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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 871 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I was speaking to a friend once who said that they regretted, not having spent more time with their family members.
I ask you the question: Are you missing or regretting? See, there’s a big difference. Missing, means you wish those times would come again because you enjoyed them and you cherish them. You keep them as a memory, something which will stay with you at all times. Regretting, is different. It is when you feel as though the opportunity passed and you were never able to make up what you needed. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 870 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There’s a concept called “negative self-talk”. Something that we use to bash ourselves; something that we blame ourselves with or carry as guilt because of something we were not able to do at the time. And that is real; people find themselves stuck in situations. They can’t move forward, they realize they made a mistake or there’s something they can’t do, and they say, I just can’t do it. I messed up. My life is miserable. I will never be able to do the right thing. I will never be able to move forward. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 869 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Here is a disease, a condition which I believe must be avoided at all costs and that is envy. You see, to be envious of others means taking away the right from your life to be happy. We’re all stuck in that concept at times. We’re going around assuming that others have a better life, more money, they’re happier, they have more of everything materially, spiritually, physically, socially, economically, in every aspect. This envy takes away from you the opportunity to live a truly genuine unadulterated life. Why be envious? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 868 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I wanted to do a research about geniuses, those who are really nice by the world for being special, different, and clearly defined as geniuses. And it is interesting. The study I found, stated geniuses had routines, things that were common among these special people.
One, is that they had a private workplace. This is something that they kept to themselves, a place where they developed their geniuses, in just one little area.
The second, is that they took a daily walk. Interesting, isn’t it? These very famous geniuses; Charles Dickens, Beethoven, all these people, actually took a daily walk and made it a point every single day to go out on a walk. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 867 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I remember when I was younger that my father, bless his soul, used to work with me and help me with my homework and some of the things that I needed. As I became older in the teenage years, I was sent away to school. For many years, I only came home on a sparing time because there were just not enough means for me to go back and forth, yet I always appreciated those times. I appreciated every single moment and I remember.
Life is all about remembering, memories of good things, memories of opportunities, memories of thoughts, of things that we once lived with. I remember my father always being there for me even though most of my life, I did not live with my father. I remember what he was to me and what he represented to me. Remembering means having engraved in your heart, the goodness and the opportunities that you were once given. Remembering doesn’t mean making up stories or hoping that it was better; remembering means living with what you’ve got and appreciating what you once had. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 866 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
People often confuse the difference between humility and pride. They believe that if they are humble, they will be naive and that they will be bullied around. That’s not what humility is; they also believe, at times, that pride is arrogance. That is also not pride is.
Let me explain the difference between humility and pride. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 865 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
We often focus on, in our lives, about a “closed door”. We say, this is the end of it. What am I going to do now? I lost my job. I can’t finish this project. My spouse doesn’t like me. My friends despise me. My parents want to disown me, and on, and on.
For many of us, it’s easy to get caught up in what we can’t have, can’t do, what the person we wish to be in or not. And it’s extremely disheartening to pull our heart and soul into something and then find a brick wall to stop us and make it so clear that we can’t do that thing, whatever that is. Isn’t that amazing? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 864 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I read a story once about a very well-to-do king who lived in a beautiful palace. Once, he brought one of his subject, and asked him to work for him. He said however, that “instead of you working out in the field sweating in the heat and enduring the harshness of the weather outside, why not work inside my palace?” The king placed him in a large empty room, gave him the necessary tools, and said: “Just act as though the movements that you’re doing outside are the same. Act as though you’re cutting wheat, and I’ll pay you the same amount of money.”
Now, the servant was just enamored with the wonderful thought and happy to serve such a wonderful king. Why not? This would be so great. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 863 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There is a story in a Talmud about a man who noticed that he was sitting by a stone, where there was a drop of water that kept on falling onto that rock. Those drops were unified but consistent. As he looked closer, he saw that in the rock, actually, the water had made a dent, a hole. It then occurred to him that this rock which was solid and made up of elements of total constriction allowed the water to make a hole in it. Yet water is so soft and almost evaporates if you leave it anywhere long enough. So, how could it be? And so he thought, if the rock itself could have a hole in it made by water, his mind, he was at the time in his 40s, could also absorb knowledge, wisdom, and he could therefore change himself. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 862 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There is an interesting concept about the difference between water and fire. You see, the two cannot quite live together; let me explain.
If water comes too close to fire, it will extinguish it. If the fire on the other hand is too hot, then it will make the water evaporate. So how do these two live together? There is a way they can live together. If you put the water in a pot and there is a metal separating them both, then the fire can go under the pot and heat up the water. Isn’t that interesting? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 861 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Have you ever thought about your life and what is stopping you from being the person that you wish to be?
A writer once wrote, “The decision to be happy is actually the decision to stop being unhappy.” Interesting, isn’t it? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 860 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I once read a story about two people who were stuck on a mountain. One immediately worried and started thinking, how will we get down? What will we do for food? How are we going to live? What will happen to my family? While the other immediately focus on the beauty of what was around. That person was able to look and admire, and appreciate the breadth of the amazing scenery.
This is quite interesting, isn’t it?
At times we have the opportunity to look at things and recognize the beauty, recognize the goodness. Others, beat themselves up and think of the negative aspect: what is going to happen? What will be my future? What if I die? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 859 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Everyone is looking for happiness. No matter who we are and in what circumstances, this is what each person in the world is looking for. This is what we long for.
Happiness is the experience of the sheer joy of being alive. Now you see, it’s such an important value that the Declaration of Independence identifies its Pursuit as one of only three undeniable rights. Isn’t that amazing?
You think about that. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 858 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
It is quite interesting to see how the world has evolved and keeps on evolving in that direction. Our wonderful world has become a consumer society and it hasn’t stopped. We want more stuff and whatever we can get, if we don’t get it, the media, the advertising, and the companies out there try to make us feel bad that we don’t have that extra stuff. We need the latest computer, the latest phone, the latest car, the latest gadget, the latest clothes, the latest of anything, and it never stops. There’s always more. There’s always greater. All of it is there to entice us and there is a lack of nostalgia that if we don’t have it, then we will not be satisfied. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 857 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There is something which is in my own ways, a disease and this is my interpretation of it. I think many other people agree with me and that is to “envy others”.
To be envious of others of what they have or the things that you should have, brings about such animosity in you, looking at them and saying, “How come they have that? Why don’t I have it? I’m envious of what they have.”
If you look at your friends and they have more than you do, there’s another question you need to ask: “Are they happy with what they have?” (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 856 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Negative self-talk is something which is truly burdensome for everybody. Think about it for a moment. What that means is that in your mind, for whatever reason, you say, “I can’t do this. I’m such a loser. I’m not good at this. I’ve made so many mistakes. Oh my goodness, I have two left hands. I’m not able to do this in the proper way. I will never reach that goal.” On and on, and on, continuously putting yourself down. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 855 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Interestingly enough, there are people who live in ways where they see danger everywhere. You tell them, “By the way, have you checked your email?” And they respond, “Well, I can’t check it now because I don’t have the right access around the people that I’m in”
When you ask them, “What does that mean?” They say, ” Well, I don’t want anyone to see my password.”
Have you gone and logged on to some of the projects you have? These people would often answer: “Well, I can’t do this now because I don’t want anyone else to see it.” (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 854 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
The pursuit of happiness is a subject that many people discussed over the last several thousand years. Now, I learned recently that according to the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, it is an unalienable right. In fact, it says by one of the authors, the desire to be happy is at the root of all human endeavors. It doesn’t come in the form of an ideal job or a perfect mate, or winning a lottery ticket, not at all. It is that once you get rid of expectations that are not real, but rather focus on what you’ve got, the authentic happiness can be yours.
It’s interesting, isn’t it?
The fact that it is, according to the Declaration of Independence a “right”. So everyone has that right, as a citizen of the United States of America, and it is written in the Declaration of Independence to be happy. (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 853 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Imagine what a very wise man said “A soul may descend to this world and a live 70 or 80 years in order to do another person material favor or perhaps even a spiritual one”. This is quite an interesting statement. Can you imagine that?
Knowing that you are here down on Earth for a certain amount of time and let’s say, 70, 80, 90 years, however many years a person lives today, and that is to do one favor to another person.
Isn’t that an awesome responsibility? (more…)
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 852 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
A wise man once said, that “Every single thing one sees or hears is an instruction for his conduct in the service and his mission in this world”.
This is the idea of service, to comprehend and discern in all things or in all ways in which to serve to the mission.
Now, many people would argue, saying, “what is really my mission?” (more…)
