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Favorite Fall Quotes

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Fall is my favorite time of the year. As we bask in the last days of summer break, take our final summer trips and reconnect with friends and family around campfires.  I love to watch as the summer breaks away, and winter hasn’t quite yet arrived.  I hope you enjoy this time of year as much as I do, and find the following Fall Quotes useful or entertaining.

Favorite Fall Quotes

  • And all at once summer collapsed into fall – Oscar Wilde
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and fall is a mosaic of them all. – Starley Horowitz
  • Sweater Weather is my favorite weather.
  • I’m so glad I live in a world where Octobers exist  – Anne of Green Gables
  • Autumn, the season that teaches us, that change, can be beautiful
  • Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Oh Fall, it’s nice to see you again!
  • And the sun took a step back; the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and Autumn was awakened. – Raquel Franco
  • I think I’m falling for you
  • Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. – Lauren Destefano
  • Let our hearts be full of both Thanks and Giving.
  • Autumn skies and apple pies

Let our hearts be full of both Thanks and Giving.

Quotes about Leaves

  • Falling Leaves, Oversized Sweatshirts, Marshmallows, Mocha Latte and a warm, cozy fire.
  • Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. – Albert Camus
  • How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
  • Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. – Emily Bronte

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

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Self-Worth the Importance of Understanding your Value

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Having a high sense of self-worth means that you know and acknowledge you deserve respect, admiration, and support. Most people struggle with their worth at some point in their lives.  Having high value means that you have an excellent self-understanding and mindset. Therefore not allowing outside forces to shake your faith, confidence, and goals.

Why is Self-Worth Important?

Self-Worth holds the power to transform your life, allowing you to put your very best qualities and traits forward. Furthermore, how you perceive yourself changes everything about how you act and interact with others. By allowing only your opinions to matter, you give yourself back the power to make positive changes. Make sure you understand and consider the power of positivity in your life.

Now don’t confuse self-worth with self-esteem. Self-worth is less about measuring yourself and being confident and more who you are as a person. Self-esteem often focuses on measuring yourself against others. As a result, you shouldn’t care about what others are doing since it isn’t a measure of your value.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are

How to improve your self-worth:

Well knowing it’s important, and what self-worth is all about is great, but it into action might be a little harder to practice. So how do we go about improving and maintaining high levels of self-worth?

  1. Develop a sense of self-understanding. Now, imagine if everything in your life suddenly disappeared including family, friends, possessions, accomplishments, career, etc. Now figure out how you feel about yourself. Are you happy, sad, content or upset? If you have high self-worth, having external forces won’t matter and how you think about yourself won’t change.
  2. Stop Comparing yourself to others! You need to accept who you are and stop passing judgment. We are so hard on ourselves that often we just can’t let go of the past. Although, we all have flaws, weaknesses, and limitations. Don’t allow them to define how valuable you are as a person. Therefore, forget about all that stuff and move forward on the path you want to follow.
  3. Take responsibility for your life, your problems and your journey to loving yourself. You have the power to change within yourself, allowing you to transform your life into one of positivity.  For that reason, stop allowing external forces to determine how you should feel about yourself. Creating a vision board is a great way to help you visualize your goals and the journey you want to take.
  4. Most noteworthy, participate in your life. Don’t just go through the motions of living instead actively seek out things that make you feel important. These types of activities will give you value and improve your self-worth. Volunteer organizations are always looking for helpful, reliable advocates.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Final Thoughts

You can’t just build your self-worth, you have to work on your self-worth every single day. Consider it like a house. Some people build simple houses; others build mansions. What type of home you create is up to you. However, you can’t just use a single piece of wood; you have to use many pieces laid together to build your dream house. Self-worth is much the same. The type of self-worth you have is up to you, but if you don’t consistently make an effort to nurture and feed it, you won’t have your dream.

Do not settle for life being good enough when you are meant to be great. Consequently, you alone are accountable and hold power to positivity in your life. Stop complaining, blaming and allowing negativity to drive your everyday interactions.

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12 Steps to Declutter your Life

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There is so much talk about how to get rid of the clutter in your life. I’ve seen posts on pantries, offices, homes in general and just getting rid of stuff. I think decluttering is so much more than the “stuff” you keep around. Here are my 12 steps to Declutter your life.

Get rid of duplicates

Duplicate items take up space. If you don’t have a specific need for multiples, then get rid of them. Sell them, donate them, throw them if necessary. It doesn’t do you any good to have ten spatulas when you can only use one or two at any given time.

Have you used it in the past year?

Another tip to declutter, If you haven’t used an item in the past year, likely you don’t need it, especially if you can borrow that item from someone. For example, we don’t have a trailer and do occasionally need one to haul brush or bark chips. Instead of buying and storing the trailer, we borrow one from a family member or a friend.

Can you digitalize it?

A fast way to declutter all those kids paintings and pictures is to digitalize them. Do you need to keep 1000 of your kid’s pictures they drew growing up? Or can you take photos of them and create a scrapbook out of them to remember all those moments? Sometimes there isn’t a way to digitize something memorable, but for most paper type things you can. And you should! Those items will take up so much less space in a scrapbook or saved to your computer.

Are you only keeping this because you would feel guilty if you didn’t?

I know I’ve struggled with this. My friend, grandma, mom, sister, etc. gave me this item. Therefore, I can’t get rid of it. Well to tell you the truth, you can get rid of it and help declutter your house. Clean up the extra stuff you’ve held onto in your life and house, and stop being guilty about it.

Does it have a place?

Do you have a dedicated space to the item? If you don’t need it, get rid of it. If you do need it, find a place for it to live. If everything has a place it not only makes finding it more manageable, you know it’s important because you’ve made room for it.

If you saw this item in a store now would you buy it?

You may look at something and think I loved this so much. Well ok, but do you love it now. Does the retro bowl set that you’ve replaced still belong in your kitchen cupboard? If not help yourself declutter and donate that item. You never know when someone else might really need that retro bowl set.

Declutter: 1 in 1 out rule

The one in and one out rule seems so easy but can be so hard. If you buy a shirt, throw a shirt away. Found a great deal on a pair of shoes, awesome, but then as soon as you get home… toss an old pair. This way you aren’t bringing in more than you have space for and keep an inventory of what you need.

Know your clutter zones

Every house has clutter zones that we regularly declutter. These are those places that naturally seem to gather the things. For me, it’s our kitchen counter and our mail area. I feel like gremlins sometimes come in and just put things there so I’ll be annoyed and freaked out that I can’t seem ever to keep them clean. Knowing where these areas are can help you keep everyone aware and ensure that if you walk by and see stuff starting to accumulate that you immediately clean it up and return those items to their homes.

Create a goal list

Decluttering not only applies to physical things but to emotional things too. Create a goal list of things you are focusing on, so you don’t get sidetracked. If you haven’t yet check out our free ebook: Beyond Chaos to learn about how to create goals you can stick to.

Emotional Fitness

Take stock of your emotional well being. Are you able to physically remove items from your home? If you are feeling like this is a pointless task and not something you can accomplish reach out to find out what is causing the emotional block. You may find you are a hoarder and need to seek help. Tell your family or friends and get assistance if needed.

Motivate yourself

I genuinely believe that your mindset will set you apart from success and failure. Do you believe in yourself? It’s as simple as that. Being positive can and will change your life if you let it. YOU have to believe in yourself, your goals and your aspirations to achieve them. Check out our article on what is a vision board to help you visualize what’s most important to you.

Self Care

Last but not least, take care of yourself. If you aren’t taking care of your basic self-care needs, you may find yourself having a harder time letting things go. Find a few easy ways to reward and take care of yourself!

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Team Motivation for Direct Sales

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Team motivation applies to everyone. Everyone is on or leads a team of some sort. You may be a team leader of your family, your friends, your town board or lead a group at a corporate job. No matter what having a confident team and team motivation determine how successful you are on a daily basis.

5 Keys to Team Motivation Success

  1. Lead from the front – Don’t ask your team members to do things you wouldn’t do. If you aren’t putting your best foot forward your team and those around you will know it. Your team will feel like you don’t care and that is precisely the opposite of what you want.
  2. There is POWER in staying POSTIVE. Negativity has no place in a team setting so keeping a positive mindset is critical. Find ways to encourage, work through issues and put positivity at the forefront of all the things you do.
  3. Have a single mission. Everyone on the team needs to understand the big picture. What are you trying to accomplish? Having a purpose no matter what type of organization can mean the difference between success and failure, your mission can and should change over time. Whether your mission is to make it through the day with no boo-boos or to redesign the corporate logo you need to know what you are trying to accomplish.
  4. Don’t spend time concentrating on things you can’t control. You can only control your reaction, your influences, and your attitudes. Don’t waste time trying to convince others you are right or your way is best. Merely lead the way, and they will get onboard with your vision or they will not. Exuding to much energy into something you can’t control is exhausting and won’t change the outcome anyway.
  5. Gratitude! Showing others they matter means so much to them. It is your job as the leader to help your team stay positive and showing them they matter to you and each other. Team members who feel like they matter are more likely to want to stay engaged and part of the team. Help them see the vision, recognize their accomplishments (even if small) and encourage them to understand and accept others.

 

Team Motivation Quotes

  1. Your energy is contagious. Either you affect people or you infect them.
  2. Replace “I can’t” with “How can I?”
  3. If you love someone, do not let them settle for less than their best.
  4. When “We” comes before “Me,” you become the person and TEAM you are meant to be.
  5. One person can’t make the team, but one person can break a team.
  6. Dream big, sparkle more, shine brightly.
  7. A little progress each day leads to big results.
  8. Excellence is not a skill; it’s an attitude
  9. Believe in yourself
  10. Be brave enough to believe in yourself.

Looking to set some team goals? Check out our free ebook: Kinney Chaos

 

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Intrinsic motivation sounds so fancy. When I first heard this term I was like whatever, what difference does it make to determine how you are motivated? Ummm… well… actually a lot.

What is Intrinsic Motivation?

This fancy term is a way of describing internal forces that make you want to do something. Or make you want to do it better than before. It’s what motivates you from the inside. External forces have no reign here (Money, people, etc). This is all about what’s inside of you that makes you motivated to achieve your goals.

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Those who have strong intrinsic motivation do the task, activity solely because they love it. This can be reading, writing, playing sports. The list goes on and on and can be any number of things.

How to motivate others

Using intrinsic motivation to motivate others requires you to do some research. You have to figure out what that person loves, why they love it, and how to use that to help you achieve your ultimate goal. After all having employees or team members who love their position will often lead you to better collaboration, more innovative ideas and a better working team.

External Forces

You need to make sure you aren’t putting to much emphasis on these internal sources of motivation, doing so can actually make that item less rewarding. For example if someone loves to read for pure enjoyment and you offer to pay them to read a book for you. They may not get as much enjoyment out of it because there is an external force at play.

Here is a great TED talk about Intrinsic Motivation by Dan Pink

Comment below and let me know what you think – Do you know how you are intrinsicly motivated?

Positivity: How it can change your life!

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Have you ever had a moment of clarity? Something that happens that reveals something to your very soul that you knew and yet could never find a way to articulate? I had one of those moments this week. You see, this past week I’ve spent a ton of time talking to people both in person and on conference calls. During one of these conference calls, I had an epiphany. Now keep in mind this was at about 1 Am after not getting any real sleep for a couple of days straight. So I wasn’t sure at first if I was delirious or if I indeed had found one of those clarifying moments.

Moment of Clarity

So during this call, I was surfing the local news and came across an article about addiction. The article itself was nothing earth-shattering, but I realized something important. We have a horrible addiction running rampant through our lives. So what is this addiction? This atrocious habit is the need to tell and talk to anyone who will listen; all about our problems. It’s like we are drawn to the negative things all around us. The positives in the day seem to be too hard to find.

Positivity

So how do we get past this horrible condition? We start to focus on the positives all around us. I know some of you reading are probably thinking I have nothing positive in my life. That is such a horrible thing to say to yourself. Find something, anything that makes getting up each day bearable.

If you literally can not think of a single thing, then you need to seek medical attention. For those of you at that point in your life, please seek out the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

Benefits of Positive Thinking

Why thing positive? Positivity has so many benefits, such as helping you to be kinder. In my opinion, the most significant advantage is that you will find yourself happier and more productive. Having a positive mindset can cascade into benefits at home, work, relationships, and in seeing and appreciating your self worth. Positivity will allow you to have greater resiliency when things change and help you achieve success. I believe this is why Vision boards are so powerful.

How to Break the Habit

  • The first Key to breaking a bad habit is going through some Self Reflection on what is causing the habit.
  • Next decide that you are no longer going to let your had habit get in the way, and convince yourself that you want to change. I can’t change this for you; you MUST decide this for yourself.
  • Set some goals. If you haven’t yet grabbed my FREE ebook: Beyond Chaos – A guide to setting goals you can stick to! Right now would be a great time to do that.
  • Make sure you stay on track. Something that can help with this is using a Daily Reflection sheet to keep track of what is going on and making sure you recognize if you don’t see the positivity all around you.
  • Tell someone what you are doing even if that means you contact me. It’s important that someone knows and helps to hold you accountable.

Having a positive attitude doesn’t automatically guarantee that you will find success. Additionally, nothing provides instant success, you have to work towards it. However, having a negative attitude, focusing on all the problems, and concentrating effort into negativity almost always guarantees failure.