2601. Imagine the ideal you and the ideal
scenario. As long as it’s realistic,
hold on to that image and make it happen.
If you prioritize your schedule and schedule your priorities, there’s
almost no limit to what you can do. But
you have to make it happen;
2602. When we eliminate any upward options from
our mental maps, and worse, eliminate our motivation to search for them, we end
up undermining our ability to tackle the challenge at hand;
2603. When people feel helpless in one area of
life, they not only give up in that one area; they often “overlearn” the lesson
and apply it to other situations. They
become convinced that one dead-end path must be proof that all possible paths
are dead ends;
2604. Learned helplessness is endemic in inner
city schools, prisons, and elsewhere;
2605. When people don’t believe there is a way up,
they have virtually no choice but to stay as down as they are;
2606. When some people meet adversity, they simply
stop looking for ways to turn failures into opportunities or negatives into
positives. Others—the most successful
among us—know that it’s not the adversity itself, but what we do with it that
determines our fate;
2607. Just as personal crises can provide the
foundation for positive individual growth, so can economic ones;
2608. America’s top companies have often used
recessions to reevaluate and improve their business practices;
2609. As Time pointed out way back in 1958,
“for every company that slims down its operation, another discovers new ways of
doing things that should have been in effect for years but were overlooked
during the boom;”
2610. Economic adversity forces companies to find
creative ways to cut costs and inspires management to get back in touch with
the employees and operations on the ground floor;
2611. Passion always trumps excuses;
2612. The mere presence of passion within you is
all you need to fulfill your dreams;
2613. Passion is a feeling that tells you: This is
the right thing to do. Nothing can
stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what
anyone else says. This feeling is so
good that it cannot be ignored. I’m
going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy;
2614. Never allow anyone else’s ideas of who you
can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination;
2615. If you want to find a deeper meaning in your
life, you won’t find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to
you. Rather than trying to be what
everyone else expects you to be, live your life by your own rules to be happy
and find inner peace;
2616. Australians don’t drink Foster’s. They’d rather drink a Corona . . . or just
about anything else;
2617. A small soda in the U.S. is a large in
Australia;
2618. Watch out for drunk(en) Australian girls,
they might head butt you;
2619. Australian girls have hard heads;
2620. The truth is that there is no actual stress
or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false
beliefs. You can’t package stress,
touch it or see it. There are only
people engaged in stressful thinking.
That pesky ego is at work when you’re experiencing stress or
anxiety. We speak of stress as if it
were present in the world as something that attacks us. But the stress in your body is rarely the
result of external forces or entities attacking you; it’s the result of the
weakened connection to Source caused by the belief that ego is who you
are. You are peace and joy, but you’ve
allowed your ego to dominate your life;
2621. Here’s a short list of stress-inducing
thoughts that originate in your ego self: It’s more important to be right than
to be happy; Winning is the only thing so when you lose, you should be
stressed; Your reputation is more important than your relationship with your
Source; Success is measured in dollars rather than in feeling happy and
content; and Being superior to others is more important than being kind to
others;
2622. You aren’t your work, your accomplishments,
your possessions, your home, your family . . . your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in
a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. This is the intention that you want to bring
to the presence of stress—your personal intention to be tranquil. Stress and anxiety are choices that we make,
ways that we choose to process events.
Each day, we have hundreds of opportunities to shift our thoughts and
align with the Source that intended us for lives of joy and peace;
2623. Maryland Live! Casino
(MarylandLiveCasino.com) in Arundel Mills has a pretty good buffet. It’s $14.99 for lunch (Monday through
Saturday) and $17.99 for dinner (Sunday through Thursday) and Sunday champagne
brunch;
2624. Jane and Luisa think I need a bigger bed;
2625. Don’t piss off Rashmi when she’s drunk. . .
. Your (left) pinky will never be the same;
2626. The Moulin Rouge was the first integrated
hotel casino in Las Vegas . . . and (in) the U.S.;
2627. Maurice Hines (i.e., the tap dancer and
older brother of Gregory Hines) is almost 70;
2628. A study published in “Evolution & Human
Behavior” by Sarah Hill, a psychologist at the University of Texas, Austin,
shows that people of both sexes reckon the sexual competition they face is
stronger than it really is. Dr. Hill
showed heterosexual men and women photographs of people. She asked them to rate both how attractive
those of their own sex would be to the opposite sex and how attractive the
members of the opposite sex were. She
then compared the scores for the former with the scores for the latter, seen
from the other side. Men thought that
the men they were shown were more attractive to the women than they really were
and women thought the same of the women;
2629. When you think about what confidence
actually is you realize that it’s simply doing something that you’ve done enough
times to be comfortable with. It’s only
when we’re thrown into situations that are unfamiliar to us that we start to
lose confidence in ourselves;
2630. As soon as you start blaming people, you’re
missing the point. Focus on yourself;
2631. You are what you do;
2632. See anything you want to change about
yourself? That’s where you start;
2633. Taking care of yourself on the outside helps
on the inside;
2634. You are not the moral conscience of the
world. No one cares about your strongly
held negative opinions of the guy down the street. Drop it and try to do something positive with your day;
2635. Negativity isn’t sexy or a rational response
to the world. You’re closer to death
one day at a time. Enjoy your time –
it’s the one resource (unlike money, etc.) that’s not replenishable;
2636. The “Mango & Lime” peri peri sauce at
Nando’s Peri-Peri (NandosPeriPeri.com) is pretty tasty;
2637. If you’re going to Nando’s Peri-Peri with a
friend, consider splitting the “Full Platter.”
For $24.95, you’ll get twice the amount of food (i.e., two legs and
thighs, two breasts and wings and two large sides that’ll feed four) for just a
little (bit) more (money) than you’d spend getting two legs and thighs or two
breasts and wings with two sides each (i.e., $17.70 and $18.70, respectively);
2638. Emotions from one source can be transferred
(i.e., misattributed) to another source;
2639. Emotions have two parts: Physiological
(i.e., in the body); and Cognitive (i.e., in the mind);
2640. The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald (by Jack
Ruby) was the first live broadcast of a murder on TV;
2641. If you like Asian fusion, The Source
(WolfgangPuck.com/Restaurants/Fine-Dining/3941) in D.C. has a really good
Saturday dim sum brunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM. . . . The noodle and salad
dishes give you the most food;
2642. A(ccording to Starbucks, a) “Caffè
Americano” is (a shot of) espresso (diluted) with hot water. . . . A
“Caffè/espresso macchiato” is (a shot of) espresso with steamed milk foam. . .
. And a “Caffè latte” is (a shot of) espresso in steamed milk, (lightly) topped
with foam;
2643. With everything that has happened to you,
you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a
gift. Everything is either an
opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose;
2644. Everything in this physical universe of ours
is in some way connected to everything else.
When we attempt to isolate anything, we find that it is in some way part
of everything else in the universe.
Just as it is absurd for a single wave to see itself as separate from
the ocean, so it is for any of us not to recognize our oneness with all
creation;
2645. No one is capable of making you upset
without your consent, so if you begin practicing the intention to be authentic
and peaceful with everyone, you connect to peace itself–and gain the power to
change the energy of your relationships with family and friends;
2646. In order to change the nature of family
relationships, you’ll have to change your mind about them and consider that you
are the source of the anguish in your relationships, rather than the individual
whom you’ve pegged as the most outrageous, the most despicable, or the most
infuriating. Over the years, all of
these individuals have been treating you exactly as you’ve allowed them to with
your reactions and behaviors. This can
miraculously change when you choose to be at peace with everyone in your
life–most particularly, your relatives;
2647. If the focus of your inner dialogue about
your family members is on what they're doing that's wrong, then that’s
precisely how your relationship with them will be experienced. If your inner speech centers on what’s
annoying about them, that’s what you'll notice. But if you're thinking, I am authentic and peaceful with this
relative, then that’s what you’ll experience–even if that relative
continues to be exactly the way he or she has always been;
2648. The key to having peace in all your family
relationships is forgiveness. Your
relatives are simply doing what they’ve been taught to do over a lifetime and
the lifetimes of many of their ancestors.
Shower them with understanding and forgiveness from your heart. Rather than being in a state of non-peace
concerning any family members, say a prayer of gratitude for their presence in
your life and all that they have come to teach you;
2649. If you don’t love yourself, nobody else
will. Not only that, you won’t be good
at loving anyone else. Loving starts
with the self;
2650. Notice
each day whether you are choosing to live in fear or love. Fear can keep you disconnected from the
loving presence inside of you;
