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"Life as a Meditation: Some Reflections."
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See the silver lining in every cloud in your life; and welcome the rain that comes from these clouds because they provide the moisture that allows and encourages the new seeds you have planted to grow into full bloom.
Constantly plant new seeds of hope, joy and success and know that when the times seem to be cloudy or stormy that they are in fact just times of great potential and growth about to burst forth.
Trust in the rhythms of the seasons for they are just as much in your life as they are in nature. We need the rain and the storms so that our seeds might grow, so that we might grow.
Just trust!
Everything replenishs and re-grows itself.
Just know that that is what you, too, are now experiencing.
All things are always changing and flowing! Tomorrow is another day filled with potential, filled with potency, filled with all that is fresh and new and joy-filled!
Envision, feel, see, and say: “Good things are always happening to me. Good things are unfolding within me now!”
And as Annie reminds us:
The sun will come out tomorrow.
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there’ll be sun.
Just thinking about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow, till there’s none…
From the musical “Annie.”
Too often our experience of life is like a series of breathless, unconscious, one after the other chase scenes in a fast-paced movie. Rather, I believe life is meant to be a series of vibrant still shots or landscapes to savor and enter into with just a sprinkling of the right amount of mad-cap scenarios to add some spice.
Often, as soon as we wake up in the morning, we are immediately mentally inundated with an infinitely long “To Do” list. Instead, I would propose that we start off our day by focusing on creating an exquisite, rich, high quality “To Be” list. Let me explain.
As I see it, it’s not about what you want to “do” today that is most important, but rather what you want to “be” or feel or experience. What qualities of life do you want to primarily participate in today: peace, balance, love, courage, happiness, joy, humor, harmony, confidence, etc? Or do you really want to go into a lowest common denominator default mode and experience their opposites?
Why not begin your day by either mentally or on paper jotting down the quality that you would like to experience and embody that day? And then, as the day progresses, create various practices and techniques that will help you to remember and then reinforce that quality so that your day is filled with what is really most important to you and with that which will bring you the greatest lasting value.
You can always, every day, in every moment choose “To Be” filled with a wondrous joy, peace, love, and even more. It is a choice… yours!
You are a human “being,” not a human “doing!”
Begin your day by putting first things first: claim your Mastery and step into and experience who you want “To Be” today!
The full version of this essay will appear this coming May in a book entitled “101 Ways to Improve Your Life,” in which I am co-author with Zig Zigler, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, John Harricharan and many other cutting-edge authorities.