Change is constant

"Nothing is permanent; life is a flux. Heraclitus has said that you cannot step twice in the same river. It is impossible to step twice in the same river because the river has flowed on; everything has changed. And not only has the river flowed on, you have also flowed on.

You are also different; you are also a river flowing. Like River you also have quite a lot of things moving in your life, Happiness , Depression, Joy and Sorrow all are moving at the top of your life. But something inside you is never changing and omnipresent. The moment you can find that centre which never changes, then everything about your life also changes.

If any of you have ever dived into sea( scuba-dive) and explored underneath then there is one thing which becomes very clear underneath the roaring sea-top ; there is utter calmness under the sea. The deeper inside you go under the sea , you will find more stillness.

That’s why Scuba diving is such a meditative experience. Meditation is nothing but finding centre inside you which is never changing. Meditation is art of staying calm at sea top. Once you realize your centre, then you are just an actor at top. You will know everything you know and feel now also will pass.

The moment you find centre you will also find Love! Love radiating from you and it is never changing! Meditation is way to find that never changing Love."

Unknown Author

Living excuse-free lifestyle:

7 Principles for living excuse-free lifestyle:

1. Become aware of your potential for greatness, understand the power of your mind and use it to develop your spirituality;

2. Align yourself with the universe by thinking like God thinks and keep returning to your Source;

3. Live here and now in your mind as well as in your body by being in the Present;

4. Contemplate what you are, rather than what you want to become, meditate on what already is and keep thinking in the present not in the past or in the future;

5. Be willing to allow health, happiness, and success to flow into your life, taking personal responsibility for your actions and be willing to surrender instead of resisting, committed instead of excuses, change instead of stagnation;

6. Be passionate about everyone and everything that enters your life, showing enthusiasm;

7. Show compassion by wanting more for others than you do for yourself.

Extracted from the book, Excuses Begone! By Dr Wayne Dyer.

Who says happiness is not contagious?

A study of Personal Happiness published in the British Medical Journal in January 2009 found that:

(1) Having happy people in a person's social network can dramatically increase that person's chance of being happy.

(2) If you become happy, you increase your next-door neighbour's odds of being happy by 34%, and increase your friend's odd of being happy by 25% if that friend lives withing a mile of you.

(3) On average, every happy person in your social network increases your own chance of being happy by 9%.

(4) Having happy family or friends in your social network increases your odds of being happy too.

(5) Happiness spreads in a person's social network up to "three degrees of separation."

(6) Your happiness can affect not only your friend, but also a friends of your friend and even a friend of a friend of your friend- someone you may never even meet or hear of.

(7) The effect of catching happiness from someone else can last up to one year

(8) As the happiness and positive emotions spread throughout social networks, communities and societies, the social benefits will spread and take root in a society right along with the personal benefits.

Source: The Art of Happiness in A Troubled World by HH the Dalai Lama and Dr Howard Cutler

7 Questions and possible answers to help you make Excuses Paradigm shift:

1. Is it true? Most probably not
2. Where is it from? I allowed them
3. What's the payoff? I get to avoid risks and stay the same - get stuck
4. What would my life look like if I couldn't use the excuses? I'd be free to be myself
5. Can I create a rational reason to change? - Easily
6. Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits? - Yes, by simply aligning with my Source of being
7. How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being? - By being vigilant

Source: Excuses Begone! by Dr Wayne Dyer

It takes a series of small goals to produce a big Goal

We all have the capacity to achieve BIG GOALS. BUT, we must first develop our competencies for achieving SMALL ONES. Instead of focusing on a big victory, focus on small victories. Small goals are your agencies or your road maps for achieving your big goals. As the saying goes, “It takes a series of small steps to produce a big step.

There is time for everything under the sun

When something does not work out according to your plan, it does not necessarily mean your intention was wrong. It does not necessarily mean your plan was wrong, It does not necessarily mean you did anything wrong. It simply means it was not the time for the thing to happen at that critical point in your life. Remember the old saying goes, “There is time for everything under the sun.”

Train journey times in different parts of the world

Following a recent news report that a train journey from Zaria to Lagos in Nigeria now takes approximately 26 hours, I decided to carry out a quick review of train journey times in different parts of the world using information available online for the selected sample countries. The idea was to establish any developmental disparities in train journey times across the countries. The following is my finding:

Britain
From Glasgow to London - 1043 km takes approximately 5 hours 57 mins travelling at a speed of about 175 km per hour.

Holland
From Amsterdam to Rotterdam - 79.7 km takes approximately 39 mins
travelling at a speed of roughly 122.6 km per hour.

India
Mumbai to Delhi - 1384 km takes approximately 22 hours
travelling at a speed of approximately 63 km per hour.

Japan
Tokyo to Kobe - 524.3 km takes approximately 10 hours
travelling at a speed of about 52.4 km per hour.

Nigeria
From Zaria to Lagos - 848 km takes approximately 26 hours
travelling at a speed of around 32.6 km per hour.

China
From Beijing to Shanghai - 1318 km takes approximately 5 hours
travelling at a speed of approximately 263.6 km per hour.

The Eurostar International Passenger train service between London, Paris and Brussels runs at a speed of up to 300 km per hour

In China, the fastest running train can reach a top speed of 350 km per hour.

The world speed record for conventional high-speed rail built in France clocked 574.8 km per hour.

The normal running speed in 1869 for a train on the transcontinental railroad was about 48 km per hour.