This is just motivation.
We are all currently on a journey, and I believe
that the more conscious we are about it and the
more choices we make consciously, the better our journey is,
or the easier, or the quicker it is
that we get more rewards, or that we have better health.
You are not limited to just your physical form.
You are pure consciousness.
You are a divine magnificent expression of life.
You are interconnected with every aspect of life.
And despite this, you are not subject to the influence
of any other person, location, or topic
because you are the only thinker
that exists within your head.
You are the one who has the power to create
and you are the one who has the final say in your life.
We are put on this planet with total freedom,
and we make these choices in our minds.
No person, place, or thing can think for us
if we do not allow it.
We are the only person who thinks in our mind
in our minds
We have total freedom.
What we choose to think and believe can change
our current circumstances Beyond recognition,
I am free to think wonderful thoughts.
I move beyond past limitations into freedom.
I am now becoming all that I am created to be.
I release all fears and doubts.
Fears and doubts are only delay mechanisms that keep
us from having the good we say we want in our lives.
So let them go.
I now choose to free myself from
all destructive fears and doubts.
I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart.
I am loved and I am safe.
Divine wisdom guides me.
Too many of us are unaware that we have within us
an inner wisdom that is always on our side.
We don't pay attention to our intuition, and
then we wonder why life does not work well.
Learn to listen to your inner voice.
You do know exactly what to do.
I am guided throughout this day in making right choices.
Divine intelligence continuously guides me
in the realization of my goals, and I am safe.
I love life.
Every morning when I wake up,
I get to experience another great day.
A day I've never lived before.
It will have its own special experiences,
and I'm glad to be alive.
It is my birthright to live fully and freely.
I give to life exactly what I want life to give to me.
I am glad to be alive.
I love life.
I love my body.
I'm so delighted to live in my wonderful body.
It has been given to me to use for the rest of my life,
and I cherish it and take loving care of it.
My body is precious to me.
I love every inch of it, inside and out,
that which I see and that which I don't see.
Every organ and gland,
every muscle and bone, every single cell.
My body responds to this loving attention
by giving me vibrant health and aliveness.
I create peacefulness in my mind and my body
reflects this peacefulness as perfect health.
I turn every experience into an opportunity.
When I experience a problem, and we all have them,
I immediately say,
out of this situation only good will come.
This is easily resolved for the highest good
of all concerned, all is well, and I am safe.
I repeat this statement over and over.
It keeps me calm and allows
the universe to find the best solution.
I am often amazed to see how quickly the issue
can be resolved in a way that benefits everyone.
Each problem has a solution.
All experiences are opportunities for
me to learn and grow, and I am safe.
I am at peace.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite
well of peace, like a mountain lake, deep and serene.
No person, place, or outer chaos
can touch me when I am in this space.
In this space, I am calm.
I think clearly, I receive divine ideas,
and I am so peaceful.
Divine peace and harmony surround me and dwell in me.
I feel tolerance, compassion,
and love for all people, myself included.
So when we say human potential unleashing human potential
it is not about reaching the peak
it is a trajectory
because what our life is a combination of a certain amount of time and energy
time is rolling away for all of us at the same pace
if you sit it rolls away, if you sleep it rolls away,
if you do something it goes away, if you don't do anything it goes away,
you're happy or miserable it goes away
time is running out for all of us
so it's only the energy that you can do different things with
if you bring your energies to a certain level of intensity and possibility
what somebody does in 10 years you may do it in one year
this means if you live here for 100 years
it feels like in people's impact that you have created it
feels like you lived here for a thousand years
simply because you have managed your life energies in a certain way
so for me a human being being impactful means
how conscious have you become
this is very important because if you're in compulsive Cycles
then your energy gets wasted in so many things
if you absorb people in a day, let's take 24 hours in that anyway
most people by prescription in America they sleep for eight hours
so eight hours means one third of life is gone
in the remaining two-thirds they have to eat, they have to, you know,
shower bathroom, or this or that
all this another two three hours gone
so literally 50 percent of life is gone daily basis just for basic maintenance of this life
fifty percent of the time is gone
in maintenance remaining fifty percent what they have
if you look at every single move that they may make with their body, their thought process, their emotions
you will see a whole lot of it is happening in compulsive Cycles
or in other words if you are little sensitive to life you will realize you are the biggest issue
so this is one thing that I'm trying to do with people that you are never the issue in your life
"I'm not the issue, my thought, my emotion, my body is never the issue,
my thought, my emotion, my energy and my body are my instruments a function,
they are not impediments in my life
but I would say for 90 of the human beings their own body
then the compulsions of the body, the compulsions of their thought,
the compulsions of their emotions are ruling them most of the time.
Attack the Dawn
It was early, always early, when Toni Morrison awoke to write.
In the dark, she would move quietly, making that first cup of coffee.
She’d sit at her desk in her small apartment, and as her mind cleared and the sun rose and the light filled the room,
she would write. She did this for years,
practicing this secular ritual used not just by writers
but by countless busy and driven people for all time.
“Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact,”
she’d later reflect, “where they become the conduit,
or where they engage in this mysterious process.
For me, light is the signal in the transition.
It’s not being in the light, it’s being there before it arrives.
It enables me, in some sense.”
But of course, it was as practical as it was spiritual.
Because at the beginning of her career, Morrison was also a single working mother of two young boys.
Her job as an editor for Random House occupied her days,
her children every other minute, and by the late evening she was burned out, too tired to think.
It was the precious early morning hours between the parting dark and the rising dawn,
before her boys uttered the word Mama, before the pile of manuscripts from work demanded her attention,
before the commute, before the phone calls,
before the bills beckoned, before the dishes needed to be done,
it was then that she could be a writer.
Early, she was free.
Early, she was confident and clearheaded and full of energy.
Early, the obligations of life existed only in theory and not in fact.
All that mattered, all that was there, was the story—the inspiration and the art.
There she was, starting her first novel in 1965,
freshly divorced, thirtyfour years old and struggling as one of the few black women
in an incredibly white, male industry.
Yet in her mind, this was “the height of life.”
She was no longer a child, and yet for all her responsibilities,
everything was quite simple: Her kids needed her to be an adult.
So did her unfinished novel.
Wake up.
Show up.
Be present.
Give it everything you’ve got.
Which she did.
Even after The Bluest Eye was published to rave reviews in 1970.
She followed it with ten more novels, nine nonfiction works,
five children’s books, two plays, and short stories.
And she earned herself a National Book Award, a Nobel Prize, and a Presidential Medal.
Yet for all the plaudits, she must have been most proud of having done it
while being a great mother, a great working mother.
Of course, it’s not exactly fun to wake up early.
Even the people who have reaped a lifetime of benefits from it, still struggle with it.
You think you’re not a morning person?
Nobody is a morning person. But at least in the morning, we are free.
Hemingway would talk about how he’d get up early because there was
“no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.”
Morrison found she was just more confident in the morning, before the day had exacted its toll and the mind was fresh.
Like most of us, she realized she was just
“not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.”
Who can be? After a day of banal conversations, frustrations, mistakes, and exhaustion.
Not that it’s all about being clever.
There’s a reason CEOs hit the gym early—they still have willpower then.
There’s a reason people read and think in the morning—
they know they might not get time later.
There’s a reason coaches get to the facility before everyone else—
they can get a jump on the competition that way.
Be up and doing.
While you’re fresh. While you can.
Grab that hour before daylight.
Grab that hour before traffic.
Grab it while no one is looking, while everyone else is still asleep.
In Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, we hear the most powerful man in the world
trying to convince himself to get out of bed at dawn when the lower part of himself wants desperately to stay.
“Is this what I was created for?” he asks of his reluctance.
“To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
Yes, it is nicer under there. But is that what we were born for? To feel nice?
That’s how you’re going to spend the gift of life, the gift of this present moment that you will never have again?
“Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants, and the spiders and the bees going about their individual tasks,
putting the world in order, as best they can?” he said to himself but also to us.
“And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?”
Yet here we are, thousands of years later, still hitting the snooze button on our alarms.
Here we are, wasting the most productive hours of the day, choosing to reject these moments before the interruptions,
before the distractions, before the rest of the world gets up and going too.
Passing on the opportunity to gather our flowering potential while it’s freshest, still shining with morning dew.
“I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning, by rising from his grave very early,”
observed the theologian Jonathan Edwards in the 1720s.
Is that why quiet mornings seem so holy?
Perhaps it’s that we’re tapping into the traditions of our ancestors,
who also rose early to pray, to farm,
to fetch water from the river or the well, to travel across the desert before the sun got too hot.
When you have trouble waking up, when you find it hard,
remind yourself of who you come from, remind yourself of the tradition,
remind yourself of what is at stake.
Think, as Morrison did, of her grandmother, who had more children and an even harder life.
Think of Morrison herself, who certainly did not have it easy, and still got up early.
Think of how lucky you are.
Be glad to be awake
(because it’s better than the alternative, which we’ll all greet one day).
Feel the joy of being able to do what you love.
Cherish the time.
But most of all, use it.