Sunday, February 14, 2010

Stop Complaining Start Living

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it? Stop complaining about not being able to exercise given all that is on your plate these days. If you sleep 7 hours a night and work 8 hours every day, you still have more than 63 hours of free time every week to do all the things you want to do. This amounts to 252 hours every month and 3024 hours every single year to spend on life’s pursuit. There has never been a more exciting time to be alive in the history of the world and you have the choice to seize the boundless possibilities that every day presents.

If you are not fulfilled or as happy or as prosperous or as peaceful as you know you could be, stop blaming your parents or the economy or your boss and take full responsibility for your circumstances, this will be the first step to a completely new way of looking at your life and the starting point of a better way to live. As George Bernard Shaw said” The people who get on this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them

Make wiser choices about the thoughts you will allow to enter your mind, as well as the attitude you will bring to your days and they way you will spend the hours of your time. Stop complaining and start living. In the words of the poet Rudyard Kipling “if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.”

Live a Life

Its been a long time since my last blog. I have been trying to identify what to post and for a change i have decided to post something different than matters of economy. I have these small thoughts that run in my head which i would like to share with you all.

When movie star Kevin Costner was asked about the ups and downs of his career, he responded with these words “I’m living a life”. I found this reply to be profound. Rather than spending his days judging the events and experiences of his life as either good or bad, he adopted a neutral stance and decided to accept them for what they are a natural part of the path he is on.

We all travel on different routes to our ultimate destinations. For some of us, the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the destination without facing some form of hardship. So rather than fight it , why not accept it as the way of life? why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest? Feel the pain and savor the happiness. If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountaintop is not as breathtaking. Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are really no problems only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.