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My "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" theme is about "Never giving up to reach your goals." Now the reason why I think that this theme supports the book, is because the book explains how the several family members have gone through tough times; Yet the past the experiences and continue to strive.

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elitedaily.com - This article explains how people should never give up on there dreams

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There comes a time in most entrepreneurs' lives when the challenges seem overwhelming. You've suffered consecutive setbacks and sometimes, you seriously consider throwing in the towel.

You question yourself. Maybe you don't have what it takes after all? Maybe your breakthrough idea just isn't realistic? Maybe you should quit now, rather than continue to make a fool of yourself. Self-doubt leeches onto your heart and soul, and despair begins to take over.

It happens all the time, but I'm here to tell you why you should never ever give up on your dreams. Consider these six reasons:

1. What's the alternative?

If you give up now, what are your options? Where will you be in life? Adrift? Aimless? Imagine how that will make you feel. Perhaps there's a particular product or service you've launched that is plainly not going to be "the one" that leads you to extreme success. Regard it as nothing more than a detour on your journey to success.

We all get sidetracked from time to time and, although you probably can't identify a reason why right now, there's probably a good reason Opportunity #1 didn't work out. But, once Opportunity #10 or Opportunity #20 proves successful, you'll realize why. Consider the billionaire author, J.K. Rowling, who created the "Harry Potter" series. Her idea was rejected 12 times before someone finally gave her a chance. Ultimately, perseverance paid.

2. Mistakes happen.

There's not a straight line to success. You're going to hit bumps in the road that will feel like mountains. But, you can get over them. In fact, making mistakes is necessary to creating a successful company. If you're not making mistakes, you're not experimenting. You're not trying new approaches. You're not going anywhere. They key thing is to make sure that you learn from the mistakes.

We've all heard stories about famous figures who have failed numerous times. Abraham Lincoln, for one, failed to win several positions before becoming president of the United States. Another example, Walt Disney, had to close businesses en route to worldwide success.

And, just last year, while most Americans were relaxing on Labor Day, 64-year-old Diana Nyad became the first person to swim the shark-invested waters between Cuba and Key West - some 110 miles -without a cage for protection. She succeeded after her fifth attempt in 35 years but says she learned something new from each of her failed efforts. Can you imagine what it takes to make that physical and mental journey? Failure is a necessary part of the journey, but it's never the end until you decide to quit.

3. You need passion in your life.

If you give up on your dreams, you're living a life unfulfilled. I can't imagine not being passionate about something. Do you really believe you can build a large company and help tens of thousands of people if you have a wishy-washy approach and don't feel strongly about your personal endeavors? If you don't have a mission - if you don't have a purpose - are you wasting potential? Live life with purpose and you will never be bored. Absolute conviction is everything.

4. Anything can happen.

Don't give up today because the breakthrough you need might happen tomorrow. All of the hard work you invest in yourself will pay off in the long run. It may well be that you're running in a marathon despite the fact that you were only expecting a short sprint. If you're at the point of giving up, give it another shot. "Hail Mary's" exist for this. And then, repeat this every day.

5. The joy of success.

Most of all, don't surrender your precious dreams, because one day, you will achieve them. And, when you do, the ecstasy will make all of the agony so worthwhile. Imagine being able to celebrate with your family and friends who have been rooting for you - think about the pleasure you will all feel.

Crossing the finishing line and realizing that you completed your goal will provide for an indescribable sense of accomplishment. So, go for it and don't quit because you certainly don't want to miss out on the experience of savoring the success.

6. Proving them wrong.

Last, but not least, don't give the naysayers the satisfaction of seeing you give up on your dreams! There's nothing wrong with wanting to prove them wrong. It's quite common to have dream-stealers infiltrate your life. It might be colleagues or business acquaintances or even (sadly) family and friends. They are negative influences who sow seeds of doubt.

I'll never forget when I was trying to raise capital for my previous business, BlueLithium. There was a general partner of a big firm who lectured me for 10 minutes and said, "Your chances of success are pretty much zero." Of course, that only invigorated my drive; I can't help but wonder how he felt when I sold the company for $300 million a year later - I was delighted to prove him wrong. Cheers to those who doubted you because eventually, they will want to be part of your team.

Dreams are essential for an entrepreneur, and with determination, you will achieve them. The road is never an easy one, but it's absolutely worth it. Your dreams are only awake if you are.
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6 Reasons You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams No Matter What

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There comes a time in most entrepreneurs' lives when the challenges seem overwhelming. You've suffered consecutive setbacks and sometimes, you seriously consider throwing in the towel. You question yourself. Maybe you don't have what it takes after all? Maybe your breakthrough idea just isn't realistic?

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TheLifehack.org - this website explains how following your dreams/goals keeps You alive with motivation

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You want to be attractive, incredibly attractive.

You know, Pierce Bronson or Liv Tyler kind.

But then you look into the mirror and...let's just say, any similarity is well hidden which understandably dampens your enthusiasm.

Can I tell you something? Being attractive has little to do with looks and everything to do with "aura".

An incredibly attractive person lives inside of you, dying to come out.

Come on, let's bring that magnetism to the surface. That is, if you dare!

1. Stop thinking you're not attractive and just "be" attractive

Make yourself attractive by taking on the right attitude. If you are burying your attractiveness, there's a reason. Do yourself a favor. Go on a mission and find that reason.

Born within you, there is an attractive and playful side so decide to own it!

Change doesn't happen over time, it happens in the moment you make that decision. Read on.

2. Deal with your past love stories so they don't fight with your current story

Bringing the pain and heartbreak of past relationships into the present will kill your sexiness with fear.

Those voices lie below the surface and convince you that history is repeating itself. The only way to live in today is to first look the memories in the face and heal those hurts.

Someone who has learned from where they've been and determined to make the present far better is emotionally available. And that, my friend, is extremely charming.

3. Find your James Bond confidence

That sense of knowing who you are and what makes you worth kissing will exude attractiveness to everyone around you even if that's not your intention. I learned this from my second time around husband who says I was like a magnet to him.

Inner confidence attracts (this is not arrogance we are talking about here).

You laugh more easily.

It gives you a kind of mystery that tells someone that you would not bring a lot of "drama" into a relationship. Rather, you would make life interesting.

4. Dress yourself up and take yourself out

The clothes do not make the person but they sure can enhance the person's best features. Even if you don't like to shop, make it an interesting project to find out what colors and fit look great on you.

Feeling sharp translates into confidence so be prepared with a couple of outfits that bring out that "Bond" quality in you, man or woman.

Then take yourself on a date somewhere you would love to go just because you are worth it. Be truly ok with being alone and soon you will be giving off incredibly charming vibes.

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5. Stand tall, shoulders back, look others in the eye and smile

Most men agree that the most attractive thing about a woman is her smile. Why? Because when a woman is happy, they don't have to wonder how to get her there.

In the same way, the last thing a woman wants to take on is being a man's mom. She wants a man, not a boy.

Your posture and the way you present yourself tells the world about you.

So practice standing tall and being direct and don't worry if you aren't feeling confident in the moment. Doing this automatically communicates confidence to your brain and soon your feelings will follow.

6. Become a romance master

We know the moments.

He guides her into a dark room and suddenly its filled with incredible light with music and a table set for two. As a woman, I've been told men fear romance because they run out of ideas and they know their lady's heart responds to being wooed.

Romance can be as simple as honestly looking into the eyes of your lover in order to see what's really going on inside of them.

Romance can be the words you use in a text during the day or when you say goodnight.

Taking the time to go into your heart and find out what speaks to the heart of your lover creates romance.

Be careful here because being open to growing the romantic side of you will make you incredibly attractive!

7. Fall in love with your life

You have so much to offer. "Incredibly attractive" is simply knowing that and not tolerating play-acting in your life.

It's about what's going on inside of you - inside your deepest heart.

Imagine being so interested in your own life that you can't wait to get up in the morning.

Imagine having a sense of passionate purpose at the base of your life continually exciting you about how you are made and what you are meant to do to make a difference.

Imagine taking control of your life so that you spend your time the ways you choose to and with whom you choose to.

Imagine listening to someone because you want to know them, not because you want to impress them.

Imagine looking directly into someone's eyes and saying what you feel and asking for what you want without fear.

How would this feel? Empowering, right?

Begin moving toward becoming this person. That's the secret to making yourself incredibly attractive.

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11 Reasons Why It's Important to Follow Your Dreams

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You want to be attractive, incredibly attractive. You know, Pierce Bronson or Liv Tyler kind. But then you look into the mirror and...let's just say, any similarity is well hidden which understandably dampens your enthusiasm. Can I tell you something? Being attractive has little to do with looks and everything to do with "aura".

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NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS | Best Motivational Speech Compilation 2018

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You can achieve anything - Youtube video

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"127 Hours" Movie - A movie about how no one should give up on yourself in tough situations

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127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he can be rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? - Fox Searchlight Pictures

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the life of pi movie - about how in situations where there is no hope you should never give up

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Preposefairy.com

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race " ~ Calvin Coolidge

Somebody asked me recently what do I think about the many people out there who are seen as failures, who are in fact failures ... The definition of failure can be different from one person to another and I believe that there are those people who are in fact being very patient and working on themselves and on achieving their dreams, but they do it very silently, and these people even though it may look to some of us that they are just that, they are not.

Be aware of your judgments for you never how things will turn out in the end and how they will eventually show us that they aren't failures after all, and I tell you this from my own experience, I have seen this happening so many times.

Of course, on the other hand, there are those people who are constantly assuring us through their actions, behaviors and their own words, that they are failures. I know somebody who calls herself a failure, and every time we meet she reminds me of who she is, in case I forgot. These people are doing nothing, nothing at all in order to get their lives moving in a new direction, a direction that is not destructive to them or to those around them. These people simply can't, and won't get out of their comfort zone, choosing to procrastinate all day, every day.

I really can't understand why that is, but what really goes through their mind on daily bases. I ask myself many times, do they ever wonder if there is more to life? Do they ever ask themselves how would it be if they will start moving if they would start doing something, anything? Did they ever dreamed of being more, did they ever dreamed of achieving bigger things, bigger than anyone could ever think possible? I don't know... I guess they are the only ones who have the answers to these questions.

I really believe that we humans are sometimes a bit too lazy. We like to do those things that are fun and easy, tension relieving rather than gold achieving. We want to get everything done fast and we also want to get the great results if possible. We will look for ways to do those things that are familiar to us, those things that are fun and easy rather than hard and difficult, and most of the times necessary.

How can anybody ever become more than already is, if they are always hiding, always running away from taking responsibilities, running away from life? It's unbelievable how easy we can form new and destructive habits, habits that are known to be bad for us, for our health, and a lot of times for those we care about also, but when it comes to forming new positive habits that might take us a longer period of time, and maybe some extra effort (habits that will benefit us in the long run) we run like a scarred cat. We try to stay away as much as possible from these type of situations, for they are making us feel uncomfortable, and who would want that?

Yes, I guess it's a lot better to only do those things that are easy, only those things that feel food, only those things that are fun. Yes, why not? And we'll just see what the future brings, maybe we will get lucky and we will manage to cheat life a little bit more. Yes, that might work, why not? It's not like we have anything to lose, except our own time, our own life, our own happiness. Only they are the ones to be wasted, that's all. As time goes by and we will start looking back to our life, we will see the big nothing we have achieved, and how proud will that make us feel...

I guess it wasn't life that we were cheated, after all, we're only cheating ourselves. If only somebody would have told us that... But wait, they did, in fact a lot of people tried to tell us just that, a lot of people tried to help us, our friends, our family, but we were too busy watching television, too busy drinking and partying, too busy obsessing over our-our pretty face, too busy looking for people to give us their attentions, their love, their time that we completely forgot about ourselves and our need for improvement.

Yes, another sad story, another person who wasted their life, but what else is new? It's not like this is the first or the last person to do just that. And you know what's really interesting? If you ask them how did that ever happened, they will come with a very long list of excuses, and they will make you believe that the whole world was against them, in fact, the entire Universe.

You know, they weren't born under a lucky start like others, their parents weren't the Rockefellers, they didn't have the IQ of Marilyn Vos Savant and the list could go on. Or maybe they will tell you how their looks, their weight or their height didn't quite help them, and because of that they become very depressed and could not focus on anything else but on that which was lacking. You see, it's not that easy to get yourself motivated, in fact, it is something quite difficult. And now that you know all of these things, maybe you should feel bad that you dared to judge them, or maybe it wasn't really judgment but only curiosity, but that's not really important, start feeling bad, now!

Yes, all of these people, if they could do a career out of whining and making excuses, we will have such a prosperous planet, in fact, we will never have a recession ever again. Although it may sound a little bit funny, we all know it's not; in fact, it's a tragedy, for there are so many people like that in the world. We all have something that makes us unique, and we all have special talents, talents that may be different from those of the people around us, and if we continue comparing ourselves to others and if we continue focusing our attention on all of those things that are missing, all that we will ever have is more and more of that. Where focus goes energy flows, always remember that.

The moment we think we don't have enough, the moment we think there is something lacking, we are in fact thinking from a place of scarcity, and we are telling ourselves that there isn't enough to go around, and by doing that we are in fact storing all of this information in our subconscious mind, and if you take into consideration that 95% our life is controlled by our subconscious mind, while and only 5% by our conscious mind, then you will understand why your life is only a reflection of your limiting beliefs, beliefs that you are storing on a daily bases in your subconscious.

We can't all have parents that are billionaires, we can't all study at Harvard, we can't all have the look of a supermodel, but that doesn't mean our lives can't be shaped the way we please, and this can only happen if we'll work on taking the necessary action steps in that direction. I get motivated and inspired by people like Edison for example, like Lincoln, people who never stopped trying, who never stopped dreaming, they never stopped believing, even if the whole world saw them as failures maybe, but they kept themselves focused and eventually achieved their dreams.

I strongly believe that if you want something, and if you believe in yourself, if you work for it and if you don't quit, whenever things don't go as planned, you will eventually achieve whatever it is you are trying to achieve. I have a very skeptical friend with whom I share my stories, stories about my passion, my dreams, about the people that inspire me, and I remember one time he told me something like: "Come on, they are only a few, how many people like that do you really know? (He was referring to Lincoln this time) They were just lucky." And he is right, but not entirely. There are very few people like that, and you know why? Because people like them never stop believing, never stop trying. These people don't see their mistakes, their failures as failures, but rather as lessons, as opportunities to grow, lessons to be mastered, as experiences that are part of their lives.

How many people like that do you know? How many people do you know that are willing to take this chance? Not too many, I tell you. This is why we don't hear many stories like theirs, for we choose to stop the very moment we are facing a difficulty. Let me give you a very simple example. Let's say I want to get from my house to that of a friend of mine, and I choose to get there by foot. He lives a one-mile distance from where I live and I start walking, I take on the step, and then another, and another, and another, and eventually I get so frustrated for not being there already that I decide to give up and go back home. Am I crazy for thinking like that? Of course, I am! I am insane!

But isn't that what most of us do? We say we want to change the world, we say we want to achieve great things but whenever we are facing a difficult situation, a challenge or maybe a failure, we get discouraged and most of us quit. We never stop and think that maybe it's more about the journey and less about the destination. We need to learn how to become more patient and we need to learn how to enjoy every single moment of our journey., This is the only way we can stick to our goals and dreams. We need to learn how to become more patient and become aware of the fact that patience means waiting. Not passively waiting which is nothing more than laziness, but to keep going when the going gets hard and slow.

"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We all can achieve great things, but we can only do that if we commit to our goals, our dreams, and expectations, and by learning to see our mistakes not as mistakes but as opportunities to grow, as lessons that need to mastered. Give up your personal history, give up your past beliefs about what you can and can't do, and know that each day is a new, a new chance for us to start again, a new day for us to make new choices, learn new things, meet new people and improve ourselves

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~love, Luminita💫

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Luminita, the Founder of PurposeFairy, is an enthusiastic student of the arts, psychology, and spirituality. Her acclaimed blog post, 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy , was shared by over 1.3 million people on Facebook. Later on, it became the heart of her book, 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy., book that was published by Penguin Random House. For more details check out the 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy Book Page.
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