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Watch Your Thoughts
This quote/poem by an unknown author contains IMMENSE wisdom. It’s great to ponder this one…
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
© dhammza
The big surprise may be that habits become character, but it’s absolutely true.
If you watch a small child looking admiringly at someone, you’ll see they are absorbing mannerisms and subtle behavior they like.
They observe, absorb and copy behavior until it is habit — instinctively…
Over the next few hours, they become like a copy of the person they were intently focused on. Have you ever noticed that?
Have a think about all those formative years… a long, long time observing, absorbing and copying that sets into habit, into character… Read more
How to Remove Chaos From Your Life
© Chris Gampat
Some of the stuff you need to be happy and healthy is obvious. Things like diet and exercise — although these have their own pitfalls to watch out for.
But some things are not so obvious… It can take quite a bit of reflection to connect all the dots and see what’s taking us away from happiness…
One of those, and a very big one, is CHAOS…
Chaos SUCKS!
You know, we demand order from others. If we went on vacation and found the apartment a mess, we’d be up in arms. If we went to complain but no-one was there, we’d be furious. If we went for a swim and found the water disgusting, we’d demand our money back and jump on the next flight home… Read more
Pleasure vs Happiness
© *Lie
You can have both pleasure AND happiness. But the problem I see over and over is equating pleasure WITH happiness. That’s a major problem which can only lead one way… downhill :-)
I got chatting to a guy on my walkabout yesterday… he was on his way back from the bar having called in for his daily 3 pints after his supermarket shop, this time including his favorite rump steak — he eats red meat twice a day.
This is a guy with high blood pressure, gout and arthritis for which he takes a total of 8 pills a day. After a lot of talking, it turns out the thing he wants most is… HEALTH!
Hmmm…
There’s a fundamental battle going on in this guy, and lots of other people I talk to — between the perception and practice of eating and living healthily — which feels like denial of pleasure, and wanting the things you enjoy, the thing you “LIVE FOR”… steak, beer, pizza, chocolate, crisps, soda, etc… Read more
How to Sleep Like a Baby
Tassu asks…
“My worst problem is sleep. All day I think about whether I’ll fall asleep at night or not. When night comes I dread it…
I do feel sleepy and my eyelids go heavy, but I end up just closing my eyes for hours, without falling asleep. Any advice to cure my fear? I miss the nights when I sweetly use to fall asleep.”
© amcunningham72
Your anxiety about bedtime during the day is feeding the problem.
If you’re worrying about whether you’ll fall asleep… well… you probably won’t :-) You’ve put too much pressure on yourself, when it comes to bedtime…
The “wanting” of the sweet sleep you enjoyed in the past is (ironically) pushing it away from you. You’ll only fall asleep when you “don’t care” if you fall asleep. Or of course, when your body is utterly exhausted after a period of restlessness — not good… Read more
The Answer to Happiness
© eflon
You can search your whole life and never get answers… They’re buried and obscure.
But Habit Guide allows you to hold the whole thing as one. The mindset, the finish line, what to do and how to do it.
Every sentence matters…
You’ll see the route clearly AND you’ll be inspired and motivated to do it. That feeling is hard to come by in life. Anything that can you give you that feeling of “yes I want this!” is priceless… Read more
