Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson

Chris    Self help     Marianne Williamson, Our Deepest Fear

Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson is one of my all time favorite inspirational poems. Nelson Mandela used it in his inauguration speech and a variation was also featured in the movie Coach Carter:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Learn to fail fast to succeed sooner

Chris    Self help    

It’s often said that the faster you can learn to fail at something, the faster you can then succeed at what it is you want.

Seems like a bunch of motivational fluff right?

Often we don’t see or too easily forget that the people who have flown to great heights had to deal with tremendous adversity beforehand. If you read any biographies, this element is always present.

Your thoughts may change after you view the videos in Famous Failures – Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln and J.K. Rowling.

Will Smith talks about the power of thought

Chris    Self help     interview, law of attraction, postive thinking, video, will smith

The law of attraction, the power of positive thinking, the secret, visualisation, call it whatever you want, successful people know how powerful it really is to focus your thoughts on what you truly want and to go after it wholeheartedly.

Here are a couple of videos I found of Will Smith talking about this concept:
Will Smith on the Power of Positive Thinking
Will Smith on the Law of Attraction

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Insightful Thought for 12 Dec

Chris    Self help     provoking thought, quote

“When something ends, something else begins. Leave your egos at the door, because life is too short to play/work with people who aren’t as committed as you are.”

Thanks to Lee Alford for sharing this with me.

Why Kicking the Busyness Habit Is Good for Everyone

Chris    Self help     busyness

by Dr Kathryn Owler

Did you know that busyness is a recent phenomenon? Studies have shown that the more affluent a society gets, the `busier’ people feel. In New Zealand busyness has become a habit. As Christmas approaches just watch the busy frenzy get into full swing! According to research evidence however, busyness is one habit that could be well worth kicking for everyone’s sake!

As New Zealander’s we carry busyness as a badge of honor. We assume that if we are busy we must have a lot of important things to do. However, some experts argue that busyness is a state of mind rather than merely an activity. They argue that we are so busy being busy, that we may have lost sight of what is important to us. It is interesting that in Russia, the word for busyness is the same as for the word `vanity’. Far from signaling productivity, it implies and empty, unproductive spending of time, `something like walking on a treadmill’ (Greenfeld 2005).

So why are New Zealanders all so busy being busy? Some people argue that busyness results from all the options that we have in developed countries. In countries like New Zealand most of us have an incredible range of choices including how to fill our days, what job or career to pursue, what foods to buy, what car to drive and what sort of person to be and so on. We can end up spending so much time and energy negotiating these choices that we get caught up in `doing, doing, doing’.

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