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Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Life is a gift to be enjoyed. We will always have our struggles in life. In between life’s struggles we can make enjoyment in our lives. Enjoyment doesn’t have to be a grand event. We can enjoy the simple things in life. Enjoying life is getting out of our old routines by simply switching them around. This creates a freshness to help us to experience fully our enjoyment.
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How do we find meaning in a tragic event that affects us in a personal way? One way that we can find meaning is to not forget those who have lost their lives. We can create a memorial in their honor. Those who have lost their lives tragically can live in the lives of the living. We can also celebrate their life. We can think of how they have touched our lives personally. Those that we have lost will always live on in our memories.
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It feels good to stay in our comfort zone. We know when we start to move beyond our comfort zone; our anxiety starts to creep in. Anxiety is really about what’s going to happen in our future. We can never anticipate or predict what’s out there for us in the future. We can only plan, execute and complete the plan-meaning focus on what we have now to do instead of coming up with uncertainties about the future. Executing a plan keeps us focused on the here and now and as we execute our plan we feel more in control of our future.
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Humor is good when it helps us to make light of things. We don’t have to always take everything seriously. It’s all right to laugh at things. We don’t have to take ourselves seriously. It feels good to laugh out loud. Humor helps us to relief the tension from our body. Our body has the habit of keeping in the tension. To best let go of the tension is to laugh it out of our system. It feels good to laugh. Humor helps us see things in another frame or a different context.
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We all make assumptions all the time for us to maneuver and understand our world. What we don’t understand, we fill in the blanks with our assumptions. It is a good practice for us to ask questions about something we don’t understand so we can reduce our assumptions for us to widen our scope. Our assumptions can limit our choices. Assumption is something we believe to be true when it could be false. We needn’t be embarrassed to questions about something we don’t understand. When our world is widened, it frees up our minds to see different perspectives that we haven’t seen before.
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It is important to remember those who have left this life. Especially those who have made the last sacrifice for us to experience the freedoms that we hold dear to our hearts. Let us not take for granted our freedoms, instead, honor our lives with them. The way we can honor our lives with our freedoms is to live a warrior’s life. The archetype of a warrior is one who plans, set goals and complete them through discipline and concentration. A warrior is willing to go the extra miles without hesitation. These are the characteristics of warrior. Every one of us has this archetype within us where we can tap into bring about those characteristics if we want to do more in our lives.
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We ought not to allow circumstances to dictate our life, instead we ought to make decisions based on how we want to live our lives. Let us not wait for something to happen that may force our hand to make choices that we are not ready for. And let us not delay but start doing something now to make progress. Time is of the essence. Better to start now instead of waiting for something to happen later. It is easier to talk about what we want to do than to actually do it. Starting something new can be the hardest thing to do first but after that it gets easier. We just have to remember that there is always a learning curve to everything we do, we just got to be patient with ourselves.
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”- Thomas Jefferson
When we work harder, there is always a greater possibility that we will succeed. Hard work is never wasted if we don’t give up on the dream. Thus, through hard work we will learn something new. It is important to note that working hard can create meaning and purpose in our lives. At times, we will surprise ourselves as to how much we’ve enjoyed working hard on a project. After long day of hard work, we can feel satisfied. Sometimes, we resist doing hard work or working hard on a project because it’s too difficult or we think if we feel the desire and satisfaction first, then we will be more willing to work harder. Feelings come and they go. We can’t rely on our feelings when it comes to doing hard work. We have to decide for ourselves if it is worth spending the time and effort. The bottom-line is that the harder we work, the more opportunities are available.
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We’re stronger than we think. We just have to realize that we are capable of doing extraordinary things. Through out history humans have done extraordinary things that affect our lives today. Scientists, inventors, philosophers, political leaders, religious leaders, etc have done extraordinary things that shape our views on things. It is through our background and our culture that we have learned these ideas from our leaders, and then we put our own spin on it. Once an idea stimulates our mind, the idea that was intangible become something tangible that we can touch is a powerful experience.
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Too much thinking can be paralyzing. Too much thinking can only feed our fears while doing can decrease our fears significantly. Too much thinking can stop us from doing what is necessary to produce growth. Too much thinking subtracts from what we could be doing. However, if we’re constantly doing the same thing without results, then it is time to think about what we need to do to change the way we’re doing it. We need to think and do. We need the balance of both things. If we think and do, then we can be. Being is an expression of our thoughts and behaviors.
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For us to start something, we first have to find what motivates us. Motivation is our push to move forward with something. Our purpose is part of the motivation. One motivation is helping others to fulfill their desires and purpose in life. While another motivation or desire is to give out free laptop computers for those who could use to advance their education. It is important to know our purpose so we can have meaning in what we’re doing. Our purpose contributes to our desires and motivations in our life. Meaning makes it worth staying late and putting in the effort because it fulfills a need within us.
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When we walk with our head down, it is harder for us to feel good about ourselves. If we want to build self-confidence, we can always start by working on something that we know we can do and just do it. We have all experience getting to chores we’ve been avoiding to finally getting them done and feeling the satisfaction and confidence. Also, it is a lot easier to do one chore at a time rather than trying to do more than one chore at a time. With any kind of project we’re going to be most proficient if we do things one at a time with self-confidence.
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We’re getting closer to the middle of the year, 2013. Summer will be here soon. Memorial day is just around the corner. Time seems to move quickly but when we want results time seems to move slowly. We want our efforts to pay off sooner rather than later. But we just got to be patient with ourselves and trust that what we’re doing will get us where we want to go. It is easy to give up during this stage, but if we just hang in there longer, we will see everything beginning to come together and we will be pleased and we will say to ourselves that everything we did to get here was worth all the efforts we have put into our goals.
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The brain is a remarkable organ. Our brain keeps our heart pumping. We think, plan and execute our plan sometimes without our awareness. We can dream while we sleep. Even while we sleep our brain is still regulating our body functions. Our brain is probably the hardest working organ in the body and the most powerful one as well. Our personality resides in our brain, in particular, the cerebral cortex, right above the eyes. We’re very unique that we have intelligence like no other species and we have an awareness of about us. We have the ability to think up an idea and transformed it into something incredible.
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After a long day of hard work, it is all right to enjoy ourselves. Wherever we go, we can enjoy ourselves, because we take the joy with us. We have many ways to enjoy ourselves. We can enjoy ourselves walking through a park, swimming in a nice cool pool during a hot summer day, or we can enjoy ourselves dining out with friends or family. Enjoying ourselves is the expression of what we do that makes us happy and to share that joy with others in our live. Joy is a positive feeling when we get when we experience life as it is. When we accept things that are out of our control, we’re letting go of things that worry us. Those things that worry us can bring down our energy and zap our joy. But experiencing the feelings of joy is what make us feel good inside.
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When we see that we aren’t making our goals, probably is because we’re still in a self-doubt mode. If we come to the belief that we can’t meet our goals, then we won’t meet them. If our goals are vague, we must break them down into very specific smaller goals. When goals are specific, tangible and concrete, we have a better handle on them and they will gives us more of a direction on where we want to go with a project. When we don’t have specifics on what step to make in a reaching our goals, our doubts will fill in where there is vagueness. However, when each small task is completed our doubt decreases while our confidence in ourselves increases.
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It is all right to regroup and take some time off for the self. We need to rest and take it easy so we can renew ourselves. So after we have rested we will notice that our memory is sharper, our mind is clearer, we’re a lot calmer. Instead of rushing we can just sit back and relax and enjoy the peace and quiet around us. We can smell the different fragrances of flowers or the freshly cut grass and the wind blowing. Let us return to self and experience what it means to be a human being and not just a human doing.
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The only source of knowledge is experience. ~ Albert Einstein
We learn much faster when we experience learning. The knowledge we gain from learning through experience sticks around longer than if we’ve learned it just by reading a book. The bottom line is, no matter how many times we’ve learned how to do something from a book; we still have to apply what we’ve learned in real life for it to stick. We stimulate growth and excitement when we test our book knowledge or concepts in real life situations. We learn things from our experiences. We have to go through certain experiences for us to get the special knowledge to have an understanding about life. Our experiences show to us what we need to know.
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Having an optimistic attitude means expecting a positive result in the future. It is our hope that things will work out in the long run no matter how dire the circumstances. We can hope that things will get better in our future. If we see it that way then, we can better cope with everyday difficulties. We don’t have to add stress to an already difficult situation. Our optimism is our beacon of hope that motivates us to do the things we need to do to meet our expectations. The feeling of optimism trickles down from our mind and spreads out to the entire body. So having an optimistic mindset is the difference that makes the difference.
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Struggling is what gives us meaning in our lives. What if everything we do came easily for us, then life would seem to be meaningless. The struggle we experience is our body resisting change. Our struggle is about letting go of old patterns that we’re used to. However, if we reframe the word “struggling” into the word “challenge,” then maybe it becomes our goal in life to live our dreams instead of reacting to things we have no control over. Also, using the word “challenge” helps us to be more in control of our lives than if we looked at everything as a struggle.