Inspiration for Better Living

Maybe your answer was , “My idea of success is to have all the time I need to do the things I really want to do.” If you think of success in terms of endless leisure think of a bum, he has all the time in the world and what can he do with it? A life of pure leisure in which you never have to do anything for anyone, is just as hollow as the life of a miser, because it’s empty of life’s greatest pleasure. Do you know what life’s greatest pleasure is? It’s a sense of accomplishment, the great and glorious feeling you get when you can step away from something and say, “That’s done: I did it, and it’s done right.”

That feeling of accomplishment is the key to the secret of success, because it tells you what success really is. Success means simply achieving what you want in life. It is just that simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact, most people never know what they really want from life. If you ask them, even wise ones will say, “I want to be happy”. But most people think happiness is a state of being; they haven’t learned that it isn’t a state of being it’s really a state of doing. They seem to feel that happiness is something you can be given, like a glass of water when you’re thirsty. They never find out that happiness is like a kiss, it’s in what you do and it must be shared!

As you move forward in Inspirational Discoveries for Living, you will learn that you have within you, right now, this very moment all that is necessary for you to become the successful, happy, contented person you’ve always wanted to be. You have it all, now, and you’ll learn how to unlock the riches that have been buried, unused within you. Life is not a spectator sport, something that happens in front of you without your involvement it’s an experience, a game that has to be played to be enjoyed fully. You must get involved with life. Not only involved with yourself, though that’s where it all begins, but involved with your family, your friends, the people you see every day, everybody. In that involvement, you’ll find you have everything you need to make your life a success.

And finally, a word about improvement; it would be nice if we learned at a steady rate, and could use everything we learn as soon as we learn – but we don’t. learning takes place by fits and starts; you’ll go along on a level for a while, not seeming to make any progress at all, and then, suddenly, what you’ve been working at will make sense, will fall into place, and you’ll have reached a new plateau; then you’ll work along on that level for another while, before a new jump will take you to a still higher plateau. So don’t get discouraged if you don’t seem to be making any progress for a while. Scientists have found that it takes about three weeks, twenty one days for any real change in your body or personality to begin to feel right. That is why you shouldn’t be discouraged about your progress; your mind is busy working for you; let it go about its business.

Here’s the end of you experience with Inspirational Discoveries for Living. You’ve started changing your life; you’ve begun to make things happen for you, instead of letting them happen to you. You’re on your way to changing your life through these Inspirational Discoveries.

Read these series of discoveries over many times to make them part of you in order for them to work in your life. They may seem simple and easy to understand, and they are, but don’t take them for granted, they must be learned and put into practice before you can see the desired results.

Your Key to Success

There’s no way to plan your life that will take into account every twist and turn you’ll find on your road. There’s no way to fly high enough or climb high enough so you’ll be able to see all that lies ahead of you, or to see what’s hidden behind a hill. But when you add the dimension of height to your life, when you learn to fly high in your imagination and pick out a goal, you’ll be able to avoid some mistakes you might otherwise make, and you’ll see, clearly, how to begin to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Adding Inspiration to your life will enable you to discover how to live more fully and with purpose, that’s what Inspirational Discoveries is all about. It’s what motivated me to share these discoveries, and it’s the heart of what you’ll learn. When you discover where you want to go and how to get there, you’ll stop letting things happen to you and start making things happen for you. That’s what makes the difference in the lives of the five men who are successful, and that’s what’s missing in the lives of the ninety five who aren’t.

Now, before you turn off the television set in your mind, take look at what your life will be like in the future. What kind of road are you on now? Is it narrow, rocky, full of ups and downs you can’t avoid? Do you know where to find happiness as you go along that road? Or is your life like the little white dot, just bumping along from day to day, without a goal, without any width or breadth or height at all? Take a moment to think about it, right now, and see it on that television screen in your mind, with you sitting back comfortably in your favorite chair watching.

In the developments you’ll make with Inspirational Discoveries, you’ll learn how to change that picture of your life on that television screen, and you’ll see many other scenes on it. When you watch a real television screen in your mind, you’ll decide what you want to see, and you’ll decide what you want to see and you’ll make it appear. You’ll be in the control room of the TV station, deciding what will appear on the screen, not just watching passively what others think you want to see.

Now it’s time to turn off the television and start doing something, instead of just sitting there watching.

You’ve already been changing your life and taking charge of it, by reading this information. Some dissatisfaction must have been at work in you that led you here to make this decision. Do you know what the dissatisfaction is? Are you not satisfied with the job you have, or the amount of money you’re making? Or are you not satisfied with the feeling that life is somehow passing you by? Chances are one of these reasons fits you, because most of us aren’t satisfied with our lives, and one of those reasons is the basic cause. But think now, for a moment about the kind of success you’d really like to have. If you were to wake up successful tomorrow morning, what would be different in your life?

Think carefully before you answer this question. What does success really mean to you? I say think carefully because there’s an old proverb, known in many cultures and told in many languages, that says, simply, be careful for what you ask for because you just may get it!

See on next post lV…

Reach for the Sky

As you watch that little white dot crawling along, dragging the line that represents all its yesterdays along behind it, think of the waste, think of the unlived lives that those ninety five lives represent. Five men out of the hundred will have financial security, without which it’s difficult to have happiness; the other ninety five will have failed.

But now let’s stop the little dot and move it back to where it started. You’re in control of the television set and all you have to do is make up your mind and the dot will go where you want it to. Now, before the dot starts moving again, let’s consider what made the lives of the five men who are successful different. More importantly, let’s consider what you can do to change your life, now, so that you’ll be one of those five successes, instead of one of the ninety five failures.

First, let’s give your life a broad road to travel on. Imagine a broad, paved road stretching from that little white dot off into the distance. Along the road, let’s add the riches of joy and accomplishment that you’ll have along the way; instead of a bleak blank screen that was all the white dot had in front of it. Let’s fill in the screen with color and movement and music, and you’re off on a wide way that stretches far into a future rich with promise. Now the road that can be your life fills the screen, and there’s room on it for you to choose your direction, choose your satisfactions, choose your enjoyments, choose your successes in life.

This road you’re looking at is wide enough so you can move to one side to avoid a bump, to another side to miss a hole in the pavement; now you’re a lot better off than those whose lives are pictured by the little white dot, that had no road at all to travel on, but just kept getting bumped, blindly, into the future. But although you’re better off, you still haven’t got it made. What happens when you come to a fork in the road? How do you decide which road to take when you come to a crossroad? It would help if you had a road map, so you could see that if you take the fork on the left it leads only to a dead-end. And you’ll have to turn around and come back to where you are now; while the road on the right leads on toward where you want to go.

Yes, a road map would be a help. The only trouble is nobody can draw a road map for your life; nobody can make your decisions for you. And when you reach a fork in the road, or a crossroad, or a turning point of whatever kind you have to make the decisions about where you want to go. And if all you know is what you’ve learned from the road so far, it may not be much help in deciding which is the right choice.

Come back for series lll in the next post…

Open Your Mind

You’ll learn how to appreciate and use the great gifts that were born in you, gifts you may not even know you have.

You’ll learn that success is built on success, but you’ll also learn the difference between a try that fails and a failure. And how to build your success by building on the many little things you succeed in and how to use the attempts that fail to lead you to tomorrow’s success.

You’ll learn how to handle worry and make it work for you instead of against you. You’ll learn to really take charge of your life and that’s when you’ll begin to feel the change within you that will be the result of the discoveries you’ll make about yourself and the world as you live through these inspirational discoveries.

But this will be just the beginning! You’ll learn how to plan your life, how to decide on the goals you want to reach and how to plan to reach them, then how to put your plans into action.

You’ll learn how to make decisions without worrying about them, using all you’ve learned as a guide, but not letting your past dictate your future.

And through all this you’ll learn how to enjoy life’s simple pleasures to the fullest; how to relax, even when your life’s full of excitement every moment, and enjoy everything you’re doing.

Now, I know that sounds like a lot to promise, but believe me, it’s only the beginning of what you can accomplish when you stop letting things happen to you and start making things happen for you, that’s what these inspirational discoveries are all about. Let me explain it this way.

Imagine yourself sitting back comfortably in your favorite chair, watching television. You’re relaxed, enjoying yourself. Now the program you’ve been watching ends, and the screen goes blank. Here, let your imagination take over, and instead of the next program, you’re going to see what I’m talking about, on your television set.

First, you see a little dot of light bumping its way slowly across the screen, leaving a thin line behind it. As you watch it, it moves a little bit up and then a little bit down, but mostly it just inches its way along a fairly straight line. And it’s the only thing you can see on the screen, just that little white dot and the trail of white line it leaves behind.

That’s a picture of a life of hopelessness, but it’s an accurate picture of the life most of us lead. That little white dot is being pushed along, from day to day, from week to week, from year to year, by what other people expect us to do.

Every once in a while, we do something we want, but then we go back to doing what’s expected of us. And when we get up in the morning it’s to face another day that’s just another day, a day to go to work to do the housework or go to school, not because we want to, but because we have to.

Now as you watch that poor little dot being bumped and pushed along by pressures from outside, listen to this unhappy fact. More than nine out of ten people live their whole lives like that little dot.

See you on the next post…