Motivational Articles

Motivational Stories of True Lives

These are but a few motivational stories about people who have had to face difficulties in one form or the other, and turned it around through sheer perseverance and enthusiasm. But if you come to think about it, even your milkman or the security guard in your building might have an inspiring story to tell you out of their own lives.

I know a lady who is well into her seventies now. A housewife who had never worked before, she lost her husband at the age of 40 to illness and was left with a 10-year old son and huge medical bills. She took on her husband’s job without thinking twice, applied herself to learning new skills and brought up her son single-handedly. She is still active today, leads the neighborhood book club and has signed up for a computer class to keep up with the changing times.

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."--Michelle Obama

God Made Me Blind -- Big Deal

 The 18-year old Patrick Henry Hughes, a talented musician. He is very able for someone his age and who had been blind and crippled since birth.

Patrick's eyes are not functional; his body and legs are stunted. He is in a wheelchair. His fingers seems entirely too thick to be nimble. So when he played the piano for people and his father rolled his wheelchair up to the baby grand, by seeing this people confess to themselves, "Well, this will be sweet. He has overcome so much. How nice that he can play a piano"

Can you imagine how Hughes would have managed to navigate the keyboard and how he first learned the piano and what his favorite songs were!!

But then Patrick put his hands to the keyboard, and his fingers began to race across it -- the entire span of it, his fingers moving up and back and over and across the keys so quickly and intricately that all the people around with their fully-functional eyesight couldn't keep up with them. People were stunned.

The music his hands drew from that piano was so lovely and lyrical and haunting, so rich and complex and beyond anything that anyone in the crowd could not had imagined that he could play it so beautifully. All the people could do is listen.

That is the power of Patrick Henry Hughes. He quietly makes you listen.

'God Made Me Blind -- Big Deal'

"I mean, God made me blind and didn't give me the ability to walk. I mean, big deal." Patrick says, smiling. "He gave me the talent to play piano and trumpet and all that good stuff."

This is Patrick's philosophy in life, and he wants people to know it. He isn't fazed by what many of us would consider insurmountable obstacles.

"I'm the kind of person that's always going to fight till I win," he says. "That's my main objective. I'm gonna fight till I win."

Patrick also attends the University of Louisville and plays trumpet in the marching band. The band director suggested it, and Patrick and his father, Patrick John Hughes, who have faced tougher challenges together, decided "Why not?"

"That's right," the younger Patrick says.

"Don't tell us we can't do something," Patrick's father added, with a chuckle. He looks at Patrick with a mixture of love and loyalty and admiration, something not always seen. in the eyes of a father when he gazes at his son.

"I've told him before. He's my hero," his father says.

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One should know their value

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up 1000 rupee note. In the room of 300 people, he asked, "Who would like this 1000 rupee note?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this 1000 rupee to one of you but first, let me do this". He proceeded to crumple the note.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well", he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth 1000 rupee note.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirty by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or  what will still happen, you will never lose your value. You are special- Don't ever forget it!"

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Confidence is your Consort; Fear is your Foe

What a trap it is to forget you are the creator of your reality. 
It's a terrible state to be lost in your experience, wondering why you are so far from where you want to be. Not knowing why you can't get a break or how much work you have to do before you see some sign of success. I can't think of just about anything worse than trying everything you know to do, and still coming up short.

That feeling of helplessness is a killer.

The anxiety of racking your brain with "Where did I go wrong?" "Why isn't it working?"I believe these mental states are a place called hell. It's not a place you want to stay.

You stay in that place too long and you'll turn nightmares into reality.
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

Knowing you are the creator of your experience, and how you do it, makes you free!

That feeling of freedom is absolute bliss. Nothing to fear and nothing to worry about. It's the launching pad for an exceptional life.

Grab this truth and hold on to it. Receive it, accept it, and love it. Feel good about it. In fact, make it your daily routine to meditate on it, and feel good about it.
As you keep focusing on this truth, your worries will begin to disappear. Your anxiety will begin to transform into peace. Your peace will transform into confidence. Your confidence will transform into boldness, and your boldness will transform into absolute fearlessness. Your personality will be transformed, and you will feel like a new person. Understand, how you feel is incredibly important.
As you think and speak about your future in this state of confidence and peacefulness, circumstances and troubles that you have been trying to change for ages will fade away.
That success that you desperately wanted, but seemed beyond your grasp, will flow to you effortlessly.

This is because you are the creator of your experience.
But to create the life you desire you must know it and feel it! 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”—Eleanor Roosevelt 

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