February, 2015 Archive
Life’s Most Important Questions
Daily and in moments of choice, seek answers for these two questions: God, what would you have me do? Now, what would my best-self do? If you write your callings and choices in your plan for life, and review them daily, you will find yourself benefiting from better decisions, inspiration, and focus.
The Purpose of Life
My suggestion for the universal mission statement: To live a spiritual journey–faithfully; love and serve others–meaningfully; and do my best–joyously. This can be part of your Life Mission Statement or the three main parts may encourage you to write your statement. David
Plan to Stretch Your Mind
Man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes When we push ourselves to expand beyond routine, we expand our capacities. Significant events, experiences, education can change us–over time, so can seemingly small improvements in attitude, fitness, and use of time. You likely know people who went […]
Mental Mastery
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” –Horace
Mindset
“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” –Vince Lombardi
Mastery
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” –Lao Tzu
Plato on Personal Leadership
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” –Plato
Focus on vision instead of fear
We should focus our minds and plans on positive thoughts and actions aimed at desired attitudes and results–especially when fears and unwanted results cloud our visions–to increase our chances of confident action toward our callings. -David
Plan and Persist
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those, which fail.” -Napoleon Hill
We create most of our results so be accountable for new actions needed to get new results.
“It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.” -Barbara Sher
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