Tag Archives: thinking

Quotes - 2009

What direction?

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

That’s it. Don’t fret over all the things that are going wrong or whatever’s not working in your life. Focus instead on your true values and ultimate goals. This will lead to your finding your guiding compass, your North Star.

At a broad level understand what makes you tick and what you’re shooting for in life. Know what makes you happy and others around you happy at the same time. Get to know your self and your life purpose.

Then follow your compass daily. Life can be simple. And you don’t have to quit your day job to walk this way!

Recommendation: This Time I Dance! – Tama J. Kieves

Quotes - 2009

A life of purpose…

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. – Kenneth Hildebrand

Your purpose, what is it?

Let’s dissect further. You.

  • Who are you?
  • What’s your place in this Universe?
  • Where are you headed?
  • Why do you matter?

It’s your purpose next.

  • Why do you exist?
  • What meaning does your life and activities have?
  • What difference are you meant to make?

If you haven’t examined your self and your life purpose, now is the time!

Enjoy!

Recommendation: True Purpose & The Life Purpose Coach

Quotes - 2009

Flow with the river…

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Vex not they spirit at the course of things; they heed not they vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. – Marcus Aurelius

We should have ambitions and make plans. Then leave the result to Nature/God. It pays not to worry or hassle over things that we don’t control. In fact by worrying we lessen our own preparedness to tackle life and the challenges it throws at us.

Flow with this river called time, let things take their course, maintain your own peace, do all you can, and let go… Enjoy the journey!

Recommendation: Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius

Quotes - 2009

Create the future you would like…

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

How much of your future do you think you can affect?

The answer to that question will define your power over your own life.

Granted there are certain inevitabilities like the nature of Nature that rule out certainties of any material sort. Beyond that though, your basic assumptions about life, health, happiness, relationships and your world-view will define your life as you will live it in the future. Your current beliefs and desires have put you where you are today.

How much power do you have upon yourself? Your mind? Catch yourself making subtle assumptions through-out the day. For example do you try to save money even though it might not be worth your time? Then it will follow that money may not flow freely into your life. Do you believe that because you’re not athletic, you’re not fit and therefore not healthy? If so, that belief will become reality in your daily life. Subtle beliefs are very hard to catch, but they’re often caught by people near you. Listen to them. Watch your thoughts, especially as they arise. Observe your actions and reactions.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind – Ernest Holmes

Quotes - 2009

Face the fear in the moment!

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.“ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wow that sure is the way to grow! And when you stop to look the fear in the face you won’t be able to proceed if you start analyzing the fear and start imagining worse outcomes!

The only way forward would be to face the fear and just move on, like when you’re about to dive into the pool, you just do it, without thinking.

So the ability to look clearly without worrying thoughts muddying your outlook is the key here. Clear thinking comes from disciplining the mind, which in turn can come from pure observation and/or meditation!

Recommendation: The Power of Now

Quotes - 2009

What’s the cost?

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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy

What’s the cost of your inaction today? How long will you stay in your comfort zone, essentially fooling yourself?

Time for some self-examination and truth telling!

Here are some ways in which we might be selling ourselves short:

  1. Not expressing love because we feel shy or lazy.
  2. Not saying yes to an opportunity because we’re afraid.
  3. Saying yes to too much work because work is our comfort zone!
  4. Being lazy about our health because the opposite is hard work.

So you see our ‘comfort zone’ comes in many varieties, let’s be aware of them, and assert our will, for what is truly good for us.

Recommendation: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Quotes - 2009

How are you disabled?

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – BF Skinner

Society provides many benefits but it hobbles us more than we think.

How are you conditioned by your circumstances? How were you conditioned by your culture growing up? How is your world-view shaped?

These are important questions to ask ourselves so that we know what subtle assumptions shape us, our beliefs and therefore our happiness and relationships. This is yet another way in which we live our lives hypnotized, skimming the surface of life, not really knowing what we miss!

Wake up to the real you, reclaim your heritage via correct thinking and awareness!

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence – J Krishnamurti