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just for today, i'll focus on the people i'm with. . . . In this day and age, it's astonishing to see how many people feel that it's not rude to ignore the people they're with while they talk on their phones to other people who aren't even there. When we start focusing on someone who isn't with us, we send a message to the people who are with us that they aren't as important as those other people, and that what I have to talk about ..
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Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
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Today, I am glad that I'm me--I'm glad that I was born who I am, that I've learned what I've learned, and that I've become who I am. I am happy and grateful for my life, and I shall not waste time comparing it with the lives of others, for I am I, and I am very glad of that fact!
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One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Sophocles
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The world never lacks beauty. We sometimes lack the awareness necessary to notice and appreciate it.
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We often spend tons of time trying to get people to believe the things that we believe, because we think it will be better for them. We try to convince others that our religious or political views have more validity than theirs do, for we think that we're doing them a favor by steering them in the right direction. But each of us has our own unique way of looking at this world of ours, and it's important that we accept and respect the fact..
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Thinking ahead often seems to be a lost art. Many people are so caught up in instant gratification that they never stop to think about the long-term effects of some of their actions. They also don't see the connections between today's actions and tomorrow's results--and this causes an awful lot of pain and frustration in life. Whatever I do today, I should be aware of the possible effects--negative and positive--that can show up in the f..
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There's an elegance to simplicity. Keeping things simple allows us to enjoy things more fully, without raising our expectations to unrealistic levels. Very often the most important thing that we can do in our lives is to keep things simple, yet we tend to complicate our lives and situations--often with the best of intentions--adding stress and work and many more details to our lives. Keeping things simple can certainly be a liberating fo..
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Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all--rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else.
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Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
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How much time do we spend searching for happiness, hoping to find it in the new relationship or the new car or the new friendship or the new cell phone that has everything I'd ever want in a cell phone? Yet when these things come into our lives, we feel a sense of gratification for a while, but no real happiness. Person after person in history tells us that happiness is indeed an inside job, something that comes as a result of our attitud..
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It is well said that we're just borrowing this planet from our children--and what kind of condition are we going to return it in when we pass on?
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just for today, i'll do something nice for someone who's not expecting it. .
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Day Thirty-five just for today, i'll remember that kind words accomplish much more than harsh words. .
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We're making a choice every single time we put something into our mouths. And it's a much more important choice than most people make it out to be. Today, make the choices that are positive ones for your body--and if you stay in the habit of doing so, you'll find that you benefit greatly from those choices.
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When someone does something that hurts us, it's easy for us to think that if we forgive that person, we're doing so for his or her sake. The truth is, though, that we ourselves benefit the most from our forgiveness. That forgiveness can rid us of the poisons of anger and resentment, two emotions that hold us prisoner and keep us from moving on with our lives in happy and fulfilling ways. When we carry a grudge, we're really carrying arou..
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What do we do when things just don't seem to be going the ways that we think they should, the ways that we want them to, the ways that we try to make them go? It's very frustrating sometimes to feel that the world is doing its own thing without considering our needs and wants--but sometimes, when we trust life, we start to see that our "failures" are simply life's way of pushing us in new and exciting directions--not always gently, of cou..
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It's important to distinguish between needs and wants. Sometimes we spend so much time chasing after our wants that we neglect our true needs, and that's a course of action that over time is bound to harm us. Today it's important to determine what exactly our needs are, and then attend to them so that we can make sure that we're not going to burn out or hit a wall because we haven't taken care of ourselves. Wants are important, too, ..
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So thank you for who you are and for all of your contributions to this world in which we live. Thanks for focusing on the positive, for the more of us who do so there are, the more positive life and energy there will be in the world, and eventually it will grow so much that it will be impossible to ignore. My thanks to you enriches my life, just as your thanks to your neighbor or waitress or clerk enriches yours.
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How we like to hold on! Sometimes we're unwilling to let things go just because we know them, and they feel "safe" to us, even if we're talking about something like behaviors that harm us, like defensiveness or addictions. We hesitate to let go because doing so will expose us to the unknown in our own lives, and we'll have to deal with life without this part of ourselves that we've grown so accustomed to. But if we're ever to move on to ..
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But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpose and acceptance.
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Resentment causes us to stay in the past, our minds focused on the wrongs that have been done to us. It really is time to let go of it just as we would let go of something that's too hot and that would burn us if we held on to it too long. If we hold on to resentment even slightly too long, we're risking great injury--emotional and spiritual--not just to ourselves, but to those we resent, too. So let's let it go. Just for today.
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for today, i'll hold on to my dreams and respect them. .
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just for today, i'll allow many things to be out of my control. . . . This can be very difficult for many of us. When someone tells us about something bad going on, we tend to want to solve the problem, to exercise some level of control over it. If someone is misbehaving, we often feel obligated to make that person change his or her behavior. But many, many things in this life are not under our control, nor should they be--and we ..
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just for today, i'll try to maintain a positive perspective, no matter what the situation. . .
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Let's not judge others for chances that they've not had--in fact, let's not judge them at all. Let's accept them right now for who they are
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Some of us waste a lot of time waiting for teachers to come along, telling ourselves that we can't learn anything important on our own. But learning is something that we easily can do on our own--sometimes we just get caught up in thinking that we have to learn everything about a topic or it's not worth our while, but when we approach our learning with patience, we're able to see that learning a little today and a little tomorrow and a lit..
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino
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