Daily Inspiration Quote

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others. - David Soul

Your life values.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. 

- Albert Einstein

Do you know what is important for you in your life? Very often people make decision and react for different situation base on their life values. Our life values are shaped in childhood. Not only important is in what values we believe but also hierarchy of this values. This hierarchy sometimes changes during our live. From time to time is good to make review of values which are most important in your life. Living in harmony with your values gives more satisfaction and happiness. When you set your goals you should check if they are in harmony with your values.

Many people do not think deeply on their values. They act upon decision of others. Very often we can observe following scenario. Man have beautiful wife,children and good job. He working hard to earn more money and achieve better position in their career. He spend an extra hours in work, back home late and have no time and energy to play with children or talk with wife. After few years he find that he is alone. Children leave home, wife doesn't want to sleep and talk with him. He find that there is not life he want to have.

Now you may think what are example of life value. Steve Pavlina on his blog listed 418 different values. As he wrote "Most values [from this list] have little or no significance to you (and some may even seem negative to you), there are those values that just jump out and call to you"

You can find list of this values here:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/list-of-values.htm

To find your important values you can print this list, read them and mark this values which you feel are significant for you.

Even better web tool to discover life values you will find here:
http://my.lifevaluesinventory.org/

With this tool you not only identify important values but also you can check if you currently live in harmony with your values. Interesting is that tool help you to find which values you are express through different life roles.

Do something for yourself - take an hour to determine your life values. Write them on small piece of paper and keep it with you. Look at your values in the challenging moment or when you need to take hard decision. Your values are your inner GPS.

Daily Inspiration Quote.

 

Every time its rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God! - Mehmet Murat Ildan.

Own Your Power

By Janet Alston Jackson

It's not surprising that many people feel powerless in today's extremely fast moving world.

Even when you are sleeping you are moving with the earth  almost 1000 miles per hour as it turns on its axis once a day.  You don't know it because we are held to the earth by gravity.

So we are constantly in a state of motion.  You may especially feel out of sorts when there's a full moon which passes through Earth's magnetic tail every month.  Police and hospital personnel report that they are busiest during this time of the month.

This is where the slang word for crazy "looney" or "lunatic" comes from, meaning the lunar effect (relating to the moon) on our bodies.

We too are made up of mostly water and electrical activity like the earth.

What does this mean?

We are far more sensitive to things happening around us than we realize.

For example, you may be engrossed in a task, but you don't realize you are picking up something negative  on a news station you hear coming from the next room.  You can also be in a  really good mood, but then you get a phone call from a relative, or you walk into your job, suddenly you feel down.

You may even feel  depressed, and you don't know why.

But you don't have to feel that way.  You can own your power.

How?  By being aware of your thoughts and your emotions.

Some people try to stop negative thoughts, or change what they are feeling.  Can you really stop thoughts?  No.  We have over 60,000 a day.  However, you can change your reactions to them, and this automatically elevates your feelings.

The way to do it is to be mindful of what you are thinking.  Tune in.

Be the objective observer and let your thoughts come and go like waves.

You are the mighty powerful ocean.

However, you are being swept away and are drowning in thoughts that are not true, and often they are not yours.  Remember, you are sending and receiving signals all the time, mostly subconsciously.

This is nothing to fear, or worry about.  Just be aware.

When you take the time to just be quiet and tune in, you can really see what thoughts are disturbing you, and why you may feel bad when you think you should feel happy.

Stop judging how you "think" you should feel, and just observe.

Be the quiet witness and you will find that there is a space between you and your thoughts.  In that space is peace, creativity, abundance and happiness.  The more you practice Mindfulness, the easier it gets.

In that space between your thoughts, is your true, quiet power.

Take it back.

For more inspirational messages, visit http://www.YourHappinessIsWithin.com Janet Alston Jackson, is an Award-Winning Author, http://www.JanetAJackson.com

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