Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise mental discipline today

I’m currently taking a magnificent writing course designed and delivered by the brilliant Chris Clarke-Epstein. Each day, we’re sent a quotation and an aligned writing assignment. Every message joggles my mind. An example:

Fear is the little darkroom where negatives are developed. – Michael Pritchard

Wow – that dim place in our mind that summons debilitating images and sensations of doom that generate alarming worst scenarios. I’ve conjured up those dark, hopeless experiences. Yet, the most awful seldom happened – except in my mind. Mental discipline takes practice. However, exercising it maintains sanity, reduces worry and anxiety and leaves an opening for healthier scenarios.

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise mistakes today

Curt watched the movie The Last Word on our last flight and suggested I watch it on the next.  Good in-flight suggestion!  Shirley MacLaine plays a retired businesswoman who controls everything around her. Deciding to have her obituary complete before her death, she hires a young journalist played by Amanda Seyfried.  The journalist looks at her elder in a moment of struggle and says, “What if I make a mistake?” To which she hears the reply:

You don’t make mistakes, mistakes make you. Mistakes make you smarter, they make you stronger and they make you more self-reliant.

Have you found this to be true?  If not, perhaps a re-frame is in order?

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise compassion today

As Americans, we’re in the midst of moments that define us. In the center of violence, one can sit with ancient wisdom – just a small sample:

Two of the Ten Native American Commandments:

• Treat Earth and all who dwell theron with respect.
• Work together for the benefit of all humankind.

Buddha:

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

Prophet Muhammed:

Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

Christ:

Do not judge, or you too will be judged… First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.  (Matthew 7:1, 5)

As ignorance, hate and violence killed him, Christ responded:

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

As a nation, are we thinking through what we’re doing and understand that our actions are announcing who we are? Are we awake to our mutual responsibilities as fellow humans and aware of our impact on each other and as global citizens? Are we mindfully seeking understanding over ignorance, kindness over judgement and hatred, compassion over violence? Either way, we collectively own the results.

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise togetherness today

Listening to the news while conducting my morning make up ritual, I hear this:

Together has, and always will be, the best way to get things done.

Yet, we get stuck in our positions, insist on talking to convince rather than listening to understand, and find ourselves in messes that perpetually continue with no solutions in sight.  Today, how about if we decide on “the together.”  This will take focus, effort and discipline; however, the results will probably be worth the shift.

 

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise reflection today

Moving from the East side of Michigan to the West, we experienced the overwhelming task of purging and packing articles accumulated over several decades. In the cathartic process my office was the most painful to cleanse. A menagerie of memories surfaced as I read notes I made to myself, messages I’ve cherished that people sent me, and reviewed a plethora of phases I’ve entered and departed over the almost half century. This one, I remember vividly:

Marilynn . . . We get exactly the problems we need in our life to fix the things about ourselves that need fixing. In other words, your marriage crisis is not coincidental. It wasn’t just bad luck. It’s like a stomach ache; it’s reflective of a problem that needs correcting. It’s a sign that you have something that needs work. And, if you ignore it, the pain will increase until you finally say, “Okay, I’ll deal with this.”

Everything that’s important in our life offers us lessons. Sometimes, the most profound learning comes brilliantly disguised as challenges, problems or hard work.  Rather than avoiding, blaming or finding fault in others, going within for solutions is the best place to travel.

 

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Educator, Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Professional Speaker
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