The least heard are those that should be listened to the most.
"I listened with fixed attention" Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Essentially similar to this quote and the one before that ..
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If you are looking for the truth about yourself, look behind. It's where every talks about it.
Listen, Understand, Act (Photo credit: highersights ) This is a play on the notion that people talk frankly about you behind your back. Although not necessarily true, because people can still spread lies about you, people feel the need to not hurt your feelings by telling the truth about you to your face. Different people react differently to finding out the truth. Few people accept them outright. Most leans towards outright rejection.I think we should listen to what people are talking about us. Make people feel comfortable about talking about you, to you. We can then filter out what is the real truth and what are speculation and wrong opinions and lies. The least you will get out of being able to listen to the truth is knowing how other people really
The link between Effort and Success is a bit of Faith
Is Health wealth or will wealth pay for health (Photo credit: 401(K) 2013 ) I've often wondered about success. How do some people succeed? Why do others fail? I look at the relationship between effort and success. Everyone used to tell me that you have to work hard to succeed. Later they told me to work smart and not work hard. Now everybody says that to be successful, you have to be passionate about what you do. Wait a minutes, isn't that just working hard but loving it? I look at people who are successful but didn't really do much to get there.I also see honest people working hard and barely making ends meet. Is success not supposed to be fair? I'd like to think that success is not a destination but a state of being. It is different for every people. Being successful it just a measurement but depends on what are you measuring for? I don't know what it all means.But I do see one thing. To be successful, you need faith. It could be faith in yourself or f...
Ride on positivity that move you forward or let time push you along in life
Peace Education (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Time is relentless for those who try to stand against it. Time waits for no man. Neither does time wait for tides. Sometimes we get lost in life. We seem to wander around without direction. Or caught up in routines that keep us busy and occupied but never rewarding. We feel as if we are going around in circles. In truth, we don't have time to do that. Because time moves us on whether we want to or not. And we have no control over time. Only what we do with it. Time is both a highway and a resource. Use time to move us long towards meaningful goals as we experience meaningful connections and events. There should be a James Taylor song some where here.
To avoid Confusion, do not ask Question. Also prevents Knowledge growth.
A warning sticker on a tractor attachment. Apparently, it isn't obvious. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Questions can be the root of knowledge when it is paired with an understandable answer. It is valid form of communicating knowledge. Confusion reign with answers that are complicated and convoluted. Those really doesn't answer the question. I was asked by a friend, "If you came with a warning label, what would it say." This is my response. It's a take on the usual warning phrase forms that is on all sorts of labels and bottles.
Failure is a good intention wrapped in bad decisions
(Photo credit: Nomadic Lass ) While the road to hell is paved with good intentions , failures have only one or a few good intentions at it's juicy center. It all probably started with a good intention and goal. The first step was a great idea. Along the way, decisions had to be made. But the focus was too much on reaching that goal. So much so that the intention is soon forgotten and all that matters is reaching that goal, at all costs. The intention is forgotten and the effort loses it's anchor.
The half-way point between despair and joy is contentment.
Horizon (Photo credit: Nevalenx ) Life is a cycle. There are days when we are on top of the world. There are days when we are low and in the dumps. The secret to surviving the ride up and the ride down is to take time to stop in-between. Be content of what you have even as your are getting more of it. Abundance doesn't need to be yours alone. Sharing can be rewarding. And be thankful for what you had as the world crumbles around you. It'll give you time to find those that truly matter. They'll be there to cushion your fall and rise with you when things look up. Remember, life is a cycle. This sort of in the same vein as this.