Welcome every morning with a smile… Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
- Og Mandino
Starting the day right can give good momentum for the rest of the day. Having a power morning is a key ingredient for a fruitful day. Here are some tips on getting the most out of the morning.
If you’re like me, you’re feeling the pinch. The price of gas doubled in four years. Food prices also gone up, and particularly if you’re trying to be healthy by including some organic food into your diet, you’re paying about 50%-75% more. For many of us, our incomes unfortunately have not kept up with the rising prices.
For tough times like these, it’s important to remember the fundamentals of investing so that we can maintain our wealth through the uncertainties. Invest in your time and invest in your health, because they will always be valuable.
Even dream jobs can have things you don’t like. You might be a famous movie actor, and you’re working on a movie with a co-star that you hate. You might be a rock star that must perform a song that you’re sick of playing over and over again at your concerts. Or you might be an entrepreneur that unknowingly agreed to work on the project from hell that is too costly to quit.
If you have a task that you hate, clearly the best thing to do is to not do it by delegating it away, letting it drop, or maybe just deferring it for later. Sometimes you don’t have that option and it’s better to just get it over with. How do you go about it? I’ve come up with a list of ways to approach it.
I subscribe to Joseph Campbell’s theory that all heroic stories follow the same archetype pattern called the monomyth. The hero gets the call to the great adventure, overcomes threshold guardians along the way, then finally defeating the great monster that guarded the treasure, only to realize that the experience from the journey was as valuable as the treasure. From Gilgamesh to Star Wars, all the great hero stories followed the same pattern.
If the hero’s journey was played out over and over again in stories throughout history, then why do we still enjoy new stories that follow this predictable pattern? Because it resonates with us. We can’t get enough of it. In one form or another , this journey is one that we all yearn for ourselves. This includes blockbuster superhero movies.
When generativity, creativity, generosity, and the capacity to embrace life dry up, the Water of Life has gone underground. At such times, the earth becomes arid, life becomes devoid of meaning, the ground of culture cracks and splits, and gaps develop among peoples and between people and nature. Only water can bring the pieces back together, awaken seeds hidden in the ground, and enliven the parched Tree of Life.
- Michael J. Meade, Men and the Water of Life
Have you lost your passion? Perhaps it could be for work. Or for your significant other. Or, perhaps it’s some goal, some pursuit, some mission that you have been faithfully serving all your life but the realities of the day-to-day has worn your passion down. This article is simply one person’s opinion of how to get that passion back.
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