The Captains Motivational Corner

Hi all.

I'm the kind of guy that likes motivational quotes. I think they inspire, encourage and promote success.

Since my mid life reboot, (my upgrade to version 2.0), I have actively sort out inspiration. I'm a firm believer that you are what you do, and you become what read and think about. If you want to be a doctor, you study medicine. If you want to become a Lawyer, you study the law. So if I study pornography as much as I have done, I become an expert, a pornophile.

I other words we have to be extremely careful about what we let into our minds. They are fertile grounds for weeds. I'm astounded to be privilege to this knowledge and still find myself here. In need of help to kick a habit that I'm utterly ashamed of. It only goes to show how powerful this stuff is. A little knowledge is a good thing however it's only part of the solution. And the solution requires constant daily affirmation.

So I'd like to start a thread where I'll post motivational quotes to help me in my quest to reach day 60. I can't promise to make a daily post but I sure will try.

Feel free to contribute.

The Captain.

 

A quote for Day one.

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

Helen Keller

 

I'd like to acknowledge the OP for this. I've stolen it from an AA website. But I think the words are lovely and applicable to us. (even though it's written as a women)


After Awhile (Sometimes referred to as "Comes the Dawn")

After a while, you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads
On today, because tomorrow's ground
Is too uncertain for plans, and futures have
A way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine
Burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate
Your own soul instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye you learn.

-Veronica Shoffstall

 

So far in my reading of others journey to clean themselves of this addiction, what I commonly find is a lot of negative self talk. Phrases like "I'm a loser" or negative comments about their future or past. Our brains grow these comments like weeds and eventually they become part of our self beliefs and cloud our view of the world.

Self Esteem is, in my opinion, one of the things that suffers most with addictions. Which then feeds the addiction, the need to escape, which damages our self esteem......

So here's a quote about our perception of our reality from an American journalist/author Sydney J Harris.






"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

Sydney J Harris.

 

Great stuff guys.

Thank you so much for contributing.

All the best. The Captain

 

"I decline to accept the end of man.

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

I refuse to accept this.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

William Faulkner.

 

Two from Dodinsky for today.

“I do get angry. I get stressed. I do worry. I get sad and disappointed too. What I am not though, is consumed by any of them. I owe it to myself not to torment my soul with my own sorrows. I strive to move forward.”

"Unless you let them in, people who judge you cannot enter the courtroom of your mind. Case dismissed!"

-Dodinsky

 

A couple from Robert Kiyosaki for today.

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

"The only difference between a rich person and a poor person. Is how they use their time."

 

So after a bit of a hiccup in my own personal journey I thought I'd look for something about keeping going after a knockback

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” - Obi-Wan Kenobi