Keys to Successful Living

Part 2

(Anon)

                      Deciding Things on Time

The first point to understand is the philosophy and science of decision—how to make decisions on time. The most successful person is that person who knows how to decide on time. There are many extraordinarily brilliant people who understand things very quickly, but when time comes to make a decision, when an opportunity comes, they withdraw and are not able to act. They do not know how to decide. They know they should learn to decide on time, but they don’t do it. They always say “well I knew it. I understand the key, but I did not act in time.” Though they may think correctly, and accurately understand the situation properly, they suddenly lose confidence. This is a world of competition; someone else is always trying to attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide on time, someone else will attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide on time, someone else will attain what we want. Time is a valuable in the external world. A tender bamboo can be easily bent, but if we try and bend a mature bamboo, it will break. That which we have to do today, we should not postpone for tomorrow, but we should also not make decisions in haste. We may have setbacks if we make a wrong decision, but our mistakes will teach us. Many people avoid making decisions their whole lives, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination, becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we study the four functions of the mind -- buddhi, the faculty of decisiveness; ego, the principal of identity; chitta, the storehouse of impressions; and manas, the importer and exporter of sensations and experience – then we become aware of the power of will. Will power is that something within us that comes forward and says, “Do this. It will be helpful for you.” Training the internal functions helps us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which we cannot be successful.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT !!!

 

keys to successful living part 1

Keys to Successful Living

Part 1

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life we can see that it is divided into two aspects -- life within and life without; internal life and external life -- and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounces the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but mediation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.

Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself. All human beings have inner potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

 

Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues

Benjamin franklin 13 week self-improvement challenge

Energy and persistence conquer all things

Benjamin Franklin

 

Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues

Franklin tracked his progress on charts he created. The first letter of each day was listed on the top and the first letter of each virtue was Indicated down the left side.  He would add a dot if he felt he fell short of meeting that virtue on a give day. Benjamin Franklin carried these charts with him as a reminder of his personal plan of conduct. The following 13 virtues continue to be relevant today. Next to each virtue is Franklin’s definition.

1)                       Temperance

“Eat not to dullness.”

 

2)                       Silence

“Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.”

 

3) Order

“Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have it’s time.”

 

4) Resolution

“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.”

 

5) Frugality

“Make no expense but to do good to others and yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.”

 

 

6) Industry

“Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.”

 

7) Sincerity

“Use of no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.”

 

8) Justice

“Wrong none, by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty”

 

9) Moderation

“Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think you deserve.”

 

10) Cleanliness “tolerant no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.”

 

11) Chastity

“I would never do anything to disrespect my wife.”

 

12) Tranquility

“Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accident common or unavoidable.”

 

13) Humility

Like “Socrates.”

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