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Aug 29th, 2010
I’ve been thinking of this for a while now, and every time I do it seems to me to be clearer and clearer.
Nowadays, people in the western world are tending to adjust their way of living to many of the ways of the eastern world (mainly in Asia). Among other things it includes such things as mindfulness, religious beliefs, food, etc.
Now the paradox is that people in the eastern world are tending more and more to try to get what we have in the western world, including our way of living where money (and through that material things) fast food, status etc. are all important. I read in a newspaper a while ago that China has passed the USA as the biggest energy consumer in the world. Obesity is an increasing problem in India, mainly in the fast-growing middle classes that now have values influenced by the west.
How will it look in thirty years? Will we have changed lifestyles with each other or will we have moved towards each other so much that there is much less difference in our lifestyles? I find this to be a good paradox. If we can learn from each other – even the not-so-good stuff – the world will be a better place to live in. We might be able to share both material things and mental health; in other words, we will have a more equal world.
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Aug 27th, 2010
If you really want to achieve something in life, who cares if it takes a long time if it’s something of great importance to you? If it is, you will do all in your power to succeed.
Most people give up through lack of confidence in their ability to both manage the process and to fulfill their objective. But you don’t need any guarantees of success as long as you find it worthwhile. Just doing it and living it has its own power for you.
If we were aware of how many of us have given up our dreams just before they were going to be fulfilled, it would probably have been a horrifying experience.
Never give up on your dreams – they’ve been given to you to be fulfilled by you, otherwise they wouldn’t have revealed themselves.
Filed under: Attitude, Endurance, Faith, Life, Mindset, Motivation, Personal development, Positive thinking, Self improvment, Success, The Law of attraction, The game of life by admin
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Aug 25th, 2010
More often than not we tend to exercise our bodies more than we exercise our brains. Why is that? The only explanation I have is in fact two –fold; first, exercising the body is easier and more well known than exercising the brain and you can physically see the progress made. The other is that too many of us believe that it’s not as important to exercise the brain since we have the brain we were equipped with from birth and there’s no point in exercising it and trying to develop it!
To me this is nonsense. Of course it’s every bit as important to exercise your brain as to exercise your body, in order for you to develop as a human being. Yes I know that there are people who don’t want to develop as people and that’s okay by me, but then don’t forget that this means you cannot achieve anything more than ordinary
If you were locked in a room for two years without the possibility of walking, then after that period you were released, do you think you would be able to walk as you did before you were locked away? Of course not! It would be very difficult as your muscles would have deteriorated and would be close to useless. Likewise, if you were locked in a room without any contact at all with the world and human beings – I mean without any external influences at all – your brain would experience the same situation, that is, there would be a decrease in activity and its function would deteriorate.
My conclusion: it’s critically important to exercise your brain with external stimuli such as reading, listening to constructive things, meditating, engaging yourself in personal development etc. Whatever you do, exercise your brain as it needs it as much as your body if you are to live your life optimally.
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Aug 23th, 2010
I never cease to be surprised about peoples’ short term thinking and acting! For instance, in a government election if people are asked who they’re going to vote for and then get the follow-up question; “Why?” the answer will be close to one hundred percent: “Because it’s best for me!”
I believe very strongly that this is absolutely the worst way of thinking. If voting that way really will get the best for you (and like so much else this is a very egotistic way of thinking) then why not vote for what´s best for me too? If you vote for the best solution for the whole country, in the long term it will also be the best for you. Your situation right now may be quite different within a year or even a few months time. For example, today when voting you might be unemployed but in a few months you might acquire a great new job!
Stop voting in the short time for egotistic benefits which will never, ever, achieve anything for anyone – including for you. It’s the long term that really counts and getting benefits for many people. Don’t you think it’s better to have a good life in the longer term than in the short term?
Egotistic, short term thinking is common for so much more than an election. Are you one of those people who doesn’t see any further than their nose?
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Aug 19th, 2010
Please think this through:
In China there’s a Bamboo that grows in an extraordinary way. The Bamboo needs to be very carefully nursed for its first five years; the ground needs to be fertilized and watered every other day – even if you can’t see any sign of life at all. If you’ve done all of this then in five years time you will start to see the Bamboo coming up through the ground, and within a few weeks it will grow to a height of approximately 4-5 meters!
I have a question: Has the Bamboo been growing for a few weeks or five years?
This is like life; often you struggle towards your goals without seeing any results, but when you’ve struggled for long enough, all of a sudden the goal reveals itself to you. Your endurance has been paid back to you. The answer to the question by the way is ‘five years’. If this wasn’t your answer I suggest you start wondering when in your life you’ve give up a dream because you didn’t have the endurance to wait for it. Remember that a dream is always standing in front of you and trying to get your attention.
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Aug 17th, 2010
At first sight this may seem obvious, but if you really think about it – is it always like this? Do you always focus on the important things or do unimportant things get much more focus?
Recently I was told that I had high blood pressure and blood fat levels. To me, and I presume to most of us getting this news, it became a much higher priority. This combination of high blood pressure and blood fats increases the risk of getting heart disease, and that to me is very important because my father died of a heart attack at 44 years old! Consequently, certain things suddenly became more important than others and demanded a greater level of focus in order to deal with them.
These high levels made me re-focus from what I was currently doing and to start tackling the causes. I decided to change my eating habits and to start exercising (mainly jogging). One of my goals was to reduce my weight from 105 kg down to 90 kg and to keep it like that. This became quite easy for me now I had my great ‘why?’ and it created in me a great will to do it.
You need a great ‘why?’ as through it will come motivation – and that’s what creates the action necessary to overcome all the obstacles that the start-up process is filled with. Many people who have started to decrease their weight have believed they had the will to do it, but in the end they failed because they didn´t have the ‘why?’
The need to do the important things made me re-prioritise some of the less important things in order to do the most important thing – which for me was to exercise.
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Aug 14th, 2010
Those people who fully go for their dreams and see them fulfilled, are without exception prepared to change their normal behavior pattern and to challenge this great event we all – more or less – participate in (which we call life!) They’ve decided to really live it rather than just going through it; they’re not satisfied to have an ordinary life so they’re searching for greater challenges.
Many of us don’t understand them, so a common question to them is; “Why are you not just satisfied with what you already have?” (This kind of question more often than not comes from people close to them, like family and friends.) But these people have understood the need to take advantage of the possibilities that life always provides us with, not just those they have at the moment.
They consider that everything they must overcome to achieve what they want is worth it in order to fulfill their dreams – which very often are beyond “normal” visions of dreams. Universe, the higher intellect, energy, God or whatever you wish to call it – only pays you in direct proportion to what you are worth.
Are you living your dream? If not – why not?
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Aug 11th, 2010
If you don’t plan your life – you’re planning to fail!
It’s critically important that you have a game plan for your life because without it, none of your dreams will come true. In fact it’s most likely that you won’t have any dreams at all.
Without a plan for your life it’s also very likely that you’ll end up in somebody else’s plan. Just think about this for a moment; shouldn’t the life plan you’ve created for yourself be the most important thing for you, rather than slopping around in somebody else’s life plan without any possibility of influencing the outcome?
Those of us who live the life we want have, with few exceptions, had a plan for it. If we look at how many of us that might be, I’m convinced we’re in a great minority. In other words, few of us live the life we really want!
Why would you want to be among the majority? It’s only necessary for you to sit down and start to figure out your dreams in both the short and the long term, then create a game plan to get there. Only you can make your plan and, after all, shouldn’t you be living the life you really want to live?
Life is for living and for being honest with yourself! Do you prefer to live your own life or someone else’s?
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Aug 8th, 2010
Self-reliance pays!
Life courage and optimism are all vital if you want to receive a visit by the Goddess of Fortune. If you’re expecting success, you work harder and in a more goal-oriented way to achieve it; that way if you face a setback you very soon recover from it and learn from your mistake.
It’s critical that you expect luck, (or happiness) and that you believe it’s coming to the right person – YOU! If you of all people should ever doubt that, then think to yourself “Who else is more worthy of it than me?
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Aug 4th, 2010
It’s a tremendous feeling when you try to achieve something special that requires that little extra effort; it makes it all worthwhile!’
If you want to achieve something that’s really important and of value to YOU, who cares how long it takes? Everything is possible to achieve and while you may have to go through a lot to get there, it’s worth it in the end.
Most people give up when the going gets tough, but you don’t need any guarantees that it will be achieved as long as you feel that the outcome is worth it. Just doing it and living with it has its own value and power.
When you feel that it´s worth it, when you do something in combination with faith, passion, endurance and focus, you just can’t fail!
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