Now, nobody is suggesting that we give up “Doing” mode altogether. If this were the case, we would never even find our keys to get out the front door. However, there is another way of being that many of us are not even aware of, and that is “Being” Mode. Unlike its counterpart, “Being” mode is not action-oriented, evaluative, or future-focused. It involves slowing down our minds and deliberately grounding ourselves by focusing on what we are experiencing right now. Continue reading
Personal Development
What Makes a Person Shine?
What separates people who feel fulfilled from those who suffer with regret? Here’s a hint: it isn’t money in the bank, fame, trophies, or rank, as much as those may matter. Many people don’t finish first but nonetheless achieve greatness and long will be remembered, while many who do finish first will never be called great and will soon tumble into oblivion. Continue reading
The Second Half of Life
The first half of life is a time of accumulation: acquiring knowledge, learning skills, gaining experience, raising a family, building a career. But in the second half, the experience of our earlier years should bring the wisdom to know what is important and the desire to concentrate on what matters most. Continue reading
Lateral Thinkers
Some three decades ago, Edward De Bono related a story in his book on the Use of Lateral Thinking. The story went something like this – Continue reading
Advancing confidently in the direction of your dreams
…. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Continue reading
Conviction and Will – Mahatma Gandhi
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
Greatness is anonymity
“Greatness is anonymity, to be anonymous is the greatest thing. Continue reading
Death: Life’s change agent
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Continue reading
How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?
In Washington DC, at a metro station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played for 43 minutes whilst approximately 1,100 people passed through the station, most of them on their way to work. Continue reading
Say Something You’ve Been Meaning To Say
1. Tell someone how you really feel about them, instead of waiting because you’re scared.
2. Tell someone what you really want and need instead of building up resentment.
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