CRAZY LIFE?
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Posted:Jul 25, 2006 1:11 pm
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2006 1:12 pm 1205 Views
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How do you begin to simplify your crazy life? Here are A FEW ideas to help you create the time, space and energy for what you love.
Get clear about your priorities:
If you want a simpler life, the first step is to get clear about your priorities. Without a good idea of what you're making room for, how are you going to know what to let go of?
The truth is, most humans can only really handle three priorities at a time. When you try to cram in too much at once the result is overwhelm and a sense that you're not giving any area of your life the focus it deserves. What needs your attention at this time in your life? Do you want to spend more time on your relationships or health? Is having time with your important to you? Is your business or career a priority right now? Are you committed to a sport or creative activity? Choose your top three priorities carefully, commit fully to them, and your life becomes simpler instantly.
Say "no thanks!":
Once you know what your priorities are, this little phrase is the simplest way to honour them. Learn to say "no thanks" to anything that takes your time and energy away from what really matters to you.
Develop routines:
Hmmm, sounds a bit boring doesn't it? Au contraire! Simple routines can help you keep the basics ticking over nicely so that you can have lots more time for the fun stuff.
Start with simple morning and evening routines. What are the three things you could do in the evening to get a head start on the next day? What three things do you need to do in the morning to prepare you for the day ahead? You can always add to your routines as you are ready, but keep it simple!
Schedule "white space":
White Space is the breathing space in your schedule - a lovely blank spot in your day or week where you have absolutely nothing booked or planned and are free to do whatever you choose, whether it's productive or regenerative.
The trick with White Space is that it needs to be "booked" before life rushes in to fill in the gaps. And you'll need to respect and protect your appointment with nothing - don't treat it like a second-class event that can be overwritten!
Try starting with an hour or two, and build up to a whole afternoon or a whole day.
Use the "off" switch:
Not only is your TV a time-gobbler, but the ads are a constant reminder to buy things you don't need. Try limiting your viewing time by planning to watch your favourite shows, then turning off the TV instead of blobbing out for the rest of the night. Take the focus away from the TV set by keeping it in a closed cabinet or in a cupboard if it's reasonably portable. If you're really brave, try doing without it all together.
Have a "to not do" list:
Feeling overwhelmed by your list of things to-do? How many of those tasks really need to be done? The antidote to an oppressive to-do list is the To-Not-Do list. What can you resolve to not do? Ironing? Attending unnecessary meetings?
I FOUND THESE THINGS TO WORK. TRY THEM, MAYBE THEY'LL WORK FOR YOU.
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LOVE STORY
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Posted:Jul 24, 2006 6:10 pm
Last Updated:May 28, 2024 3:11 pm 1216 Views
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My friend Nahum1 sent this to me and I'd like to share it. I think it is beautiful.
Falling In Love Story
by Unknown
Why people fall in love?
It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why some love grows and it is a mystery why some love fails.
You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do anymore that take the life out of the experience. Just as life itself is more than the sum of the bones and muscles and electrical impulses in the body,
love is more than the sum of the interests and attractions
and commonalities that two people share. And just as life itself is a gift that comes and goes in its own time, so too, the
coming of love must be taken as an unfathomable gift that cannot be questioned in its ways.
Sometimes, hopefully at least once in your life - the gift of love will come to you in full flower. Take hold of it and celebrate it in all inexpressible beauty. This is the dream we
all share. More often, it will come and take hold of you, celebrate you for a brief moment, then move on.
When this happens to young people, they too often try to grasp the love and hold it to them, refusing to see that it is a gift that just as freely, moves away. When they fall out of
love, or the person they love feels the spirit of love leaving, they try desperately to reclaim the love that is lost rather than accepting the gift for what it was, then moving on.
They want answers where there are no answers. They
want to know what is wrong in them that makes the other person no longer love them, or try to get their love to change, thinking that if some small things were different, love would bloom again. They blame their circumstances and say that if
they go far away and start a new life, their love will grow.
They try anything to give meaning to what has happened. But there is no meaning beyond the love itself, and until they accept its own mysterious ways, they live in a sea of misery.
You need to know this about love, and accept it. You need to treat what it brings you with kindness. If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with
yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.
If you find yourself someone in love with you but you don't love him back, feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage; do not cause pain. How you deal with love is how you deal with yourself. All our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different.
If you fall in love with another, and he falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it nor to assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know in time.
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person
who brought it alive in you. Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in any way you can. There is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long
without love, they understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty places that will be filled by love, and they begin to look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them.
The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but as their love cools, they revert to seeing their love as a need. They cease to be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love. They forget that the
secret of love is that it is a gift, and that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.
Remember this and keep it to your heart. Love has its time, its own season, its own reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying. You can
only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do. Love always has been and
always will be a mystery. BE GLAD THAT IT CAME TO LIVE FOR A MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE.
If you keep you heart open, it will come again....
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Christian Ed
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Posted:Jul 23, 2006 4:38 pm
Last Updated:Jul 24, 2006 2:47 pm 1261 Views
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Today's christian ed's lesson was taken from 1Cor. 12. Paul had a real job, I tell you. People from Corinth were arguring. Well, not just people, Christians. They were arguring about which spiritual gift was the most important. The same gifts that were given by God to help the church were the ones that was causing the problems. Wow!!
Is that why the gifts are hardly working in the churches anymore ya think? hummm 
Let us pray: Thank you God for the gifts you have given to the churches for the common good. Please continue to give gifts to our churches. AS you give gifts, Lord, help us not to be like the Corinthians. Let us not be so prideful and arrogant to think that we are better than any one because we have these gifts. Thank you God for your wisdom to know WHO to give WHAT gifts to. Amen
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THINKING AGAIN
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Posted:Jul 22, 2006 8:38 am
Last Updated:Jul 24, 2006 6:11 pm 1305 Views
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There is one thing that I have found. God is all wise, all knowing fair and just. We all need balance. It appears to me that the more people I meet the more I realize that no one is perfect.
Let me explain; I work in the medical field and I meet all kinds of people. The people I meet are either unhealthy in body or mind. They have a diagnosis and/or disease. Most are unhealthy in body, but some are unhealthy in mind also. What I have found is, generally people who are unhealthy in body, are some of the most healthy minded people. They are focused. They know where they have been and where they are going. Maybe it is the disease that keeps them balanced. Kinda like the "thorn in Paul's flesh"?.
Then, there are those who are healthy in body. They focus and work hard to be fit and trim physically, yet, they neglect their mind. Their minds are unhealthy, they look good, yet they have low self-esteem or acceptance issues. Which is sometimes why they want to present a pretty package to people. They usually know that they have a problem communicating, or commitment issues. They are unblanced. So, where is the balance? How do you keep from not focusing on one area too much?
I consider myself a healthy person mentally and I do work hard to improve my mind and my mental attitude. Yet, I neglect my body in this health issue. I sometimes eat what I know to be the "wrong" things for a healthy body, therefore, I am not the "ideal weight".
It is apparently according to what each individual deems priority. That priority, obviously, changes over the years. Is that the balance, maybe? I dunno. I was just thinking.
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BE ENCOURAGED
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Posted:Jul 22, 2006 8:12 am
Last Updated:Jul 22, 2006 10:27 pm 1254 Views
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MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE WORD OF GOD TODAY. IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 41, GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL:
1 "Coastlands, listen to Me in silence,
And let the peoples gain new strength;
Let them come forward, then let them speak;
Let us come together for judgment.
2 "Who has aroused one from the east
Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet?
He delivers up nations before him
And subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.
3 "He pursues them, passing on in safety,
By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.
4 "Who has performed and accomplished it,
Calling forth the generations from the beginning?
'I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.' "
5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
The ends of the earth tremble;
They have drawn near and have come.
6 Each one helps his neighbor
And says to his brother, "Be strong!"
7 So the craftsman encourages the smelter,
And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering, "It is good";
And he fastens it with nails,
So that it will not totter.
8 "But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its remotest parts
And said to you, 'You are My servant,
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
10 'Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
11 "Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;
Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.
12 "You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,
Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.
13 "For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand,
Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'
14 "Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15 "Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;
You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,
And will make the hills like chaff.
16 "You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
And the storm will scatter them;
But you will rejoice in the LORD,
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 "The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the LORD, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
18 "I will open rivers on the bare heights
And springs in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water
And the dry land fountains of water.
19 "I will put the cedar in the wilderness,
The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree;
I will place the juniper in the desert
Together with the box tree and the cypress,
20 That they may see and recognize,
And consider and gain insight as well,
That the hand of the LORD has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 "Present your case," the LORD says.
"Bring forward your strong arguments,"
The King of Jacob says.
22 Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;
23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
24 Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
25 "I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
Even as the potter treads clay."
26 Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
Or from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"?
Surely there was no one who declared,
Surely there was no one who proclaimed,
Surely there was no one who heard your words.
27 "Formerly I said to Zion, 'Behold, here they are.'
And to Jerusalem, 'I will give a messenger of good news.'
28 "But when I look, there is no one,
And there is no counselor among them
Who, if I ask, can give an answer.
29 "Behold, all of them are false;
Their works are worthless,
Their molten images are wind and emptiness.
WE ARE THE NEW ISRAEL. BE ENCOURAGED O' ISRAEL.
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SOMETIMES
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Posted:Jul 21, 2006 2:53 pm
Last Updated:Jul 22, 2006 10:30 pm 1194 Views
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Sometimes You Have To Choose A Song
by Gail
Rain . . .
Softly falling down . . .
each drop a symphony of sound . . .
as it hits the tin roof . . .
tap . . . tap . . . tap.
It can sound just like a sad song with a slow beat . . .
the kind that makes you daydream . . .
and feel sad and sigh . . .
as you think of what might of been or could be in your life.
Or maybe it is a happy song that brings back sweet memories . . .
tender thoughts and special smiles . . .
thinking of someone who makes your heart beat faster . . .
and your laughter ring with happiness and joy.
Or maybe it is a love song . . .
with sweet and soft lyrics . . .
tender and romantic and sensual . . .
that makes you think of dancing in the rain.
Only you can decide which song . . .
is the one you are hearing . . .
which music soothes your soul . . .
and which song you want to sing along with.
Sometimes, you have to choose a song . . .
and the choosing isn't easy.
O.K. yALL,, I FEEL LIKE POETRY.
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CHOICES
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Posted:Jul 21, 2006 2:49 pm
Last Updated:Sep 16, 2006 3:59 pm 1198 Views
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by Ron Carnell
I cannot speak for all who stem
'Long roads less traveled as their way,
Nor question choices made by them
In days long past or nights long dim
by words they spoke and did not say.
Each road is long, though short it seems,
And credence gives each road a name
Of fantasies sun-drenched in beams
Or choices turned to darkened dreams,
To where each road wends just the same.
From North to South, then back again,
I followed birds like all the rest
Escaping nature's snowy den
On roads I've seen and places been,
Forsaking roads that traveled West.
This journey grows now to its end,
As road reflections lined in chrome
Give way to roads with greater bend
And empty signs that still pretend
They point the way to home sweet home.
But all roads lead to where we go
And where we go is where we've been,
So home is just a word we know,
That space in time most apropos
For where we want to be again.
For even home, it seems to me,
Is still a choice we all must face
From day to day and endlessly,
To choose if home is going to be
Another road - or just a place.
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THINKING
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Posted:Jul 20, 2006 2:06 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2006 2:10 pm 1206 Views
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Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude.
You are far away too, oh farther than anyone.
Thinking, freeing birds, dissolving images,
burying lamps.
Belfry of fogs, how far away, up there!
Stifling laments, milling shadowy hopes,
taciturn miller,
night falls on you face downward, far from the city.
Your presence is foreign, as strange to me as a thing.
I think, I explore great tracts of my life before you.
My life before anyone, my harsh life.
The shout facing the sea, among the rocks,
running free, mad, in the sea-spray.
The sad rage, the shout, the solitude of the sea.
Headlong, violent, stretched towards the sky.
You, woman, what were you there, what ray, what vane
of that immense fan? You were as far as you are now.
Fire in the forest! Burn in blue crosses.
Burn, burn, flame up, sparkle in trees of light.
It collapses, crackling. Fire. Fire.
And my soul dances, seared with curls of fire.
Who calls? What silence peopled with echoes?
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
Hour that is mine from among them all!
Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.
Such a passion of weeping tied to my body.
Shaking of all the roots,
attack of all the waves!
My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending.
Thinking, burying lamps in the deep solitude.
Who are you, who are you?
Pablo Nerudo
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DEEP OR SHALLOW?
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Posted:Jul 20, 2006 1:52 pm
Last Updated:May 28, 2024 3:11 pm 1176 Views
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Edgar Schein, An American Psychologist, defines Culture as (a) a pattern of basic assumptions, (b) invented, discovered, or developed by a given group, (c) as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, (d) that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore (e) is to be taught to new members as the (f) correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.
This being true, then who is to say that one culture's truth is more powerful than another?
There are those who will not accept the basic assumptions, therefore will go deeper and search for different aspects. They don't accept that already discovered lessons are valid and will look for answers in other places.
Then there are those who aceept basic assumptions, pass inventions, discoveries and are convinced of the validity of these discoveries. They will look no further.
So what determines our thinking to be deep or shallow? Do you readily accept the already established basics or do you feel the need to search further?
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FULFILLMENT
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Posted:Jul 19, 2006 5:27 pm
Last Updated:May 28, 2024 3:11 pm 1214 Views
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Fulfillment is a conscious decision. It starts inside and is reflected outwardly. This fullfillment comes from unconditional love. Unconditional, holistic love is the answer to all of life’s challenges. We are here on Earth to learn how to love ourselves and others. We are here to accept ourselves and others completely, and without judgment. The universe was created by three aspects of original consciousness - intent, love and motion. Love is the medium that fills all of the universe, while the intent of the One Creator holds that universe together within its embrace. God loves us soo much that even with all the evil and hate and wars occuring in the universe, He holds back total destruction so that others can find their way to Him. If we, the of God, fullfill our purpose on this earth, then all this can quickly end. But we spend so much time, arguring points that none of us can prove. We bite and devour one another as our lost sisters and brothers walk away still lost. When will we fullfill our destiny? When we love God, ourselves and others enough to move forward out of the quicksand of division?
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