What is your most ideal day? Do you know exactly how you want to live your life for the next five days, five weeks, five months, and five years? When was the last best day of your life? When is the next?

The best day of our lives is today. The past is no longer here. To dwell on the past to waste the opportunity to enjoy the present. The future is a promise, a time that will not come because what we have is only today. When tomorrow comes, it will not be tomorrow anymore; it becomes your today. I am not trying to sound philosophical. You cannot enjoy tomorrow unless you know how to enjoy your today.

If you were live to thirty more years, you are going to experience 10,957 todays. Given that you have that many more days to live, it is easy to waste time. But every day that passed without your notice is day cut off from your life.

How many of these days will be given to building relationship with your family, friends, co-workers, and the people around you? How many of these days will be invested to learning new things, to increasing your value in...

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The below was forwarded to me via email, enjoy.

Today as I watched TV I realized how prevalent fear has become in our daily life. Financial worries, no job, swine flu, increasing violence, global warming, nuclear threat: The list is never-ending. We have to take fear seriously, but we should not allow it to rule our life. Some of our fears are real and some are imposed on us, but the feeling of fear is the same. What can we do?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What we fear comes to pass more speedily.
than what we hope.
- Publilius Syrus

As strange as it sounds, some fears are healthy because they protect us from danger. If a smoker is afraid to die of lung cancer, that fear can save his life. But many fears are "sold" to us by the media and big business. Remember the Y2K hype where experts told us that all computers would crash on January 1, 2000? People bought new computers and software to prevent damage and then .. nothing happened. It was a hoax. When I hear stories that build up fear I remember Y2K and ask myself, "Who will profit from...

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Anger is both ubiquitous and powerfully obstructive to our higher functioning and our ability to experience anything true. Anger centres itself in the limbic/emotional brain and does its work from there. Higher mental functioning, including abstract thought that is required to grasp universal truths and principles, while emanating from our cortex, has its foundation in the emotional brain. So if we are not feeling okay, and are stuck in anger, we are essentially blocked from the truth that can liberate us.

Very often anger exists when we do not feel safe. When we don’t feel safe the unknown and unpredictable become a threat. When we don’t feel safe we become defensive, and anger is a type of aggressive defensiveness that can be turned inward or outward. In our insecure world today there is an escalating level of anger that is directed outward in society and in families in various forms of violent behaviour. Even societal justification of “pre-emptive strikes” is a justification of collective anger and its accompanying fear: ‘Get them before they get us.’

Biologist Bruce Lipton found that from the simplest cell to the most complex, a new life unfolds in one of two ways: it can either...

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Everywhere you turn today, people are in a constant rush: Hurry here! Hurry there! Free up an extra half-hour and you just might be able to squeeze one more task into your already overflowing schedule of things to do.



Unfortunately, too many of us these days mistake living fast for living well. They aren't the same things. Rather than spend your time rushing around not enjoying life, make the decision to do just the opposite. Choose to slow down.



Below I've listed 7 steps that will help you get started "gearing down" to a calmer, more enjoyable pace: your own, personal, speed of life.



1. Stop rushing

No matter how much you do or don't do, time passes by at a steady rate. Second by second, minute by minute. You can't change that. So accept it and pace yourself.

2. Stop being rushed

Of course, you'll need to spend some time telling the people around you that you're not going to rush anymore, but it's worth it. Take a stand: don't let others force you into...

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What are you?

Ask that question of a thousand people and the vast majority will likely respond with their occupation or job. I am a parent, teacher, lawyer or a whatever-I-do-to-earn-money-and-fill-my-day. Yet this is not who we are. We are not what we do. Think about that for a moment; while it sounds simple, do you really know who you are when extricated from the identity a profession, role or achievement provides? Can you tell me what you are without naming what it is that you do? The most accurate answer to that question is actually the same for each of us. The truest response is the same for you, me, your doctor, your mail carrier as well as each person with whom we share this gorgeous planet.

We are energy. The parts of us we can see and feel, as well as those we cannot, are pure energy. We may visualize a storehouse of energy in our body much like a gas tank contains the fuel for a car. On some level of consciousness, we check in with our energy supply regularly, acknowledging when we are powered up or running dangerously low. We know it is true since we innately...

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Thanks my mouse, for having forwarded this message to me via email.

Enjoy.

A Truckers Story


If this doesn't light your fire ... your wood is wet!


I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His
placement counselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy.


But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee and wasn't sure I wanted
one. I wasn't sure how my customers would react to Stevie.

He was short, a little dumpy with the smooth facial features and
thick-tongued speech of Downs Syndrome. I wasn't worried about most of my
trucker customers because truckers don't generally care who buses tables as
long as the meatloaf platter is good and the pies are homemade.

The four-wheeler drivers were the ones who concerned me; the mouthy college
kids traveling to school; the yuppie snobs who secretly polish their
silverware with their napkins for fear of catching some dreaded "truck stop
germ" the pairs of white-shirted business men on expense accounts who think
every truck stop waitress wants to be flirted with. I knew those people
would be uncomfortable around Stevie so I closely watched him for the first
few weeks.

I shouldn't have worried. After the first...

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble,

it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do...

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Note: I have received this by email from David. Thanks for that.

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The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form, and therefore knows nothing of the most important dimension of human existence:
the sacred,
the stillness,
the formless,
the divine.
"What does it profit you if you gain the whole world and lose yourself?"

PS: “form” refers not only to that which can be seen by the eye, but also thoughts, emotions and ideas. Therefore, anything that is manifest as opposed to being not manifest. That which is not manifest has no form, no beginning and no end. No Trackbacks

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There is a family nobody likes to meet,
They live, it is said, on Complaining Street.
In the city of Never-Are Satisfied,
The River of Discontent beside.

They growl at that, and they growl at this;
Whatever comes there is something amiss;
And whether their station be high or humble,
They are known by the name of Grumble.

The weather is always too hot or too cold,
Summer and winter alike they scold;
Nothing goes right with the folks you meet
Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.

They growl at the rain, and they growl at the sun;
In fact, their growling is never done.
And if everything pleased them, there isn't a doubt
They'd growl that they'd nothing to grumble about!

And the worst thing is that if anyone stays
Among them too long he will learn their ways,
And before he dreams of the terrible jumble
He's adopted into the family of Grumble.

So it were wisest to keep our feet
>From wandering into Grumbling Street.
And never to growl whatever we do,
Lest we be mistaken for Grumblers too.
--By L. M. Montgomery

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Fate handed the quitter a bump, and he dropped;
The road seemed too rough to go, so he stopped.
He thought of his hurt, and there came to his mind
The easier path he was leaving behind.
Oh, it's all much too hard, said the quitter right then;
I'll stop where I am and not try it again.
He sat by the road and he made up his tale
To tell when men asked why he happened to fail.
A thousand excuses flew up to his tongue,
And these on the thread of his story he strung,
But the truth of the matter he didn't admit;
He never once said, I was frightened and quit.
Whenever the quitter sits down by the road
And drops from the struggle to lighten his load,
He can always recall to his own peace of mind
A string of excuses for falling behind;
But somehow or other he can't think of one
Good reason for battling and going right on.
Oh, when the bump comes and fate hands you a jar,
Don't baby yourself, boy, whoever you are;
Don't pity yourself and talk over your woes;
Don't think up excuses for dodging the blows.
But stick to the battle and see the thing through.
And don't be a quitter, whatever you do.

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