Keys to Successful Living (Part 2)

         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 extraordinary brilliant people who understand things very quickly, but when the 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 only say, “Well, I knew it. I understood 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 completion; someone else is always trying to attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide in time, someone else will attain what we want. Time is valuable in the external world. A tender bamboo can be easily bent, but if we try to bend a mature bamboo, it will break. That which we have to do today, we should postpone for tomorrow, but we should also not make decisions in haste. We may have a setback if we make a wrong decision, but our mistakes will teach us. Many people avoid making decisions their whole lives, so there 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-- Buddli, the faculty of decisiveness; ego, the principal of identity; chittta, the storehouse of impressions; and manas, the importer and exporter of sensations and experience—then we become aware of the power of the 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 help us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which we cannot be successful.

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Sucess and Living

Key To Success And Living

 

Part1

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have 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; eternal life and external life—and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablution, 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 announced the world has to understand the word relationship property, because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related to the breath and the breath is related to the mind.  The body, breaths, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living in being require an understanding of one relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself.

All human beings have inner potential, but many people are not aware of those 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 other happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others

Ben Franklin's 13 Virtues

Benjamin Franklin (13 –week)

              Self-Improvement (challenge)

 

Benjamin Franklin 13 times

Franklin treated 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 given 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.        Temperature

“ 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 its 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 or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.”

6.        Industry

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

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