भाग दौड भरी जिंदगी में अक्सर खुद को प्रोत्साहित करना बहुत जरुरी हो जाता है पर … कैसे करें खुद को प्रोत्साहित… यक्ष प्रश्न है. पर कुछ ही देर मे मुझे इसका उत्तर भी मिल गया . किसी काम से मेरी सहेली मणि के घर जाना हुआ तो वो किसी से बात कर रही थी ” कमाल है,तुम तो वाकई में बहुत समझदार हो. मतलब कि हर बात को कितनी सहजता से ले कर उसका समाधान निकाल लेती हो और कोई तनाव नही रखती हमेशा स्माईल ही रहती है चेहरे पर हमेशा ऐसे ही रहना शाबाश,कीप इट अप…
मैं सोच ही रही थी कि किससे बात कर रही होगी अंदर गई तो दूसरा कोई नजर नही आया. मेरे पूछ्ने पर बोली अरे तूने सुन लिया… और स्माईल करती हुई बोली कि शीशे के सामने खडी होकर खुद से बात कर रही थी. खुद को मोटिवेट करना भी बहुत जरुरी होता है इसलिए अक्सर वो यह काम करती रहती है.. मुझे यह बात बहुत पसंद आई. सही है जब तक हम खुद को शाबाशी नही देंगें उत्साहित नही करेंगें तो आगे कैसे बढेग़े…
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हमे हमेशा खुद प्रोत्साहित करने के साथ साथ मोटिवेशनल साहित्य भी पढते रहना चाहिए इससे हमे बहुत नई जानकारी मिलती है और साथ साथ हौंसला भी मिलता है.
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मेरे विचार से अब तो नही सोच रहे होंगें कि कैसे करें खुद को प्रोत्साहित …. वैसे अब मुझे भी घर लौटने की जल्दी थी खुद को प्रोत्साहित जो करना है शीशे के सामने खडे होकर … और आप ?? आप तो करते ही होंगें अगर नही करते तो आज से ही करना शुरु कर दीजिए….
फिर जरुर बताईएगा कि कैसा लग रहा है !!!
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So,
I’m here to report:there are those times when even though I’ve ritualistically readied myself to write, I am unable to move forward with my story.I lose my way somehow.
My fingers freeze.My North Star is elsewhere playing Hide-and-Seek.The Good News, however?
Like that wondrous woman who lives inside our cars’ or devices’ GPS,the one who expertly and melodically repositions our course when we turn left instead of right or bypass our designated Exit or come to a grinding halt at the wrong destination,I know how to RECALCULATE!Here’s my 3-Step Easy Ritual for finding my way back.
#1
I take myself away from my writing space, sit still and quietly re-read the encouraging hope-filled greeting cards I’ve mailed myself the past 37 years (!) while out-and-about on my Writer’s Journey.#2
Next I re-read and think on the inspirational quotes I’ve tucked away inside my treasured Hansel and Gretl box.
#3Finally I empty my beautiful one-of-a-kind carpet bag of its contents - the notes, letters and Thank You’s I’ve received, and read my way through, savoring the words,especiallyand always those penned long-ago by my fellow TeachingAuthor Carmela Martino when I sold, at long last, my very first picture book.Before I know it,
I’ve recalibrated my compass, refueled my heart and found my way home to my keyboard and story.Happy Writing – and – Recalculating (if and when needed)!Esther Hershenhorn
P.S.The above Rx is a true-blue twofer; the 3-step ritual helps me REBOOT too!P.P.S.Let’s hear it for that hard-working second-chance prefix RE! Where would we be without it?
As we bid a fond sabbatical to TA Jeanne Marie, we are taking another look at our favorite JM posts. Mine is from June 2011, "Gold Stars." In this one, JM discusses the pros and cons of rewards for summer reading programs. Shouldn't the act of reading be reward in itself? This made m think of the larger issue, "Who gives gold stars to writers?"
There are plenty of rewards out there for published authors. Not just gold stars, but fancy embossed stickers on book jackets proclaiming this book was the among the best of whatever genre that particular year. Some are more prestigious than others but still those stickers, and medals and plexiglass trophies are nice to have . They are a tangible "atta-girl" in a field that doesn't provide a lot of them.
But there are a lot of books, and comparatively few awards. Even fewer awards mean anything in the way of prestige or, let's face it, book sales. That is if you have first been rewarded by being published. Some of us, (most of us?) toil year after year, page after page, with nothing more than a bunch of rejection letter/emails to show for our efforts. In the ultimate downer, many publishers, in the interest of saving time and paper, don't even send out rejections any more. If you don't hear anything after a certain amount of time,"we (the publisher) aren't interested." Ouch. We, (the writer) no longer have the satisfaction of weeping and wailing and torching a rejection letter in the fireplace. (I can't be the only one who has done this.)
Sometimes writing becomes just another thankless task, like housework or driving carpool. Ralph Waldo Emerson said "A thing done well is it's own reward." Mr. Emerson never vacuumed or was trapped in a minivan of eye rolling seventh graders, to whom your mere presence was a necessary embarrassment , since thirteen-year-olds don't have drivers' licenses. There are days when I am either staring at a blank computer screen or playing Candy Crunch Saga. Either way, I am accomplishing the same thing. Nothing. And wondering why I chose to be a writer.
Even being a published writer doesn't necessarily provide satisfaction. Soon you learn that royalty statements often arrive without royalty checks....because your books hasn't earned enough. Money isn't everything, but it's hard to tell yourself that you spent years of your life writing something that is earning you only the advance money and not a nickel more. For most of this, that advance can be counted in five figures. I could make more moolah at my local fast food establishment.
So why do we keep doing this? Where are the gold stars? For me, they aren't movie options, or Newbery awards or a book going into a 55th printing because it is on the required reading list in all fifty states.
I have to have hunt for those gold stars. Sorry Mr. Emerson, but a job done well is not it's own reward for me, because I never feel that I have done a job well. I am a terrible judge of my own work, by which I mean, I think nearly everything I write is terrible.
Every now and then, I do find those sparkly rewards. A student saying, "I loved your book." A critique group member saying "Wow, I never would have thought of writing this story from that point of view." External rewards.
My most consistent gold star is this: writing is a compulsion. If I never sold another story, I would still write. Letters, eulogies (I am the official family eulogy writer), this blog. Although a Newbery award would be great (so would a movie option) my real gold star is the knowledge that somewhere, sometime, my writing has connected with someone. Maybe someone like you.
Posted by Mary Ann Rodman
Thanks, MA! This definitely connected with ME. I'm so grateful that you blog here with the TAs. What you say rings so true for me and many other writers and teachers.
Sending you a virtual gold star today! *
Well,
I'm officially awarding you MY Gold Star, Mary Ann.
(Maybe April can create one with her spiffy illustrator program?)
Reading your oh, so honest words and hearing your authentic and oh, so Southern voice ALWAYS inspires me to be real and honest with our - and - my - readers.
Your Fan Esther
Wow, MA, I love this. You have a way of hitting the nail solidly on its head.
THank you, TA's for your "gold stars." THe money is nice, the awards are OK, but it's making a connection with others through your words that is the real gold star.