Intentions in Our Life

Psychic Marie Callas says in her latest writing to me. We need to stop ourselves excuses for not getting things done. How right.

How many of us just sit back and let things happen? How many of us believe that we cannot really make a difference? We can make a difference in our life and in the lives of others.

We get up during the week and rush around all day. We go to work, go home, grab something quick to eat, stay busy and stay tired. We are continuously doing something but are we doing something intentional?

It is easy to get caught up in our world and forget there are others out there who need help. We pass others on the street without even wondering about how they are.

We all have dreams and goals in our life. We hope to get these done. Sometimes we plan things out in our head and make a list of what to do. Planning is great; however, some get so bogged down in the planning that we don't get started. We can be intentional about reaching our goals.

What can you do this week to help others? What areas of your life do you need to work on? Your family? Your relationships? Your health? Financial issues? Community service? Write down one or two things you want to do to improve in these areas.

Decide, now, to be intentional. Write down one or two things that you can do to move forward this week. Be intentional regardless of how you feel. Make no excuses!

Learn from Failures!

There is a saying "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". I am not sure who said this but i think it's meaningful.

Yeah, many aspiring guys fail because they have not prepared themselves extensively for the tasks. Me included. I remember vividly my college exam when i was so sure. In the end, it was a fiasco. Yes, everything needs planning. Marie Callas says that too.

Recall that there is not accidental failures. There are reasons for failing. As much as I detest failures, learning from failures could be the most important lesson in your life.

Life is hard enough without you brooding about your failures. People are failing every minute of the day. Yet, they pick up where they failed and start over again. It does not matter if you walk three steps forward but move two steps backwards; because you are still a step forward! Bravo!

Learn your lessons and know where you are heading!

Magical Thoughts

This is something interesting.

Marie Callas thinks that it’s important for understand that thoughts are impulses of energy and this got the power to show up themselves - no matter for good or evil - in the material world.

Do you know that our experiences, our joys and sorrows, our triumphs and failures, our prosperity or poverty, are the results of the seeds of our thoughts that grow in our mind? In simple words, what we think is what we will experience in our life, our destiny.

We must also cherish hope as it is a divine gift for us as intelligent beings, because there is an important principle which says: the result you get will be determined by what you hope for and desire.

Exercise to reduce Stress

Stress is one of the biggest silent enemies that harm our emotional health. If anything in life is not managed or handled properly, stress will come into any person's life, and wreak havoc in many aspects of a normal life and well being. From stress, medical problems will probably manifest in the next step.

Marie Callas advises me to take care of the stress level in my life, stop it as soon as any signs of it appear. Thanks for her kind thoughts! Yeah, she seems to know what i could be going through, as work has been rather hectic recently. I can feel a bit of stress appearing in my life, because I get more easily annoyed by the noise made by my kids and the rude drivers that cut into my lane. Normally I can keep cool in these situations.

Marie recommends as much exercise as I can spend my time on to get ride of stress. She says 30 mins of sports and exercise can have a dramatic effect on the positive and emotional well being. In the end, you will find that you will leave feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after a good dose of exercises.

I agree with her totally. As we work hard to make a living, negative energies will invariably build up inside us. We need to spend part of our time to get rid of these undesirable energies inside us, just like we need to spend 15 mins each day to go to toilet to do our business.

More things you have means more Happiness?

Humans are all the same, no matter the race, colours or religion. We will always want more and never be happy with what we have. What you are earning RM2,000, you think it is not enough and want a job that pays double it asap. You have a normal Kancil that serves you for years but now you are earning more, you want a MPV that can fetch whole family at one go. If you are married with a virtuous wife, you think of that beautiful sexy girl you chance of recently. I know this is not a good example, however, that's how the world goes, isn't it. Due to this inner desire to progress, our society gets better and more convenient, but at the same time, brings out the ugly greed in us.

As for me, I have always wanted a double story house with a spacious garden so that I can rear a couple of dogs to roam freely. An fully air-conditioned house to beat the dreadful heat over here.

Then I started to study a bit about spirituality taught by Marie Callas. I realized that having a big house means having a lot of 'stuff'. Have you ever noticed how we purchase things to fill up our space? If we have large closets and bureaus -- we fill them with clothing. If we have many kitchen cabinets -- we fill them with dinnerware, silverware, bowls and pots and soon undesirable clutters fill up the house if there is no care. This will block the flow of prosperity in your house.

Does all of this sound like we need to give up what we want? Perhaps not, perhaps it means enjoying a simpler life -- a life that is a bit quieter, a bit less hurried, a bit more peaceful -- a bit more introspective. When we begin to look inward to what we really desire, to what truly fulfills us -- we stop expecting other things, other people, other situations to give us what has always been within -- what has always been most meaningful -- what has always been in our hearts.

On decisions and opinions

When we are younger and growing up, most of us did not get to select what we wished to be. We had to follow what our parents or fmaily's example or under pressure to do so. We give up our own dreams to make them pleased so that we can have lesser problems.

That's why I think that consulting other people's opinions and seeking approvals from others are not the same.

When we suffer a disappointment or setback, we got dejected and tend to hide behind a mask of fear and shame. One after another, we begin to wear more and more masks over the entire lives. In the end, we don't even know what is our true self or feelings.

One fine day, some real inspirations come to us and we think that we can finally do something that we like ourselves. But somehow, that courage is lacking due to the spats of failures we suffer in the past....life is an irony.

True Self

Everyone of us has been wishing we are someone else, or rather, wish that if there is time travel, we would go back in time to learn something else and embark on another career which is different from what we are doing now. I guess this is normal thinking.

Well, i think this is not healthy mentally, however, one just can't help it, especially when things are not going your way in life. Also, If you live your life as someone else, you would never have the chance to do what you want to do! You have to live up to the expectation of other people.

Finally, when you finally wake up to your own senses, ……. You’re aged! Your excuse for not able to achieve your own dreams is …… “I’m too old for that!”

So, live for your own true self, now!