Only One Move
A ten-year-old boy injured his left arm in a car accident and it was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated. After his recovery, he decided to learn judo. His sensei was an old Chinese judo expert.
The boy learnt quickly. But after three months, he had learnt only one move. He asked his teacher to teach him more moves. The sensei told him that that was all he would need. Soon after, the boy entered a tournament where he quickly advanced to the final. His opponent for his final match was bigger and more experienced. The boy seemed very out matched. After a long match, the opponent seemed to lose concentration. Quickly, the boy took advantage and pinned his supposedly superior opponent.
On the ride home, the boy asked his sensei. "How could I have won with only one move?"
The sensei replied, "You have mastered one of the most difficult moves in all of judo. And the only defence against that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."
Sometimes, your biggest weakness can become your greatest strength.
A ten-year-old boy injured his left arm in a car accident and it was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated. After his recovery, he decided to learn judo. His sensei was an old Chinese judo expert.
The boy learnt quickly. But after three months, he had learnt only one move. He asked his teacher to teach him more moves. The sensei told him that that was all he would need. Soon after, the boy entered a tournament where he quickly advanced to the final. His opponent for his final match was bigger and more experienced. The boy seemed very out matched. After a long match, the opponent seemed to lose concentration. Quickly, the boy took advantage and pinned his supposedly superior opponent.
On the ride home, the boy asked his sensei. "How could I have won with only one move?"
The sensei replied, "You have mastered one of the most difficult moves in all of judo. And the only defence against that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."
Sometimes, your biggest weakness can become your greatest strength.
22:22
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Personal Empowerment
How do you talk to yourself? Do you use words like: "can't", "won't", "don't need to", "why try?"
Do you find that what you say to yourself turns out to be true? Why is this?
You see, your brain is like a computer that you feed each day. It doesn't always know what is real or what is not unless you tell it so.
If someone you love has hurt you, you may tell yourself that all people who love you will probably hurt you too. Your brain will file this information for future reference, it's just data with no column that asks "true or false". Now your brain thinks, based on what you fed it, that everyone you will ever love will hurt you. How do you think you will respond the next time you fall in love?
Now, what if we instead told our brain: "Okay, this person ripped my heart out but that's only one person. I'm lovable and have many loving people in my life who are not out to hurt me. I know that the right people are coming into my life all the time. If someone hurts me, I will forgive them and give them my blessings."
Words can be empowering.
I can
I love to
I want to
I will
I must
I am
We can reach a new level of living if we feed ourselves empowering words and practice saying them until they become a habit. I know it first hand that it takes time. And I also know that it's worth it. Try it for a week.
The next time you catch yourself saying, "I can't" when you don't really mean it, try "I can" and see how you think and feel about yourself.
Remember, the words you use to empower yourself will have a lasting effect only if you practice them until they become a habit. It’s said that it takes at least 28 days to develop a habit. After a week, you will see that it becomes easier.
It's a mindset and you can control your thoughts. Be proactive and not reactive - give yourself some good words.
Dream big and empower yourself! Believe you can and you will.
How do you talk to yourself? Do you use words like: "can't", "won't", "don't need to", "why try?"
Do you find that what you say to yourself turns out to be true? Why is this?
You see, your brain is like a computer that you feed each day. It doesn't always know what is real or what is not unless you tell it so.
If someone you love has hurt you, you may tell yourself that all people who love you will probably hurt you too. Your brain will file this information for future reference, it's just data with no column that asks "true or false". Now your brain thinks, based on what you fed it, that everyone you will ever love will hurt you. How do you think you will respond the next time you fall in love?
Now, what if we instead told our brain: "Okay, this person ripped my heart out but that's only one person. I'm lovable and have many loving people in my life who are not out to hurt me. I know that the right people are coming into my life all the time. If someone hurts me, I will forgive them and give them my blessings."
Words can be empowering.
I can
I love to
I want to
I will
I must
I am
We can reach a new level of living if we feed ourselves empowering words and practice saying them until they become a habit. I know it first hand that it takes time. And I also know that it's worth it. Try it for a week.
The next time you catch yourself saying, "I can't" when you don't really mean it, try "I can" and see how you think and feel about yourself.
Remember, the words you use to empower yourself will have a lasting effect only if you practice them until they become a habit. It’s said that it takes at least 28 days to develop a habit. After a week, you will see that it becomes easier.
It's a mindset and you can control your thoughts. Be proactive and not reactive - give yourself some good words.
Dream big and empower yourself! Believe you can and you will.
16:22
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The Prophecy
Curious to know about his future, a man went to a fortune-teller. The fortune-teller looked into her magic ball and then her facial expression said it all.
"You will die in a bus accident," she said. "And this would happen in two to three months' time." But she couldn't say exactly when.
The man went home worried and depressed. He kept telling himself how he never really believed in fortune-tellers. Why should he now?
Two months passed and he had been thinking about what she said, day in and day out. He was living in constant fear and was having sleepless nights. Finally, he decided to lock himself in his house, where he was sure he wouldn't come in contact with any buses, for the coming month. He convinced himself that if he survived the third month, the prophecy would be broken. However, he was still not able to sleep in peace.
Another three weeks went by without incident. One morning, the man came down the stairs from his bedroom to make some coffee. His little son had left his toys on the floor of which one was a little toy bus. The man stepped on the toy bus after his last step down the stairs, slipped and knocked his head against the stairway railing and died instantly.
A realised prediction or just plain coincidence? Would the man have stepped on the toy bus if he had not been preoccupied by the prophecy? Could he have avoided the freak accident if he wasn't that listless?
Many a time, people who are in despair or dilemma would resort to consulting the fortune-teller whom they perceive as someone who can foretell the outcome of their predicaments. They would then go on to consciously or unconsciously work towards the prophecy.
It sadden me to know that there are still people who choose to lead their lives as 'prescribed' by some fortune-tellers and to be swayed towards their foretold destinies. What puzzle me is that why would anyone want to live their lives based on predictions rather than to be in control of their own lives and fates.
Life is too short and precious to be left to some predictions or assumptions. Life should not be embraced with fears and uncertainties. Life should be enjoyed and lived to the fullest. Life needs not be an anticipation; life should be a celebration. So let’s live, let’s celebrate.
Curious to know about his future, a man went to a fortune-teller. The fortune-teller looked into her magic ball and then her facial expression said it all.
"You will die in a bus accident," she said. "And this would happen in two to three months' time." But she couldn't say exactly when.
The man went home worried and depressed. He kept telling himself how he never really believed in fortune-tellers. Why should he now?
Two months passed and he had been thinking about what she said, day in and day out. He was living in constant fear and was having sleepless nights. Finally, he decided to lock himself in his house, where he was sure he wouldn't come in contact with any buses, for the coming month. He convinced himself that if he survived the third month, the prophecy would be broken. However, he was still not able to sleep in peace.
Another three weeks went by without incident. One morning, the man came down the stairs from his bedroom to make some coffee. His little son had left his toys on the floor of which one was a little toy bus. The man stepped on the toy bus after his last step down the stairs, slipped and knocked his head against the stairway railing and died instantly.
A realised prediction or just plain coincidence? Would the man have stepped on the toy bus if he had not been preoccupied by the prophecy? Could he have avoided the freak accident if he wasn't that listless?
Many a time, people who are in despair or dilemma would resort to consulting the fortune-teller whom they perceive as someone who can foretell the outcome of their predicaments. They would then go on to consciously or unconsciously work towards the prophecy.
It sadden me to know that there are still people who choose to lead their lives as 'prescribed' by some fortune-tellers and to be swayed towards their foretold destinies. What puzzle me is that why would anyone want to live their lives based on predictions rather than to be in control of their own lives and fates.
Life is too short and precious to be left to some predictions or assumptions. Life should not be embraced with fears and uncertainties. Life should be enjoyed and lived to the fullest. Life needs not be an anticipation; life should be a celebration. So let’s live, let’s celebrate.
23:44
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12 Rules To A Better Life
#Rule 11
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Any fool can set up a fault-finding business. No external power can have any control over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be squandered combating the menial forces of hate, jealously and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Strengthen your life with self-confidence.
#Rule 12
Realise that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
#Rule 11
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Any fool can set up a fault-finding business. No external power can have any control over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be squandered combating the menial forces of hate, jealously and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Strengthen your life with self-confidence.
#Rule 12
Realise that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
18:58
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12 Rules To A Better Life
#Rule 9
Live this day as if it will be your last. You will only find "tomorrow" in the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your life. The saddest words you can ever utter are, "If I had my life to live over again..." Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!
#Rule 10
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead atmidnight . Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
#Rule 9
Live this day as if it will be your last. You will only find "tomorrow" in the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your life. The saddest words you can ever utter are, "If I had my life to live over again..." Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!
#Rule 10
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at
18:48
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12 Rules To A Better Life
#Rule 7
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. Merely surviving the day is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave enough time and space to grow now. Now! Not tomorrow!
#Rule 8
Laugh at yourself and at life, not in the spirit of derision or self-pity but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter. Laughter frees your mind to think clearly towards the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
#Rule 7
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. Merely surviving the day is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave enough time and space to grow now. Now! Not tomorrow!
#Rule 8
Laugh at yourself and at life, not in the spirit of derision or self-pity but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter. Laughter frees your mind to think clearly towards the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
18:38
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12 Rules To A Better Life
#Rule 5
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
#Rule 6
You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day. Not long and difficult projects but chores that will take you, step by step, towards your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal which is to do the best you can, enjoy the day and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
#Rule 6
You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day. Not long and difficult projects but chores that will take you, step by step, towards your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal which is to do the best you can, enjoy the day and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.
18:28
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