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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 911 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
The whole world benefits if we all leave more profit. You touch something and you leave it better than you found it.
Imagine going to a hotel room and spending the night there. When you are finished, the morning before you leave, you will turn off all the lights, you would pick up some of the trash that you had and put it in the trash bin. Then at the same time, straighten up everything, so that it looks as good or better than the way you found it.
I’m not saying making up the bed and finishing it as though it was ready for the next person. But imagine the parents, to touch a life and leave it better than they found it. This is how they raise children. The life came into being and they raise that child to become better than when they came to this world. They help them see themselves greater than they are.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 910 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I once spoke to a leader who was telling me that life is not so simple as a leader. Actually, leadership is quite often an exercise in facing reality; and he couldn’t face this. This leader had dealt with someone who was very unethical and dishonest, and he couldn’t understand that.
Well, I tried to explain to him that dishonest people are just that, they are “dishonest” and they lack integrity. That’s who they are. That’s how they live. This is what they do. It is what they want to be.
Now there’s a concept called the 80-20 rule. It is to learn to spend 80% of your time as the leader with the 20% of the people who deserve it. A leader has to know that difference. Why is that?
Because in trying to figure out the things the way they are, sometimes, we don’t have an answer.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 909 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There are some people who live with if only:
“If only I were rich. If only I had more possessions. If only I had great health. If only I had been born in this country. If only I had this and if only I had that.”
Ask yourself the question, what if you would think differently by saying:
“Now, that this is what I have, what do I do? How can I grow? How can I change?”
Rather than saying if only I had this, why don’t you use what you have, what you know!
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 908 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There are people who can’t function well at times and they wonder why is that. Is it mental, physical, spiritual?
Believe it or not, often it is a physical concept that they don’t understand or don’t pay attention to.
You see, it’s very hard to be happy or be able to function productively when you’re completely worn out, and especially today with the demands that we have. It’s extremely difficult to tune out the world and be able to focus on just some of the concepts.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 907 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Just recently, I was speaking to a friend who reminded me that since some of my loved ones are still alive, I should at times just go and touch their hand. Because he did not have the opportunity to do that anymore, he missed that ability.
There are no guarantees we know in life against tragedies when it strikes, we know that; but what could we do when we start feeling the fear or understanding that we cannot appreciate what we have because we’re afraid to lose it?
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 906 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There are people who say we do not have choices in life. Life was a structured and set and we do not have choices. This, I believe is an inaccurate statement. We do have choices.
We have the choice at any given time to become either a victim of our circumstances or to become the person who makes those circumstances change. Believing in yourself to be just a mere pawn in a game which is played by some Being or Creator is not the proper attitude.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 905 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Having a productive life and the feeling and knowledge, and understanding that we are here for a purpose gives you a sense of productivity. What that means is that wherever you are, you have to seize the moment. It means that while there are many formidable obstacles and challenges in life, and they are unique to each person, we understand that, it seems that the circumstances that block our ability to fulfill our purpose in this world can be overcome because within each and every one of us, hidden deep within our personalities, our psyches, our characters, our beings is a very strong will, and this will is to fulfill our purpose in life.
And sometimes, we may think, how will that happen? Will one thought or one word, or one action change the entire world or even things around me? “There are billions of people in this earth and my lone voice in this part of the world will make all the difference?”. Is that even believable?
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 904 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that something terrible or difficult, or challenging has happened? Death, for instance or perhaps losing a job, or having all kinds of issues that have come up that you did not expect.
You thought it might even go away but things happened, but yet the whole world around you says, “This is good, everything is alright.”
The truth is, in your life, it’s not.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 903 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
A well-known man by the name of John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men of his time was asked what would make him more happy, and this is what he responded, “One dollar more.”
Can you imagine that kind of an answer? Think about that.
Money can buy so much and it can do so much more for us, but can it buy happiness?
Study after studies, it is shown that the desire for more stuff, more goods, more materialistic aspect has gone with the rise of income and is a “happiness suppressant”. So you accumulate more, but you’re not as happy. Many studies have shown that. It’s interesting.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 902 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Do you realize that according to the International Labor Organization, the average American works 1,979 hours per year which is over 400 hours more than Europeans and over 100 more than the Japanese? And this is of an increase in the last decades for a full week per year.
Quite amazing. These changes are incredible if you think about the impact that it has on our lives.
Now, work is a daily grind. What do we do, every single day when we go to work? Actually we spend more waking hours and some of the best years of our lives at our jobs than our homes.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 901 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There are times in our lives where challenges and obstacles seem to be overwhelming. Things we can’t understand or comprehend and not sure exactly where to go. A person can overcome these challenges by thinking about themselves and their position in the world.
Now, obviously, you have to admit that there has to be somewhere in this world or universe, the Creator that put all this together. That’s a premise you need to understand at first. Once you understand that, the vitality and indestructibility in the pure faith that there is a Creator, not in some kind of an abstract way, but One Who’s hidden somewhere in the heavenly spheres and regards this world not from a distance but with absolute conscientious efforts and in a very personal way. One who is the very life and existence of everybody, and it permeates one at all times in everything that they do.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 900 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
When a parent has a child, how much do they love that child?
The truth is, limitless way, but even though they have this child that they love in a way which is unparalleled, unprecedented, as they have a second child, they also love that second child in a limitless way.
How is that possible since there was not enough, love but yet it seems that the magic is recreated and they can love that child even more?
Now, what happens if a child is born to those parents and that child is missing a limb or has an impediment, or a body missing of anything, something, like an organ perhaps, or a defect, whatever the case maybe?
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 899 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
When we think about creating happiness and making sure that we have a good life both in physical, emotional, and spiritual way, we can’t help but consider the concept of love.
Now, in most cultures, we think of love as something in romantic terms, something that has to do with another person, a soulmate, someone we search for and then we hopefully find.
Interestingly enough, however, study after study has shown that married folks tend to be happier than single ones, so we know this is a good thing to do.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 898 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
If you’re trying to have a serious conversation on those occasions when you really want your words to be taken seriously, here is a few tips that might help you. Some of these conversations can be taken lightly and therefore, you have to be careful about this.
First, make sure that you choose a time in advance. Don’t just make it so that it’s unexpected. Choose a time when it is going to be a proper time to be able to deliver your message.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 897 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
At times, we do things which we know are improper, either in our eyes or in the eyes of society, or sometimes, for some of us, we believe in the eyes of G-d.
So what should we do when we feel remorse about something which should not have done? What’s the point of vocalizing our thoughts of remorse to anyone, for that matter? Aren’t the thoughts and the feelings that are deep within us or within the deep recesses of our minds and the parts of our hearts revealed before us? We know what we’ve done. We know what it is.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 896 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
What do you have and what makes what you have yours? Have you thought about that? And yours, meaning this is your spouse, this is your children, this is your home or your job, or your car, your clothes, your reputation, things that you have, and if the word ‘yours’ applies to these things, how did you come to possess these things or these ideas?
There are three ways.
One way is to earn all those things. The other way is that it was given to you, and the third way is that it was inherited.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 895 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Everything that happens in the world is by Divine Providence which means that it’s all under G-d’s watchful eye and due to His orchestration, if it happens this way or that way, it’s all meant to be for the good.
This is a concept which may or may not be accepted by everyone but it nevertheless, something which is real and true. Now, you may disagree and say, “I have control over what I want to do. I am the architect of my own destiny.” That is the truth. However, everything else around you is about developing and helping you to a certain extent, using your special capabilities to be the best that you can be. For instance, take this idea of money. How much money do you have and what do you give, and how do you share that money with others?
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 894 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Often, we find people who ask, “I believe G-d exists. I’m just not sure how to prove it. I don’t even know what to do with that sentence. I just know He exists,” and we take things for granted because of that. The fact however, that the Creator of the world and however you wish to call “It” is unlike any other person that we know, that know where the knowledge and the things that are known is not something that we can grasp by human intellect. We can’t understand that. It can’t even be discussed or verbalized. The ear that can’t hear it and the heart can’t recognize it. It’s difficult to interpret.
The reason for this, is because we generally try to understand things that exist outside of ourselves by thinking about how it is in us or in a relationship to us, and then by projecting it outward. It is so completely foreign to us sometimes that our comprehension can’t grasp it. We just don’t know how to relate to that.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 893 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
You know, in our world today, we have an identity crisis which is so rampant, it’s quite amazing. Human beings are the only ones asking, “So what now? What do we have to do? What are we going to be doing?”
People are not sure how they’re supposed to act from day to day. We don’t know what to do with our lives. Now, there are two conclusions that we can reach: either we are inferior to all of the cosmos or we have a unique role in the cosmos. It’s up to us and we make that decision. It’s interesting.
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 892 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I recently read about Viktor Frankl. He was a psychiatrist and also an author, and he survived some terrible times during the German concentration time. He was in concentration camps himself, and he claimed that he found, in the concentration camp, his calling; and this is what he said. “Every person has his own specific vocation or mission in life, and everyone”, he said, “must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.”
What that means is that the search that a person has to go through in order to find what this fulfillment is, is what gives us a reason to live, and that reason is for us to carry on this mission or this experience that we’ve gone through.
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