Slowing Down to Get Ahead
Four times today in about an hour I heard the same message in a different way. Slow down. Get the right perspective before forging ahead. What’s important is all around us. Are we paying attention?
Four times today in about an hour I heard the same message in a different way. Slow down. Get the right perspective before forging ahead. What’s important is all around us. Are we paying attention?
Are you running with the hope you’ll end up somewhere good? Or, do you need to gain peace and clarity to run with purpose and focus on the goal? Read more here.
What is compassion? What if we had true compassion and opened our hearts to relate in a way that reflects its true definition? Would healing be the result?
What is your constant? That thing you can’t go a day without thinking about? Your dream, hope, wish? What do you do about it?
Where’s your focus? Life is not meant to be a series of get-er-done’s. Life is about people. What can you do today to value those you come in contact with? Read more about changing your focus.
Are you tempted to hang on to things that are really special? We may not be likely to share if we fear running out of it. What if your greatest treasure has no end?
What if our abilities are waiting to surface until we start moving in the direction our heart is drawn?
Last week we talked about how our purpose and our fears cannot co-exist. One will extinguish the other. They are both powerful, and they team up against each other for a mighty battle. Have you defined your fear and your purpose? Read more.
You cannot live your purpose and nurture your fears at the same time. Think of any good story. What makes it good? Conflict, right? There is a protagonist, who is often known as the hero, and an antagonist, the hero’s opponent or rival. Now think of your purpose as being the protagonist and fear being its rival. Both are powerful, but whichever you yield to will win. You cannot entertain them both.
When we think of independence we often think of not needing anyone else. We think of being independent individually, rather than collectively. Today may we all remember that this independence was never meant to be celebrated simply on an individual level, but as a nation.