Brain Power

In my last blog entry I tried to focus on ways to visualize and achieve goals by using vision boards.  Expanding on this idea, I also think it’s important to think positively in order to stay focused on your ambitions.  While creating my vision board, I wanted to incorporate some inspirational quotes I grew up with and some I found on stumbleupon.com.  

One quote seemed to stick in my head.  Have you ever heard the statement, “I think, therefore I am?”  This famous statement came from Rene Descartes, a French philosopher known as the “Father of Modern Philosophy.”  The principle he developed is to solve the problem of a person “wondering whether or not they exist is, in and of itself, proof that something an ‘I,’ exists to do the thinking.”  When I first heard the true meaning of this principle, I thought Descartes must have been a wacko!  Why was this even necessary to prove your own existence?  Anyways, I think this principle doesn’t just serve the purpose of proving self-existence, but it’s inspirational as well.  

When you set your mind to accomplish something it will happen.  For example, when applying the principle of “I think, therefore I am,” to finding a job, positive thought can be statements like: I will get this job, and I am the right person for this position.  For this post, I have accumulated inspirational quotes that I think are important to live by and keep in mind as you start your career.