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Choices

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:14:38 +0100

Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't,

when what you really mean is that you don't want other people

to feel the way you think that are going to feel

when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

Got it?

Neale Donald Walsch

The Purpose of Education

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:57:12 +0100

"The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—
...by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.
The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual.
He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove.
He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—
and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Ayn Rand

Thought for the day...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:56:10 +0100

Many people get into day-to-day / week-to-week / year-to-year 'ruts',

and wait until they're really unhappy before noticing and changing.

So, perhaps you may want to clarify this for yourself... today?

Waiting...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:10 +0100

Waiting, waiting, waiting.... (for what you want)

Imagine for me, if you will, that a new restaurant has opened near where you live and you decide to try it out for dinner.

You arrive and are impressed by the beautiful decor and warm, friendly ambiance.
Your efficient and polite waiter shows you to your table, seats you, pours you a glass of ice water with a slice of lemon and hands you a menu.

But you refuse to look at the menu, let alone read it....
Or even speak to him....
Instead, you simply sit there and stare at him in silence and wait for him to bring your un-ordered meal.

Now perhaps you're fortunate and he's an experienced waiter, maybe he's used to strange customers?

So he heads off to the kitchen and brings you a random starter... (the chef highly recommends this one)
...which you don't like the look of, and ignore.

Your silent staring continues (but with a slightly higher level of frustration and unhappiness for both you and the waiter)

After a few more uncomfortable minutes the waiter sighs deeply, removes the starter, and brings you a random main course....
which you also don't like the look of.....
and again the silent, unhappy staring continues.

This scenario is repeated for your drinks order, your dessert order and even your coffee (which the waiter kindly added full-cream milk and 3 sugars to, since you didn't say what you wanted)

At the end of the evening you begrudgingly pay the bill and storm off to complain, to any of your friends and family who'll listen, about what a terribly unhappy experience you had.

It may seem obvious that the odds of having a great meal would be greatly improved by seeing what's on offer, and asking for it. If you made some choices from the menu, based on what you liked and wanted at the time, and then spoke these choices out loud to the waiter (who is in the ideal position to bring them to you) then the chances of enjoying the meal and evening are far better.

Now what if..... life is like a restaurant!
What would you do differently?
Starting.... right..... now!