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It’s that time again when we say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new. For many it’s a time of taking stock of what we have (or haven’t) accomplished and looking forward to a fresh start, maybe symbolized by another set of new year’s resolutions that we hope to keep longer than last year’s.
What is Success?
Success means different things to different people. For some it might mean owning luxurious houses and fast cars. For others it might mean the freedom to travel to exotic places and/or do exciting things. Perhaps it means freedom from the drudgery of work, gaining recognition in one’s chosen field, or simply being able to make a positive difference in some area of personal importance. There is no universally right/wrong answer – only what’s right for you. Continue reading Key Factors for Success in 2012
Purpose and Goals
Everyone has a purpose in life. For those of a spiritual disposition it might be to serve others, to resolve one’s karma, or simply to amass experience to carry back to the higher realm. For everyone else it might be to leave their mark in some (hopefully positive) way, to do their best for their family, or simple to fill their lives with as much happiness as they can find. Purpose is as unique as the individual.
Our true purpose remains constant throughout our life, but is most commonly expressed through our many and changing goals. It is our goals which motivate and drive our choices and actions and dictate, to some extent at least, our destiny (or the kind of life we experience). Continue reading Purpose, Goals and Success
The Benefits of Time Management
Despite the relentless march of technological progress many of us are busier and more pressured than ever before. Take the cell phone as an example. Just a few years ago if we were out, we were out of contact, and that was that. Now we’re contactable 24 hours a day, wherever we may be. And, more often that not, that out of hours contact brings yet more to be done.
If you do have too much to do in too little time, be pleased. At least you are special and in demand. It also shows you are living life fully, if not necessarily in the wisest fashion. Continue reading Time Management Techniques
by Michael G. Rayel, MD
There’s so much talk about emotional intelligence and how it can promote personal and business success. What is it really? What are its basic tenets?
Emotional intelligence is the capacity to recognize, understand, and manage one’s emotions and that of others. This “intelligent” concept focuses on the role of emotion in our daily lives and how it affects our perception, reasoning, and behavior. Continue reading Emotional Intelligence: The Basics
Personal Goal Setting and Planning
Our logical, rational mind tells us we live in a predictable world. We flick the switch, the light comes on; turn the key, the car starts etc etc. But experience tells us life isn’t so simple. What we expect often doesn’t come about, while surprises happen with disturbing frequency. This inherent complexity and seeming randomness begs the question of whether it is ever worth the bother of trying to set goals or plan for the future. Continue reading Setting and Achieving Goals
Live not for tomorrow,
yearn not for the past,
live only for the moment,
it’s all that is ours.
These words should be obvious, but how many of us find it so difficult to focus our attention on the moment.
Perhaps as an attempt to abdicate personal responsibility we too often tend to fall into one of two traps. Either our attention is fixed upon the past, memories of how it was, and how it was so much better than now… Or we imagine that everything will be alright tomorrow. Only tomorrow never comes! Continue reading Living in the Moment
Let’s just be glad we had some time to spend together Kris Kristofferson
The loss of a loved one. Preparing to leave the safety of school. A child leaving home. A relationship drawing to a close. Retirement….. The list is endless.
Most or all of us have faced or will face one or more of these events in the course of our lives. The first of the four Noble Truths of Buddhism states that life means suffering. Even in the midst of our happiest times lies the reality that our happiness is transient. And when it passes we experience sorrow, perhaps fear. Continue reading Letting Go
Isn’t life amazing? Though sometimes frustrating, overwhelming, even infuriating, our journey through the material world is a truly fantastic adventure filled with potential for fulfilment and pleasure. But how many of are actually taking advantage of all that is on offer? Or to put it another way, how many of us are simply coasting through on cruise control and missing much of what’s out there?
Life is certainly complex. Numerous things demand our attention, and in the final analysis most of these urgencies are utterly meaningless. Have we paid the gas bill?, remembered Mrs X’s birthday?, chosen the right outfit for the company “do”?….. The list is endless. The trouble is, with so much noise, can we even hear – never mind respond to – the real message? Continue reading The Power of Focus
English occultist Aleister Crowley wrote “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” in his classic The Book of The Law forcibly dictated to him by the discarnate higher intelligence called Aiwaz.
What is meant by this “law”? Does it mean we are free to do whatever we please – in other words that there is no law? Or does it convey a deeper, more subtle, truth?
Compare “do what thou wilt” to the Lord Jesus’ expression of “thy will be done”, referring to God’s will. Are the two teachings irreconcilably incompatible?
In answering these questions we must draw upon two fundamental Spiritual principles. Continue reading Do What Thou Wilt
A Coping Strategy for Dealing with Life’s Problems
The question of meaning, purpose, or why we are here is one we’ve all surely asked at one time or another. Given that physical death (and maybe taxes) is the only certainty of this incarnation it is a question without answer in a purely materialistic framework.
Instead we must seek a solution through Spirituality. If we accept that at essence we are immortal Spirit temporarily journeying the earth plane in a body of atoms and molecules then clearly it is in the Spiritual journey that our true purpose lies. Continue reading Facing Difficulty
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