19 July 2022
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Simple and Profound
Thoughts
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It's not enough to be
right. That's too little. It's also important to be
strong. The history of the world shows that more often
people who were right lost than won.
Andrzej Milczanowski
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There
is wisdom in knowing how to play, to touch lightly, uninvolved
and uncommitted, on what is pleasurable.
Aelred
Graham
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Reality
is what I "come up against," what takes me by
surprise, the other-than-myself which pulls me up and obliges me
to reckon with it and adjust myself to it because it will not
consent simply to adjust itself to me.
John
Baillie
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I will tell you that
there have been no failures in my life.
I don't want to sound like
some metaphysical queen,
but there have been no failures.
There have
been some tremendous lessons.
Oprah Winfrey |
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Affirm
Your Intentions - Achieve Your Goals
Steve
Brunkhorst
Affirmations are emotionally driven
statements of intention and faith that guide thought and
action. Affirmation comes from the Latin firmus,
meaning strong. Affirmations recognize and assert the
existence of personal truths. These statements can be
powerfully effective for developing and strengthening thought
patterns, and thus actions, needed to achieve goals. These
thought patterns also attract the situations we affirm to be true.
Use Affirmations Effectively
Affirmations are effective when combined
with strong emotions and vivid sensory imagery: sight,
sound, smell, taste, and touch. Effective affirmations
state, in present tense, what we want. At the same time, we
are feeling the joy, satisfaction, and gratitude we would feel if
each statement had already manifested.
Recall Vivid Imagery and Strong
Emotion
An effective way to create mind imagery
and emotion is to recall a situation in your life when you
actually felt the emotion you want to create. Recall
situations that made you feel joyful, loving, forgiving, excited,
happy, accepting, successful, and grateful.
This is the same way emotions surface
when we dwell on memories that bring tears, upset, or nostalgic
feelings. When using affirmations, you get to select
purposely the emotions you want. Let these emotions surface
and permeate your mind and body.
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Practice Positive Affirmations
Belief, imagery, and emotion are
essential elements in effective affirmations. With practice,
you will be able to create vivid images and emotions very
quickly. It might also be helpful to begin by affirming the
action you are now taking, as in the exercise below.
Here are seventeen sample affirmations
for strengthening goal achievement, creativity, confidence and
abundance. Practice the affirmations while combining them with
compelling imagery and strong emotion.
- I reflect on successful experiences,
and I let the memories and moments linger.
- I enjoy expressing myself freely,
confidently, and creatively.
- I am grateful for the success and
satisfaction that my purpose is bringing to me.
- I provide value to those I serve, and
I am becoming more abundant each day.
- I welcome challenges and changes in my
life, and I feel grateful that each change brings new
blessings.
- I see my goal clearly, and allow
myself to receive it with gratitude.
- I forgive myself and others, release
the past, and move forward with love and confidence.
- I am resilient, capable, confident,
lovable, and loving.
- I allow joy to flow through me, and I
rejoice in my self-expression and creativity.
- I feel the joy in small
accomplishments each day, and I allow myself to be thankful,
loving, and peaceful.
- I deserve success, am enthusiastic
about life, and create my life the way I want it to be.
- I allow energy, vitality, adventure,
and passion for my purpose to fill my life.
- I allow abundance into my life through
my actions, gestures, and words, and I receive all that I
need.
- I accept Divine guidance, and I feel
safe, secure, hopeful, and protected by Divine Love.
- I celebrate life's peaks and valleys,
knowing that every situation provides a lesson I must learn.
- I allow every experience to make me
stronger, wiser, more capable, more abundant, and more loving.
- I savor small victories along the path
to my goals, and I reflect deeply on each experience.
Affirm Only Your Intentions
Each day, our minds fill unconsciously
with self-talk, echoing thought patterns and beliefs formed during
early development. These might be positive and supportive
thoughts. However, our internal speech can also attract the
very situations and feelings we would rather avoid.
Negative, distracting thoughts are
actually affirmations working against us. By becoming aware
of these negative affirmations, we can replace them immediately
with positive affirmations that focus on what we want.
Create Your Personal Affirmations
After practicing with the affirmations
above, create your own affirmations based on what you want to
achieve. It will not help to simply repeat a list of someone
else's affirmations that you don't actually believe. You
must own each affirmation as a personal declaration of your
intention and faith.
Act on Your Affirmations
Spend time each day with your personal
affirmations. Then take actions that will lead to their
realization. When charged with belief, vivid imagery, and
strong emotion, affirmations can be effective and supportive tools
that help you move toward the achievements that you desire.
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© Copyright Steve Brunkhorst.
Steve is a professional life success coach, motivational author,
and the editor of Achieve! 60-Second Nuggets of Inspiration,
a popular mini-zine bringing great stories, motivational nuggets,
and inspiring thoughts to help you achieve more in your career and
personal life. Contact Steve by visiting AchieveEzine.com
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A
Letter to My (Younger) Self
Trisha Yearwood
Dear Trisha,
I've got something to say to you, and I hope you will
listen with an open heart. Don't be so worried
about what everybody else thinks of you, and don't think
your happiness depends on someone else. I want you
to just trust yourself. Trust that if you take
care of yourself on the inside, follow your instincts,
and let yourself evolve naturally, your potential for
happiness will be so much greater.
You probably don't think you need to hear this.
Mama and Daddy brought you up to be independent,
intelligent, and educated. And you are. I'm
proud of the way you've stuck with your music, even
though the odds were against you. But there's
another part of you that's less independent.
You're hearing everyone ask, "When are you going to
get married?" The friends who didn't tie the
knot right out of high school are doing it now, after
college. Somewhere inside you, you think that's
the way it's supposed to be.
There are going to be times when your gut instinct is
telling you something isn't right, and you're going to
go ahead with it anyway. If you keep that up, I
know exactly what's going to happen. In about a
year, you'll be standing in the back of a church with
Daddy, getting ready to walk down the aisle.
Daddy's going to say, jokingly, "We can duck out
the back door if you want to." You won't dare
tell him that's what you want to do.
Everybody will be sitting there, everything will have
been paid for, and there will be a ton of cake to
eat. You'll be afraid of the embarrassment of
calling it off. And so you'll get married--for all
the wrong reasons--to a wonderful guy.
There's another way of living, and it has brought me a
sense of peace that I want you to have. Know that
God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over
to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself
for validation and approval--you're letting other people
define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard
to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the
inside. Then all of those other attributes you're
so desperately seeking will find you naturally.
Love,
Your forty-two-year-old future self
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Always
think on the bright side--no matter what life brings
to your day. You'll gain a treasure within your soul
that no worry or hardship
can ever take away.
Isaac
Purcell
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Every
Positive Contact
I woke up this morning with these three words on my mind.
It's very rare that something like that happens to me, but it did
today. And with those three words were many other ideas
about the concept, mostly centered on the idea that every positive
contact that someone has with someone else helps that person to
grow in positive ways, and that our characters and principles are
developed by the number and type of contacts that we have with
other people, and that the more positive contacts we experience,
the more positive we grow as human individuals and as members of
the human community.
We all follow this principle in our lives, whether we recognize it
or not. If we want an animal to accept us, we generally
don't try to make it like us immediately; instead, we walk up to
it slowly, trying to pet it at first, and we don't worry if it
shies away or walks away. Then, the next time we see it, we
try to add another positive contact to our relationship with it,
until eventually there are enough positive contacts built up that
the kitten or puppy or lizard trusts us, and will allow us to be
close to it.
And while people certainly aren't animals (though some may argue
with the statement), we often follow similar principles in our
relationships with others. As a teacher, for example, I
never try to get my students to like or trust me during the first
class--I just try to be genuine and sincere and do my job
well. If they're going to trust me, that's a dynamic that
has to be built over time.
There are other people in my life with whom I don't have as much
contact, or with whom contact tends to be negative if they're
negative people or if I get angry or upset with them. In
these cases, it really is up to me to start adding positive
contacts with them, slowly but surely, if I want to repair a
relationship or establish a positive one. There have been
times when I've had arguments with people, and it's taken quite a
bit of time to re-establish the positive side of the
relationship. When I try to accomplish this, I simply try to
build the numbers of positive contacts--simple "hellos"
or kind acts or compliments or asking favors--until the scale tips
back over to the positive side.
If we could keep a tally of the positive contacts that we initiate
over the course of our lives, it could be something that could
show us just what kind of impact we can make in this world.
Each encounter to which we contribute in positive ways is a
contribution to the peace and love and hope of the world, even if
in a very small way. But as we add ten, twenty, one hundred,
one thousand such contacts over the course of months or years,
we'll know for sure that we have made contributions to the lives
of others that have helped them to feel confidence, hope, peace,
or balance, or that have helped them to learn important things
about themselves or the world.
What positive contacts can you make today? When you have
contact with any other person in your life, whether they're people
you like or don't like, what kind of positive things can you
contribute to the world, be it a small compliment, a sincere thank
you, or a piece of encouragement? The world is in need of
positive energy and hope and love, and the best way for us to
contribute to those elements of the world is to consciously add
something positive to each encounter, to each contact. The
more we do so, the more natural it will become, and the more
widespread the ripple effect will be--our contributions will grow
further than we can imagine, and all we have to do is start
somewhere.
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I've learned that you
can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles
these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas
tree lights.
I've learned that
regardless of your relationship with your parents,
you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making
a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."
I've learned that life
sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you
shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both
hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you
pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you
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doing
the very best you can, happiness will find you.
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whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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I've learned that every
day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch -- holding hands, a warm hug, or just a
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pat on the back.
I've learned that I
still have a lot to learn.
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Time
is a flowing river. Happy those who allow
themselves to be
carried,
unresisting, with the current. They float through
easy days.
They live, unquestioning,
in the moment.
Christopher
Morley
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