Something worth thinking about
How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time thinking about their vacation than they do thinking about whats important in their life.
While rest and relaxation are a must in living a balanced life, its not what we were created to do. After all, the Master Creator took his RR (Rest and Recreation) on the seventh day, only after six days of definitely directed thought.
Wallace D. Wattles, wrote There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardestwork in the world. And yet it is the first and primary labor of achievement.
My friend Mike Litman wrote an outstanding article for his ezine this week. Its called The Millionaire Composite and it analyzes one of the big differences between super-successful people and everyone else. He writes I recently visited with a Real Estate Multi Millionaire Mogul. What did I see next to his desk? His vision statement, along with a list of what he values in life---hand written.
A few months back, I interviewed an individual who has sold over a billion dollars worth of products on television. He told me that he reads his life and business vision and goals daily, and that he TAKES TIME to visualize exactly what he wants to create-EACH NIGHT before falling asleep.
What is your lifes purpose or your personal mission statement? Is it written down? Do you review it and think about it often? Is your life organized around your purpose and a set of goals that support that purpose?
Without purpose and goals - definitely directed thought - you are like the proverbial ship without a rudder. There is power in your purpose and in your goals. It is the power that takes you over obstacles, the fuel that propels you toward the life you envision.
One of my favorite passages of James Allen is one he wrote in The Mastery of Destiny:
All successful people are people of purpose. They hold fast to an idea, a project, a plan, and will not let it go; they cherish it, brood upon it, tend and develop it; and when assailed by difficulties, they refuse to be beguiled into surrender; indeed, the intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered. And thats worth thinking about.
值得思考的事情
你听过多少次，大多数人花更多的时间来计划他们的假期比他们规划自己生活的表达。我会扩大，表达的增加，大多数人花更多的时间思考假期比他们生活中重要的事情的思考。
虽然休息和放松是必须平衡的生活，这不是我们所能创造。毕竟，伟大的造物主R R第七日，经过六天的明确的方向性思考。
华勒斯丁相思写道，没有什么工作能够使大多数人望而却步，持续的不间断的思考；它是世界上最难的工作。但它是第一个和基本的劳动成果。
了我朋友迈克迈克里曼写了一个优秀文章。我们称之为百万富翁的构造和分析的一个超级成功的人和别人间大分歧。他写道我最近拜访了一位房地产多富翁。我怎么看到他的办公桌旁边？他的视力表，同时列出他人生价值观---手写。
几个月前，我采访了一个人谁已售出超过十亿美元的产品上电视。他告诉我，他读了他的生活和事业的理想和目标，每天，他花时间想象他想要入睡之前创建的每个夜晚。
你的生活目的和人生使命是什么？写下了吗？你经常回顾并思考它们吗？你的生活是围绕你的目标而安排的吗？
没有目的和目标明确的方向性思考你是众所周知的没有舵的船。有了目标你的力量。它是使你越过障碍的力量，这是推动你向美好生活燃料。
我最喜欢的杰姆斯艾伦的段落是他在命运的掌握写：
」所有成功的人都是人目的。他们守的想法计划，项目，绝不让它溜走；珍惜吧，垂头丧气，往往与发展当人家困难，却绝不投降的困难事实上，；日益严重的旨在提高强度遇见：这是值得我们思考的。