motivation & endurance

Motivation starts something; but Endurance makes it happen!

Endurance is the mother of all achievements…

Many advice based themselves on motivation or encouragement. They are good. However, they are good in their limited capacity to get us to start something. It may be to reduce weight. Announcing a change at the workplace or home-front. But it is the process of implementing all of these changes that caused people to give up when they face “distractions” of all kinds along the way.

That’s when and where Endurance must show up within us. It enables us. It strengthens us to stay the course; eg to better health, enhance relations, bigger goals or exciting future! Endurance is the ‘software’ for action which is the ‘hardware’. It is a matter of the mind and the heart, which is to me, main ingredients for our personal passions in living life.

Endurance is also a matter of commitment. We need to learn, commit and do the right things to be blessed in life…

So, lets us apply motivation and endurance for a happier and blessed living!

 

reaching out

Look around us and we’ll find people in our lives have needs and hurts that we can do something about to help them. If only we just reach out!

I belief that we are born with seeds of servitude. We cannot not serve others. Have you served people without reservations in you life? If yes, which I belief most of us have, remember how did it feel at the time. It felt good and blessed, isn’t it.

And lets turn the scenario around, how many of us watched someone being served and comforted and felt deeply touched eg the policeman who bought a homeless man a pair of new winter booths when he saw him lying on the streets begging with frost bitten feet and toes. Our tears well up to the brim of flowing with joy, won’t we. Another example is when we see a professor making the effort to bring education to the rural areas of India and educate the children who otherwise do not have the opportunity to be schooled to create brighter futures.

I saw an old lady begging on a pedestrian bridge. Instead of money, I bought her a food. She was stunned and smiled. I walked away. I still think of her…

It does something within us, it changes us in a very deep sense. I think it connects us all to the original plan when we were “made”. We were made to serve humanity. We made to serve. We were made to love…

So, reach out to someone in need and be a friend in’deed’!

 

don’t judge

What we see, or think we see may not be the actual picture…the map is not the territory. What I am sharing here is our perceptions of the world, our experiences and our interpretation of it all.

It is easy to judge. We judge when we see a deviation from what we know or expect. However, be open to deviations and difference. Find out more about these deviations and differences before passing the ‘death sentence’ on someone’s behaviors or performance. For example, when we see a colleague acting in a rude manner to a another colleague, don’t judge him (her). If it matters to you a lot, research that encounter by talking to the colleague who acted and the other who received the action privately. You’ll then know the truth and it shall set you free from judging them. What you can do next is maybe, if you so wish, to help them solve their differences.

It is very pertinent for us to remember, that we constantly filter all information (data) received through our five senses of sight, sound, feeling, taste and smell as each of these is received. Then, we generally interpreted each piece of the sensory information (data) in accordance to our own filters (existing thought, experience, values and beliefs, skill etc and analysis structure in the brain and mind) to make a summary of its meaning as a whole. The next set of filter occurs as we translate our understanding to words. And our translation is affected or determined by our range of words in our vocabulary to accurately explain it.

So, the point is, we filter lots of information of what we see, hear, feel, taste and smell. Lots of accurate information are lost during this filtering. Hence, what we perceived may not be accurate. The next best thing to do is to research and ask questions to recover, challenges and specify the ‘sensory facts’ that we received.

Therefore, I suggest that we stop judging and start recovering, challenging and specifying all of our sensory facts before we leap!