Being kind is obviously a predicate of love.
Gratitude is also the foundation of love.
Service and giving are seeds of love.
Respect and consideration are necessary for love to thrive.
Self respect, and love are required to give love as a man cannot give what he does not possess.
Love creates success, abundance, compassion, community, health and peace.
Should there be anything else?
As we dream, plan and look forward to better days living our best life, it is vital to value the present moment and live today, today.
Many of us are on a journey of personal development. We know life could be better and we fully intend to embrace the grandest version of the greatest vision we can have of ourselves.
Hopefully we can assume the feeling of this reality NOW,and embrace the PRESENT, as it is really all there is.
The future will always be ahead as the past is no longer.
Right NOW IS LIFE.
IT IS ALWAYS NOW.
Plan, design, create, act, look forward, but always live the moment.
Be mindful of the beauty of the day, be grateful for all you have, enjoy the magnificence of nature, feel the weather, smell the air, the flowers and trees. Taste your food and embrace your friends, family, and coworkers.
This moment is life. Our future is only a thought, a plan, a dream. It will be life when we get there. It will be now when we get there.
Will we blast right through it as we do most other days? Looking for the next?
Life happens NOW.
As Wayne Dyer has always said; “Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing”
When we are willing to entertain all possibilities without dismissing any due to prejudices or preconceptions we can live with the assurance that the decisions we make to serve our best interests and allow for our highest good are not compromised or restricted.
Generally, most limitations we encounter have been self imposed by refusing to entertain all possibilities because of what we’ve been told, how we were raised and what our friends and family ascribe to “our way”.
Always choose, evaluate and weigh options ONLY after ALL possibilities have been considered.
Our purpose in life is self determined, it is whatever we are passionate about and
are good at . The talent has been programmed into us so we may serve the world and enjoy doing so.
When our actions and endeavors are aligned with our purpose we are unstoppable and destined for great success, happiness and joy.
We design the world we live in. We lay the road we navigate. Our minds hold the script that will be the performance of our grandest show.
Nothing is impossible as long as we believe it. Our story will start with a dream. No matter how wild the dream, our faith, passion and perseverance will lead to the debut of you.
Dream big.
Remain authentic.
Believe.
A truly authentic life is lived by taking actions on our intentions and following our dreams. When we find we are Reacting, to what others expect from us we have compromised our identity and have become creators of the world that others desire.
To join a movement or align with perspective being widely spread and publicly encouraged is a hypnotic reaction to narrative created by collectives of groups wishing to control and garner power. If we are living with fear and uncertainty, the illusion of safety in numbers creates the allure of group think, offering a sense of security.
The price for this respite is to compromise authenticity and integrity while giving up identity.
RESIST.
BE TRUE TO YOURSELF.
One of our greatest sources of frustrationin life is our perception that others donot understand us, see our point of view,agree with us and validate that we areright. To think that someone, or even anyone believes we are wrong about matters of importance can be debilitating.
The incessant drive to be perceived as right andtherefore knowledgeable, to gain approval and high regard from others is born of insecurity.
Such need is an indication that self- love is lacking.No amount of approval will ever satisfy this need, only loving ones self can fill this void.
True happiness and unfettered Joy can
only be realised when we live
independent of the opinion of others.
We may be ordained to serve but
not to please and cater to anyone.
Those that look outward with envy ignoring the gifts they possess will forever be unfulfilled.
Even if we emulate others, surpass their accomplishments and appear superior unless we are fulfilling our unique call, no level of success will ever be enough.
Competition or even comparison is a distraction from the authenticity of life.
We are meant to live our lives, not to mirror the lives of others. One of each is enough.
Mind your OWN business.
It is of vital importance that each of us are aware of the unique drive that we possess. Too many of us these days are emulating the actions, attitudes, and conditions of others for the sake of getting along and being accepted. This deprives the collective of humanity from all of its vital working parts.
Lions don’t walk around bleeting like sheep, fish have yet to begin flying, and butterflies are not constructing highways. Such actions would be absurd. Similarly, any man following the intention of another is equally as absurd and contributing to the dissonant sound which should be the beautiful melody of the universe.
Play your notes, let others play theirs let’s see how it sounds
Each of us has a special talent, penchant for a specific activity, proclivity toward repeating particular tasks that we are good at and enjoy.
These are the actions we should be conducting for the common good. Our contribution to society in exchange for having our needs met, should not only bring us financial remuneration but also satisfaction.
This is why we all have different gifts. There is a synchronistic dance of give and take that keeps community in place.
When we toil at distasteful tasks in order to “get” from the world, the quality of our offering will be low as will our return.
There is no value in working for money alone.
Do what you love.
Love what you do.
Success is Joy
Joy is Success.
At times when we feel our life is not going according to plan it is easy to blame conditions.
Some of us may think we were born on the wrong side of the tracks. There may be this underlying feeling that our heritage,ethnicity, economic, upbringing, or family has had an impact on the life we experience.
And more often than not, even while living a charmed life, it may be challenges and road blocks we encounter that challenge us beyond our comfort level, causing disappointment and distress. In all of these situations, we find the opportunity to defer responsibility for outcomes to the condition.
“Life is just handed me lemons“.
“I’ve been dealt a bad hand“.
When we take a look at the game of baseball, the outcome of the game is not determined by the quality of the pitch, but the quality of the swing. What I’m trying to say is it is not what is coming at us that is important but how we react to it and treat it. A batter can take the wildest pitch and reach across the plate and get a great hit, or let the perfect pitch go by for a strike. So this tells you that the outcome is based upon the reaction, not the condition.
The inventor of Play-Doh was trying to create glue and continuously failed.
He could’ve just walked away, but he took the hand he was dealt and found something useful to do with it.
Success comes to us in all endeavors when we take responsibility for our swing and refrain from blaming the world for our results.
Swing for the fences!
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