Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Top 10 Ways to Start Living Your Life
The Top 10 Ways to Start Living Your Life
By: Liz Strauss
1. Give yourself permission to claim your life. That's right ?
Permission. You're the only one who can decide you are in charge of
Your life. Even though it feels like you're not supposed to do so,
Turn off the internal editors, the old tape recordings, the "should's,
Have to's, and musts", and the rules that didn't come from you.
2. Define what living means to you. It's not as hard as it sounds.
Just picture yourself at the end of your life looking back. What words
Would you want to describe how you lived your life and who you are as
A person?
3. Stop living in the future. Every time you think "someday" or "when
I have time I will," stop. Ask yourself, "Why not now?" Think about
This sentence, "I always wanted to, but never did." Start doing the
Things you always planned to do. Choose your life every morning. Plan
One thing you will do that day to feel alive.
4. Surround yourself with people who enjoy living. They've obviously
Discovered how to have a life and live it. Why not hang with the pros?
5. Lay down your pain and your anger. Carrying them around makes
Living harder and less fun. It doesn't bring anything, and it steals a
Lot.
6. Let the losers win. Don't argue about things that you don't care
About. Unless there's some real threat, let the folks who have
Something to prove, prove what they need to. Why waste your living
Time trying to fix what's wrong with them?
7. Create energy. Jump to forgiveness and love, then figure things
Out. Most conclusions we jump to are not only wrong, they're negative.
Negative conclusions lead us to prepare a defense. Being on the
Defensive isn't living. It's hiding from life.
8. Learn the physical symptoms of when your head and heart become
Disconnected. We know when we're having a knee jerk reaction, when
We're feeling sorry for ourselves, and when we're being blind to
people's feelings. We can remember how it felt physically while we
Were behaving badly. Get to know those symptoms, and you can stop the
Behavior. Living life will feel a whole lot safer because you won't be
In danger of shooting yourself in the foot.
9. Take small risks that push your boundaries in every way. The joy of
Life is packed in learning that matches our skill set. When we stretch
Just a bit intellectually, physically, emotionally, we grow. Living is
Growing. Even your cells know that.
10. Value and protect the people and the places you care about. A job
Isn't a life. It's just a part of one. Let the people you care about
Come first, and let everyone know that you do. Re-read numbers 1 and 2.
We come into life with whatever we've got. It's ours to do with. It
Took me a while to figure that out ? That my life isn't just what
Happens to me, that I could take hold of it.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
A text message from Best
No matter what comes in between.
Be it money, power or love.
The strong bond must not get shattered.
But if in case it does...
Friends are inevitably bound by a thousand threads.
Some of the bonds may get shattered, but never totally broken.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
THE GREATEST ADVICE
By Rick Warren, the Purpose Driven Life
Don't date because you are desperate.
Don't marry because you are miserable.
Don't have kids because you think your genes are
superior.
Don't philander because you think you are
irresistible.
Don't associate with people you can't trust..
Don't cheat. Don't lie.. Don't pretend.
Don't dictate because you are smarter.
Don't demand because you are stronger.
Don't sleep around because you think you are old
enough & know better.
Don't hurt your kids because loving them is harder.
Don't sell yourself, your family, or your ideals.
Don't stagnate!
Don't regress.
Don't live in the past. Time can't bring anything or
anyone back.
Don't put your life on hold for possibly Mr.. Right.
Don't throw your life away on absolutely Mr. Wrong
because your biological
clock is ticking.
Learn a new skill.
Find a new friend.
Start a new career.
Sometimes, there is no race to be won, only a price
to be paid for some of
life's more hasty decisions.
To terminate your loneliness, reach out to the
homeless.
To feed your nurturing instincts, care for the needy.
To fulfill your parenting fantasies, get a puppy.
Don't bring another life into this world for all the
wrong reasons.
To make yourself happy, pursue your passions & be the
best of what you can be.
Simplify your life. Take away the clutter.
Get rid of destructive elements: abusive friends,
nasty habits, and dangerous liaisons.
Don't abandon your responsibilities but don't
overdose on duty.
Don't live life recklessly without thought and
feeling for your family.
Be true to yourself.
Don't commit when you are not ready.
Don't keep others waiting needlessly.
Go on that trip. Don't postpone it.
Say those words. Don't let the moment pass.
Do what you have to, even at society's scorn.
Write poetry.
Love Deeply.
Walk barefoot.
Dance with wild abandon.
Cry at the movies.
Take care of yourself. Don't wait for someone to take
care of you.
You light up your life.
You drive yourself to your destination.
No one completes you - except YOU.
It isn't true that life does not get easier with
age..
It only gets more challenging.
Don't be afraid. Don't lose your capacity to love.
Pursue your passions.
Live your dreams.
Don't lose faith in God.
Don't grow old.. Just grow YOU!
When you give someone your time, you are giving them
a portion of your life that you'll never get back.
Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift
you can give to someone is your time.
Relationships take time and effort, and the best way
to spell love is
T-I-M-E because the essence of love is not what we
think or do or provide for others, but how much we
give of ourselves...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Live!
Let's all remember to take the time to LIVE!!!!
A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.'
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on, was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
'Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion'.
I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day... I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words 'Someday...' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends. She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.<>
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.
If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.
If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it' One of these days' , remember that 'One day' is far away... or might never come....
No matter if you're superstitious or not, spend some time reading it. It holds useful messages for the soul.
Don't keep this message.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Don't want to go back yet
Haizt!
