The Ultimate Pep Talk, Be grateful you’re alive

Let’s just take a moment and evaluate our lives. Look at the world as an opportunity to live and not a waiting room for what is to come. When we start to look at the purpose of each day and each moment we start to become grateful for the things we are given in the opportunity of living. If you stub your toe be grateful there is a toe to stub, if you are going to work be grateful you have somewhere to go.      

Life is a gift and living is an opportunity. This rollercoaster is what you make of it so make the most of every moment. Anton Chekhov said that “Man is what he believes” and those five words sum up the human experience better than a 1000 page book could. We can only do great things if we have the belief we can, so live in the now and enjoy the ride; you can achieve great things if you believe you can.  

Do not look to the sky or to your neighbors, look in the mirror and mark your progress in the person who was standing there the day before. Achieve great things the second you arise by arising with an empowered feeling of infinite possibilities and the promise of a new day. You are the coach, player and spectator, play well, be well and most of all, be grateful you’re alive.

Not another Positive thinking cliché

Positive thinking has a billion clichés about glasses being half full, rainbows and all sorts of cute things. While wonderfully helpful as a child, when we become adults we must convince the rational mind to adopt this philosophy in a more direct and logical way. Take the Law of Attraction out of this argument as this spiritual aspect does not speak directly to the mind and is more of a symptom of a healthy mind than the cause of it. 

If we only take control of what we are in control of we would eliminate pretty much everything but thoughts. As this is where your true power and control of your physical life is formed. When the mind is under stressed thoughts it goes into fight or flight mode, releases high doses of the cortisol (a fat storing and physiologically damaging chemical released by the body) and will cause physical and mental havoc on your mind and body. This is why stress seems to age a person very rapidly and cause a very pessimistic and jaded attitude towards life.

The good news is; this is a choice and you can choose to start looking at the glass half full and start seeing the rainbow in the sky if you choose to see it.  It may take some time as you probably have lived your entire life not keeping track of better feeling thoughts but when you start to do so, it will get easier as time goes on until it eventually becomes second nature. Then your mind and body will become much healthier. And if you use the Law of Attraction to your benefit, this is when your manifestations will come into your physical existence.

Diversity is the Key to a New Earth

There is no debating there is a tremendous amount of diversity on this planet. You can go to any major city and see all different types of faces, theologies and interests.  Diversity is natural, as there are millions of species living on this planet, there have been millions of trillions of moments on this planet and collectively all of these moments of diverse experience makes up the life experience of a collective humanity.

There can be no uniformity in humanity nor should there be, as when faced with the same thought process everything becomes stagnant at best. If not for the free thinking Einstein’s, Galileo’s and Dr. Wayne Dyer’s of this world. We would be a much less knowledgeable planet. Great thoughts do not come from Uniformity and no one has ever heard of those who are just like the rest, because those who do not free their minds are nothing to mention.

This is not to say that we must reinvent the rocket to be great as there are many ways to find this outside the box mentality in our daily lives. Just by living a life of Joy and Happiness is breaking the cycle of the norm. If you look for purpose in every situation then you are undoubtedly great and one of a select group of thinkers who will be on the fore-front of what promises to be a new earth.

Develop your Progress Instincts

Positive thought leads to positive action which always leads to positive results. It doesn’t matter if your building a house or buying groceries a positive expectation will lead to a positive experience. Canceling out tendencies to let your mind wander in to the worst case scenario will allow your subconscious mind to free itself from limited outcomes.

If you think about the unlimited possibilities of life and the fraction of a second timing that is involved with circumstance. You can understand how leaving your house a minute earlier may lead to a chance encounter or a run in with good fortune. It is when someone limits the mind by assuming everything is not going to work out that day that they do not open themselves to the beautiful events that make up our daily life.

This barbaric mentality is a function of our savage past and our fight or flight tendencies but there must come a point where we must relax the survival instincts and develop the progress instincts. It serves no purpose to have the instincts of a cave man as we are far removed from our genetic roots. We are not in competition with our environment or our neighbors; we are in a never ending race for personal and global progress.

Happy Equinox: A lesson from nature

Today is the Fall Equinox and it is not only a day that has been observed by countless traditions as a Holiday. It’s a day of balance; as the day and night have equal shares of the day. Looking at this from a Yin and Yang perspective you can see why observing this balance was important to the ancients as the sky is all they knew.

Now we know many things and have many new technologies which has advanced our frontiers of science but it also made the sky less of an awe inspiring mystery as it once was. Just because we have a grasp on what the stars are and why the sun sets and rises in the way it does, does not mean it should be any less wondrous or celebrated.

It is when we appreciate what is natural that civilization truly becomes civilized. The admiration of the circumstances that has brought us to this place is what we lost when we quantified the cosmos. This brought man to a feeling of above the natural and not a part of it. Maybe the ancients were not so wrong by celebrating these natural events, maybe if we can appreciate the day for what it is then we will have an appreciation for ourselves and who we are.

It is time to let go of your mistakes

We carry many things with us throughout the day, our wallets, cell phones and keys which are helpful tools for our adult lifestyle. But what if we carried around a blender, microwave and toaster with us as well? It would be pointless as it is not only unnecessary but would be a huge burden to lug around every day.

This is much like the mistakes you made in the past events of your life that you carry around completely unnecessarily. Many people carry around a huge amount of baggage for mistakes of their past, most of that baggage have already served its purpose and should be filed in the lesson learned bin. Mistakes happen as they are supposed to; Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before harnessing electricity. Babe Ruth struck out thousands of times yet we all know of his successes. Neither of them accomplished these great tasks by focusing and dwelling on their failures. They learned from it, let it go and moved on.

For some, they wear mistakes like a scarlet letter and it may not be as easy to let go of this negative mental sludge, but there are ways to encourage this transition. Write a list of everything you feel you messed up with, look at it intently and write what positive things you took out of those experiences. Make peace with those events and thank them for bringing you to the moment you’re living right now. Then destroy the list and with that destruction of paper know that they are gone and forgiven forever in your heart. Now, it is time to let go and make a list of all the victories you have achieved as well as all the things you’re grateful for; feel free to carry that around, as that will fit easily in your pocket and will serve you well.

We all have the ability to choose Greatness

We all have the ability to love, no matter where you come from or what you have done. Even if you look at the worst among us you will find some love for something somewhere. As even Hitler loved dogs and we can all agree that he was a bit cranky to say the least. There is Love inside of each of us, but it is where we choose to place it that is important.

We all have the ability to do great things; we can look at a 6th grade educated man in Henry Ford and find that he accomplished so many things, that at his peak; He was the most powerful man of his time. There is a great power inside of us and it is summoned by our own will, it is when we choose to summon it that truly counts.

We all have the ability to laugh in the face of fear using the example of Jim Carrey who went from living in a van to being one of the biggest stars of TV and Movies. Crediting his ability to keep his heart light through those times he emerged into becoming a great success. There is great value as laughing in the face of fear and becoming great is always an option.

We all have the ability to do whatever it is we choose by looking at things differently. You can choose to love, be successful and brave, if you have the will to do so. As humanity comes to a cross road in their minds, what will you choose. Do you know there is a choice?

It is time to lose your reasoning and restore yourself to your truest form. The form we were always meant to take as Kings and Queens of our own lives. It is easy to count yourself amongst the walking dead and give in, but to those who choose to walk your own path, Bravo!