Dear Friends,
No one could ride a Horse if the Horse discovered its real strength. The same applies for people as well.
We all know that horses are massive, gentle creatures who are by far larger and stronger than men and women who handle them, yet they docilely obey the commands they are given. It doesn’t seem logical that a large, powerful animal would
allow itself to be mastered by a human being, yet we have been able to use
our intelligence to dominate the animal kingdom.
The learning out here is we can use these same forces to allow the positive side of ourself to dominate the negative. A Positive mental attitude allows us to tap the source of great power that
resides within us, enabling us to accomplish things we never before believed were possible.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
CHANGE-Beautiful indeed
Dear Friends,
Please excuse me if you find this a bit too dragging.
What happens when people particularly some of your best colleagues in your organization leave - They leave a vacuum behind or atleast that's what we feel for sometime when they are gone (especially if the person has a combining exemplary professional skills with a sweet nature and gentle character). Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start getting comfortable with a person, place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe - A terrific neighbour moves away, someone in the family graduates and moves, a child finds new love and loyalties through marraige or the family's principle bread winner is laid off. There have been various such cases but its a matter of time and LIFE is normal again.
To a great degree, our ability to cope with change and disruption determines happiness and contentment in life.
But how do we do that?
Based on a philosophers thought, comfort can be found in remembering that "to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven" - Let TODAY embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing.
I believe that SURVIVABILITY depends upon ADAPTABILITY. The answer to life's problem can be summed up in four words: "Go with the FLOW"
Once I read something in a surfer's column, which I had recorded in my book - "Its like surfing; you can't organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride them where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you're always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get. But mostly, ypu just take them the way they come".
I"m not exactly sure, but I thought that the surfer meant "Life is a series of events" - Both good and bad. No matter how smart our organizational skills are, there will always be life influencing factors over which we have no control. The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustment should the need arise - as it almost always does.
That doesn't mean, we don't keep trying to make all our dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren't exactly in our plan, we work around them and then we move on. Ofcourse, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take on than OTHERS. But the principle is the same.
A famous philosopher, Thomas Carlyle once said "Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful. And if memories have its force and worth, so also has HOPE"
SO, rather than dwelling in something that is painful, let's focus on our HOPES for a brighter future. And then we'll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen.
UNTIL our plans change - AGAIN.
Cheers to CHANGE
Please excuse me if you find this a bit too dragging.
What happens when people particularly some of your best colleagues in your organization leave - They leave a vacuum behind or atleast that's what we feel for sometime when they are gone (especially if the person has a combining exemplary professional skills with a sweet nature and gentle character). Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start getting comfortable with a person, place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe - A terrific neighbour moves away, someone in the family graduates and moves, a child finds new love and loyalties through marraige or the family's principle bread winner is laid off. There have been various such cases but its a matter of time and LIFE is normal again.
To a great degree, our ability to cope with change and disruption determines happiness and contentment in life.
But how do we do that?
Based on a philosophers thought, comfort can be found in remembering that "to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven" - Let TODAY embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing.
I believe that SURVIVABILITY depends upon ADAPTABILITY. The answer to life's problem can be summed up in four words: "Go with the FLOW"
Once I read something in a surfer's column, which I had recorded in my book - "Its like surfing; you can't organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride them where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you're always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get. But mostly, ypu just take them the way they come".
I"m not exactly sure, but I thought that the surfer meant "Life is a series of events" - Both good and bad. No matter how smart our organizational skills are, there will always be life influencing factors over which we have no control. The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustment should the need arise - as it almost always does.
That doesn't mean, we don't keep trying to make all our dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren't exactly in our plan, we work around them and then we move on. Ofcourse, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take on than OTHERS. But the principle is the same.
A famous philosopher, Thomas Carlyle once said "Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful. And if memories have its force and worth, so also has HOPE"
SO, rather than dwelling in something that is painful, let's focus on our HOPES for a brighter future. And then we'll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen.
UNTIL our plans change - AGAIN.
Cheers to CHANGE
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