Posts Tagged ‘Better Day’

Will you have any regrets when you arrive at the end of your life?  Bronnie Ware worked for many years with patients who had gone home to live their final days.  She shared the last three to twelve weeks of life with many individuals.

Bronnie pointed out in her blog that people grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. There were phenomenal changes. Each experienced a roller coaster of emotions but every patient found peace before they departed. She questioned them all about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently. Here are the most common five answers: Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Siebold tells us in his book, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class, that we achieve happiness from “being and becoming” not “acquiring and possessing”.  Frederick Koenig, a German inventor, wrote, “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

The average person is on a hunt for happiness.  That’s just not how it works!  The average person tries to create happiness from the outside in.  This type of happiness is short lived…a good meal, a new item of clothing or engaging in a pleasurable activity. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t sacrifice your life for someone else’s idea of success. Striving for success above all else is hardly living.

Alan Watts, a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience, expresses it best in the following video:

You have choices.  Don’t let someone else makes decisions about how you spend your time each day, like what you do and when you do it. Each person has the right to make decisions and have choices about how they live Read the rest of this entry »

Better Day Movement presents a movement in the making. Check out the following video. First, a leader needs the guts to stand alone and take action. And, yes, he’ll eventually get all the credit. But, I’d like to challenge that belief. I think the first follower is super, super important…he actually turns the first individual into a leader. When a third individual joins the movement, it demonstrates that the first follower chose well. Its a tipping point…

Keep in mind, everyone follows the followers…not the leader. Read the rest of this entry »

The reality you live in today, is simply the physical manifestation of the thoughts and beliefs you’ve held in the past. Which means your reality five years from now will be a result of the new thoughts and beliefs you decide to adopt today and incorporate into each day going forward.

It’s important to make a conscious decision to acknowledge that leadership, wealth, success or whatever will be a part of your future. But then, let your subconscious take over and figure out the “how”. Don’t pursue it.

Rather decide to consciously focus on today, this very moment…focus Read the rest of this entry »