When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks,
but celebrate them with
glad cries of “Me, too”
be sure you cherish them.
because those weirdos are
your tribe.
Sweatpants and Coffee
Jul8
Tag Archives: Your Life’s Work
May28
Frustration
How to deal with frustration in one easy step.
Take action in any direction.
Even if you are not sure where you are going.
g.piazza
May1
Thoughtful Thursdays # 57 Food and Memories
Food and all its smell, texture, taste and visual appeal can remind us of good times. As a kid I loved when my neighbor Leone made Spanish rice and beans with a salad. My mother would reciprocate by making an Italian dish.
Often we shared these dishes and good times. Being at Leone’s made me happy. As I got older I learned how to cook the same Spanish rice and beans and I am reminded of a happy time with good conversation and delicious tastes.
To this day I can make my mother’s chicken noodle soup and soup with escarole and white beans.
She inspired my love of soups. Over the years I have made many types of soup and I have gotten really good at making them.
What are some of your happiest memories around food?
Did you hear family stories around the table?
Do you remember any of the stories?
What is your favorite food? Why?
Do you crave those foods often?
Can you cook those same foods you had as a child?
Explore the magic of conversation and good food because the memories last a lifetime.
Apr17
Peter Russell – Twelve steps in four
Twelve steps in Four
For a long time I’ve been impressed by the widom and power of the “12 steps” of Alcoholics Anonymous and other addiction programs, and have thought that they could equally well be applied to the fundamental problem afflicting us all – the ego-mind. I have also felt that the key steps of the twelve step program were the first ones.
So here’s my own shortened version of the steps applied to the ego-mind. I’m not suggesting you should agree with me on them. But if they help your own thinking in some way, that’s enough.
- We admitted that we were controlled by the dictates of the ego-mind, that this led to increased suffering in ourselves and others, and that we could not, on our own, release ourselves from its control.
- Recognized that there was a Higher Power that could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will over to the care of this Higher Power.
- Sought to improve our conscious contact with this Higher Power, allowing It to guide our thinking and decisions.
Mar22
Questions
Here are a few questions for you to think about. Questions help you grow and at the very least examine why you make certain choices.
What if I had the opportunity to begin _______ again?
What if I started ending what I did not need anymore?
What if I told the truth to myself and others for a day?
What fear hold me back?
What choices can I change to bring more peace in my life?
Why am I resisting changing what I know has to be change?
Am I making decisions based on outdated beliefs?
Asking questions can be enlightening and uncomfortable but worth the effort. Take your time and write your answers down.
You may be surprised by your perspective.
Mar4
No Problem
No Problem
Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there is a problem it is our perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of ‘the problem’. When you decide that you will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts or a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless it is in the past, then it’s just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can cancel from the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of ‘problem’ then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.
Thoughtfortoday.org.uk
Feb20
Thoughful Thursdays #52 Resistance
Steven Pressfield is one of my favorite writing idols. He writes about resistance all the time and is incredibly insightful. Resistance is something I struggle with all the time.
I will paraphrase his discussion with Rabbi Finley and resistance. Rabbi Finley said: “There is a second self inside you-an inner shadow Self. This self doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t love you. It has its own agenda, and it will kill you. It will kill you like cancer. It will kill you to achieve its agenda, which is to prevent you from actualizing your Self, from becoming who you really are. This shadow self is called, in the Kabbalistic lexicon, the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara, is what you call Resistance.”
Well said Rabbi. 100 % true.
This leads me to the Buddha. As he sat under the Bodhi tree and was confronted by Mara and his army. Mara represents denial, fear and distraction. His demons are violent and wicked. The Buddha used his noodle to figure out that Mara and his demons are nothing but a distraction to us. Mara goes out of his way to distract us from our true path, just like he did to the Buddha. Mara’s the king of thoughts and situations that create fear and resistance. The Buddha found a way to transcend his own denial of what is important and what is not. Being in denial of all there is in your life is the ultimate in resistance. The Buddha recognized this in his enlightenment.
What are your Mara’s? Is it addictions, distraction, negative patterns, denial? Is it violence in thoughts, words and deeds?
What is your yetzer hara? Is it illness, sadness, inability to focus?
The list of negatives is endless. So what is the answer? How do we recognize resistance especially if you don’t have a ton of time to meditate or devote your life to a religion?
Keep looking for those pesky negative incognito signs in your thoughts, words and actions that are holding you back. Chances are whatever you are afraid of or avoiding is resistance.
Wake up into your own awareness. Make Self Care important, a priority.
Yes you are that important.
Feb15
You are the Creator
You are the creator of your own life experience, and as the creator of your experience, it is important to understand that it is not by virtue of your action, not by virtue of your doing—it is not even by virtue of what you are saying—that you are creating. You are creating by virtue of the thought that you are offering.
You cannot speak or offer action without thought-vibration occurring at the same time; however, you are often offering a thought-vibration without offering words or action. Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.
—Abraham
Excerpted from the book: Money and the Law of Attraction on August 31, 2008
Feb6
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Thoughts are an important part of your
inner wisdom – and they are very
powerful.
A thought held long enough and
repeated often enough becomes a belief.
A belief then becomes your biology.
Dr. Christaine Northrup
Feb6
Thoughful Thursdays #51Eckhart Tolle
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“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
~Eckhart Tolle
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