Author: CLFurlong

Day #081: Today Is A Zero Day

I have news for you! Each and every day you have a chance to make things happen. You have zero excuses! Surprisingly and I am sorry to disappoint you… but things are not just going to fall into your lap. Twon’twont just happen – even if an opportunity comes your way which could ignite these things to happen… The opportunity still needs to be addressed and acted on.

That’s all on you. 

But to counter this problem and to ensure you are making things happen on a daily basis. We can apply the zero-day thinking.

“A zero day is the day when you don’t do a single thing towards your goal.” – Be Limitless

Regardless of what your goal is this is how it works. Each day you do 1 thing (at least) which is related to your goal. One thing closer. 

The best part is, you can have multiple goals, which means you can have a system to keep you motivated, or changing it up on a regular basis. As long as each day you’re doing that little something towards something greater. 

Example:

  • Maybe you missed your GYM routine due to a long night at work? = Do 1 push up. / Do 1 something – before going to bed.
  • Didn’t get to read my book today = Read one page / Read one sentence
  • Didn’t write in my journal today = Write one sentence / Write one word to define the day

You get the idea.

If you want to change it up you can go ULTIMATE and do a 365 Challenge picking one thing and do it every day. 100% commitment.

Are you up for it?

Photo Credit: Instagram: @_clfurlong_ | Location: Melbourne, Australia

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #080: A Future Glimpse

It is always healthy to stop for a moment and envision what and how your future endgame looks. Without getting caught up in the specifics or into a fantasy land, taking a moment to pause and glimpse into the future, can work as a key motivator towards your success as well as help keep you remain focused and on track. 

Take a moment today to envision yourself at the end of your goal. 

How does it look? Describe it.

  • What is it you are doing?
  • What can you do?
  • What is new?
  • How do you feel?

Think about the achievements you potentially received.

Visualize these and then apply them as bouncing boards to inspire you to greater things.

A small task you can do to facilitate with your journey to your goal is to write down the goals or the dream you have then work backward.

List all the things that would have needed to happen in order for you to get there.

Of course, your won’t knows everything, but an outlined or high-level guide will go a long way. But where you can add detail, do so.

See what you can check off in that list, or see what you can actually take action on already, and plan to do so!

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and have the faith that it is possible.” – Richard M. DeVos

Photo Credit: Instagram: @jim_amado | Location: Kata Tjuta / Uluru National Park, NT, Australia

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #079: Lessons To Learn

What we encounter today should be the lessons for tomorrow. The knowledge we accumulate day in and day out should be the continuous fuel we require to motivate our willpower to adapt and learn. Learning is not just the experience, but it is the choice to understand and take action. 

Choosing to acknowledge that we must learn is enabling ourselves to be a better version of ourselves. We can stick to being linear, or we can take hold of the opportunities and the things around us to learn and to start to spread our wings beyond the linear world. 

Imagine if all your problems were solved, what would you do?

Photo Credit: Instagram: @_clfurlong_ | Location: Melbourne, Australia

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #078: Best Is Yet To Come

Even after you have experienced the best thing yet, the best is still yet to come. We will never be perfect, but we can strive to be better or experience better. You can wait around for things to happen, you can wait around expecting the cup to one day overflow.  BUT, if you decide to start pouring for yourself and filling the cup yourself, things will start to flow. You as you grow, you as you develop and you as you impact the world around you will soon enough be a cup overflowing.

You are in control of your life, your ambitions, your goals and most of all your attitude.

Every morning as I commute to work, I am constantly reminded that regardless if the day is looking half-empty or half full…

I need to take action and make sure I am pouring the water. But less about me and more about you!

But if you don’t start from a cup half empty, how will you ever get to a cup half full?

Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water – Mark Cuban

Photo Credit: Instagram: @_clfurlong_ | Location: South Melbourne, Australia

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #077: Direction Of Your Dreams

Trying to navigate our lives into the direction of dreams can seem easier said than done… 

Whether you are young, old or in between, I know you have dreams. Dreams to do something better, to live differently, to have this or to have that or to be here or there. Regardless, what if I told you that you could have these. What if you can start heading in this direction today. We live day by day in fear of not keeping up with the Joneses. Well, you don’t have to. Those dreams you have, those aspirations and those passions can all be true. Why not take a stand in confidence to follow those dreams. Why not work every day to get closer to these dreams, goals, aspirations and passions…

You know that nervous feeling you get just before you’re about to do something new before you take a chance? That my friend is you stepping out of your comfort zone. Whether it is closer to your goals or not, this is growing you.

Go now and grow and go in the direction of your dreams. 

Photo Credit: Instagram: @3595s | Location: Guangdong, China

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #076: Step Up To Yourself

If you can’t learn to trust, love and care for yourself, then how can you expect to step up and become the greatest you can be?

Growing up sometimes isn’t about taking on the new and unknown, but sometimes it is stepping up and taking controls of the skills and talents we have already. 

Think back to the happy moments, when time didn’t seem to be bound by the busy world we live in.

Time was just you and your imagination and a life full of adventure.

Think back to your original aspirations and dreams of who and what you wanted to be and do when you grew up?

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

Questions to ask yourself:

  1. Are you doing or chasing that dream today?
  2. If you are not doing or chasing the dream, what do you need to do to start?
  3. Is that childhood dream still the same passion today?
  4. If your dream has changed, then what is it?

The bigger questions to ask yourself are:

  1. Are you sculpting and creating yourself into that future aspiration?
  2. Are you encouraging yourself, pushing yourself and striving for the next taste of success?

Find what it is you, love, find what it is you are good at and find what it is that you would want to do every day.

Don’t let life kick you into the the adult you don’t want to become – Chris Hadfield

Photo Credit: Instagram: @michwai | Location: Wellington, New Zealand

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #075: Get Your Game On

It is time to get your game on. We all have ideas and we all have dreams, but if you want to get to that next level? See success? Progress onwards? Or achieve greatness? It is time to push harder, time to push on, time to go that extra mile, time to work that a little more, time to save that little extra, time to believe that little longer. Persistence is the key, but also it is the will to step it up. You need to do it. Take a stand and push on, set a new bar for yourself.

How we do this is through persistence. Persistence is the key, but also it is dependent on your ‘WILL’ to step it up. You need to do it. You need to take a stand and push on, set a new bar for yourself.

Don’t let others set the bar for you, but by all means let them help you, guide you and sponsor you. 

Photo Credit: Instagram: @michwai | Location: Wellington, New Zealand

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #074: Face The Fear

Today I challenge you to push yourself a little more and face more of your fear. The things that scare you, the things you think you are not good enough for, the things that feel impossible… these are the things to work harder for and these are the things to face more.

Work smarter and persist in getting closer and closer to these today.

You’re not alone on your journey to become the greatest you can be. We all have our issues, our problems, our weaknesses, our struggles and of course our fears. But today, you can take a step, one step a little closer to what will be closer to something new, something better, something you have dreamed for and something that will ultimately make you who can be.

Today Sir/Madam, I challenge you to FACE YOUR FEAR and take a step closer to being and releasing your potential.

Photo Credit: Instagram: @idontwritebooks | Location: Deer Park, Washington

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #073: Great You Are

Confidence can prove to be a mind battle. But that is what makes you so GREAT. 

It can be harder than you expect. Learning to work your magic by identifying and standing tall in who you are, how you look, what you do and what you value.

This is what will make you confident. This is what will make you GREAT.

You’ve come this far, so the sky is the limit! Keep going!

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” – Ritu Ghatourey

When all is said and done, you need to just go for it! Confidence builds as you take positive action and begin to see positive results.

Take a moment to see who you are in the mirror and tell yourself you are more confident than then the day before.

Tell yourself how GREAT you are.

Tell yourself you are capable and you are happy because you are you.

Stand tall, put your shoulders back and look others in the eye. Smile.

Here are 10 ways to boost your confidence, even more so at work.

  1. Cut the negative self-talk
  2. Boost your knowledge
  3. Rinse and repeat (Practice is the cornerstone of success. But it’s not only the practice – it’s also correcting mistakes along the way.)
  4. Build on your strengths
  5. Pick up new skills
  6. Ask questions
  7. Eliminate negative language
  8. Focus on your successes
  9. Fake it until you make it
  10. Have fun

Do you have another way to boost your confidence?

Have you tried any of these? Give it a shot!

Get out there and show the world how GREAT you are!

Photo Credit: Instagram: @canva | Location: Earth

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?

Day #072: Whatever It Takes

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get to your goals? It’s a common cliche to say you’re going to do this or that and retire young and change the world. But after saying this, what are you actually doing? Are you making progress? Are you taking the necessary steps to get you to where you want to go? Are you asking the right questions, are you having the right conversations?

You have 24 hours each day to make some progress. Are you spending 2 minutes? 20 minutes? 2 hours? What? It’s your time so spend how you please. 

Spend your time wisely as you only get it once. 

Photo Credit: Instagram: @_clfurlong_ | Location: Melbourne, Australia

P365 VISUALS will be daily “inspiration” presented by a featured photo with a daily quote / or inspiring words to keep you motivated from a visual perspective. Sounds inspiring right!!

The purpose of this is to once again bring Inspiration, Motivation, and Encouragement to you daily. There will be additional content and small blogs to go with the pictures, however, the focus will be the visuals. The key focus is to provide small yet packing impacts through a visual source and give an opportunity to you the community to have your pictures featured and shared with the rest of the community. 

So how can you get involved?

  1. Make sure you are following us on Facebook
  2. Make sure you are following us on Instagram
  3. Make sure you invite/share the content with your friends and family
  4. Submit your photos… If you would like to have your pictures featured, please send to contact.p365@gmail.com

Like 2016, 2017 brings new horizons and new opportunities. How we react and take action on these opportunities will ultimately redefine how 2017 will be. What will you do?