Mission fulfilling Resolutions: What's your Inspiration?

Just days after I made my new year resolutions, I promised myself to keep it real this time. Then I came across this article, which shared some ways to keep us motivated.

My mission will be fulfilled, if even one reader gets motivated enough to complete his resolutions. So, here's the article:

Have New Year’s Resolutions? Here Are 5 Inspiring Pieces To Keep You Motivated

If you’ve been preparing a New Year’s resolution list and need a little push, there are many sites that can easily inspire and excite you. There are also numerous inspirational blogs that you can take a look at, from hilarious blogs like The Chive to actual quote encyclopedias, such as Quote Stumbler, which lets you stumble upon a random quote every time you visit the page. There are even social networks where you can discover and share countless quotes that catch your attention. There are also many RSS feeds you can subscribe to for daily inspiration.

I think you get the idea that there may be unique sources of inspiration for different people. Sometimes, you may find them not just in quotes, but also images and videos. Here are a few select media items that might just give you a bit of the directional boost that you’re looking for.

Have your list of resolutions? This simple photo might help you face the potential obstacles coming your way in 2012.
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Warhawk Matt Scott In Nike ‘No Excuses’ Commercial

This is an epic commercial, featuring basketball player Matt Scott from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, giving a glimpse of the excuses that might set us back when trying to reach your goals.

Henry Ford

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This was originally featured in a post from the ever-popular The Chive, which occasionally throws in inspirational quotes and images.

Jason McElwain’s Basketball Story

This inspiring story about a high school basketball team manager with autism shows that a lot of passion can help you overcome obstacles, achieve the unimaginable and lead you farther than you think.

How far, you ask? I don’t want to spoil the video for you, but let’s just say Jason was able to meet the President of the United States after his story went on the news. Passion is definitely key to keeping you motivated in order to complete a task in your New Year’s Resolutions.

Age Is Just A Number

If one of your resolutions includes to exercise more in an effort to become healthier, here’s a cool video that shows you can become a more active person at any time. You don’t need the latest equipment or a personal trainer.The key is to stick to a routine. Watch the following video as the interviewee reveals his age and shows off the body of a 20-year old.

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Visit original article for links to more resources for many such inspiration: Have New Year’s Resolutions? Here Are 5 Inspiring Pieces To Keep You Motivated

But IMO, its not necessary to look deep for "more" inspirations, rather then just to praise one, and then follow it more.

Today what inspired me is this:

I will try to post anything which inspires me to pursue my resolutions of new year here. Unless of course mods inspire to lock it!

Today, this inspired me that I will find the "special someone"!

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I was watching a program on the greatest inventions ever on Sci-Fi channel. And the author concluded with a quote, that inspired me to the core. Goes something like this,

"One day a women approached Faraday and asked, "Why do you think this thing you call as, "electromagnetism" holds the kind of significance you boast?
Faraday replied, "What significance does the baby which has just been born holds to you? It may seem that a baby is useless. Since they cry, shout and just makes a mess everywhere. But you never know who the baby might become just after a few years later!! For the least you expected, he could be the next Mozart!""

A person named "Koolent" on the IRC. He's a smart kid. Just 13 years old. But knows a lot of stuff that I wasn't even aware of at my time.
He's conscious about his present. He wants to learn something. And he's making an effort for it. Not like me. Wasting time!

You're my inspiration dude. Thanks for talking.

Well i don't understand the point of this thread but I'm posting what inspired me today :stirpot:

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^ Great inspiration BTW.

This is awesome. Inspiration to the core!

^^ Thats great..

"inspired"

well speaking of motivation,I listen to this before going to the gym

^^ Wow!
Sent a shiver down my spine! Thanks!

^^ Woo, that video make me get up my chair, boot up and win 6 singles matches of badminton.. Just these words..

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Simply great..

Works of Nikola Tesla inspire me. Truly a genius. Only if I can do the half of what he has done.

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Faun said:
Works of Nikola Tesla inspire me. Truly a genius. Only if I can do the half of what he has done.

+100 electro magnetic genius

This guy inspires me

The following video is edited by a mysterious person named, Gen I. And is a culmination of footage from almost every hollywood movie released in 2011.

The last 1 min of the video gives me chillz, and inspires me to do something useful.

Wat u mean by 'resolutions'?

Nanducob said:
Wat u mean by 'resolutions'?

For me Resolutions is a way to keep a list of stuff that you have to do.

It's gives me an estimate of the amount of work to finish, or the target to achieve. And helps in deciding my short term goals as well.

Borat is my inspiration. To make benefit glorious nation of India.

Don't try to find inspiration in others.Be an inspiration to others, doesn't matter if it's a small deed.

I did one yesterday.

nice vids

This may have inspired... but made me scared a lot more!

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["Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they're gonna tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period." ~ Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happiness, film)]

boosts my relsolution that i will learn violin someday.

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WHY did GOD make Me Without Arms or Legs? - Nick Vujicic

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Evangelist Nick Vujicic, who spoke at Saddleback Church in Calif. on Sunday, was born with neither arms nor legs, and questioned God for eight years why it was so. The answer changed his life, and through him that of tens of thousands of others.

For the now 30-year-old Nick, founding president and CEO of the nonprofit organization Life Without Limbs, the most important thing in life was to understand why God made him without arms and legs.

Speaking at Pastor Rick Warren's church in Lake Forest on Sunday evening, the inspirational speaker said he spent eight years asking God, "Why? Why was I born this way? I don't understand how can You say You love me when You allow me to stay in this pain."

Vujicic, who has been living in California since 2007, was born in Brisbane, Australia. His parents – Pastor Boris Vujicic and nurse Dushka Vujicic – were not given any medical explanation or warning about his birth with neither arms nor legs. But Nick got the answer to his desperate prayers.

John 9:1-3 spoke to him in a special way. The New Testament portion reads: "As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.'"

The Life Without Limbs author described his feelings after reading these verses. "I got goosebumps on my skin I don't even have," he told the congregants. "And I had faith because I understood something. You see, all I wanted to know was that God knew what He was doing with me."

By the age of 19, Nick started to fulfill his dream of being able to encourage other people and bring them the Gospel of Jesus through motivational speaking and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future and a hope.

The desire to have arms and legs has remained, Vujicic admitted. Initially, he thought, "Lord, if you give me arms and legs, I'll go around the world and share your power with the world." He said he still has ups and downs in life. "I am just like you."

Vujicic said he has failed God every single day, but has relies on Philippians 1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

Vujicic recalled he and dozens of his Christian friends once prayed for 90 minutes for his arms and legs in a farm in a jungle in India. They made arms and legs with clay, and prayed it turn into flesh and bone. It didn't happen, but he had peace in his heart as he saw an eagle soaring in the sky throughout those 90 minutes. He said it was as if God was smiling, and was happy he had the faith to pray.

"Please give me arms and legs. But if You don't give me arms and legs, I trust You." This has been Vujicic's prayer. He said his commitment to Jesus is "to want His plan, and not my plan ... even when I don't understand."

You are praying for something, but what if God says "no" to that? he asked. "Is He still God? Yes. Will He waste your pain? No." He quoted Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Vujicic, who has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of people, said he's grateful to God for saving him from the two biggest disabilities: sin and death.

He said when he was 10 he wanted to commit suicide, and wanted to see someone like him so that he wouldn't be alone. Five years ago in California, he finally met a baby named Daniel, who too was born without arms and legs ... "exactly like me." "Not getting a miracle, I can be a miracle to Daniel ... an older brother of Daniel his whole life ... encourage him."

Nick said if he truly lived without arms and legs throughout his life "just so I can hug Daniel in heaven, it's all worth it."

"I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire," he says on his ministry's website. "If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!"

Source: ♥Share & Inspire Your Friends♥: WHY did GOD make Me Without Arms or Legs? - Nick Vujicic

And God said no.

Posting in this thread after a long time. But feeling inspired after a very long time too.

So today what I am feeling inspired by is the game, "Mirror's Edge".

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I was playing Mirror's Edge for 3 weeks now. And yesterday watched the movie version of the game (made with cutscenes and gameplay). The game seems to have a lasting impression on my mind. The main soundtrack was inside my head for whole day today. This coupled with other things in my life is making me feel inspired. Making me want to create something. Do something worthwhile while I am in this life form.

"Faith" have given me faith that impossible can be achieved if you try again and again.