Continuing from where I stopped....
Learn to savour the small moments in life. Come back home to yourself and cultivate a personal culture of showing more genuine gratitude to yourself. The beauty of life is inextricably linked to its fragility. It is time to transform your quest for eternal happiness into a journey of intentional gratitude, good courage, self-acceptance, and a willingness to honour who you are and what you have.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy "Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind." - Gandhi
You cannot postpone your life. Imagine a life in which you invest purposefully into meaningful relationships that flourish and deepen over time. Imagine how much more you’d have to be grateful for and happy about at the end of every day. Your life is happening to you right now. You can have money, but the money does not belong to you (because you would leave it here, behind you). You can have a lot of gold and other possessions in this world, yet it's not yours. You should intentionally Invest in authentic relationships and build beautiful memories.
Access to the right information from the right source can change your life and accelerate your success. The right association or relationship with people brings change. Take the time to evaluate your circle and see if there is some cleaning up or widening that needs to happen.
Stop trying so hard to please everyone. Stop making yourself easily available & acting like an emotional sponge (affirm your boundaries). Stop the unhealthy drive to display a saviour complex. Stop trying to be everyone's role model. Protect your mind so you don't get exhausted.
Remind yourself that you don't own another human being. If you catch yourself feeling obsessed to the point where you think that the other person (romantic partner, child, friend, employee, etc.) is your possession, you need to re-examine yourself. You need fix your mind.
Some mistakes are expensive/costly and it can ruin everything one has laboured for. May we receive the wisdom to make responsible and reasonable decisions independently, without external cause or influence that have elements of danger in any decision-making process. You don't have to wait till you make it big in life before you extend kindness and love to parents who put in their all to love, provide, nurture and shield you. Send that message of love and gratitude to your parents now that they're still alive.
Don't let anyone with a negative mindset tell you that your personal goals, mission, vision and the things you want to do are not achievable. People are quick to put unnecessary fear and a sense of hopelessness in you through their actions and unsolicited advice. Like crabs in a bucket, there are people who pull the dreamers like you back down into the bucket. Misery loves company. If they are always telling you that things won't be great or you can't achieve your set goals, you need to re-evaluate that connection you have with them.
Be mindful of people who like criticizing without offering any solution on what you are working on, how you can improve or be/do better. Don't let anyone put some troubling thoughts in your mind like, "maybe I don’t have what it takes, or maybe I don’t really deserve it." Even if you fail, please fail forward. Explore those creative interests you have. Try different things. Learn lessons. Embrace your growth because it is a gradual process. Learn to embrace and enjoy taking calculated strategic risks. You must learn how to disempower negative people from polluting your energy & distracting you from working on your set goals.
If you surround yourself with people who are going after their dreams, overcoming their fears and developing their creative interests, you'll do the same. "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual upbuilding." Mutual Upbuilding can take place in different ways where knowledge sharing spaces can serve as opportunities for an interchange of encouragement, loving association and commendation.
Your curiosity doesn’t have to be confined to your career —cultivating the muscle in anything you do will serve all parts of your life. Consider collecting skills and interests outside your day job. Whatever form curiosity takes, it helps you stay open and aware.
Tell them that you love them. Tell them how you feel about something they did to you that hurt you (sometimes people aren't aware of the impact of their actions even though their intent may seem from a good place). Let them revisit those past/recent actions & apologize genuinely. You are also not the saint or good person you think you are. Ask your loved ones (parents, siblings, children) if they have been hurt by your words and actions towards them. Don't be defensive. Listen attentively. Acknowledge your wrongdoings. Apologize genuinely. Make amends.
I think that humans should be open to accepting the reality that there will times to say goodbye. There will be times you need to let go of whatever or whoever is disrupting your peace of mind and greatness. There are also times to give up on goals that are no longer purposeful. Sometimes we just need to have a little faith things will work out. Maybe not exactly as planned but definitely as they are supposed to.
Be motivated @ClDvor.
