Are Your Ideas, Thoughts and Concepts Practically Useless?

by Lance Winslow

As an innovator, one realizes that you cannot produce a project to build or make every idea or concept you come up with. There just is not any time to do that. Does this mean you should stop thinking, brain storming, conceptualizing or participate in forums, dialogues or other venues to get ideas? At least one gentleman has said that “you need the right ideas at the right time” otherwise the ideas are meaningless and of little or any value.

Now whereas I concur that generally this is the case, I cannot buy into that logic completely. You see, often enough I find that carefully placing ideas or concepts in the right place or the right hands can bring about significant changes which will make a difference to the human race, a nation or a society. If that were not so, then why bother to think at all, just have one thought and go do that and fry your brain on acid or drugs or go become and alcoholic and skip the rest of your thinking days.

To my point of ideas being important I do recall that Leonardo da Vinci, never completed all his projects, but we have hang-gliders, helicopters and bicycles now? So, I wonder how we can justify “ideas” as generally fruitless? Maybe we might say that;

It is important to have ideas, but having ideas alone would not make a significant contribution unless they are given to someone who will use them, they are acted upon or they are recorded for later use.

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Manage Your Negative Habits, Eliminate Your Payoffs

By Dr. Sharon House

Recently, Dr. Phil McGraw, the author of “Life Strategies” sat down with four women on Oprah to talk about why they haven’t been able to take their excess weight off. It was music to my ears… here, finally, was someone talking about what I have said for years… to manage your life, eliminate your payoffs and you’ll manage your weight.

Exactly the same thing applies when it comes to managing negative habits. So often I hear folks talk about wanting to eliminate habits but complaining that they can’t get themselves to follow through. They feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and angry with themselves for their ‘lack of willpower’ to stick to the agreements they have made with themselves. What they don’t realize is that it has nothing at all to do with willpower! It’s not even the behavior change that frightens them as much as the thought of what it might entail, along the way, to get what they want!

We are not random creatures. Everything we do, we do for a reason. Everything we do has a payoff of some sort that at some level serves us. We may not consciously be aware of what the payoff is, but “it” is there waiting to be discovered and uncovered. It will be discovered only if we are willing to shine the light inwardly and admit the unvarnished truth - “I am a procrastinator (or _____________fill in the blank with your negative habit) and will remain a procrastinator (or_________________fill in the blank) as long as there is a payoff for me in doing so!”
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How to Get over Bad Moods

By Farouk Radwan

Are you feeling down? Do you want to get over this bad mood? If you want to get rid of something, you should first understand it. Most people experience bad moods without even knowing why. They just tend to relate these feelings to the first thing they find in their way, like a recent fight they had with their boss or just the normal stress of life. The truth however, is much deeper than this and requires getting a little deeper within yourself.

Why Am I Feeling Down?

Your current state of emotion is the result of all of the life experiences you have had up until this moment. The fight you had yesterday with your close friend and the bad grades you got the day before represent only a share of your current emotions. The important thing is that these emotions are also accompanied by good ones too, like the complement your received today from one of your friends and this nice music that you are listening to now.

Summing up all the good and the bad things that are currently important to you or that have an impact on your life will result in your current state of emotion, whether it be disappointment or otherwise.

Great, So How Do I Get over These Feelings?

If you understand the previous concept then you may have already guessed that doing something good that is totally unrelated to your problems can make you feel better. For example, if you have lots of problems, like work related stress, exams and a recent break-up, but managed to lose some weight in between all of this mess, you will end up feeling better even though you still did nothing to solve these problems.

When Small Problems Accumulate

Some of us have developed a bad habit of accumulating small tasks, thinking that we should first deal with bigger and more pressing problems first then finish our small tasks later and this is a really bad attitude. This faulty key in your keyboard and your gradually accumulating paper work will eventually turn into small problems and will be reflected in your current mood too. So by accumulating many of these non-important chores, you will either feel down immediately or become much more vulnerable to feeling down when more small problems accumulate.
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Looking Deeply At The Good In All

by DailyOM

Sometimes we find it difficult to see the good in people, places, or situations that aren’t to our liking. We focus on the things we don’t like in our lives as a way of fueling our efforts to create change. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, and it is one way we make progress. However, if we get too caught up in this way of looking at the world, we lose touch with our ability to sit back and simply say yes to everything on our plates, which is the true starting point for all successful activity. Sometimes what we really need is to encourage ourselves to look deeply into all things in our lives to see the inherent goodness at the heart of everything.

At the core of this inquiry is the practice of unconditional acceptance, which can be scary because we feel as if we are being asked not to change the things we don’t like. But when we think this way, we are still operating on the surface of our lives. In order to feel the beauty and warmth of full acceptance, we have to be willing to sink deeper into the stratum underlying the external manifestation of our lives. This deeper place of being is the origin of all lasting change, yet its paradox is that when we are in it, we often don’t feel the need to change anything. From this place, we experience the pure beauty of the process of being alive, and we see that all things change in their own time. We don’t need to force anything. If there are things that we do need to change, from this place of serenity we create the shift easily, our hands guided by an energy that resides at the very center of our hearts.
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