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Is It Work or Play?
Why not both?
I had always envied those people who were able to say they “never worked a day in their life.” That everything they did seemed like play to them and whatever they played at they were able to get paid for!
Talk about a Holy Grail! Or hitting a lottery!
Can’t tell you how many self-development books I read and CDs I listened to or how many seminars I attended trying to wring out the secret these people held.
I was stumped until I read this and real-ized how elegantly simple the solution is:
“The difference between work and play is nothing more than your preconceived idea about the activity. It may sound crazy but it’s true.
“The way you feel about doing something is directly related to the way you think. By choice, you are the one who determines the amount of enjoyment you get out of your pursuits. In fact, you can get satisfaction from everything you do by giving yourself totally to all of your endeavors. However, the only way you can experience that kind of freedom is when you no longer associate survival with what you’re doing. That way, you’re not attached to the outcome, which means you have nothing to lose.
“Now here’s the whole thing in a nutshell. If you have nothing to lose, there’s no fear, and if you have no fear, you’re free – free from any idea associated with what you do.
ONCE YOU GIVE UP YOUR CONCERN
ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING,
YOU CAN BE FREE OF FEAR,
AND THAT’S THE ONLY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WORK AND PLAY.
“By letting go of your concern, you are free of your mind’s influence. Then and only then can you get as much enjoyment out of work as you do from play. Then you can come from enjoyment rather than trying to find it. It is that simple!
“As you can see, the way you experience something is totally up to you. To use this knowledge is your birthright - your right to create the experience of joy in your life.”
And joy in your work. Or is it play?
- Quoted with deep gratitude to George Lavenia, from his book What You Think is What You Get.
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The Beginning of Wisdom
“The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests or ministers or rabbis, by philosophers or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but YOU yourself and that is why you must know yourself.
Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the Beginning of Wisdom.”
And Success.
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The Aphorism Salon – The Bitterest Tears
“THE BITTEREST TEARS SHED OVER GRAVES ARE FOR WORDS LEFT UNSAID AND DEEDS LEFT UNDONE”
So as the ad says, JUST DO IT.
It IS later than you think.
How do you feel about that?
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The Aphorism Salon – Create Your Happiness
“SOME PURSUE HAPPINESS, OTHERS CREATE IT.”
This one’s short and sweet. And needs little explanation. 
As Abraham Lincoln so famously said, “Happiness is a decision.”
Have you ever tried to grab a fistful of water? It’s a bit like chasing Happiness. Or Money. The hotter the pursuit, the better the eluding done by the pursued.
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
Better hunters know that instead of expending energy chasing, it’s a better strategy to stay put and create a lure to attract the desired object. And this is where your Intention and Attention come in.
Create your Happiness by determining and isolating in your Heart your Passion – an “inside job” if there ever was one. Then put your Attention on it by feeding it Action ”out there” in the Field of Play. Not Activity but Action – laser-like, focused and determined Action with the desired Outcome already in Mind.
That’s getting your Heart’s Passionate Intent and your Mind’s Quiet Attention working in a reciprocating loop creating your Joy and Happiness.
How do you feel about that? Happy, Appreciative, Skeptical?
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Uncovering Your Passion
When faced with the question, “What is your life’s passion?”, many are stumped.
So many of us at one time or another have fallen into jobs or careers because of either an interest – but not a passion – or worse, others’ expectations of us.
The results? “I hate my job. I hate my life.”
Here are six simple questions to help bring you to that special place where you might just be a bit afraid to look. You probably have heard one or two of them but grab a hot drink and let these isolate what it is that lights your fire, floats your boat or just won’t leave you alone! (Don’t rush through this no matter how anxious it may make you. The best answers are the ones you may have to dig a little to get. Or just wait silently for as they bubble to the surface.)
- You have all the money you could possibly dream of so what would you do now since money is not part of the picture?
- If failure & all accompanying fears were also removed from the picture, what would you do?
- When you have some free time what do you enjoy doing most?
- What are you so good at doing that people seek you out in order to get some advice?
- My favorite: Determine the common thread between your favorite TV shows & movies and the kinds of books & magazines you love to read.
- What – if anything – do you enjoy doing in your current work or job?
Your passion has to be a bit like religion: it has to give or highlight a purpose that you will not easily surrender, if at all, and that you could never imagine living without. Or it just isn’t a passion.
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Set Your Heart & Your Mind Will Follow
I used to be a teacher and consultant. Refined it to the point where my only clients were foreign-born entrepreneurs who hungered for better communication skills in English.
One client, a Turk named Ilgar, became a personal friend. And taught me more about networking than I had ever learned until I met my current mentor who echoed what Ilgar shared with me one day.
Most don’t know much about Turks, so I’ll tell you this: they are passionate. Originally from Mongolia, their ancestors centuries ago were drawn westward across the steppes of Asia. Their culture is a unique combination of Western achievement and Eastern philosophy.
Allow me to illustrate:
“Ilgar, what’s up with you Turks? Why are you so crazy passionate?”
Laughing and then turning serious, Ilgar told me, “Let me explain how we Turks think and feel. We are very emotional people. Everything starts with Heart and then goes to Brain. Heart is the hard part to figure out. Brain is easy. But we don’t trust it because Brain can be trained . . . and tricked. But Heart, Heart is a personal problem”, as he lightly tapped the center of his chest.
“When Heart is set, Brain can work very easily. It can go on because it sees things in black and white, which way to go. So Heart is the personal problem and challenge. And answer.”
I’ve heard many, many times the expression a “passionate mind” and realize now that this was the rabbit hole I fell down when I tried and failed in my first three multi-level marketing companies. I was confusing the activities of my heart and my mind. I was feeling with my mind and thinking with my heart.
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The Aphorism Salon – Pay Attention
The trouble with most people is they don’t listen – TO THEMSELVES! They know Get-Rich-Quick schemes are exactly that, yet they continue to join and support them. It’s the “Something for Nothing” mentality.
Same thing goes for the Law of Attraction. The general expectation, after watching the movie THE SECRET, was to <POP> a thought in one’s head and voila! One’s Heart’s Desire would be manifest. Our Physical Universe just doesn’t work like that. While it’s true that your outer
world will shape itself to the inner world created by your thoughts, some deliberate action is required. And that’s what I’d like to address. Especially the idea of paying attention.
You see, there really is “Nothing for Nothing” or, “Everything has its Price”. And sometimes we pay for something in a currency other than money. We can pay in how and to what we bend our minds.
The Latin verb attendere is the root of our word attention, and it means “to turn or bend one’s mind towards“. Giving or paying attention is the clear, decisive act by the mind of taking possession of someone or something chosen out of several possibilities. ‘Paying attention’ conversely suggests ignoring some possibilities in order to deal effectively with the chosen object of your attention. It also suggests conscious control.
To purposefully attract into your life what you desire, you’d best get a handle on your attention. So I’ll ask you this: How much TV do you watch? What movies? Oh, just the news. I see, just enough to shake your confidence and put a little bit of fear into you. A dose of reality, huh?
The photo above shows John’s whiteboard in his salon. I’ve written about it before. This week’s aphorism hit me, as usual, right in the solar plexus. Interpretation: Life isn’t what you see on TV or hear on the radio or read in a newspaper, magazine or novel. Life is what you pay attention to, and consequently, attract.
If you’re not attracting what you desire, pay attention to what you’re paying attention to.
Among the things that don’t deserve your attention are: TV & radio, especially the news; newspapers; advertisements & billboards; shopping malls; people you have no interest in; excessive noise; driving; spam Email and junk mail; Self-criticism; and people telling you your dream of owning your life is not real.
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The Aphorism Salon – Aspiring to Inspire
In an earlier post entitled, “LIFE IS TOUGH. . . IT’S EVEN TOUGHER WHEN YOU’RE IGNORANT”, I wrote about the shop window displaying a whiteboard sharing such aphorisms. The owner of the shop, actually a hair salon, is John, a stocky, handsome man who set himself free from the “nightmare of living” to find the “joy of life”.
Our conversation was rich in wisdom. These bullets highlight some of what John has shared with me:
- “Look how miserable people seem. They walk around with a nightmare on their faces. They engage in competitive suffering. Listen to them: ‘You think you got it bad . . .’”
- “I was miserable once too. Bad marriage. There was love there but just because you love someone doesn’t mean they’re right for you. Maybe they’re not brining the best out of you.”
After an amicable divorce John sought his freedom. And joy.
- “You have to create your own happiness. It’s not handed to you. It’s a decision you have to make.”
- “You have to create your life. The way you desire it to be.”
I asked him where he found the brilliant aphorisms he posts, changing them about once a week in his salon window. “Here and there. From many sources. Wisdom is everywhere. You just have to look.”
- “To get what you want, help others get what they want.”
- “The more people you help get what they desire, the faster you’ll have your desires fulfilled.”
So here’s your invitation to visit this site regularly for more from John’s Aphorism Salon. Let me know what you think, like or don’t like. Thanks!
