Growing Anew

As we become new - we grow young.

As long as we have eyes to see and ears to hear, as long as our senses are alive, we are here.

We have another chance at life.

Learn something new today or take a fresh look at an existing situation.

The same old information represented in a new way fosters cell growth; new connections are made and we learn.

When we do this we actually help ward off the degenerative diseases connected with aging.

Walk into today with a virgin sensibility. Allow youyself to be surprised and amazed.

Recognize you have not passed this way before.

As long as new perceptions continue, your body can respond in new ways.

There is no secret of youth more powerful.

80-year-old: "People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old."

New knowledge, new skills, new ways of looking at the world keep mind and body growing, and as long as that happens, the natural tendency to be new at every second is expressed.

My Life

Bring positive structure to my every day.

Visualize, take responsibility, learn, & appreciate.

Remain focused in the now, refrain from alcohol (or any/all negative influences) - realize these cause my soul to fade into the background and lose sight of my special existance.

Take time to appreciate that everything has its’ place and is beautiful.

Make time for quiet through still and calmness, while retaining my spontaneity.

Recognize life has no boundaries, only those created through self limiting beliefs.

Smile more, have gratitude, and embrace the uniqueness in all.

Live, do things, motivate myself and others around me through action.

Take time to meditate, move, appreciate, and share.

Success

I will not make success my goal today or measure my state of happiness by it.

If I am to succeed, it will be a byproduct of following a path that feels relevant and meaningful to me.

I will try to follow my heart and respond to an impulse or a call from within.

When I move in a direction that is natural for me, that draws and speaks to me, I have more of myself to bring to my work.

Success will come to me naturally if I love what I do.

Loving what I do is its own reward and will give me the staying power necessary to do well. It will help provide the motivation necessary to go the extra mile.

Following my heart, my bliss, will put me on a track toward the realization of my soul's passion.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than onerelf. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

Involved with Life

Allow yourself to tend to and take pleasure in every detail of your day.

When we take interest in the activities of our day, we experience it differently.

Instead of managing our day, we live it.

Rather than seeing our day as a series of tasks to be accomplished, we are able to go with the flow of activity.

Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. Yet we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it. "Ask yourself whether you are happy" said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
~ Mitaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dispassionate Observation

When we gain detachment from our own thinking process, we are able to be separate from our own obsessive and neurotic thinking. We can watch our thoughts in a dispassionate manner. We can be a witness to our own emotional and mental processes. When we cultivate this habit of mind, we are provided with a wonderful opportunity to learn about what makes us tick. Getting lost in every thought we have leads us away from self. There is no greater teacher than that of our own internal witness. When we look at the way in which we think, we can begin to self-define; to separate from who we have been programmed to be and make choices as to who we wish to become.

We dis-identify by observing. Instead of being absorbed by sensations, feelings, desires, thoughts, we observe them objectively without judging them, without interfering with them in any way. We see them as distinct from us, as if we were looking at a landscape. We calmly observe from a detached viewpoint. ~ Piero Ferrucci