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Articles, Quotes - 2010

What’s More Important?

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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do. – Kathleen Winsor

being

Let’s reflect on what’s most important to us. We can do that via Stillness or via an ‘Active’ Journaling technique. A combination of both is more effective!

doing

Next spend 30 to 60 minutes daily working on one or more goals that result from the above exercise. Break the goals down into manageable tasks. Complete 3 HITs daily. HITs = your High Impact Tasks. These are tasks from your task list which give you the biggest bang for your time and effort. Complete 3 HITs daily towards your goals and see how much you achieve and how good you feel!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM focused on that which is more important.

Recommendation: Getting Things Done by David Allen

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

Extraordinary You!

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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you. – Yogananda

exemplary living

  • How do you live a life that dazzles the world?
  • How can you best use the creativity you were born with?
  • What makes for stupendous success in life?

your uniqueness

  • By being yourself, without fear, with courage, with bravado, with faith and knowing that you truly can’t ever fail.
  • By living your life fully, utilizing your gifts and by not being lazy or a procrastinator.
  • By loving more than you normally would, by going the 2nd mile in service to others and by thinking of them before you think of your own self.
  • By never giving up, by never stopping to grow and by always seeing the world with the eyes of a child.

No you don’t need to invent the next best thing since sliced bread or become a President of the USA, you just need to be the you God designed and give life your best shot! God is looking for that uniqueness, that personality to emerge from you, that has no other expression in the whole of creation! That’s YOU!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a success, just the way I AM.

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

The Quality of Love…

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When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “What was the quality of our love?” – Richard Bach

the being

Love is more in the being first than in the doing. That’s true of life itself. We can be in love and we can be love, when we have no resentments searing our soul, when we flow with the river of time admiring things and persons of beauty, goodness and truth. Having forgiven one and all, including ourselves, we make love’s residence, inside us, possible, we make our own healing possible.

the doing

Once filled with love, let’s place our attention on the other. How can the person in front of us, right now, be served, be loved and be cared for? That is the purpose of life itself, the discovery of love within us, the way it designs us and the relationships that result.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM love, on love will I focus.

Recommendation: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach

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Be & Do!

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I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart. – Mike Fanelli

the BeDo continuum

All of life follows what I call the The BeDo Continuum! Here’s a schematic from my article:

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What I should say is that all of life, that’s being lived in a fulfilling way is likely following The BeDo Continuum! The being aspects often come first. They come from reflection and inspiration.

human ‘beings’

Whenever you catch yourself. ‘Catch yourself’? What does that mean? I mean whenever you become reflective and aware of your own being and thinking, become further aware of whether you’re in a doing mode or a being mode. We mostly operate in the doing mode, so ‘catch yourself’, step back, examine what you’re doing and to what end. Start the virtuous BeDo Continuum! Remember we’re human ‘beings’ not human doings!

Daily Affirmation: Today I be first then do.

Recommendation: The Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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Articles, Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Move From Within

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Move from within. Don’t move the way fear wants you to move. – Rumi

fear

Most of our daily living is on the surface. Living at the surface means reacting to life, we worry about silly stuff and we worry about important stuff. We worry about our looks, how we appear to others, about our weight, our financial well-being, about our jobs, about our relationships, about our kids and much else. When operating from the surface we get knocked by the winds and get swayed by the currents of life. We live in fear, mostly.

love and knowing

There’s a deeper way of living. This way is one of connection, to our inner self, to love, to knowing, to fulfillment and to contentment. The way to this kind of living is via self-knowledge, reflection, journaling, meditation and decision-making. This blog is devoted to exploring, exposing and living this way.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM centered, I move from within.

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Daily Awakening

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. – Gail Sheehy

daily routine?

How about an awakening a day (AWAD)? Now, that really depends on what we want to get out of each day. If we go through a day with the same mindset, each time, then we sink into a routine-ized morose of a day which can often be boring and certainly not scintillating!

a new set of eyes

Instead what we need is a new pair of eyes! Eyes that see each day as it truly is, totally unique and never repeatable. Kind of like us. Each moment is brand new, it’s the canvas we can draw on. The challenge is to not forget this beauty and opportunity that is ours to grab, each moment, of each day!

Daily Affirmation: Today I see, without assumptions that cloud my vision.

Recommendation: The awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Meditation Tips, Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Let It Be…

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Let be and be still, and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10

let be

This is a famous Psalm and very often quoted. The standard translation is ‘Be still and know that I am God’. I love the translation above because it encapsulates meditation and even life itself!

When sitting for meditation just let be.

  • Allow your breathing to slow down
  • Let all body tension melt away. Allow your body to relax completely.
  • The mind should stay alert and not dwell on any thought. Let the thoughts arise and let them be.
  • Whenever you notice anything, a discomfort, a thought, a feeling, just let it be, don’t entertain it, let it disappear due to a lack of attention to it.

be still

When you just let be stillness occurs. You can now find yourself in a very calm and alert state. This can take a while, but it does happen with practice. You’ll be amazed and ecstatic when it does! Stay here for a while. This is stillness, a form of meditation.

know god

In this alert and calm state, joy emerges. You will experience peace as you never otherwise know it. In this eternal present moment, all creativity is possible, but greater still, God is present. Experience it and know.

Daily Affirmation: Today I will let life be, I will inhabit the NOW moment!

Recommendation: God Is Closer Than You Think by John Ortberg

 

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