"We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you wake up in the morning with a sense of excitement about the possibilities and looking forward to your tasks, new experiences, interactions, and discoveries which will unfold during your day? If so, then you are young no matter what your actual age. What a blessing to have the continually fresh wonder and suspense of an exciting life.
The secret to mastering the art of living the life you really want is to make, and take, the time to really be present in each moment. Stated another way, to live every moment, you must first decide to make, and take, the time to do it.
Unfortunately, we seem to believe the idea, or in the lifestyle, that everyone must constantly be doing something. What good is it to rush through our lives if we cannot enjoy living as we go?
To really live, set aside time to be with family and friends. We have been created as social beings and are placed on Earth to be of service and support to others.
Mark Twain reminds us that good books and good friends make up the ideal life. What are you reading and whom are you spending time with?
Life is a great gift you have been given, and it’s meant to be enjoyed. If you learn to really enjoy life you will have mastered the art of living.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
How to Trade in a Bad Habit for a Good One
"There are many ways you can get out of the ruts of boredom and mediocrity before you run out of road."
Making changes in our lives is hard isn't it?
Let's look at how to slowly but surely replace our "bad" habits with "good" habits.
"If you want to make some changes in your life, you have to make some changes in your life." ~ Mark Hendricks
Who, What, When, Where, and Why - these are our five trusty friends that can help us make changes in our lives.
Who are your current friends? Are they helping you in positive ways? Who would you like to spend more time with?
What are you doing that you would like to stop doing? What would you like to do more of? Pick one small beneficial thing and do more of it.
When do you do your best work? When are you at your weakest? Be sensitive to your rhythmic body clock.
Where is the place or setting that inspires you most? Where can you spend more time that will be beneficial for you?
Why are you desiring change in your life? Try to understand why you have the negative habits that you currently have.
A habit is a recurring behavior that satisfies, calms, or rewards an underlying emotional need. To break a negative habit, we don’t replace the emotional need, we satisfy or reward that need with a more positive habit. It's unlikely you'll stop an undesirable habit without replacing it with another (hopefully desirable) habit.
When you find a positive habit that fulfills the emotional need, continue to reward that need over and over until the new positive habit becomes your automatic response.
So now you know, we don't get rid of "bad" habits, we replace them with "good" ones. View this as replacing a losing strategy with a winning one.
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Post inspired by the Ultimate Success Program
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Making changes in our lives is hard isn't it?
Let's look at how to slowly but surely replace our "bad" habits with "good" habits.
"If you want to make some changes in your life, you have to make some changes in your life." ~ Mark Hendricks
Who, What, When, Where, and Why - these are our five trusty friends that can help us make changes in our lives.
Who are your current friends? Are they helping you in positive ways? Who would you like to spend more time with?
What are you doing that you would like to stop doing? What would you like to do more of? Pick one small beneficial thing and do more of it.
When do you do your best work? When are you at your weakest? Be sensitive to your rhythmic body clock.
Where is the place or setting that inspires you most? Where can you spend more time that will be beneficial for you?
Why are you desiring change in your life? Try to understand why you have the negative habits that you currently have.
A habit is a recurring behavior that satisfies, calms, or rewards an underlying emotional need. To break a negative habit, we don’t replace the emotional need, we satisfy or reward that need with a more positive habit. It's unlikely you'll stop an undesirable habit without replacing it with another (hopefully desirable) habit.
When you find a positive habit that fulfills the emotional need, continue to reward that need over and over until the new positive habit becomes your automatic response.
So now you know, we don't get rid of "bad" habits, we replace them with "good" ones. View this as replacing a losing strategy with a winning one.
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Post inspired by the Ultimate Success Program
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Do You Understand the Law of Compensation?
"Learn this mighty law which can produce either success or failure, wealth or poverty, happiness or heartbreak, and once you fully understand it you will be able to control your destiny."
How do you know or understand happiness? I would submit that it is by experiencing unhappiness.
How can you read the words on this page? By discerning the dark type from the light background.
As Emerson states, “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
How can we have rewards if we don't take responsibility?
If you have taken some action toward an objective you have already begun to benefit. The reward of your action is being stored for you when you properly plant your action seeds in the right soil to achieve the true result, or continue nurturing with that magic ingredient, time.
The Law of Compensation is another way of stating the Biblical principle of sowing and reaping found in Galatians 6:7. It states that you will be compensated for your efforts, however much or however little.
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darkness and light
man and woman
in and out
heat and cold
motion and rest
Each part of the world has its dualities that by certain compensation balances every gift and defect – a surplus in one area results in a reduction in another area.How do you know or understand happiness? I would submit that it is by experiencing unhappiness.
How can you read the words on this page? By discerning the dark type from the light background.
As Emerson states, “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
How can we have rewards if we don't take responsibility?
If you have taken some action toward an objective you have already begun to benefit. The reward of your action is being stored for you when you properly plant your action seeds in the right soil to achieve the true result, or continue nurturing with that magic ingredient, time.
The Law of Compensation is another way of stating the Biblical principle of sowing and reaping found in Galatians 6:7. It states that you will be compensated for your efforts, however much or however little.
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Post inspired by the Ultimate Success Program (affiliate link)
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