1 Minute Motivation - Light the Fire Within (Elul Motivational Minute)

[Music] it has been said don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life our mission is not just to live the same year over and over and over again but every year to improve to grow to become the best of who we can be and to live our best lives yet the ramen tells us a person should make an effort work hard to do true but is the theme of this month to grow to introspect have self-awareness to be able to improve our relationships with others with hashem and importantly with ourselves but it's a funny formulation when it comes to other mitzvos it says we're responsible we're obligated we're accountable it doesn't say try to put on film try to keep kosher try to be honest in business it tells us what we have to do and yet here yesterday try i think the rambam is telling us that when it comes to personal change and growth when it comes to breakthrough it's very very hard it's nearly impossible the best we can do is try yeshtado it's our effort that counts almost as much as the results we have to give it our best how do we give it our best the great p is that's the reba may god avenge his blood killed by the nazis in a spiritual biography called salvador's rights that in order to be able to break through and grow if we want to make real improvement in our lives we have to understand the difference between a wish and a resolution a wish is what i want i want to wake up tomorrow i want to be rich i want to be healthy i want to be happy but how am i achieving that what am i doing to accomplish it we think that we have goals but they're really just wishes if we have goals we really want to achieve we have to see them not as wishes we have to see them as resolutions we have to make a plan we have to chart a course we have to have measures and metrics to be able to evaluate how well we're doing we have to celebrate our victory and learn from our defeat from my enemies i learned what went wrong and why did it go wrong we could learn as much or more from what goes wrong even than what goes right as long as their resolutions not wishes what do you want to improve this elul these next 30 days in the countdown to rosh hashanah who are you meant to be how do you want to be thought of what do you want to achieve no matter what's going on around us no matter how hard a year this is the and the rhyme don't take a loss don't write them off we can still break through we can still discover who we are who are meant to be we don't have to live the same day or month or year over and over again but we can look back after having set resolutions and plans and yeshtado making that effort and see that breakthrough and that personal growth measured by greater happiness greater meaning greater fulfillment and improved relationships with those around us with hashem with ourselves we are issuing the mind body soul challenge we human beings are comprised of all three we're a body for which hashem has appointed us to be a steward to be in charge of our goof of our body it's not ours how well are we taking care of it do we eat right do we exercise are we getting enough sleep take our beginner intermediate or advanced challenge for 30 days to improve your body how well is our mind do we challenge it do we expand it do we leave our comfort zone for the rambam the mind is the closest we get to hashem that is the telomer in us how we sharpen and use that mind and that thinking and our soul on a shama how many of us even know that we are a soul when we have a body we're not a body that has a soul when is the last time you nourished or nurtured or protected your soul what are you doing for it take one of our beginner intermediate or advanced challenges sign up for the whatsapp groups download the app to be able to measure your progress make a resolution brsonline.org ello brsonline.org slash e-l-u-l-l-o sign up for one of these groups in 30 days from now you will look back and you will not believe the progress you have made you will not recognize who you have become and you will be on the path not to living the same life over and over but to living your best life yet [Music]