One Degree of Separation !

Distinction between Success & Failure !

Rabbi Harold Kushner Quotes

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

+ Rabbi Harold Kushner+

Born Mildred Norman Quotes

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought."

Peace Pilgrim: Born Mildred Norman, 

was a peace activist and spiritual leader

Denis Waitley Quotes

Denis Waitley: 
Motivational speaker and author

"Losers live in the past.
Winners learn from the past and enjoy
working in the present toward the future."

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"Time and health are two precious assets that
we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted."

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"There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them."

 

Use "Wasted" Time

Most of us waste time, me more than ever. This came about as I was not clear of my goals and objectives. We waste time standing in queues, waiting in traffic, chatting on-line, sms'ing, surfing the net aimlessly, etc........ I call all these time wasters, diversions or distractions. We fail to use all of our time productively or even pleasurably. We jump from one diversion to another without enjoying any of them. We get irritated about matters beyond our control. The cause, we fail to plan well, causing negative consequences that could be easily avoided, for example we could use our travelling time to read or listen to personal development materials rather sitting, standing around or just purely listening to music. I find reading in the toilet useful as I am in an alpha state where absorption of information is at its highest. :-)

You could use these questions at the end of the day to evaluate your strengths and weakness:

• When did I do my worst thinking today?
• When did I do my best thinking?
• What did I actually think about today?
• Did I figure out anything?
• Did I allow any negative thinking to frustrate me unnecessarily?
• If I had to repeat today, what would I do differently? Why?
• Did I do anything today to further my long-term goals?
• Did I do what I set out to do? Why or Why not?
• Did I act in accordance with my own expressed values?
• If I were to spend every day this way for 10 years, would I, at the end, have accomplished something worthy of at that time?

Source: Critical Thinking, Richard W. Paul & Linda Elder

Take a little time with each question and reflect. It would be useful, like a daily journal to record your observations so that you are forced to spell out the details and or bad habits. Be explicit in what you recognise. As time passes, you will be able to look back and search for patterns in your daily thinking, habits and in your observations and assessments of that thinking.