Perspectives

how to stay motivated & inspired

by Paul Joo

In a world that seems determined to draw our attention to the negatives, it can be tough to get & stay positively motivated, let alone inspired.

So here is an easy way to keep motivation and inspiration in play every day:

Try to think in terms of motivation as “I really want to DO ____”, and think in terms of inspiration as “I really want to BECOME ____”.

Now, assuming that you believe that what you think & do every day adds up to Your Life, the path is clear: you first need to identify what truly inspires you, and then find paths to keep you motivated to live up to your inspiration. Simple! 🙂

For example, I happen to be inspired by a specific blend of qualities evinced by Sherlock Holmes, Aristotle, James Bond, the Dalai Lama, and Miyamoto Musashi. So I’m motivated to do certain things in certain ways that will bring me closer to living those qualities myself. But that’s just me.

If you aren’t yet sure how or where to look for your own inspiration, you could do worse than to start by considering the following:

“To love justice, to long for the right, to love mercy, to forget wrongs and remember benefits, to love the truth, to be sincere, to love liberty, to cultivate the mind, to be familiar with the mighty thoughts that genius has expressed, the noble deeds of all the world, to cultivate courage and cheerfulness.”

Remember, it doesn’t really matter what inspires you, as long as you find something that does. And it may change over time – that’s fine too. As long as it speaks to you now, you can rely on it to keep you motivated to get going on what to do today, to live as and become whom you want to be. Because that, friends, is living well!

 

Perspectives

how to live in true gratitude

by Paul Joo

There is no greater manifestation or expression of Gratitude than to use to the utmost whatever you possess.

Gratitude is about positively taking responsibility for making the most of yourself; it’s all about maximizing yourself.

Sadly, people very often associate Gratitude with Humility, which is in fact the opposite idea of “humbling oneself” – a directive to minimize yourself.

Remember, true Gratitude is not just an emotion, it is an attitude of boldly making the most of what you are and what you’ve got!

Live well.

Thought Bytes

teddy’s talk on living boldly

by Paul Joo

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”   – Theodore Roosevelt

Perspectives

how powerful is the past?

by Paul Joo

As individuals, our past truly has no power over our future.

In fact, our past has no power over our present either, save that which we all too often assign it through basing our expectations on it.

Remember: Expectation drives manifestation.

 

Perspectives

a simple truth about the truth

by Paul Joo

Fact is, there aren’t all that many people out there who are comfortable with the truth.

Few actively seek it, and fewer still are pleased when it reveals itself to them.

So it would seem that all truth is pretty much inconvenient, eh?

Alas……

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