As time is ticking along relentlessly, you are taking stock of what you’ve done right, what you’ve done wrong, and what your choices have both delivered and cost you thus far.
Here is a handy tip for figuring out the possibilities of where you want to go next:
Be very careful not to confuse REGRET over having made a Big Mistake (or two…or three….) with the FEAR of no longer having the freedom to make a Big Mistake.
Consider this deeply, and then forge ahead with confidence!
We are all taught to practise mental strategies such as “contingency planning” or “saving for a rainy day” or “thinking ahead”. And with good reason: they are eminently useful & practical.
But I think they ought to come with a proviso, because we all have an unfortunate tendency to neglect the present for the future.
And neglecting any “now” for any “then” is most unwise, for it is in our present that we initialize our futures.
How about….
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.
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Life is better when it’s powered by individuals rather than by social constructs.
It is a sad fact that the world is rife with frightened people who, rather than making the effort to elevate themselves, simply park on feeling inadequate and parrot terminologies that they have heard yet fail to sufficiently comprehend. And one victim of this is the idea of being logical & systematic. This is in fact a tremendously valuable trait, but it is often maligned as “being anal” by the weak-minded, who often find themselves incapable of any kind of sustained and focused concentration.
That said, even many intelligent people have been misled to believe that being logical, organized & systematic necessitates being rigid and closed-minded. This is a fallacy. On the contrary, disciplining yourself to think & behave in a systematic way endows you with the power to consider insightful questions for yourself which you then feel compelled to answer in an effective manner.
Possessing such a mindset enables you to engage any activity to its successful conclusion without a moment of wasted time, effort, or energy. In this light, I think it is safe to say that being described as logical & systematic is most definitely a complement, and as a quality available to all with the initiative to cultivate it, worth the effort.
You really need only three Core Beliefs: One about Yourself, one about your World, and one about the Universe.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. – Dumas