Tag Archives: purpose

Articles, Quotes - 2010

The Holodeck Perspective…

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? – Robert Schuller

what?

  • Quit your job? And start living the life of your dreams?
  • Confess love to those you’ve always loved?
  • Never have fear about anything again?
  • Be happy?
  • Travel?

you never do fail

From one standpoint you never do fail, even when you think you do. I call this the Holodeck Perspective. In Star Trek the Holodeck was a large room where the computer created a virtual reality based on your request. The simulation was so real that you could actually forget that you were living that simulation. Life is like that. In an ultimate way, we’re always safe, we feel the pain and the gain right now, but nothing we do on this planet can eternally harm us…

Once we remind ourselves that this is a Holodeck experience (even though our relationships and experiences are real); we need not be afraid of failure; we need not be afraid of anything or anyone!

Daily Affirmation: I am eternally safe today to pursue my dreams. I will handle all that life throws at me.

Recommendation: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

On The Balcony!

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. – Albert Einstein

our worrisome lives

Seems like we flit about daily doing a thousand things while worrying about a million things! Why? Can we possibly slow down? How can we banish worry?

take the balcony view

When you’re on a balcony you can see more, you have a larger perspective and can act accordingly. That’s what’s needed for our own lives. When we just pause, when we consider the longer term, when we simply sit back and listen, we have a much better chance of figuring out the higher, more universal point of view.

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching

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Quotes - 2009, Stillness

Who are you?

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. – Mike Robbins

be yourself

You come with an essence that’s you, uniquely so, in all time and in all space.

Mull over that.

everyone else is taken

Waste not your time and precious attention on how you compare with others; what others think of you or what you must do to please them. Instead focus on what makes you beautiful, helpful to others and an attractive person from the inside out.

You must get to know yourself first; that comes when you become increasingly more self aware; which is a product of stillness.

Recommendation: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken…

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Quotes - 2009

Life is an adventure!

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

How is life for you?

Helen’s is a beautiful thought because life cannot be meaningful, fulfilling or fun unless it’s an adventure. When it’s not an adventure life is oppressive, tiresome, never-ending and scary.

It’s what you make it.

You make it with your essential beliefs about life and your attitude. Do you believe that life is fair? Do you think you reap what you sow? Do you think anything is possible in life and that you can achieve anything you put your mind to?

The Universe responds in like terms. Your assumptions about life create the life you’re living, one of your own choosing.

If you don’t like what you live or what you see around you, look within! So grab this moment, be curious, feel wondrous, act silly and giggle.

Love.

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe

Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

Quotes - 2009

The gift that you are…

Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package – Unknown

What do you hide?

And why? You bring gifts that no one else does. Why do you let that light not shine? What does the world lose when you’re shy or hesitant? What’s your Raison D’Etre?

You are the gift!

It’s you, the unique personality that you are, one that has no equal anywhere else in all time and all space!

You are the gift to others and the world; spread your wings; give of yourself; blossom the confidence that’s necessary and don’t hide the brilliance that’s waiting to spring out from you!

Recommendation: Release Your Brilliance

Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World

Quotes - 2009

Unlock the path…

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality. – James Womack

Commitment is the key to getting the self moving.

Commitment to what though? Are you careful about what you commit to? If not you’ll be spinning wheels that don’t need spinning. You’ll be detracting from your ‘Life Purpose’ or that which you were designed to do and be. Which means that any activity not aligned with your Life Purpose will be an energy drain at the very least or worse, one that takes you away from a fulfilling/happy life.

How will you discover your Life Purpose?

Recommendation: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

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Quotes - 2009

Your life, a canvas…

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

So is our life. So is everyone else’s life. As is the collective created by the population of a country and the entire world.

Think about the responsibility you own; responsibility for your own life, responsibility for and in partnership with family and a huge responsibility to the rest of the planet. As we think, as we imagine, as we design and execute, so we reap. Some of our small and inconsequential thoughts might result in the most amazing consequences. And some of our grandest ambitions might be for naught.

There is nothing to fear though; all is well as we play and enjoy this life that we’ve been gifted. The whole world is a playground, a canvas indeed! Let’s go out, play and splash some color around!

Recommendation: DARE TO BE HAPPY

DARE TO BE HAPPY: Ten Golden Commandments for a Joy-Filled Life!