You Can’t Please Everybody! I’ve tried that…
WE’VE heard this cliché so many times, or is this simply the plain truth? Yup, you’re right! It is difficult, indeed, to please everyone. Each day comes with challenges. We work with people, we move around people. Interaction with others is so much inevitable. We cannot do without others in this game called life. We simply have NO CHOICE but co-exist with other human beings.
Come Forth!!!
Believe that things will work out! Follow your intuition and curiosities. Trust your heart even when it leads you off what appears to be the right path. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary!
How should we live?
“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect, but I don’t live to be. But before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” – Bob Marley. What should you live for? Wealth? Power? Service? Longevity? Reason? Love? Faith? Family? God? Virtue? Happiness? Fulfillment? Comfort? Contentment? Integrity? There are hundreds to choose from.
Be knowledgeable. Not a know-it-all.
It’s all about attitude. Be it at home or anywhere, a good attitude is an asset. At the same time, a bad or worse still, a know-it-all attitude, could pose serious threats to your personal growth and alienate you in all places. While a “know-it-all” can be avoided like the plague otherwise, dealing with such an individual can become quite challenging.
“ME”
Through our lives we are conditioned into an EGOIST state of mind where we view ourselves as somehow separate from the rest of the world but at the same time the CENTER of it. It is an illusionary state in which we identify with a set of concepts, feelings, opinions, and judgments about past experiences. Then wrap it all into a big ball convince ourselves that our big ball of “nothingness” is a rock solid substantial thing, it is our own little shadow “reality” in which we root our identity, and we name it “ME”.
Sometimes it’s time… time for a change!
Each of us has a set of values, which provides a structural foundation for our life. With fundamental principles such as “integrity,” “honor,” “providence” and “kindness,” many details of day-to-day living come into proper perspective. I reflect and recall the times when I made decisions that altered my life. Deciding on family issues, a job, and business, or journey. Some of these decisions have led to ‘happiness,’ some to ‘sadness.’ Others, thought major at the time, appear insignificant in later life. Numerous I thought difficult; several I barely recognised, yet turned out to be central.
Happy New Year!
Christmas time had passed and the arrival of a new year is just around the corner. Wow! Time and tide wait for no man. Another precious year of our life has passed out. Some of us have travelled more, others less on the way to our cherished Home. We should do our utmost to achieve the object before us. And my best wishes are with each one of you.
Nothing stays the same…
“Life will never be the same again life is changing”… what a fantastic saying and an awesome song by Haddaway… You’d think after my years of living that I would get used to the changes. I’m not! Some times they still hit home to me.
Christmas & Memories
At Christmas there is much intermingled – children – innocence, expectancy; love ones – homecoming, happiness and mellow moods; for many people it would mean loneliness – serious concerns; of course there are ‘SOME’ generosity in some areas, it makes me wonder though why we couldn‘t do it everyday. This is the time when we find some emerging of our ‘Better Selves’ – and so much else besides – all intermixed with a measure of ‘Forgiving’ and ‘Forgetting’ – and with memories from all past years that merge and mixed with the present moment.
Aliah’s Desire… “Revival and Unity”
We are living in days of great opportunity. Many of us have prayed and prayed that God would break out with a move of His Holy Spirit that would not only revolutionise the church but would be a catalyst for a spiritual awakening in our city at large.
Karen’s Secret
The story is told about a young lion that asked his mother: “Where is happiness?” The mother lion responded: “On your tail.” Upon hearing this, the young lion started chasing his tail, and spent the whole day doing so. Seeing the young lion tired and exhausted, the mother lion said: “Son, you don’t chase happiness. Just keep moving forward, and your happiness will follow.”
No One Loves the Truth… it’s ME
“You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!” (El Filibusterismo) Dr. Jose P. Rizal “Better to hurt me with the truth rather than comfort me with your lies.” Truth can hit us hard. The truth hurts, but it is better to experience closure with pain rather than a never-ending agony, or a guessing game.
Pain has never been embraced nor welcomed in life…
We all know that pain has never been embraced or welcomed in life, yet it is the very thing that will quicken us. What hinders you today will be your strength tomorrow for what is light without dark? Good without evil? If either did not exist, would we learn?
You are the Window…
There is a remarkable sentence from George Bernard Shaw: “Better keep yourself clean and bright, he said… “You are the window through which you must see the world.”
Snares and Traps
“I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18:22). A friend of mine was telling me once about this interesting system they use to do for capturing monkeys in their province of Leyte, Philippines. Because they don’t want to kill them as they feel that it is cruel, their goal was to take the monkeys alive so they can also sell it as a pet or release it back into the jungle. In an extremely humane way, they use large coconut, with a small hole, into which they deposit a handful of food, which the monkeys like.