Are you stuck because you are in a mental fog? How can you possibly move forward with confidence if you don't know where you are headed? What exactly are you doing and what end result are you seeking? Resolve these issues!

Why are we so adverse to change? Why is change so scary? Why is it that the moment we hear of an impending change, our breathing becomes shallow and our palms sweat? Is it because we have forgotten that life is all about change or is it because we don't know how to live in the moment? A short examination of the thought processes that occur when change is about to show it's pretty little head.

So often, we see individuals on television receiving a free makeover from a talk show host or a panel of celebrity "fashion police" on a reality show. The participants are absolutely elated with their new clothes, new hairstyle, and fresh new look. Their faces beam at the idea of becoming a new person - shedding off the old and taking on a new, different persona, like a snake shedding its skin. The transformation is sometimes drastic and commonly for the better.

One of the factors of successful life is having the success mental or having the mental of a champion. If you have this type of mental or attitude, you will have bigger chances to reach the gateway of success although you have not been successful yet.

So you need to get things done and just cannot find the motivation? Have you ever wondered what is in a name? It is all about perspective. For this article I will focus on how your feelings about certain tasks and goals can influence how motivated you feel. Change the word and improve your motivation. Find out how!

"I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"

Eudora Alice Welty was born in 1909. She was a photographer, Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and a gracious lady from Jackson Mississippi. She dedicated most of her life to writing fiction and her works immediately established her as a leading figure in American Literature especially the American South.