Post by Pooh on Jun 1, 2004 15:35:41 GMT -5
Living everyday "in the moment" takes courage and practice. It’s easy to get caught up in the problems of the past and projecting unknown fears into the future. Often, people overeat and engage in other self-defeating behaviors to stuff down feeling associated with fears.
If you’d like to start living and reaching your goals more fully everyday, answer the following questions:
1) If you could do anything and not fail, what would it be?
2) If you found out you only have six months in which to live, what would you do? Where would you go? Who would you most like to see?
3) Look at your answers to questions 1 and 2. What are you doing now that will lead you to fulfilling these dreams?
If you are able to answer the third question with specific examples, you are in fact "living" everyday. If you weren’t able to answer the third question, think about what you really want in life and read the following poem.
RISKS
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is truly free.
If you’d like to start living and reaching your goals more fully everyday, answer the following questions:
1) If you could do anything and not fail, what would it be?
2) If you found out you only have six months in which to live, what would you do? Where would you go? Who would you most like to see?
3) Look at your answers to questions 1 and 2. What are you doing now that will lead you to fulfilling these dreams?
If you are able to answer the third question with specific examples, you are in fact "living" everyday. If you weren’t able to answer the third question, think about what you really want in life and read the following poem.
RISKS
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is truly free.