Putting Your Life On Hold And Forgetting The Moment
April 19, 2011 | No Comments » | Topics: Life, Writing |
“First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then, I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then, I was dying to marry and have children.
And then, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then, I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying…… And suddenly realise, I forgot to live.”
— Old wisdom
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7 Lessons From the World’s Greatest Minds
April 15, 2011 | 1 Comment » | Topics: Life, Writing |
Courtesy of IlluminatedMind.net
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.
1. Realizing Your Dreams
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
– Lawrence J. Peter
In order for us to achieve our dreams, we must have a vision of our goals. Writing down our dreams and creating a list of actions helps us stick to our plan. As it’s said “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. When we turn our goals into measurable actions, we gain clarity and are able to see the necessary steps we must take in order to achieve them.
Action: Visualize a life of your wildest dreams. What did you dream of doing when you were a child? What would you do if you had a million dollars? Create a vision for your goals and start breaking them down into small actions that you can take on a day by day basis.
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Ten Rules For Being Human
April 14, 2011 | No Comments » | Topics: Life, Writing |
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
Written by Cherie Carter-Scott in Life is a Game, These Are The Rules
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Awesome Poem You Should Read Of The Day
April 13, 2011 | No Comments » | Topics: Life |
Don’t Quit
by: Unknown Author
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.
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Accepting False Limits By Seth Godin
April 12, 2011 | No Comments » | Topics: Life, Writing |
I will never be able to dunk a basketball.
This is beyond discussion.
Imagine, though, a co-worker who says, “I’ll never be able to use a knife and fork. No, I have to use my hands.”
Or a colleague who says, “I can’t possibly learn Chinese. I’m not smart enough.”
This is a mystery to me. A billion people have learned Chinese, and the failure rate for new kids is close to zero. If a well functioning adult puts in sufficient time and the effort, she”ll succeed.
The key to this disconnect is the unspoken part about time and effort and fear. I agree that you will never ship that product or close that sale or invent that device unless you put in the time and put in the effort and overcome the fear. But I don’t accept for a minute that there’s some sort of natural limit on your ability to do just about anything that involves creating and selling ideas.
This attitude gets me in trouble sometimes. Perhaps I shouldn’t be pushing people who want something but have been taught not to push themselves. Somewhere along the way, it seems, I forgot that it’s none of my business if people choose to accept what they’ve got, to forget their dreams and to not seek to help those around them achieve what matters to them.
Not sure if you’ll forgive me, but no, I’m not going to believe that only a few people are permitted to be gatekeepers or creators or generous leaders. I have no intention of apologizing for believing in people, for insisting that we all use this moment and these assets to create some art and improve the world around us.
To do anything less than that is a crime.
via Seth Godin
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Your Insightful 1 Minute Read Of The Day: The Fisherman And The Businessman
April 11, 2011 | No Comments » | Topics: Life, Writing |
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?
via Paulo Coelheo
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The Most Awesome Video You Will See Today: Michael Jordan’s “Maybe It’s My Fault” Commercial
December 2, 2010 | No Comments » | Topics: Life |
I know this video is a couple years old and many of you might have seen it before but it’s phenomenally awesome and worth a revisit. It’s a Nike commercial and although they are in the business of selling products, their approach in marketing is different in an awesome way. I watched this video over and over again and it just captures me every single time. Take what you will from it but don’t let yourself fool you that this video is only about basketball.
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Your Awesomely Inspiring Video Of The Day: 14 Year Old Gay Student Defends Teacher From Disciplinary Action
November 15, 2010 | No Comments » | Topics: Life |
Here’s a pretty awesome video of a 14 year old teenager speaking out against the disciplinary action that was taken against his teacher, Jay McDowell, who removed two students who had made anti-gay remarks in class. You got to give the kid some major props for being so well spoken and so brave to speak out in such a manner. When I was 14 the only critical thing in my life that took precdent was the festering pimple on my face and how it affected my non-existent social life.
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Why So Serious? Let’s Have A Dance Party
October 20, 2010 | No Comments » | Topics: Heartwarming, Life |
A few days ago I did a post about Craig Dietz, a man with no arms and no legs and yet is still living life to the fullest without complaints and today I have for you a video about Sean Stephenson, a little person confined to a wheel chair, who’s carfree attitude towards life leads him to breaking out in dance throughout the day. Now my question to you is why is it that the people with the most right to complain about life, don’t? Why is it that they are the ones who inspire and we are the ones left complaining about how bad we have it in life?
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Inspiring Animal Video Of The Day: Squirrel Defends Dead Friend’s Body From A Flock Of Crows
April 22, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Topics: Life |
With all that’s happening in the world with wars, terrorism, racism, greed and the countless other barrage of shit that would make any decent human being lose all hope and faith in humanity, sometimes it takes an animal to give us hope, shows us the way, give us a reason to live and strive to make the world a decent place to live in.
