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Issue No: 124 - August 23, 2010

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Today's Reflection

FOLLOWING THROUGH

PRIORITIES

Your life does not change permanently as a result of some once-off epiphany - you've got to work at changing your life every day. Your default state of mind ensures that, even if you think you've learned your lesson, you will always revert to type. Therefore, once you've decided to change your behaviour, your reality and your life for the better, you're going to have to follow through - every single day. Otherwise, you could end up worse off than you were in the first place.

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We should know where our priorities lie – and there is a world of difference between deciding on our priorities and actually living our daily lives accordingly. A couple of years ago I chatted with a husband and wife – the previous time that we had met, the husband had emphasized the importance of his family life and children. “You said it – but your actions since prove that you didn’t mean it!” the wife said.

Scrutinize what you’ve planned to do today – or this week. Does how you’re going to spend your time and energy this week stand up to what you think your priorities are in life? How much time will be spent on the urgent rather than the important? How much time will be wasted on the totally unnecessary? How much energy will you waste on people undeserving of your attention? And, as a result of all this misplaced activity, how much will those who most need your attention go a-begging?

Of course, you should be Number 1 on your own personal list of the people who are important to you. If you don’t look after yourself you’re in no position to look after anyone else. And your mental fitness should be right at the top of today’s activities – and it should be the same every day this week. If it’s not, you won’t be clear-headed and, as a result, not only will you be little use to anyone, you may be positively dangerous.

This Week's Recommended Read - THE POWER OF NOW

Personal Development Article

Ekhart Tolle

To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind an ego behind. From the first chapter we move into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts. For many of us there are new discoveries to be made along the way. We are not our mind; we can find out way out of psychological pain; authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now. We also find out that the body is one of the keys to entering inner peace, as are the silence and space around us. These access points can all be used to bring us into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we discover that we are already complete and perfect. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the Now; if we are able to feel the reality of such thinigs as the inner-body, surrender, forgiveness, and the unmanifested, we will be opening ourselves to the transforming experience of The Power of Now.

first published July 20 2009

WORK HARDER NOT SMARTER!!!

by Willie Horton

Normal people work harder (not smarter). Most of them don't like their work - and that's what puts the "hard" into work. And whilst you may not be able to control your work, career or your boss, there's certainly one thing you can control that will have a major effect on all those others and that's your own state of mind. A clear and present mind not only takes the "hard" out of work - it can set your life off on an effortlessly successful path...

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