The Selfless Advantage

Tag: Habits

Making a habit of minding our habits.

  • Go With The Flow

    Go With The Flow

    “Go with the flow.”

    I’ve heard this phrase for years. This CAN be good advise. CAN BE, if one is aware and seeing where the flows is leading.
    Too many times folks unconsciously choose to not see what’s around them, telling themselves and others that they are just going with the flow. If you simply “go with the flow” without thinking about the world around you,  you might be be surprised when the bad stuff comes your way. Plus, there is a good chance that you will miss all the good things going on around you. “Go with the flow” can be a bad habit.

    However, using the “go with the flow” approach to life is great if we keep our eyes open and our thoughts on the events going on around us. By noticing how things are playing out in our lives, we can find more things to be thankful for, more happiness, more purpose and enjoy one heck of a ride thru this short time that we spend as humans.

    How are you going with the flow? Are you simply letting the days pass by or are you watching for the wonder of it all?

     

    Photo Credit: LoggaWiggler

  • Your Greatest Treasures – Lao Tzu

    Your Greatest Treasures – Lao Tzu

    “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” — Lao Tzu

    The word simplicity: an absence of luxury, pretentiousness, ornament, etc.; plainness: “a life of simplicity.”
    Patience: to remain quiet, with steady perseverance, having even-tempered care and remaining diligence: “to work with patience.”
    As for compassion: a sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.

    These three ideas seems as though they should be simple to enable in one’s life. (more…)

  • The Only Time We Have Is Now

    The Only Time We Have Is Now

    “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” — Golda Meir

    When you think about it, the only time we have is now. So why is it that modern man is consumed by clocks. At our own choice, we let them control almost every aspect of our daily lives. This man-made thing, this concept called time directs us when to rise, work, eat and sleep.  Allowing  a schedule  run our life is one of the many habits that we all live with everyday. We plan “things” around time. There are hopes that during some particular point in the future, we will do this or accomplish that. We look back at events in the past that made us cry or smile. We refer to time a lot!

    “I remember a time when…”
    “When the time comes, I’m going to…”
    “If only I had the time, I would…”
    And the best is….
    “I don’t have the time to…”

    Earlier cultures lived with a close relationship to the position of the sun in the daytime and the moon at night. Their day was just that, a day in their life. Sure, they made plans for tomorrow’s survival, but each day was spent living in that moment , that day.

    Each of us must govern our own allotment of time, minute by minute.
    British statesman,  Lord Chesterfield, suggests that we

    “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves”.

    Begin today by developing a mindfulness of how many times you look at a clock. Try to spend the day by simply letting things happen at their own pace. “Go with the flow” as the old expression says.

    Try following Dr. Wayne Dyer’s advise:

    “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

    Namaste,
    Dave

    Photo courtesy of: North Charleston
    Quote Source: BrainyQuote

  • Do Something

    “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” − Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The Greatest Achievement Is Selflessness.

    “The greatest achievement is selflessness.” — Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna