Behaviour, decisions and emotions are guided by many things.
You can't always control situations.
But what you CAN and MUST control is your responses to them.
And to do that, you must always stay determined.
Your confidence must never be rattled.
Your mental pictures must always be of you succeeding and
achieving your desired outcomes.
You must be able to make the choices that are good for you
in the long-term instead of just what is easiest in the
moment.
Because tomorrow will be here soon.
You must be ready for it.
You must have the right attitude and outlook.
You must be looking in the right direction.
Because sad, scared, depressed, and angry is no way to live.
Mere "positive thinking" is not enough.
"I can do it"will last a little while, maybe.
But in order to achieve things in more than one area of
life (the one you are most comfortable in),
you need to,you must, and you CAN change a large number of your
patterned ways of thinking.
Not just the "I can" pattern.
It's because change involves altering many thought and
belief patterns.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
We no longer celebrate others achievements, but are encouraged to live enjoying the misfortune of others.
We no longer celebrate others achievements, but are encouraged to live enjoying the misfortune of others. South Africa might get into the cup if team A loses, hopefully Western Province will make the Currie Cup if the Lions lose.
I think challenges in life are good and help build character but I don't think that one can justify hardships and misfortune with the idea that they will benefit themselves or others in the future.
I don't think it is necessarily how one reacts to hardships but how one reacts to anything in general. We just notice and romanticize overcoming hardship while making good decisions and following proper actions without obvious hardships are not as noticeable or poetic even if they are as beneficial.
We often do not learn life's lessons from easy and abundant living. We also do not grow as human beings by having it all. We do, however, begin to appreciate all we have when something or someone is taken from us.
The lessons we must learn through life take some time to create the caring, grateful, loving, understanding, patient, tolerant and thoughtful person we would all be blessed to become.
Time and experience benefit all beings. From hardship we may learn generosity and from misfortune we may learn kindness.
Life will always throw us a hand that we do not wish to play. It can be so unfair and so unyielding. All we can do is play the hand we're dealt and do the very best we can with it.
As time goes by and you look behind you...you'll know which lesson can
I think challenges in life are good and help build character but I don't think that one can justify hardships and misfortune with the idea that they will benefit themselves or others in the future.
I don't think it is necessarily how one reacts to hardships but how one reacts to anything in general. We just notice and romanticize overcoming hardship while making good decisions and following proper actions without obvious hardships are not as noticeable or poetic even if they are as beneficial.
We often do not learn life's lessons from easy and abundant living. We also do not grow as human beings by having it all. We do, however, begin to appreciate all we have when something or someone is taken from us.
The lessons we must learn through life take some time to create the caring, grateful, loving, understanding, patient, tolerant and thoughtful person we would all be blessed to become.
Time and experience benefit all beings. From hardship we may learn generosity and from misfortune we may learn kindness.
Life will always throw us a hand that we do not wish to play. It can be so unfair and so unyielding. All we can do is play the hand we're dealt and do the very best we can with it.
As time goes by and you look behind you...you'll know which lesson can
Thursday, September 4, 2008
GREAT LEADERS!
Truly GREAT leaders -- those people that could get others to follow them to hell and back
-- in fact, are totally and completely different in what they think and do than even very VERY good leaders.
You see this in athletics all the time... the #1 ranked player in the world often completely destroys the #2 player every time they compete.
But #2 rarely, if ever, destroys#1. If #2 ever does beat #1, it's close.
No thumping’s.
That's what great leaders in ALL areas of life are like.
When you see the top TOP people in some field in action,you usually know it immediately.
There's often no mistaking it.Truly great leader's stand out.
Keep a lookout.
-- in fact, are totally and completely different in what they think and do than even very VERY good leaders.
You see this in athletics all the time... the #1 ranked player in the world often completely destroys the #2 player every time they compete.
But #2 rarely, if ever, destroys#1. If #2 ever does beat #1, it's close.
No thumping’s.
That's what great leaders in ALL areas of life are like.
When you see the top TOP people in some field in action,you usually know it immediately.
There's often no mistaking it.Truly great leader's stand out.
Keep a lookout.
Motivating
In my life, I've learned beyond all doubt that if you don't keep the positive thoughts, ideas and people flowing in, the negatives that are swirling all around just out of sight are waiting to pounce on a person's weaknesses, their desires, their vulnerabilities.
So it's critical to keep your biggest, most important desires in front of you at all times to guide you... to lead you to your best self and to your best life.
In order to have even a mediocre life, you must have big goals that you must achieve and you must keep them in mind at all times, so they'll become standards.
If you don't...Then anything that you find "interesting" or anyone with a good story or who appeals to your ego's needs will be able to take your attention away from your goals and dreams in life in a flash.
Nothing should rip your goals from your sight.
Passion. Love. Desire. Never settling for less than your best.
So it's critical to keep your biggest, most important desires in front of you at all times to guide you... to lead you to your best self and to your best life.
In order to have even a mediocre life, you must have big goals that you must achieve and you must keep them in mind at all times, so they'll become standards.
If you don't...Then anything that you find "interesting" or anyone with a good story or who appeals to your ego's needs will be able to take your attention away from your goals and dreams in life in a flash.
Nothing should rip your goals from your sight.
Passion. Love. Desire. Never settling for less than your best.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Time and priorities.
The one thing that means as much or more to each of us than anything else is what we do with our time.
Because if you know the activities that will get you where you want to go, if you commit to doing them and if you move quickly from one task to another with no jerking around in between, you'll get more done faster and better... and your attention to this detail will magically transport you to achieving all your goals and biggest dreams.
No matter how big they are. Now the most important thing on big projects, of course, is having a great team of people.
That's key.
And you have to trust your teammates. But you have to take care of your own responsibilities, too.
Too many "managers" delegate everything and when things go wrong, they blame everyone else.
...There are no doubts, no fears, no worries, no lack of commitment... no misconceptions about what is required. Empowering core-level thoughts beliefs and emotions all in sync all pointing toward the achievement of one huge outcome.
And that's the way it is for anyone who ever achieve any big, meaningful objectives.
-> Motivated -- knowing and staying connected to the your purpose.
-> Organized -- planning at the beginning, middle and end so that nothing falls through the cracks at any stage (a chain is only as strong as its weakest moral fibre link).
-> Ready to act just -- doing what needs to be done no matter what.
-> Able to manage and balance all the forces of life and of arranging yours and other people's schedule so that you can get all the big and little things done on schedule.
Because if you know the activities that will get you where you want to go, if you commit to doing them and if you move quickly from one task to another with no jerking around in between, you'll get more done faster and better... and your attention to this detail will magically transport you to achieving all your goals and biggest dreams.
No matter how big they are. Now the most important thing on big projects, of course, is having a great team of people.
That's key.
And you have to trust your teammates. But you have to take care of your own responsibilities, too.
Too many "managers" delegate everything and when things go wrong, they blame everyone else.
...There are no doubts, no fears, no worries, no lack of commitment... no misconceptions about what is required. Empowering core-level thoughts beliefs and emotions all in sync all pointing toward the achievement of one huge outcome.
And that's the way it is for anyone who ever achieve any big, meaningful objectives.
-> Motivated -- knowing and staying connected to the your purpose.
-> Organized -- planning at the beginning, middle and end so that nothing falls through the cracks at any stage (a chain is only as strong as its weakest moral fibre link).
-> Ready to act just -- doing what needs to be done no matter what.
-> Able to manage and balance all the forces of life and of arranging yours and other people's schedule so that you can get all the big and little things done on schedule.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A chain of strength!
How can we tell our children to build chains by linking arms? They must have a chain of moral fibre built on a culture of respect and mutual understanding. If one link strays from the moral fibre from which it is built, the chain must break and let the link go.
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