What You Become
The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha
I’ll keep posting stuff like this until I get it.*
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* I’m working on it, but it make take a while . . . .
beautiful, amazing, challenging, rewarding, what you make it, fantastic, boring, excellent, fun, exciting, the sum of our choices so far, breathtaking, dull, to be savored, tough, just what we see, just too busy, pre-destined, much more than meets the eye, simple, complex, easy, hard, to be endured, for our enjoyment, a series of challenges, easy,…
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. – Lao Tzu I’ve heard that hurt people hurt people. While it’s not anyone’s responsibility to help everyone, we all have…
“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” – John Wooden Often, many of us, are easily distracted by the new, the shiny, the novel. And big things. We take note of grand accomplishments and gestures. Yet we don’t notice so much. Our brains are natural filtering mechanisms. There’s simply too…
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Change is constant and inevitable. Difficulties only end when we do (i.e. we die). There will be joy, and pain….
Sometimes I come across something so useful/compelling/interesting that I need to share it in its entirety. Below is one of those things (and it doesn’t matter if you’re a sales-person or entrepreneur or work in a corporate setting or the non-profit sector, or . . . ): In most of our professional relationships we stay…
Are you frustrated by something? (Love it. It will transform.) Wish your spouse or partner was different/better/nicer? (Love them. They will “change” before your eyes.) Hate your job or business? (Love it. It will become something all together different.) . . . [insert your version of the above] Can’t do it? Can’t love “it” or…