Principles for Peace

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Anthony Robbins…. Have you heard of him?  If you’ve been into personal growth for very long it’s likely you have.  He lives and thrives on improving the quality of people’s lives.  I think that’s pretty noble.  Robbins was the featured guest In the January 2009 Issue of Success magazine.  There is an article about him in this issue followed by a question and answer session with him.  It is from that question and answer session that this post is based upon.  (Click here to read the full article and interview.)

In the last two posts I talked about deciding clearly who you want to be and about the value of saying yes and no to the right things.  As I was reading through this interview with Anthony Robbins I noticed that he took these things a step further, which I really appreciated and wanted to pass along to you.  Robbins poses a question for us to ask ourselves Read More »

In the last two posts, we have discussed the four preparations of peace and the four purifications of peace taught by Peace Pilgrim.  We also discussed Peace Pilgrim’s message which is so very powerful.  These posts generated much thought and discussion as we all went within to examine our own lives.

Today, I wanted to share with you some “random” thoughts that were collected  from Peace Pilgrim’s teachings.  I find each one of them thought provoking and powerful.  See what you think….

* We can all spend our lives going about doing good. Every time you meet a person, think of some Read More »

“There is a man wise in his own eyes?  There is more hope for a fool than for him.”  - Proverbs 26:12

How are your resolutions going so far?  Are you still sticking with them?  My husband said that at work on Monday about 25 people gathered around the lunch table (as opposed to the usual five or six) with their healthy lunches and they discussed their different diet strategies.  On Tuesday there were the usual five or six at the table. The rest were eating out again.  Hopefully, you’ve made it further than that.

To help keep our minds clear and thinking accurately as we go into 2009 there are three more thinking errors that I would like to discuss.  We will begin with the first one of this new year today.

Have you ever wondered why you are always right about things and everybody else just doesn’t know what is going on?  Have you ever wondered why they don’t understand why you are always right and comply?  What is wrong with them?  Unfortunately, today’s thinking error is very close to me.  It’s called: Read More »

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

It’s great to be back!  Thanks for your patience with me over the last month as I have not been around very much.  It has been busy, but it was good.  I hope all of you have had a wonderful holiday season so far and that the New Year is absolutely fantastic for you.  I wish you all that brings you peace and joy in the year to come.

Change -  it’s what we are all thinking about now as the new year arrives.  “What New Years’ resolutions will I make this year?  What do I want to be different?  How do I want to improve my life?”  may be some questions you are asking of yourself.  I would like to pose one way that we can all improve our lives over the next year.

I think it’s safe to say that we all enjoy a sincere Read More »

It is my honor to have been asked by a good friend and loyal member of my community to produce a guest post for his blog.  Lance is an all around great guy with a lot of talent for writing among other things.  Please join me at Lance’s Jungle of Life for my guest post titled A Simple Holiday and Life Hack.

As I mentioned in my last post, I will be extremely busy over the next month and will be taking a substantial amount of time off away from the computer.  I’ll be checking email and coffee orders daily but, overall my visibility on the internet will be scarce.  I’ll be popping in and out, but rest assured that I will be back.

So for now, please join me at the Jungle of Life for A Simple Holiday and Life Hack.

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

-Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Are you thinking more positive and accurate?  Hasn’t this been an amazing series!  I have learned so much from you my readers in this discussion.  You  have helped me to better train my mind in the areas of accurate and positive thinking.  Thank you!  Just a few more thinking errors to discuss.  Don’t forget that as we learn these errors it’s crucial to replace them with accurate thinking when you catch them.  Your attempts at first my be a little weak, but with practice you will become a pro at accurate thinking.

In reality, a positive attitude is one of the foundations for accurate thinking.  However, working to eliminate thinking errors and replacing them with accurate thinking certainly helps you to think positive.  They both go hand in hand.

If you feel something does that make it true? Read More »

As we continue our discussion of thinking errors and how to change our life by changing our thinking it’s important to remember that thinking errors are lies - lies we tell ourselves.  And lies never bring about anything good.  We get ourselves into a very tangled mess when we participate in them.

If you missed the first three posts in this series you’ll want to be sure and check them out here:

Labeling and Jumping to conclusions

Filtering Out the Positive and polarized thinking

Overgeneralization

So let’s move on to discuss two more thinking errors in  which many people participate:

6.  Mind reading:  Concluding what others think and do without proof or being told by them

Who knows your thoughts?  Only you and God.  Who knows someone’s else’s thoughts?  Only that person and God.  Saying you know someone else’s thoughts is nothing more than false.  Mind reading gets into people’s Read More »

This week we will continue our series on thinking errors.  If you haven’t yet read the post on labeling and jumping to conclusions then I encourage you to begin there.  I thought it would be best to keep these thinking errors to two to three errors per post so that they would have the greatest impact.  Learning about them is one thing, but knowing them intimately and mastering accurate thinking is the only way this information will make a difference in your life.

So let’s take a look at the next thinking errors:

3. Filtering out the positive in order to point out the negative

With this error people have a “filter” in their mind that only catches the negative.  The positive slides right Read More »