Thought for the day 10th of May 2011

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big ones” by Robert Brault. 

A long journey starts from one small step. Then comes another one and the third one. This continues till you reach the destination of your trip. If you looked at the distance that you have to cover and compared it to your small steps you might feel that the steps are so insignificant that you might lose courage to continue. But that’s how ancient people used to travel. One step at a time! This is not how we travel nowadays. Cars, ships to say nothing of planes have speeded up the process of travelling. We can get to any place in the world within twenty four hours. 

However, a journey towards achievements stays the same. No cars, ships or planes in spiritual realm. You make one step at a time towards achieving something significant. There is no sprint in this realm. Everybody makes attempts, fails, falls, picks himself up again and continues the journey. Some stop and do not go anywhere. They just go with the flow of people who have no objectives in life. They think that it is not worthwhile wasting time going with a pace of a snail towards something. That’s why they do not get anywhere. 

Don’t you despise those little steps and small lessons that you take while taking the steps. They are priceless. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes for ‘they are part of the game’. It is only now that they look very little and insignificant. One day you will look back and see that they were an inseparable part of your journey to achieve your dreams and targets. Everything matters! Stay positive about your success and don’t give up.

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Strong resolutions

Thought for the day 9th of May 2011

“If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one…” by William Cowper. 

I am convinced that everybody has strong resolutions. Even the person who says that he is never too categorical about anything has a pretty strong resolution and would not give up it at any cost. However, our strength of opinion is often concentrated in the wrong direction. We have very powerful resolutions about negative aspects. We concentrate on what we don’t have, how little we have, how weak we are and how little we can achieve with what we have. 

This kind of approach takes away power from us to go anywhere. I believe we would need half as little strength for the positive than we do need for the negative. Why? Because concentration on the positive adds power to you, while concentration on the negative takes the power away from you. That is why you need more power to stay negative than to stay positive. Unfortunately, most people chose the path where they waste their energy by sticking to the negative. That’s why they are so weak. Had they changed the focus of their resolution, they would become great men and women. 

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It is useless to be a pessimist

Thought for the day 8th of May 2011

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else” by Winston Churchill. 

Churchill was right. An attitude of a pessimist doesn’t only have any use, it also is very harmful. When God created this world he never expected nor planned that some of us would be pessimists. He intended all of us to live by faith and enjoy life to its fullest. Unfortunately, due to the fall of man, sin entered this world and now we see the opposite; the vast majority of people are pessimists, not optimists. 

In this way, most of them cannot make use of the advantages that the law of attraction presents when you base your belief on positive attitude. However, they make all use of disadvantages that the very same law presents when you are in a negative frame of mind most of your time. As I have said many times, it is not necessary for us to walk in the same direction if we see that our life becomes more and more miserable. We can change our course any time. We are not robots but free men and women having free will at our disposal and able to change the course of our thoughts. So, become an optimist today. 

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Have a big vision for your future

Thought for the day 7th of May 2011

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon” by Konrad Adenauer. 

I like the insight of the author, who delivered the quote. I know that our backgrounds are different. Some are born in rich families, some in poor. Some have nice parents, others bad or have none at all. Naturally, if you come from a good background you have more opportunities in life and if your parents are poor you have less. However, I and most probably you know a few stories how people from very good backgrounds wasted everything they had and ended up in ruins and those who came from ‘pathetic background’ got out of their environment and did great things in life. 

What caused one having tremendous opportunities to lose everything and another who seemingly had no chances to achieve anything become inventor, great businessman, awesome writer and etc? It is the vision that the first did not have and the other had and went after it. This tells me one thing: neither abundance of opportunities can make you successful nor absence of opportunities can make you a loser. It all depends on your inner vision and determination to follow the vision. I hope you enjoyed my thought of the day. Good luck for you. 

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Don’t allow winter outside to destroy your inside summer

Thought for the day 6th of May 2011

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer” by Albert Camus.  

Very poetic expression! I believe you see what the author of the quote wanted to say here. In most parts of the world winter is a very cold season. You cannot spend much time outside, enjoy weather, lie in the sun, drink coffee and chat with your friends outside a café. Most of us stay inside our homes. There is not much sun during winter (at least where I live). A lot of people are moody, sad, and apathetic. It is particularly difficult for those who suffer from depression. 

Most confess that they are very much affected by weather. I know that. But don’t let something from outside spoil your inside life. Spend a lot of time with your thoughts that dwell on your dreams, visions, and desires. Don’t you concentrate on the thing that you don’t have yet. Imagine that you do have it. Follow a spiritual law: what you see with your spiritual eyes, you get in physical world. 

So, these dreams of yours, when you dwell on them, they warm you up. They make your thoughts brighter and feelings lighter. Good emotions start coming. Why? Because you allow ‘spiritual sun’ to shine upon you while the physical one seems to be absent. Well, it is not absent; it is just the clouds that hide it from you. But let there be no clouds in your mind. Let no thoughts of hopelessness, despair, sadness, anger and etc. prevail over you. Train your spiritual eyes (imagination) to see your bright future and this future will come to you. If it works for some, it will also work for you. Let there be eternal summer in your soul. 

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