There is nothing either so good or bad, Our thinking make it so

When you become a keen observer of
events as they come in and go out of your life on a daily basis, you will begin to see how much you can learn from each. Every passing event in your life is a potential teacher when you:

(a) become a keen observer of each as it comes and go;

(b) stop judging and labeling none as either "good" or "bad";

(c) remember that nature uses both to teach you something about yourself and others;

(d) find at least one learnable thing from each and learn it;

(e) put into practice what each has taught you;

When the next event arrives, either good or bad, remember the following popular quote by William Shakespeare:

"THERE IS NOTHING EITHER GOOD OR BAD BUT THINKING MAKES IT SO."

Hard as this may appear to be for most of us to grasp, the way we think determines how much we learn from each event as one ending forms the beginning of the next. This, in my view, is the nature of life and living; needing both to experience the fullness of the earth.

Fear Factor

Fear and self-pity are habits. Prolong experience of both can attract the feeling of defeat. A persistent feeling of defeat can lead to anxiety. Long periods of anxious moments can produce feeling of despair, hopelessness and resignation. You have the capacity to get rid of all of these negative habits with two simple self-affirmative statements: “I can" and "I will.”

Self Pity

You can pity others as much as you can but never pity yourself. Self-pity is your enemy number 1. This is more so when you surrender to it. To achieve your full potential in every sphere of your life, you must never surrender yourself to self-pity. Hard as it might sometimes appear to be, never ever give in to self-pity.

Stability

Stability is your inner strength to withstand adversity. It is your ability to stand firm and remain hopeful even when the situation appears to be hopeless. Remember, as the time of storm provides the palm tree the opportunity to showcase their strength and stability, so is the time of your crisis designed to demonstrate the strength of your character and stability.

Success Factor

The bigger the amount of suffering you have to experience in order to achieve great success, the more juicy and entertaining your life story will become.

University of Life

Education gives you knowledge. Life gives you experience. Life lets you experience what it is to be a human being. Education opens up various options and opportunities from which you are free to select the type of human being you wish to become, good or bad.

Every Step Counts

In your journey to success, there's no right step or wrong step. Every step you take counts towards your final destination. The right step takes you to the next. The wrong step lets you step aside to learn more about yourself and the purpose of the journey. The only step that does not count is the one not taken.

The Power of Intention

In life, anyone, driven by a reason to live and the meaning of life, who is able and willing to do just about anything, will keep lacking nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, irrespective of the prevailing economic downturn. The Source of your being will keep meeting your needs. When your reason for doing something is bigger than anything you have to do, doing it attracts a sense of inner peace and happiness naturally.

Excuses! Excuses!! Excuses!!!

Mr Pessimist says “It’s raining.” Mr Optimist says “It will soon stop.” Mr Realist says “I’ll find something else to do.” As the Yiddish saying goes, “if you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.” There’s always something to do, if you really want to.

If you've done something before, you can do something again.

Take a moment to look back in time and think of things you've done so far.
What's one thing you're most proud of?
What made it so important to you?
How did you do it?
What did you feel the moment you knew you've done it?
What particular skill was key to the success?
What could you do now with that skill?
What is stopping you now from doing it?
What would you feel if you could just do it?

The past created the present. The present creates the future. Success is using what you've got to get what you want. If you've done something before, you can do something again.

What would you do if you had no limitation?

Imagine a world in which you feel no limitations; a world in which your status in life makes you feel no less or more important than your next door neighbour; a world in which the colour of your skin gives you not feeling of advantage or disadvantage over your colleague; a world in which there is no boundaries or no walls; a world free of any form of discrimination on the basis of the person you are; a world in which every person is seen and treated as a person and each person is free to be the person he or she is meant to be in life:

What would you do?
Who would you be?
What would you have?

As humans, we use our minds to create these barriers to give ourselves some differential advantages over others. What could we do if we had none of these limitations?

The Story Teller -The price of disobedience

This story is about disobedient tortoise, and his wife. They lived together for many years without a child. Their situation was becoming unbearable. They both desperately wanted a child of their own. His wife started to give him a lot of pressure. One day tortoise decided to visit the village priest for help.

The village priest was famous for his ability to help women get pregnant. After the initial greetings, tortoise explained his mission. The priest then asked tortoise to come back the next day.

The following day, tortoise was back to the village priest very early in the morning as agreed. The priest went into his inner room and came back with a pot of soup which he had specially prepared for tortoise’s wife. The priest told tortoise that his wife should drink the soup. Tortoise was very pleased with the priest and thanked him for the help. He was assured that his wife would be pregnant after drinking the soup. Before tortoise left, the priest warned him that under no circumstance must he drink the soup himself. Tortoise assured the priest that he would not drink the soup.

However, on his way home, the aroma of the soup made his mouth water so much that he decided to stop and had a small taste of the soup. One tasty sip led to another as he made his way home. Before he arrived home the pot was empty. Suddenly, he noticed that his stomach had protruded forward like a pregnant woman. He didn’t know what to do. He went into his house but could not tell his wife what had happen. His wife was confused. They both panicked. She advised tortoise to return to the village priest.

They returned to the priest for help. As they entered the priest’s compound, the tortoise started to sing distressfully saying that the priest had warned him not to drink the soup. He said as he was walking home with the pot of soup in his hand, he suddenly slipped and fell over. As he tried to save the pot, his finger touched the soup. He then touched his lip with his finger by accident. He then looked towards the ground and noticed his big tummy. He cried and cried and cried begging the priest to save his life.

The priest told them emphatically that the medicine had no remedy. The soup that was meant to boost his wife’s pregnancy was not now boosting tortoise’s glands. The priest was enraged and kept saying, “Is obedience not better than sacrifice? Did I not warn you?”