Carilah Kesadaran Dalam Diri Kita

Akuilah bahwa kita takkan memiliki semua jawaban atas pertanyaan hidup ini. Hidup tak sekedar pertanyaan. Hidup adalah misteri. Mudahnya, kita tak perlu mencari semua jawaban. Carilah kesadaran akan diri kita.

Kita adalah sosok unik yang tercipta dari keputusan dan pengalaman hidup, bagaimana kita akan menggunakan cermin orang lain untuk menemukan kesadaran akan diri sendiri.

Dan perjalanan terpenting bagi setiap manusia adalah perjalanan ke dalam hati, menemukan diri sejati. Semakin tinggi kita mendaki bukit, kita tiba di kaki gunung. Semakin tinggi kita mendaki gunung, kita tiba di kaki mahameru.

Semakin tinggi kita memanjat mahameru, kita tiba di kaki langit. Kini kita tak mungkin mendaki lagi, kita perlu terbang melayang. Hingga seperti Icarus yang lebur dalam sentuhan cahaya matahari.

:: Tak bisa kita memberikan sesuatu pada dunia ini bila tak tahu siapa diri kita sendiri.

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Hiasilah Ucapan Kita Dengan Senyum

Tersenyumlah, karena senyuman akan meluluhkan banyak hal. Ia menghangatkan kepalan tangan yang menggigil. Ia menyejukkan dada yang membara.

Tak cukup kita hanya berkata-kata, lebih baik kita meriasnya dengan busana terindah; yaitu senyuman. Tersenyumlah saat bertatap muka, berbicara di telepon, atau menulis surat bahkan saat sedang nge-BLOG sekalipun

Kita akan dikejutkan betapa hebatnya secarik senyuman mengubah diri kita dan orang lain. Senyuman adalah bahasa bibir yang langsung mengetuk hati.

Entah darimana anak-anak belajar melukis wajah matahari pagi dengan selengkung senyum. Mungkin mereka tahu, segarnya senyuman tak kalah dari segarnya matahari pagi.

Mungkin pula mereka teringat, semasa bayi dahulu, para orangtua rela berjungkir balik atau menampakkan mimik lucu mereka, demi sebuah senyuman tulus seorang bayi.

Atau, mungkin anak-anak itu mengajari kita bahwa memulai hari dengan senyuman jauh lebih berharga daripada memikirkan rencana-rencana lain. Cobalah.

:: Karena tersenyum adalah sedekah termudah, termurah dan terindah yang bisa kita berikan, jangan sembunyikan itu di balik kebekuan hati kita.

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Go For The Fruit

It takes courage to begin something new. It takes courage to step out into the unknown. Life has no guarantees, but the reward for living your dream is filled with much fruit.

Starting is the key. We can have the best plans, projects, or ideas, but all is fruitless if we don't take that first step. You must be willing to act, willing to fail, and willing to persist until you achieve your dream.

Are you compelled to achieve success or do you tend to stay at rest? Sir Isaac Newton states that one continues to stay at rest unless compelled to change by forces impressed upon them. Once you're moving, you can keep moving.

Do you have that urge within to break out of the routine and begin to do what you've always wanted to do? Follow your heart. Follow your passion, and don't be afraid to go out on a limb, for that is where all the FRUIT is.

Go for the fruit!

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training

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Worry

The harm that worry causes in our lives has been well documented by health professionals and others. Worry can weaken and sicken us, and make our days unbearable. At the very least, it prevents us from living fully and happily the only life that we will ever have. At its worse, it can destroy us.

"A god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

It does a lot more than that, Benjamin!

But the worry disease can be cured and it certainly can be reduced. Of course it requires a change in our thinking - how to view and react to situations. Worrying over things that 'might' happen can waste large portions of our lives, considering that so often it is for nothing, and almost certainly does no good.

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva

Worrying about things that have happened will not turn back the hands of time to give you another try at doing it right. So that is a waste of time too. So many of our anxieties and fears are for nothing. Most of the rest can simply be discarded because worrying just isn't going to do any good. So let's spend our time thinking about the good and pleasant things in our lives, and move on in a peaceful and contented state of mind.

"I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." - Isak Dinesen

A program to become knowledgeable on the subject of worry, through reading and other instruction, can help in turning our lives around. A life filled with contentment and lacking stress and worry are the goals to be achieved.

It's never too late to start eliminating worry.

source: http://mymotivate.blogspot.com/

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Always have a dream

Always have a dream...
Forget about the days
but don't forget your hours in the sun

Forget about the times
you've been defeated
but don't forget the victories you've won.

Forget about mistakes
that you can't change now
but don't forget the lessons
that you've learned.

Forget about misfortunes you encounter
but don't forget the about the
Blessings you have received.

Forget about the days
when you've been lonely
but don't forget
the friendly smiles you've seen.

Forget about the plans
that didn't seem
to work out right,
but don't forget
to always have a dream...
~ Amanda Bradley ~

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Cerita Bijak: Kampak yg hilang

Seorang pria kehilangan kampaknja. Dia rnencurgai bahwa kampak tersebut dicuri oleh anak tetangganya, maka dia selalu mengamati si anak dengan cermat setiap hari. Anak itu berjalan seperti pencuri, kelihatan seperti pencuri, dan bicara seperti layaknya pencuri.

Beberapa hari kemudian, orang itu menemukan kapaknya ketika dia sedang menebang pohon di hutan.



Keesokan harinya ketika dia rnelihat anak itu; anak itu berbicara, berjalan dan berpenampilan seperti anak yang Iain, dia tidak kelihatan seperti pencuri lagi.



Moral of the story: Kadang kita bertindak seperti pria yang kehilangan kampaknya?



Diambil dari cerita bijak Cina

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2 Choices

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If i were any better, i would be twins!" Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.

Why?
Because Jerry was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day i went up to Jerry and asked him :
"I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning i wake up and say to myself, i have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or i can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, i can choose to be victim or i can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaning or i can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life"

"But it's not always that easy," i protested.
"Yes it is,' Jerry said.
"Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice.
You choose how you react to situations.
You choose how people will affect your mood.
You chose to be in good mood or bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, i heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open. And then? In the morning, he was robbed by three armed men. They want? #123*+!@$%&*~ While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place."The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared“ I asked?
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.'I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything." 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours -- that no one can control or take from you-is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

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