Improving The Quality Of Your Life

Our thinking: “That is impossible”
The Bible: “All things are possible” ~ Lk. 18:27

Our thinking: “I’m too tired”
The Bible: “I will give you rest” ~ Mt. 11:28-30

Our thinking: “Nobody loves me”
The Bible: “I love you” ~ Jn 3:16

Our thinking: “I can’t move on”
The Bible: “My grace is sufficient” ~ II Cor. 12:19

Our thinking: “I can’t get out of this”
The Bible: “I will direct your steps” ~ Prov. 20:24

Our thinking: “I can’t do that”
The Bible: “You can do all things” ~ Phil 4:13 Read the rest of this entry »

Today is the last day of the Great Motivational Videos series and as a result I want it to be a bit more reflective, I want it to make you think deeply about life.

The video isn’t a speech by some great personality, it isn’t a seminar, it isn’t a workshop, it is a simple video slideshow with gorgeous images, beautiful music and inspiring quotes. And because you and me think visually - by painting pictures in our mind, this video will prove to be much more uplifting than watching any seminar or speech!

Some of the quotes in the slideshow in it are written with very small fonts so I’ll write them here for you.

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“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

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“Always do good. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

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“Nobody will believe in you, unless you believe in yourself.” - Liberace

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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu

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“When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.”

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“What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.”

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“A problem is a chance to do your best.”

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“Direction is more important then speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.”

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“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

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“If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.”

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“Life is like a staircase. You have to go up each stair to reach the top.”

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“There is power in simplicity.”

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“They can do all because they think they can.” - Virgil

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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” - Walter Bagehot

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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” Robert Browning

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“A joy shared, is a joy doubled. A sorrow shared, is a sorrow halved.”

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“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” Sven Goran Erksson

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Very beautiful and inspiring words. If you carve all of them into your subconscious there is no reason left in the universe why you can’t become successful at whatever you want to be! Read the rest of this entry »

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. This is what he said to them:

“A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight between two wolves.

One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

This same fight is going on inside you and every other person, too.”

They thought about this for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather:

“Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied:

“The one you feed.”

What a simple and yet powerful story this is! It represents an essential aspect of life that many people fail to understand.

Our lives are shaped by the wolf which we choose to feed.

The wolves represent our thoughts. The wolf that stands for joy, peace, love, hope and the rest of the other qualities is the good wolf, and it represents the positive thoughts that we have.

The other wolf, the one that represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret and greed, is that bad wolf and it stands for our negative thoughts.

Albert Einstein once said that the most important decision you can ever make in life is to decide whether you live in a friendly or a hostile universe. You have to decide which wolf you’re gonna feed.

The wolf that you’re gonna feed will dictate the way your life will be. If you choose to believe that this universe is hostile and thus feed the bad wolf, that’s exactly how your life will be. Bad, hostile.

If you choose to feed the good wolf and see the universe as a friendly place that wants you to be happy, your whole life will be like that. Full of well-being and happiness.

There is so much that could be written about this but I believe in the “less is more” concept. Also, I had plenty of time to write a short post in which to summarize the important ideas of a long one.

As a conclusion, here’s a quote from one of the greatest thinkers and inspirational personalities of our time.

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” - Earl Nightingale

Here we are, day 5 into the Great Motivational Videos series. This video is a show called Bridging Heaven and Earth, with Michael Beckwith and Lessia as guests.

Michael is the founder/Minister of the world-renowned Agape International Center of Truth (and home of the Agape Church of Religious Science), a humanitarian, teacher of teachers, songwriter and producer. He is in demand worldwide as a speaker and facilitator of classes, retreats and workshops. Under Michael’s leadership Agape has become one of the nations largest multi-cultural, trans-denomination spiritual communities. Agape has over thirty ministries and projects around the globe that are dedicated to the realization of the Presence of God, Peace, and Love. Michael is a magnificent speaker who, through a dynamic and personable mode of delivery, articulates beautifully the Universal Principles the undergird all of the world’s major religions. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the second post of a ten-posts series in which I’ll bring you some of the best motivational videos that are available online.

The video is a seminar - “Power Of Intention” - presented by Dr. Wayne Dyer. It has a length of 2hrs and 15minutes, and it is a very powerful inspirational and empowering presentation.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have “[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses”.

Dyer spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage. He received his Doctor of Education in counseling from Wayne State University. He was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John’s University in New York.

He first pursued an academic career, publishing in journals and running a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John’s, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to package his ideas in book form, resulting in Your Erroneous Zones; although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews (”out of the back of his station wagon”, according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists “before book publishers even noticed what was happening”), which eventually led to national television talk shows including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue.

Dyer proceeded to build on his success with lecture tours, a series of audiotapes, and regular publication of new books. Dyer’s audience was not limited to business as with Dale Carnegie or Stephen Covey, and so his message resonated with many people. He often recounted anecdotes from his family life, and repeatedly used his own life experience as an example. His self-made man success story was a part of his appeal. Dyer told readers to pursue Self actualization, calling reliance on the self as a guide a “religious” experience, and suggested that readers emulate Jesus Christ, who he termed both an example of a self-actualized person, and a “preacher of self-reliance”. Dyer criticized societal focus on guilt, which he saw as an unhealthy immobilization in the present due to actions taken in the past. He advocated readers to see how parents, institutions, and even themselves had imposed guilt trips on them.

Although Dyer resisted the New Age tag, by the 1990s he was altering his message to include more components of spirituality, in Real Magic, and higher consciousness, in Your Sacred Self. This direction seemingly reduced his broad appeal and he has appeared less often in the media since. ~ from Wikipedia

The main ideas that he presents in this seminar have an immense value. “The science of getting rich” seminar by Bob Proctor and this one are two of the most powerful video materials that are available online and I strongly suggest you to focus on understanding their messages and concepts.

If you want to make the most out of these videos watch them as often as you can, because the repetition of the right information is what’s necessary in order to change your mind. And changing your mind is the first and most difficult process in changing your life.

Enjoy the video!