Abraham Joshua Heschel said, “Life is routine, and routine is resistance to wonder.” When we’re babies and kids, everything is like new and captures our attention, but over time we become habituated to life and lose out on the wonder if it all. How about the fact that we can see color and not just black and white? Or what about multitude of different sounds, tastes, and aromas there are out there? When we really take a moment to ponder and pay attention to all of these senses, it’s not only amazing, but quite a miracle. Now, that may sound impressive, but how do we really get down to more practical matters.
Note: If any judgments arise (e.g., “paying attention to my senses, that’s a waste of time” or “this will never help me” or “this is too simple to matter”), just notice them as habits of the mind that Read the rest of this entry »
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1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Don’t you wish we could go without sleeping? We could accomplish much more in our days. We spend one third of our lifetime sleeping. Imagine that! But why do we sleep?
Common sense would tell us that we sleep to recuperate our energy from a day’s work. But sleeping is a far more complex process than we think. Scientists have conducted numerous studies to answer that question. Read the rest of this entry »
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How can you build the life you want? The answer to that question is different for each of us. But it’s critical that you answer it, because in the answer you will find purpose and meaning. Many of us look for happiness in things, but happiness doesn’t come from things, it comes from how we relate to ourselves and our world.
- Be True to Yourself - This doesn’t mean a life without compromise. It means that you don’t lie to yourself. It means that you find out what is true in your heart, and you seek people, places, and experiences which support that core truth. It means you don’t settle for mediocrity. It means you keep striving for excellence even in the Read the rest of this entry »
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Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history? Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left behind.
Even though these great teachers have passed on, their words still live, and in them their wisdom. I’ve made a list of seven what I believe are some of the greatest teachings by the world’s greatest minds. Read the rest of this entry »
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Motivational speaker Patrick O’Dooley addresses hundreds of audiences a year. At one point during his speeches, he asks the audience to tell him what words they use to describe “a winner.”
He goes to a board or flip chart as people in the audience call out the words they associate with winners and writes down the first ten he hears.
Over the years, O’Dooley has kept these top 10 lists of winning qualities, and he recently compiled them into a list ranked in the order of occurrence: Read the rest of this entry »
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A good marriage / relationship is based on much more than good sex. But couples who let physical passion drift away lose an essential emotional connection to each other. Often the feelings of romance and attraction that first drew together a man and woman get lost over time. This is because the couple fails to recognize, appreciate and understand the natural differences between the sexes.This lack of understanding can lead to feelings of rejection… frustration… and, ultimately, to sexual and emotional distance. Read the rest of this entry »
One: Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Two: Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Three: Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. Read the rest of this entry »
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There’s something to be said for slow and steady progress… And there’s something to be said for strong, decisive, sweeping action. When it comes to bad, self-defeating habits, there’s no time like today to drop ‘em like they’re hot. I’ve been more aware lately of the annoying conversational habits of other people. Worse than that, I’ve then been noticing myself repeating those things. Cutting out these nasty habits make it simpler to get to the heart of communication, so why not start today? Read the rest of this entry »
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I can’t speak for everyone, but in my limited experience, relationships don’t have to be hard. One of the best ways to nurture a relationship is to let your partner know that you love and appreciate him or her. And even better than Read the rest of this entry »
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