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Your Future Now

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.Winston Churchill

your attention

According to one interpretation of quantum physics, you, just by paying attention to something or some event, affect it. Your attention and focus are very powerful tools in your arsenal. How do you use them?

right now

By paying full attention to all the life happening right now, you affect your entire future. This enables you to live a fully conscious life, not an accidental one. The current moment is most precious. How are you living it?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM creating my future. I pay attention to Now.

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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Self Importance

You can do important work if you do not become self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave yourself out.The Urantia Papers

self

When we have a balanced concept of our own selves, we can handle life and its vicissitudes just fine. We know how to be happy or at least we know what to do to be happy. If we have low self-esteem, we wallow in self-pity and we tend to lash out and blame others. We aren’t happy with who we are and that colors our world-view.

getting in our own way

There’s another way we can get in our own way. It’s when our ego gets too big, we deem ourselves so important that the self becomes the end itself. We focus on our needs constantly, we do that to the detriment of everything else important to our lives. If we leave ourselves out of any situation or undertaking, we can be far more efficient.

Daily Affirmation: Today I focus on others and the job at hand.

Recommendation: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Come To Be…

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.Peter Nivio Zarlenga

your vision

  • Do you have a vision for yourself?
  • What does it look like and feel like?
  • Are you able to describe your vision in an elevator ride to a stranger?

your purpose

Purpose and vision are intertwined. Life purpose may come first, then you can create a vision and follow it. Else maybe a dream emerges first? That can lead to your vision and your life purpose.

  • What do you truly want?
  • What in life, are you aching for?
  • What’s deep inside your heart, seeking expression?
  • How long will you ignore it?

Check out: What direction?, Emotional Freedom! & Stillness.

Daily Affirmation: Today I create my life through my vision & purpose.

Recommendation: Meditations for Manifesting by Dr. Wayne DyerMeditations for Manifesting : Morning and Evening Meditations to Literally Create Your Heart's DesireKindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)

What is Zen?

Zen opens a man’s eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of EdenD. T. Suzuki

zen

Zen is.

If you spend time analyzing Zen then in Zen you’re not!

everywhere, now

Zen is in the eternal now. It’s connecting to what is, around you, inside you. The Zen mind allows you to:

  • see beauty where it’s not
  • enjoy peace amidst turmoil
  • feel wonder during a routine day
  • live a truly satisfying life

Daily Affirmation: Today, I AM, I see.

Recommendation: Arriving at Your Own Door by Jon Kabat-zinn

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What Will You Risk?

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.Erica Jong

risk what?

Not talking about commercial or business risk here. I’m thinking about taking a chance when:

  • We love a dear one and we hesitate to express our love.
  • We could help someone but don’t because we’re shy.
  • We could go that extra mile but don’t because we like the beaten path.

comfort zone

Getting out of our comfort zone is taking a risk. There’s not much growth staying inside this warm and routine place. How can we motivate ourselves to venture out more often? How can we be less afraid? Journal that.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM bold, I step out, into Life!

Recommendation: The Shift By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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Can You See It?

If you can’t see it, before you see it, you’ll never see it.Dr. Jack Graham

conception

An idea before it takes shape and solidifies into reality, must in some form have been conceived, first. From conception to rich visualization is the path that should be traversed before the idea can materialize. Action comes next.

visualization

The more accurately we can visualize the concept, what it looks like, feels  like, the experience it provides, the audience it touches, the effect it produces, the better the chances of it showing up in our lives! And that’s the idea.

Daily Affirmation: Today I visualize and create my future.

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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The Little Things

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.Frank A. Clark

big dreams

We all have big dreams. To make lot’s of money, be famous, be heard and to make a significant impact on the world. Are we too focused on the destination rather than the journey?

long term view

This life time is miniscule when compared with the eternity that lies in front of us! What will our strivings mean, say 200 years from now? What’s truly important for you, today, right now?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM here and now.

Recommendation: The Power of Small by Linda Kaplan Thaler

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