Thought for the Day...

Each of us has a default lens through which we see the world. We call it reality, but in fact it's a selective filter. We have the power, to view the world through other lenses.  --Tony Schwartz

Your thought for the day is coming from a great post over at The Energy Project.  It talks about dealing with difficult people....as in other people....but sometimes, the most difficult person we deal with is ourself.  Interestingly enough, his solutions can still be applied.

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There's a difference between an interest and a commitment.  When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient.  When you're committed to soemthing, you accept no excuses; only results.  --Kenneth Blanchard

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
--Thomas A. Edison

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“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” ~Old Chinese Proverb

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So far in my life I've gone from fat to skinny and from poor to prosperous.  Having made both journeys, I can tell you that there is no effortless strategy for either.  I've had the chance to ask world-champion athletes, billionaire businessmen, award-winning actors, and platinum record-selling musicians about how they achieved success; and what I have found time  and time again is the same response: the journey to the top of your chosen field is filled with effort and sacrifice, self-teaching, and total commitment.  --Ryan Blair

The same thought holds true for getting yourself anywhere you want to be.  Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy!

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We can sit behind our computers and self-reflect to death, but until we get out there and exercise the traits we want to uphold, we will never get to hone and strengthen our character. --Celes

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You get whatever you settle for. --source unknown

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Life isn’t a Taylor Swift song, with all the hardship left out. It works more like a Normal Mailer novel, with all the gritty garbage left in. Stop falling for the romantic version of life, and start realizing that a romantic story is told with an enormous amount of pain, sacrifice, suffering and patience.  --Donald Miller

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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. --John Milton

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When you get to a plateau, think of it as a landing on the stairway to your goal. And maintenance is a lifelong plateau, so a bit of "rehearsal" for maintenance isn't the worst thing in the world.

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” ~ Victor Frankl

What response are you going to choose today?

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I love this thought!!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  --Marianne Williamson

So the big question is:

Whatcha gonna do about that???

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"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."


— Pema Chödrön (When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times)

Courage and respect take time to develop.  Are you up for the challenge?

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This collection is an ode to all things bittersweet, to life at the edges, a love letter to what change can do in us.  This is what I've come to believe about change: it's good, in the way that childbirth is good, and heartbreak is good, and failure is good.  By that I mean that it's incredibly painful, exponentially more so if you fight it, and also that it has the potential to open you up, to open life up, to deliver you right into the palm of God's hand, which is where you wanted to be all along, except that you were too busy pushing and pulling your life into exactly what you thought it should  be.

So this is the work I'm dong now, and the work I invite you into: when life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate.  And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.  --Shauna Niequist from the prologue of Bittersweet

I love the idea of saying thank you and celebrating or saying thank you and growing.  Change is going to happen no matter what -- how would things be different for us if we accepted it with these attitudes?

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“Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneurs worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.


A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Its only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” - Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
 
It might take longer than you want it to -- but if you get started today, you can accomplish it.

Give it some thought......



 Here is the transcript of Janet's Q and A.



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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~Dr. Denis Waitley


What if those are your only two choices?  Which one are you going to chose?

Do you dare?

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people don't dare."

Do you dare trust yourself enough to learn the difference between when you are hungry (your body's signal you need calories to sustain your activity) and when you're not (you're body's signal you don't need calories to sustain your activity)?

Mindfulness is....

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” ~Thomas S. Monson

Mindfulness means "now" -- not tomorrow.