The best choice is to make a choice. You have the power to choose, so make use of it.
When you are willing to make choices, your life moves in a direction that is agreeable to you. Choices make control and responsibility possible, along with achievement and fulfillment.
Your moment-by-moment choices serve to focus the energy that is your life. By making choices, you communicate and reinforce your preferences and desires, and the world around you responds accordingly.
Your choices and their content determine the quality and direction of your life. Take a little time to choose in a careful and informed manner, yet do not take so long that you fail to choose at all.
Your choices are what make your intentions real. They connect your goals with your reality.
When there is a choice to be made, there is an opportunity to more precisely and positively direct your life. Choose consistently, with abiding purpose, and your life moves forward toward your highest vision.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Now Is What You Choose
There was a time when you thought you could change the world. You were right, and you still are.
There was a time when you knew that life was filled with limitless possibilities. It still is, and so are you.
Perhaps you're dismayed that so much time has passed without much noticeable progress. Yet the longer you've waited to move forward, the more quickly and powerfully you can do so when you choose to start.
To change the world, and to fulfill your greatest possibilities, does not require anything from your past. It's a matter of making a choice, in the present, to act with positive purpose.
Now is the place where your life resides. And now is what you choose to make it.
With a thankful, joyful heart, look around you at the possibilities that stretch out in all directions. Choose one of those possibilities now, and proceed to lovingly give life to it.
There was a time when you knew that life was filled with limitless possibilities. It still is, and so are you.
Perhaps you're dismayed that so much time has passed without much noticeable progress. Yet the longer you've waited to move forward, the more quickly and powerfully you can do so when you choose to start.
To change the world, and to fulfill your greatest possibilities, does not require anything from your past. It's a matter of making a choice, in the present, to act with positive purpose.
Now is the place where your life resides. And now is what you choose to make it.
With a thankful, joyful heart, look around you at the possibilities that stretch out in all directions. Choose one of those possibilities now, and proceed to lovingly give life to it.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Learning from Consequences
Consequences are superb teachers. Their lessons touch you profoundly and stay with you for life.
Many of the abstract concepts you come across are quickly forgotten. The consequences you experience, on the other hand, are nearly impossible to forget.
Through consequences you learn, in a personally meaningful way, what works and what doesn't. Through consequences you learn what's important and why.
Both the painful consequences and the joyful ones are quite memorable. Most importantly, not only do you remember the consequences, you also remember what specific thoughts and actions brought you to them.
You have the magnificent ability to make things happen, to create your own consequences. The more you learn from the experience of your consequences, the more reliably you're able to create the precise outcomes you desire.
Everything you do has a consequence, and every consequence has a lesson. Learn well, and create all the best you can envision.
Many of the abstract concepts you come across are quickly forgotten. The consequences you experience, on the other hand, are nearly impossible to forget.
Through consequences you learn, in a personally meaningful way, what works and what doesn't. Through consequences you learn what's important and why.
Both the painful consequences and the joyful ones are quite memorable. Most importantly, not only do you remember the consequences, you also remember what specific thoughts and actions brought you to them.
You have the magnificent ability to make things happen, to create your own consequences. The more you learn from the experience of your consequences, the more reliably you're able to create the precise outcomes you desire.
Everything you do has a consequence, and every consequence has a lesson. Learn well, and create all the best you can envision.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Venture Out
Can you find it within yourself to appreciate and even enjoy what you do not like? By so doing, you will experience a sense of acceptance, peace and power.
Can you learn to be understanding and patient when you have been angered, frustrated, or inconvenienced? Do so, and you'll discover a highly effective way to move forward no matter what.
Are you able to respect and explore an opinion or perspective with which you disagree? That can add real strength and conviction to your own perspective.
Life's richness does not come from just staying with what is familiar, comfortable and pleasurable. It is when you venture out, away from the familiar, that you grow stronger and more capable.
Hold tightly to your core values while at the same time opening your mind and your heart to new thoughts, feelings and experiences. Your own perspective will grow stronger when you look at it from other perspectives.
Find ways to provide a healthy challenge for your understanding of life. And you'll learn to understand, to discover and to experience so very much more.
Can you learn to be understanding and patient when you have been angered, frustrated, or inconvenienced? Do so, and you'll discover a highly effective way to move forward no matter what.
Are you able to respect and explore an opinion or perspective with which you disagree? That can add real strength and conviction to your own perspective.
Life's richness does not come from just staying with what is familiar, comfortable and pleasurable. It is when you venture out, away from the familiar, that you grow stronger and more capable.
Hold tightly to your core values while at the same time opening your mind and your heart to new thoughts, feelings and experiences. Your own perspective will grow stronger when you look at it from other perspectives.
Find ways to provide a healthy challenge for your understanding of life. And you'll learn to understand, to discover and to experience so very much more.
Who You Know You Are
Many of the good and valuable things you do will go unnoticed by everyone else. Do them anyway, because you will know.
Many of the contributions you make will not be fully appreciated by others. Make them anyway, because they're the right things to do.
It's great when you receive recognition for the work you do and the high standards you maintain. Yet even when there is no possibility of recognition, there is still plenty of reason to give your very best.
Even when no one else is watching, you are watching. Even when no one else appreciates the value of what you're doing, you understand that value.
Your honest, authentic view of yourself influences all that you do. And that view is formed largely during the times when no one is watching.
Be ever true to yourself and to the values you hold dear. Your life is a living expression of who you truly know you are.
Many of the contributions you make will not be fully appreciated by others. Make them anyway, because they're the right things to do.
It's great when you receive recognition for the work you do and the high standards you maintain. Yet even when there is no possibility of recognition, there is still plenty of reason to give your very best.
Even when no one else is watching, you are watching. Even when no one else appreciates the value of what you're doing, you understand that value.
Your honest, authentic view of yourself influences all that you do. And that view is formed largely during the times when no one is watching.
Be ever true to yourself and to the values you hold dear. Your life is a living expression of who you truly know you are.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Get A Purpose
If you're not clear about your purpose on this day, random events, distractions and circumstances beyond your control will impose a purpose upon you. You'll end up spending your precious time in the service of things that won't bring any value or fulfillment.
In contrast, when you're solidly connected to a personally meaningful purpose, you're able to focus on making real progress. Though the same problems, frustrations and distractions will come, they will not have the power to overwhelm or consume you.
The more fully you understand why you wish to do something, the more clearly you'll see how to do it. Strong, solid, meaningful reasons will ignite the energy to create worthwhile and lasting achievements.
It is well worth the time and effort necessary to understand why you seek what you seek. When you know why, anything is within your reach.
To get maximum results from your efforts, look beyond the outer concerns of what you're doing. Look at why you've chosen to do it.
Give this day a real, honest purpose that truly means something to you. And you'll build value that continues long after the day is over.
In contrast, when you're solidly connected to a personally meaningful purpose, you're able to focus on making real progress. Though the same problems, frustrations and distractions will come, they will not have the power to overwhelm or consume you.
The more fully you understand why you wish to do something, the more clearly you'll see how to do it. Strong, solid, meaningful reasons will ignite the energy to create worthwhile and lasting achievements.
It is well worth the time and effort necessary to understand why you seek what you seek. When you know why, anything is within your reach.
To get maximum results from your efforts, look beyond the outer concerns of what you're doing. Look at why you've chosen to do it.
Give this day a real, honest purpose that truly means something to you. And you'll build value that continues long after the day is over.
A Little Success
If you can't bring yourself to be positive about the big things, then be positive about the little things. That's easy enough to do, and it can make a surprisingly significant difference.
You're not going to solve the world's major problems before bedtime. And yet, you can surely make a little positive progress in your own way, and that can be a big help.
The little annoyances, distractions, challenges and difficulties in your world may seem minor when viewed separately. However, they can all add up to create a major negative drag on your life.
You can easily choose to rid yourself of those little negative influences, one by one. Before long, the positive effect will be dramatic.
If you spend the next few minutes doing nothing except worrying about your problems, you'll just end up even more anxious and worried. If, instead, you spend that same five minutes to overcome a relatively minor problem, you'll end up feeling a little more empowered and in control of your own destiny.
A little bit of success will motivate and inspire you, like nothing else can, to create a little more success, again and again. Soon, you'll discover that those little successes are adding up to a life of big and meaningful achievement.
You're not going to solve the world's major problems before bedtime. And yet, you can surely make a little positive progress in your own way, and that can be a big help.
The little annoyances, distractions, challenges and difficulties in your world may seem minor when viewed separately. However, they can all add up to create a major negative drag on your life.
You can easily choose to rid yourself of those little negative influences, one by one. Before long, the positive effect will be dramatic.
If you spend the next few minutes doing nothing except worrying about your problems, you'll just end up even more anxious and worried. If, instead, you spend that same five minutes to overcome a relatively minor problem, you'll end up feeling a little more empowered and in control of your own destiny.
A little bit of success will motivate and inspire you, like nothing else can, to create a little more success, again and again. Soon, you'll discover that those little successes are adding up to a life of big and meaningful achievement.
Tired of Nothing
It's certainly true that the effort necessary for accomplishment will make you tired. And yet the lack of any effort at all will surely bring on an even greater amount of weariness.
It's far better to be exhausted from focused effort than to be tired of doing nothing. After you've grown tired from productive effort, you can renew your energy with a little bit of rest and relaxation.
But when you're tired because of a lack of meaningful effort, that's a different story. No amount of rest can overcome such weariness.
What can overcome that kind of weariness? It will disappear as soon as you start to take purposeful, directed action.
Too much of anything will make you tired, especially too much of nothing. If you're going to be tired, then make sure you gain something valuable from it.
So go ahead, set your sights high, and do something truly useful and challenging with your time. You'll make yourself tired, and it will feel great.
It's far better to be exhausted from focused effort than to be tired of doing nothing. After you've grown tired from productive effort, you can renew your energy with a little bit of rest and relaxation.
But when you're tired because of a lack of meaningful effort, that's a different story. No amount of rest can overcome such weariness.
What can overcome that kind of weariness? It will disappear as soon as you start to take purposeful, directed action.
Too much of anything will make you tired, especially too much of nothing. If you're going to be tired, then make sure you gain something valuable from it.
So go ahead, set your sights high, and do something truly useful and challenging with your time. You'll make yourself tired, and it will feel great.
Friday, April 3, 2009
The Values in Your Heart
When your world seems frustrating, keep in mind that the most important part of you exists beyond those frustrations. When life feels painful, never forget that the pain, however difficult it may be, is confined to just a small portion of who you truly are.
All around you are things you can see and touch and physically manipulate. They are part of life, but they are by no means all there is.
You cannot hold love in your hand, and yet you know for certain that it exists. You cannot capture joy in a box or an envelope and yet you have no doubt that it is real.
When the outward concerns of life seem to be overwhelming, remind yourself, there's more. There is so very much more to living and being than those things you can see and hear, taste and smell, touch and possess.
Even those losses and disappointments that feel big and burdensome are small in comparison to all the beautiful, positive possibilities living within you. Look beyond the noisy, superficial distractions and remember the miracle of your existence.
Live your life around the values in your heart. And those everyday pains and nuisances will lose their power to bring you down.
All around you are things you can see and touch and physically manipulate. They are part of life, but they are by no means all there is.
You cannot hold love in your hand, and yet you know for certain that it exists. You cannot capture joy in a box or an envelope and yet you have no doubt that it is real.
When the outward concerns of life seem to be overwhelming, remind yourself, there's more. There is so very much more to living and being than those things you can see and hear, taste and smell, touch and possess.
Even those losses and disappointments that feel big and burdensome are small in comparison to all the beautiful, positive possibilities living within you. Look beyond the noisy, superficial distractions and remember the miracle of your existence.
Live your life around the values in your heart. And those everyday pains and nuisances will lose their power to bring you down.
Already Fulfilled
When you don't need anything, then you truly have everything. When you know that you already have enough, that you already are enough, that everything is as it should be, then your life will be rich indeed.
Get past the need to possess and you'll discover that the whole world is yours. Abandon the need to be right and you'll find real truth.
Let go of the need to impress others and you'll have their sincere respect. Move beyond the need to control every detail, and your influence will grow stronger.
As long as you feel you need something, it cannot possibly be yours. The more you focus on the need for anything, the more you deny it to yourself.
Why would you want to do that? Instead, realize that whatever you desire is already available to you, and enjoy the process of expressing it more fully as you move through each moment.
Appreciate, understand and focus your energy on the good and valuable things in your life. And you'll know that your most authentic desires are already fulfilled.
Get past the need to possess and you'll discover that the whole world is yours. Abandon the need to be right and you'll find real truth.
Let go of the need to impress others and you'll have their sincere respect. Move beyond the need to control every detail, and your influence will grow stronger.
As long as you feel you need something, it cannot possibly be yours. The more you focus on the need for anything, the more you deny it to yourself.
Why would you want to do that? Instead, realize that whatever you desire is already available to you, and enjoy the process of expressing it more fully as you move through each moment.
Appreciate, understand and focus your energy on the good and valuable things in your life. And you'll know that your most authentic desires are already fulfilled.
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