“Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home
and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Dale Carnegie
Shine On
Required Reading
“Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning
— one that leads you toward becoming
the fullest human being you can be.”
Oprah Winfrey
We all have dreams and goals. This is a good thing. It’s important to stay focused on the future and make our visions turn into reality through concrete planning and action steps.
But, some times in life, we end up frustrated or disappointed when our plans don’t become a reality we desired. We may feel like we are not living up to our full potential. This is when we are suffering from an expectation hangover.
Are you a Type A? An overachiever? Defined by your accomplishments? And then been disappointed when life didn’t go exactly according to plan?
Has life recently thrown you a curveball? Maybe you have dreams and goals, but somehow things aren’t working out as you’d hoped? Or worse, maybe you’ve stopped believing that the life you’ve always wanted is even attainable?
If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then do I have the book for you: Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love and Life by Christine Hassler. The book is full of deep spiritual wisdom as well as practical advice for people from every walk of life.
If you are feeling like you’re not living to your full potential in life, then this book is required reading.
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Appealing People
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow:
Our life is the creation of our mind.”
Buddha
We should all live life aware of our self-fulfilling prophecies. If we wake up with an attitude that the world is unfair, we will inevitably meet a world full of small-minded people.
But, if we wake every morning and draw attention to all the times in our life that people helped us or just showed kindness, we walk into a world of appealing people.
Shine On
Our Deep Innate Potential
“Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Gustav Jung
Jung’s work on himself and his patients convinced him that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Our main task, he believed, “is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential.”
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An Elephant Fountain
“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne
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