogging business is unbelievable. Who’da known? I’m thinking about calling my blog roll my regulah visitahs. It’s kind of corny but what the heck. You can always edit, right! Enjoy your trip and let me know how it goes.
Julie
Yes I cannot wait for 2010! Starting anew… a fresh page. Julie, I’m so happy for you. You know what you want in life: true happiness. You don’t let anything get in the way of that. And who cares if it’s corny!? It’s fun, right? That’s the only reason I blog, to inform and to entertain.
Thanks for your response. I wil keep it very short as I have my exam tomorrow. I will say ‘MY DREAM MOTIVATES ME..’