"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
Albert Einstein
Monday, 15 March 2010
Friday, 12 March 2010
Friday Story
Live Backwards
Ben's first duty as a new pastor was to conduct a funeral service for Albert, a man who had died in his eighties. Since he didn't know the deceased, he invited members of the congregation to say a few kind words about Albert.
No one budged. "Many of you knew Albert for years," Ben prompted them. "Surely someone can say something nice."
After an uncomfortable pause, a voice from the back of the room said, "Well, his brother was worse."
If you died tomorrow, what would people say about you? Would their comments make you proud of the way you lived and the choices you made?
There's an old saying: "If you want to know how to live your life, think about what you'd like people to say about you after you die.and live backwards."
Thinking about the legacy we want to leave can help us keep our priorities straight. When the end is near, it's not likely any of us will say, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office." Unfortunately, many of us only begin to realize the value of the time we have after we've frittered much of it away in shallow ruts going nowhere important.
It's hard to think now what will matter later. But doing so can dramatically improve our chances of living a full and meaningful life with few regrets.
Knowing how we want to be remembered also allows us to make a strategic plan for our lives. How much wiser would our choices be if we had the wisdom and discipline to regularly ask ourselves whether all the things we do and say are taking us where we want to be at the end?
In a sense, we write our eulogies by the choices we make every day.
Michael Josephson
Ben's first duty as a new pastor was to conduct a funeral service for Albert, a man who had died in his eighties. Since he didn't know the deceased, he invited members of the congregation to say a few kind words about Albert.
No one budged. "Many of you knew Albert for years," Ben prompted them. "Surely someone can say something nice."
After an uncomfortable pause, a voice from the back of the room said, "Well, his brother was worse."
If you died tomorrow, what would people say about you? Would their comments make you proud of the way you lived and the choices you made?
There's an old saying: "If you want to know how to live your life, think about what you'd like people to say about you after you die.and live backwards."
Thinking about the legacy we want to leave can help us keep our priorities straight. When the end is near, it's not likely any of us will say, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office." Unfortunately, many of us only begin to realize the value of the time we have after we've frittered much of it away in shallow ruts going nowhere important.
It's hard to think now what will matter later. But doing so can dramatically improve our chances of living a full and meaningful life with few regrets.
Knowing how we want to be remembered also allows us to make a strategic plan for our lives. How much wiser would our choices be if we had the wisdom and discipline to regularly ask ourselves whether all the things we do and say are taking us where we want to be at the end?
In a sense, we write our eulogies by the choices we make every day.
Michael Josephson
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Personal Development Course - 'The Covenant'
I am currently into Month 2 of the Andrew Reynolds course 'The Covenant'. It is basically following on from the information and ideas contained in 'The Secret'. Month 2 contains DVD's and a workbook from Joe Vitale who appeared in The Secret movie. The first DVD is called 'Installing and Transcending The Secret'. Here are my notes from watching part of the DVD last night:
- As well as The Law of Attraction, also be aware of and use The Law of Gratitude. Think and focus on things you are grateful for now. This will invoke the feelings and emotions necessary for The Law of Attraction to provide more things in your life that you will feel grateful for.
- Do NOT focus on a lack of something you desire or a frustration at the time taken to achieve a goal as this will only bring you more of those negative feelings.
- Focus on what you DO want. Be happy in the NOW. Do not hinge your happiness or well-being on achieving the goals in the future. Feel the emotions of having achieved those goals NOW.
- Declare and believe your intentions - say them inside yourself or out loud several times a day.
- Get rid of limiting beliefs. Clear these from your system and follow your bliss. This will ensure you are free to blossom.
- Thoughts + Feelings = Manifestation
- Write down your goals as if it was AFTER you had achieved them (e.g. I am so happy and grateful now that I am living in my 4 bedroom detached villa overlooking the hills/sea etc).
- LOVE is the most powerful and creative force in the world.
Sam Crowley Podcast - Lose Your Disguise!
This is a link to an 8 min video from Sam Crowley (Every Day is Saturday guy). He is very 'fired up' but his message is so true. Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3G7KW0BXys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3G7KW0BXys
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Quote Of The Day
"It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly, correct it, and learn from it. That literally turns a failure into a success. Success is on the far side of failure."
T.J. Watson
T.J. Watson
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Just a (positive) thought........
I've been thinking about this subject for about 9 months now. Ever since I was introduced to the world of personal development in fact. My world and my mind has been opened up by people, books, DVD's and video blogs. I have so many positive people on my Facebook friends list that not a day goes by that I don't find inspiration and hope from someone or somewhere. Maybe I have just been blinkered to this society all my life, but I get the feeling that there is a shift or a movement gathering pace across the world. Through books like The Secret and The Law of Attraction, there seems to be a sense that we can all influence the paths we travel in life not only for ourselves, but for the good of society in general.
I feel a great sense of hope that we are finally getting our act together and that there is an amazing future ahead for not just this generation but every generation to follow. We CAN and WILL make a difference through positive thoughts and actions and the ability to communicate all across the world with like-minded people.
What do you all think?
I feel a great sense of hope that we are finally getting our act together and that there is an amazing future ahead for not just this generation but every generation to follow. We CAN and WILL make a difference through positive thoughts and actions and the ability to communicate all across the world with like-minded people.
What do you all think?
Quote Of The Day - from a Chinese Proverb
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Monday, 8 March 2010
Quote Of The Day
Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose.
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Monday Thought...
Is "it" what you really want?
I have been thinking about this topic for a few weeks now - then whilst watching a movie last week it was brought to my attention again.
It is not the "it" that you want, it is the fantasy of "it", it is the feeling of success when you have/get "it".
In other words, when you daydream about what you think will make you happy and successful, Is "it" the actual Luxury Car/Designer Home/ Ist Class Travel etc that you really want or is "it" the feeling of having all these things and the feeling of being successful what you really want?
So, why do so many people fail to get what they really want?
Because they think they will only be truly happy and successful when they get what really want. This is a sure recipe for failure.
If you are taking the steps you need to achieve what you really want - and are being true to yourself and all who have an influence in your life. Then you are on the path to having and achieving all you really want, the path may be a little rocky or windy and sometimes you may take a wrong turn - but that's life!
When you go into a maze - you go in knowing that you are going to find your way to the exit, you have a bit of fun on the journey of the maze - you take a few wrongs turns and have to backtrack and find another way to get to the exit - BUT that's exactly what you do - You find another way and you get to the exit! You don't give up and think its too hard, you know for a fact that if you persist you will find the exit. It may take a little longer than you had hoped for and your friends and others in the maze may get to the exit before you. But when you get to the exit - you have your story to tell of your journey.
So, think about what it is you really want to achieve, put steps in place - take action - and know that "Where there is a will there is a way".
Taken by kind permission from Allyson Morgans's blog..visit http://isitreallywhatyouwant.blogspot.com/
I have been thinking about this topic for a few weeks now - then whilst watching a movie last week it was brought to my attention again.
It is not the "it" that you want, it is the fantasy of "it", it is the feeling of success when you have/get "it".
In other words, when you daydream about what you think will make you happy and successful, Is "it" the actual Luxury Car/Designer Home/ Ist Class Travel etc that you really want or is "it" the feeling of having all these things and the feeling of being successful what you really want?
So, why do so many people fail to get what they really want?
Because they think they will only be truly happy and successful when they get what really want. This is a sure recipe for failure.
If you are taking the steps you need to achieve what you really want - and are being true to yourself and all who have an influence in your life. Then you are on the path to having and achieving all you really want, the path may be a little rocky or windy and sometimes you may take a wrong turn - but that's life!
When you go into a maze - you go in knowing that you are going to find your way to the exit, you have a bit of fun on the journey of the maze - you take a few wrongs turns and have to backtrack and find another way to get to the exit - BUT that's exactly what you do - You find another way and you get to the exit! You don't give up and think its too hard, you know for a fact that if you persist you will find the exit. It may take a little longer than you had hoped for and your friends and others in the maze may get to the exit before you. But when you get to the exit - you have your story to tell of your journey.
So, think about what it is you really want to achieve, put steps in place - take action - and know that "Where there is a will there is a way".
Taken by kind permission from Allyson Morgans's blog..visit http://isitreallywhatyouwant.blogspot.com/
Friday, 5 March 2010
Friday Story
Catching Fish In A Jar
When I was between eleven and twelve years old I decided one bright sunny day that it would be fun to go fishing. I didn't have any fishing gear and I had never done much fishing other than to play on the stream banks while my father fished. I also didn't want to "hurt" the fish I just wanted to catch them and then let them go.
I looked around the house for what I could use and I found a washed out old mayonnaise jar. You know the old style jars with the big open "mouth". I walked to a nearby pond and put the jar down in the soft dust-like mud of the water's edge with the open "mouth" of the jar facing toward the center. I then stirred the waters a little and made them cloudy so that the fish would have trouble seeing me. Then I waited hovering over the jar. Gradually, cautiously a small fish would swim up to the clear jar to investigate the disturbance and when it swam into the jar I dropped my hand into the water and over the jar mouth. I caught a fish, then another.
I just let them all go and returned my jar to the cupboard. Then I decided to use wire "box trap" to go fishing and rigged a string to the door. This way I could drop the trap in the water and not have to "hover over" it like I did with the jar. I sat very relaxed on the bank of the pond and sure enough I caught a fair sized bluegill. I took it home in a water filled plastic waste basket to show my dad and afterward returned it to the pond.
When I told people about how I had caught the fish they just paused and laughed nervously. You see unlike these people, I didn't know that you couldn't catch fish in a jar. If I would have asked them they would have scoffed and said, "You can't catch fish in a jar or a box trap!" No one in my life had ever dreamed of telling me that so my belief system did not contain these words or the impact that they would have had on my "day of fishing". Only a free minded kid could come up with an idea of using a jar or a box trap to catch fish! No one had told me that this was impossible so I just used what I was familiar with and what I had available and I succeeded.
Maybe today finds you facing a situation that seems impossible. You have a desire but no visible way of bringing it into being. You may need to find that "kid" inside you who thinks "outside the box" and the normal ways of achieving things and let him or her catch that fish in a jar! See your situation from a different angle. Start looking at the resources that you already have and the things that you are already familiar with. A fresh perspective and a childlike sense of wonder may surprise you and there's no telling what you will come up with!
Jami Sell
When I was between eleven and twelve years old I decided one bright sunny day that it would be fun to go fishing. I didn't have any fishing gear and I had never done much fishing other than to play on the stream banks while my father fished. I also didn't want to "hurt" the fish I just wanted to catch them and then let them go.
I looked around the house for what I could use and I found a washed out old mayonnaise jar. You know the old style jars with the big open "mouth". I walked to a nearby pond and put the jar down in the soft dust-like mud of the water's edge with the open "mouth" of the jar facing toward the center. I then stirred the waters a little and made them cloudy so that the fish would have trouble seeing me. Then I waited hovering over the jar. Gradually, cautiously a small fish would swim up to the clear jar to investigate the disturbance and when it swam into the jar I dropped my hand into the water and over the jar mouth. I caught a fish, then another.
I just let them all go and returned my jar to the cupboard. Then I decided to use wire "box trap" to go fishing and rigged a string to the door. This way I could drop the trap in the water and not have to "hover over" it like I did with the jar. I sat very relaxed on the bank of the pond and sure enough I caught a fair sized bluegill. I took it home in a water filled plastic waste basket to show my dad and afterward returned it to the pond.
When I told people about how I had caught the fish they just paused and laughed nervously. You see unlike these people, I didn't know that you couldn't catch fish in a jar. If I would have asked them they would have scoffed and said, "You can't catch fish in a jar or a box trap!" No one in my life had ever dreamed of telling me that so my belief system did not contain these words or the impact that they would have had on my "day of fishing". Only a free minded kid could come up with an idea of using a jar or a box trap to catch fish! No one had told me that this was impossible so I just used what I was familiar with and what I had available and I succeeded.
Maybe today finds you facing a situation that seems impossible. You have a desire but no visible way of bringing it into being. You may need to find that "kid" inside you who thinks "outside the box" and the normal ways of achieving things and let him or her catch that fish in a jar! See your situation from a different angle. Start looking at the resources that you already have and the things that you are already familiar with. A fresh perspective and a childlike sense of wonder may surprise you and there's no telling what you will come up with!
Jami Sell
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