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By Gwen
Quantum leaps demand a willingness to make mistakes.
You cannot hole up in the safe zone of behavior where you have beaten the odds of failing. An unwillingness to encounter defeat or run into problems outlaws quantum leaps. Unless you allow yourself to make mistakes, to fail, you will never have the opportunity to test the limits of what you truly are capable of accomplishing.
You must realize that if you’re experiencing no difficulties, problems, or pain, you probably have aimed too low. You’ve leveled off in your growth and achievement. You probably are far from reaching your limits.
So think of problems or pain or slippage in performance as a positive sign. A performance lag ordinarily occurs at the very outset when you are making a quantum leap. It’s the pause during which you poise for the jump, the temporary loss of momentum that occurs in the process of “changing gears.”
You deliberately destabilize yourself when you break out of the habit patterns that represent the status quo. You create some inner chaos for yourself. So be prepared for the possibility of confusion, anxiety, and failure. That’s part of opening yourself up to a new methodology that has the potential to deliver exponential performance gains.
So often in life, it seems things first get worse on the way toward getting better. Be prepared for that sort of development. Problems belong in the process. They are part of the equation that produces YOU 2. They are not proof that your ambitions are futile or that you should give up.
As someone has said, “Everything looks like a failure in the middle.” You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket toward the moon, about 90% of the time it’s off course – it “fails its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.
At the outset you may feel high because going for the quantum leap is heady stuff. But then the hard reality of “problems” may slap you in the face. Progress often masquerades as trouble.
It’s easy to lose faith, because other people may withdraw their support and be critical of your efforts. That, plus your own anxieties and uncertainties, can tempt you to turn on yourself. This is the crucial point in the process – don’t give up! Failure belongs here. It’s a sign of progress!
The stress will seduce you toward retreat to the “safety” of the status quo, the trap of the familiar. Just remember this: Failure does not mean you’re defeated.
Actually, the struggle gives you strength. It’s like tempering the steel, or the soreness involved in developing muscle. The difficulties are just evidence that you’re learning and progressing.
So go looking for failure…and then use it. Don’t interpret problems or breakdowns as proof that you should quit, but instead take them as evidence of your growth and improvement.
Failure is a resource. It helps you find the edge of your capacities.
YOU 2
Price Pritchett
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Why is failure seen as such a scary thing? I’ve felt it many times in my life…some of those times, before I understood the process, it stopped me dead in my tracks for lengthy periods of time. I guess I needed that time to focus on suffering and catch up with myself! However, the more I failed and recovered, the more quickly I was able to recover and bounce back. So that seemed to give me permission to fail more! That even sounded funny as I was writing it, but I hope you understand what I mean!
Hanging on my wall for over 20 years is a copy of a column written by Jennifer James called, MISTAKES. I hope it makes you think as much as it’s made me think over the years.
How many mistakes did you make this week? A full life requires thousands of mistakes if you plan to live up to your creative potential.
When we are children, adults try to talk us out of making mistakes and we get confused. They are referring to life threatening mistakes, but we think they mean everything.
Check how open you are to mistakes. Can you stand it? Can you laugh? Do you shy away from things you might not do well? Do you laugh at people who seem clumsy or naïve? Do you grit your teeth when someone you love makes a mistake? Are you under the illusion that everyone is watching you and keeping score?
Start counting your mistakes on a daily basis and try to increase them by 10 %. That will require you to stretch and grow. Try not mentioning other people’s mistakes. Take risks; be tolerant of yourself and others.
Congratulate others on risks they take; admire their courage. You’ll have more pleasure and be much closer to what you want to be. Mistakes are the dues of a good and full life. Stretch and enjoy.
Take a risk today, send me an email to gwen@discoveryourdharma.com and let’s set up a FREE 30 Minute consultation and talk about how you can stretch and enjoy!
Gwen
By Gwen
“I’m too old, I couldn’t do that now.” That’s a statement I hear all too frequently. Do you feel like you’re too old to start following your passion, even if you knew what it was? What makes you believe that? Other people’s comments, societal norms, your parents’ “self-talk” …?
Recently my husband and I visited the exhibition Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors presented by American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center in Washington DC. The exhibition showcased Australia’s leading indigenous artists with works from the traditional to the modern, some with obvious political overtones. Works include paintings on bark and canvas, sculpture, textiles, weaving, new media, photomedia, printmaking and installation.
When the exhibition made its debut in 2007, it coincided with the 40th anniversary of a landmark 1967 referendum mandating that indigenous Australians be included in the country’s census. Imagine that just 42 years prior, two-thirds of the artists were placed under the same category as Australia’s flora and fauna.
Racial conflict aside, what struck me was that one particular artist hadn’t started painting until five years ago, at the age of 90. Here was a man who was so passionate about wanting to pass on the story of his culture that he didn’t allow his “ripe old age” of 90 to stop him. Five years later he is being recognized as one of Australia’s top artists.
So let me ask you again, are you allowing age to stop you from doing something you truly love? Perhaps it’s time to let go of that false belief and start living your passion.
Blueprint for Boomers
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If you are feelin’ a bit too old to live your dharma, just take a look at these women….
Grandma Moses began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis. She sold a painting in the 40′s for under $10 and it appraised in 2004 for $60,000. Some of her paintings were used on covers of Hallmark cards, she has a painting hanging in the White House, was in a Norman Rockwell painting.
Irene Wells Pennington became best known in her 90′s when she helped straighten out irregularities in her husband’s oil business after he went senile in his own 90s.
Laura Ingalls Wilder became a columnist in her forties, but did not publish her first novel in the Little House series of children’s books until her sixties.
Mary Alice Fontenot, children’s author, wrote her first book at 51 and wrote almost thirty additional books, publishing multiple volumes in her eighties and nineties.
Sylvia Nasar, age 58 learned about the life of John Nash, genius mathematician who would make her famous in 1933, a year before he won the Nobel Prize in economics. Nasar was an economics reporter for the NY Times. She wrote an article detailing his precocious youth, his decline into schizophrenia, and his remarkable journey back to sanity. Her story drew an enormous response from readers—A Beautiful Mind was published in 1998, when Nasar was 51. It wasn’t an overnight success, but when the book was made into a film directed by Ron Howard—which won an Oscar for best picture in 2002—it became a bestseller. (And yes, she met Russell Crowe.)
Doris “Granny D” Haddock political activist achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90 walked over 3,200 miles across the US to advocate for campaign finance reform.
The Delany Sisters In 1992, Sadie & Bessie Delany wrote a book called Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, which dealt with the trials and tribulations the sisters had faced during their century of life. The book was highly successful on the bestseller charts, and even spawned a Broadway play. In 1999 the movie Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years aired on television. In 1994 with The Delany Sisters’ Book of Everyday Wisdom was published as a follow up to Having Our Say. After Bessie’s death in 1995 at age 104, Sadie wrote another book called On My Own At 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie, dealing with the loss of her sister. Sadie and sister Bessie were included in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1993 as the world’s oldest authors.
Ruth Ellis, 101-year-old African-American LGBT activist. Ruth came out as a lesbian around 1915, and graduated from High School in 1919, at a time when fewer than 7 % of African Americans graduated from secondary school. In the 1920s, she met the only woman she ever lived with, Ceciline “Babe” Franklin. They moved together in 1937 where Ellis became the first American woman to own a printing business in that city. Ellis and Franklin’s house was known in the African American community as the “gay spot”. It was a central location for gay and lesbian parties, and also served as a refuge for African American gays and lesbians. Although Ellis and Franklin eventually separated, they were together for more than 30 years.
Florence Holway 75-year-old woman who was raped and sodomized in 1991. Her subsequent fight for justice ultimately resulted in changes to that state’s rape laws and is the subject of a 2003 HBO documentary entitled Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story, which chronicles her ordeal. The enraged Holway, who firmly maintained that rape is not about sex, but rather violence, started a petition drive and alerted the media to her plight. Due to her efforts, stronger sentences against sex offenders in New Hampshire went into effect in 1993.
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones Irish-American labor organizer. According to a West Virginia District Attorney named Reese Blizzard, Mother Jones was “the most dangerous woman in America”. According to Clarence Darrow, she was “one of the most forceful and picturesque figures of the American labor movement”. Sixty-five years after her death, her name is still part of current culture, as the title of a magazine. Trained as a teacher and worked as a dressmaker until her shop was destroyed in the 1871 Chicago fire, “Mother” Jones then, became increasingly active in the union movement. Her life is in some ways a history of the labour movement in the United States. A brief sampling of her activities reports her involved in the rail strike of 1877 (age 42); organizing the coal fields of Pennsylvania in 1899 (age 64); at the founding convention of the IWW in 1905 (age 70); visiting rebel Mexico in 1911 (age 76); being arrested at Homestead in 1919 (age 84); and working with dressmakers in Chicago in1924 (age 89).
Maggie Kuhn lifelong activist & founder of the Gray Panthers. Kuhn is most famous for founding the Gray Panthers movement in 1971 after being forced into retirement on her 65th birthday by the Presbyterian Church. The Gray Panthers became known for advocating nursing home reform and fighting ageism, claiming that “old people and women constitute America’s biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source.” She also dedicated her life to fighting for human rights, social and economic justice, global peace, integration, and an understanding of mental health issues. For decades she combined her activism with caring for her disabled mother and a brother who suffered from mental illness. In fact, it wasn’t until after her brother’s death that she was able elevate her activism to its later prominence and national influence. She wrote her autobiography, No Stone Unturned, in 1991. Four years later, she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 89.
Mae Laborde actress who began acting in her 90s. Laborde moved to LA at the height of the Great Depression. She always worked at one job or another, including a stint as bookkeeper for Lawrence. She began acting in 2002 in her 90s. She was also the subject of the featured article on Yahoo! on March 30, 2007. [3] She appears frequently on Talkshow with Spike Feresten. On February 21, 2009, three months before her centennial, she was awarded an honorary DTV converter box on Feresten’s show in recognition of her very successful taped clip showing her difficulties in attempting to install a DTV converter box. The clip has been ranked #1 as the most-watched viral download.
Clara Peller, Wendy’s spokeswoman, famous for her “Where’s the Beef?” catch-phrase first airing on January 10, 1984, when Peller was 82. Peller’s “Where’s the beef” line became an instant catch phrase across the US. The diminutive actress made the three-word phrase a cultural phenomenon, and herself a cult star. At Wendy’s, sales jumped 31% to $945 million in 1985 worldwide. Wendy’s senior vice president for communications, Denny Lynch, stated at the time that “with Clara we accomplished as much in five weeks as we did in 14½ years.”
Mary Jane Rathbun, popularly known as “Brownie Mary”, nurse who became internationally known as a medical cannabis activist. Brownie Mary was famous for baking and distributing marijuana brownies and volunteering in the AIDS ward of San Francisco General Hospital. She was active in efforts to legalize cannabis use for people with AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and other diseases. She worked on California’s Prop 215 and helped establish the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, a medical cannabis dispensary. In 1986, at the age of 65, Mary was honored with a “Volunteer of The Year” award from SFGH. In 1992, when Mary was 71, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared August 25 “Brownie Mary Day”.
Olive Riley, blogger who started blogging at age 107. She began her blog The Life of Riley in February 2007 at the age of 107 and made her final post on 26 June 2008 from a nursing home in Woy Woy, New South Wales, She had posted over 70 entries, as well as several video posts on YouTube before her death at age 108. Her blog (or “blob” as she called it) began soon after the release of a film about her, All About Olive, directed by documentary filmmaker Michael Rubbo and released in 2005. Rubbo gave Olive a co-directing credit, making her the oldest director in the world. The blog was suggested by Eric Shackle, a journalist in his late eighties, who was interested in promoting the idea that one is never too old for the internet.
OK, still feeling OLD?? Too old to live your passion, you life purpose? I could have gone on and on…but I ran out of space! Do your own research….. Or better yet — CREATE YOUR OWN STORY!
Send me an email at gwen@discoveryourdharma.com for your FREE 30 Minute consultation and let’s get started on leaving your legacy!
Gwen
By Gwen
“The enlightened person’s main focus of attention
is always the Now, but they are still peripherally
aware of time. In other words, they use clock time
but are free of psychological time.”
Eckert Tolle
The Power of Now
Clock time vs. psychological time. Very cool stuff.
Eckert Tolle, the author of The Power of Now and The New Earth says: “Be alert as you practice this so that you do not unwittingly transform clock time into psychological time. For example, if you made a mistake in the past and learn from it now, you are using clock time. On the other hand, if you dwell on it mentally, and self-criticism, remorse, or guilt come up, then you are making the mistake into ‘me’ and ‘mine’: you make it part of your sense of self, and it has become psychological time, which is always linked to a false sense of identity. Non-forgiveness necessarily implies a heavy burden of psychological time.””
Did you know the Tibetans don’t have a word for “guilt”? Noperz.
The closest they have, according to Geshe Michael Roach in his great book The Diamond Cutter (see Notes) is “intelligent regret that decides to do things differently.” That’s using “clock time” while staying present in the Now. Beating yourself over the head with guilt/shame/etc., gets you out of the Now into psychological time. Not where we want to hang out.
A bit more mojo on clock time vs. psychological time as it relates to goals and the Now: “If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you are using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment. If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honored. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to ‘make it.’ You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.”
Brian Johnson
Philosophers Notes
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Time, or the feeling of the lack of time, can be a slippery slope. To use science to validate what Tolle is saying, John Assaraf, from the movie The Secret, gives us some fascinating statistics about how our conscious and subconscious mind works in his book, The Answer. I’ve also quoted his statistics in my e-booklet, “What are Limiting Beliefs & how are they keeping you from living your life purpose?” (which you’ve already downloaded in order to be on this list).
In The Answer, Assaraf writes about our brains being divided into our conscious mind (17%) and our subconscious mind (83%). It helps me to think of it more clearly by visualizing an iceberg. Only a small portion of the iceberg sticks out of the water (conscious mind) yet there is a HUGE portion under the water, unseen by us (subconscious mind). With TIME, our conscious mind is focused on the PAST & FUTURE and our subconscious mind is totally focused on the NOW. For example…. We always seem to be mad at ourselves (“beating ourselves over the head with guilt/ shame/ etc” from all those past events — the ‘baggage’ that we carry everywhere with us –and the FEAR of what is going to happen in the future — yet it only represents a tiny fraction of our total mind.
The control we have over our perceptions & behaviors in our conscious mind is only 2-4% (the PAST & FUTURE) — those are the things we are consciously AWARE of, yet our subconscious mind, — the same organ that is in charge of our heart beating, our cells dividing, and our liver filtering…all of the things we are completely UNAWARE of consciously, is a whooping 96-98%! That’s where we live in the NOW. Astounding! So it only makes common sense to figure out how to access your subconscious mind and spend more time in the NOW, doesn’t it?
If you are interested in learning more… send me an email to gwen@discoveryourdharma.com for your FREE 30 Minute consultation and let’s talk! I look forward to it!
Gwen
By Gwen
Most successful people have something in common.
They love what they do. You won’t find rich and successful
people that hate what they do.
Each of us is unique, having specific talents and gifts. It is something innately inherent in all of us, a combination of energy patterns leading towards a natural affinity for certain subjects in life, certain ways of being. One of the most important tasks in your life is to find these talents and gifts within yourself, which is a recognition of what you have brought into your creation.
Dream Manifesto LLC
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Sounds like Dharma to me!
Are you too busy to discover the most important tasks in your life –”to find these talents and gifts within yourself”?
Or would you like to take a look now, and once you find them, put them to good use — loving what you do for the next 20 or 30 wonderful years!
Email me at gwen@discoveryourdharma.com and schedule a time to talk….
Gwen
By Gwen
What is a paradigm? In my own words, a paradigm is a belief system. It can be a personal belief system, or one held by a mass number of people, or even the whole world. Such a belief system is “so entrenched in our minds as truth that it usually does not occur to us to question it. Therefore, many of us never even think that maybe this thought pattern needs updating. But, inevitably there are those that go against the common thought, and begin to challenge long held beliefs. More and more people begin to awaken, each individual begins to change their personal belief system, and the phenomenon that occurs as this old belief system comes tumbling down is often referred to as a paradigm shift.
As many of you may be aware, there are major paradigm shifts happening all over the planet right now. And one of the big ones is about money and abundance. Those of you working through your money issues, give yourself a pat on the back. Money appears to be such a barrier to freedom, and freedom is what we all really want. We all need to be free to do all that we desire, be all that we desire, and have all that we desire. People all over the world are beginning to realize this. A big global shift is swiftly approaching, and we can all quicken it by working on our issues. You can’t change anyone else, but you can change you. One by one, person by person, this shift is occurring.
The following are some of the old major money myths that I have come across:
1. You have to work for a living; money must be hard-earned.
2. Most people can’t earn money doing what they love.
3. Life is a struggle, at the end you may get to relax a bit.
4. It is sinful or bad to desire material possessions.
5. There is no such thing as perfection.
6. There is not enough for everyone.
7. Wealthy people are not nice.
8. Hold on tight to what you have.
9. Who am I to deserve wealth?
I’m sure there are many more, but this is an article, not a novel! I have experienced all of the issues above and am still working on some. Let’s go over each of these briefly.
Old Belief: You have to work for/earn your money.
New Belief:As a child of God/The Universe, you don’t have to earn anything. Allow yourself to receive money just because you are who you are.
Old Belief:You can’t earn money doing what you love.
New Belief:Au contraire, my friend. With proper planning anything is possible. You don’t have to be a clog in the system.
Old Belief:Life is a struggle.
New Belief: Only if that’s what you desire. Life is meant to be simple and easy. We came here to be joyous and passionate. Give yourself a break.
Old Belief: You are a naughty desirer of materiality.
New Belief: As long as possessions are not something you use to define yourself, as long as you realize that they are but icing on the cake, go for it! What a wonderful array of delicious possibilities!
Old Belief: Nothing is perfect.
New Belief: There are many perfect things. Look around you at a yellow daisy or a procession of white clouds or a small child at play. The more you notice the perfection that surrounds you, the more there will be.
Old Belief: Mine! My possessions!
New Belief: The Universe is unlimited, boundless and forever abundant! There is enough for everyone to have all that they desire and more. We must simply allow it into our lives.
Old Belief: Wealthy people are jerks.
New Belief: Is it possible that if you have resistance to wealthy persons that you are blocking the way to becoming one? By defining “them” as a separate group, you are telling the Universe that you are not wealthy. Try embodying wealth and affluence, right now.
Old Belief: Hold on tight to your stuff (more Gollum hissing).
New Belief: If you don’t need something, or if it displeases you, pass it along. Cleaning out always makes room for new things to come. Keep only those things that make you feel abundant.
Old Belief: Who am I to deserve what I want?
New Belief: It’s not a matter of being deserving. Just as you are, with all the seeming human imperfections, you are really a perfect light being. Remember who you really are.
Becoming aware of one’s beliefs is the first step to changing them. So, let’s all play with our beliefs, let’s help create this shift. Let’s change the planetary paradigm to one of unlimited abundance and freedom for all people!
Alexia Alderson Chamberlynn
Co-Owner of Prosperity Power Training, LLC
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Imagine… you’re a boomer and you’ve seen some mighty big changes already over your lifetime… it’s hard to fathum what’s ahead for us! You can’t change anyone else, but you can change you. One by one, person by person, this shift is occurring. If we are in our 50’s or 60’s and are in relatively good health …just imagine shifting our old worn out limiting belief into powerful new ways of thinking and living our lives. What CAN the next 20 or 30 years look like for YOU? I don’t know about you but “I” plan to be riding the wave!
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By Gwen
“Inside each of us is a Giant. A giant who has the power, the ability, the authority and the belief to create anything we choose in our lives. But, not everyone has found the giant or even realized that it is there. Why are so many people simply settling for what life has dished out, zombies going from day to day, giving up control to others and just accepting what they get?
When you realize the power within, you will never just accept where you are. With this power, you do not buy into the limiting belief of playing life small, a symptom of the limiting beliefs you are harboring inside. Allowing your limiting beliefs to control your outcome in life, totally controlling what you do, who you are and what you have in life. “
abundantlifestylenow.blogspot.com
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Well, couldn’t have said it better myself… What are YOU settling for? Are you “playing your life small”?
Marianne Williamson says in her famous poem:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us.
If you want to discover your inner power… your dharma, please email me at gwen@discoveryourdharma.com and let’s set up an appointment to talk about it.
Gwen
By Gwen
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by TOO MUCH FUTURE, & not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness –all forms of non-forgiveness –are caused by TOO MUCH PAST, & not enough presence.
Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. And yet this is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now.”
Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now
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How much time do you spend in the NOW? Or are you constantly worried about something in the future, something that hasn’t even happened yet and you have no authority that it will actually happen the way you fear it will. Or how many of us continue to drag baggage with us from the past, that is done and over yet we allow it to rule our lives every day? NOW is the only time that is really REAL, yet so many of us completely miss it! What are you missing about your life because you aren’t HERE right now, in this very moment?
If you run your entire life as if you are on a hamsters wheel dashing for the finish line, where is the joy? And where is the finish line? How will you KNOW you’ve arrived? However, if you live in the NOW and appreciate every moment …see the joy in every moment and as the moments add up –that’s what your life will be!
Send me an email “NOW” at gwen@discoveryourdharma.com (Smile!) and let’s talk! Let’s create a joyful moment together!
Gwen
By Gwen
“Nature itself has a pulse, a rhythmic, wavelike movement
between activity and rest. Think about the ebb & flow
of the tides, the movement between seasons, and the daily
rising and setting of the sun. Likewise, all organisms follow
life-sustaining rhythms—birds migrating, bears hibernating,
squirrels gathering nuts, and fish spawning, all of them at
predictable intervals. So, too, human beings are
guided by rhythms.”
“To live like a sprinter is to break life down into a series of manageable intervals consistent with our own physiological needs and with the periodic rhythms of nature. This insight first crystallized for Jim when he was working with world-class tennis players. As a performance psychologist, his goal was to understand the factors that set apart the greatest competitors in the world from the rest of the pack. Jim spent hundreds of hours watching top players and studying tapes of their matches. To his growing frustration, he could detect almost no significant differences in their competitive habits during points. It was only when he began to notice what they did between points that he suddenly saw a difference. While most of them were not aware of it, the best players had each built almost exactly the same set of routines between points. These included the way they walked back to the baseline after a point; how they held their heads and shoulders; where they focused their eyes; the pattern of their breathing; and even the way they talked to themselves.”
~ Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
The Power of Full Engagement
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Hmmm… so that’s what Loehr and Schwartz are saying in the book, “The Power of Full Engagement.” With athletes — the greatest athletes –they are able to lower their heart rates by as much as 20 beats per minute, BETWEEN points, while their competitors didn’t have the same rest rituals often stayed at the same levels.
Now, if you know anything about tennis, it can be a very fast pace and intense game, with one set, leading to the 2nd, the 3rd..and so on. It only makes logical sense if one of the players can squeeze in a few extra seconds of REST between bursts of intense activity, dozens and dozens of times while the other player isn’t, who do you think will be sharper at the end of the match (and, therefore, of course, more likely to win consistently)?
The one who knows how to oscillate their energy? Same with life!!! If we’re going ALL the time and don’t build in the practices that allow for work-rest cycles, it only makes sense that we’re gonna burn out. What a powerful tool! What are you doing for yourself to prevent burn out?
Let’s talk more… send me an email at gwen@discoveryourdharma.com to set up your FREE 30 minute consultation.
Gwen
By Gwen
“It does not matter what you do. What matters is
how you do it–of your own accord,
with your own vision, with your own love.
Then whatever you touch becomes gold.”
~ Osho
HOW MUCH INTENSITY CAN YOU MUSTER?
“Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of.” Osho continues: “It is not a question of which part you follow, it is a question of whether you go totally into it or not. To be total in your action brings joy. Even an ordinary, trivial action done with total intensity brings a glow to your being, a fulfillment, a fullness, a deep contentment. And anything done halfheartedly, however good the thing may be, is going to bring misery.”
LIFE IS A TENSION BETWEEN THE OPPOSITES
“To be in the middle is not a static state, it is a dynamic phenomenon. Balance is not a noun, it is a verb; it is balancing. The tightrope-walker continuously moves from the left to the right, from the right to the left. When she feels now she has moved too much to one side and there is danger of falling, she immediately balances herself by moving to the opposite side. In passing from the left to the right, yes, there is a moment when the tightrope-walker is in the middle. And again, when she has moved too much to the right and there is a fear of falling, she is losing balance, she starts moving to the left and again passes through the middle for a moment.”
“Why do we want to be in the middle in the first place? We are afraid of the dark side of life; we don’t want to be sad, we don’t want to be in a state of agony. But that is possible only if you are also ready to drop the possibility of being in ecstasy. There are a few people who have chosen it—that is the way of the monk. For centuries that has been the way of the monk, ready to sacrifice all possibilities of ecstasy just to avoid the agony. She is ready to destroy all the roses just to avoid the thorns. But then her life is just flat… a long, long boredom, stale, stagnant. She does not really live. She is afraid to live.”
Osho
Creating Your Own Path to Freedom
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Have you been afraid to live and therefore found yourself to feel STUCK? Being afraid of living your honest, true abundant life for the FEAR that you’ll be hurt…the other side of that is fear of being hurt keeps you from living YOUR honest, true abundant life. And remember Jack Canfields definition of FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real).
In the Chinese philosophy of the Yin-Yang, the symbol (below) represents the ancient understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents “everything” 
while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called “yin” (black) and “yang” (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.
While “yin” would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, “yang” would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold.
And one of my favorites, Helen Keller also wrote “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
I dare you to go out and live your Life Purpose! If you are going to be constantly trying to balance anyway, might as well be doing something you LOVE!!!
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Gwen
By Gwen
“Fewer than 2 out of 10 of us
get to play to our strengths at work most of the time.”
It’s ironic that your strengths can be so easy to overlook, because they’re clamoring for your attention in the most basic way: Using them makes you feel strong. All you have to do is teach yourself to pay attention. Try to be conscious of yourself and how you feel as you’re completing your day-to-day tasks.
Most of the time, we’re so focused on getting our work done that we don’t really have time to notice how we feel about it.
Marcus Buckingham
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."