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by
Jay Shetty
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September 27, 2022 - February 28, 2023
we fail to recognize the work and perseverance behind achievement.
When you identify your intentions, they reveal your values.
The intentions to help people and to serve mean you value service.
The intention to support your family means yo...
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Living your intention means having it permeate your behavior.
For instance, if your goal is to improve your relationship, you might plan dates, give your partner gifts, and get a haircut to look better for them.
Once you know the why behind the want, consider the work behind the want. What will it take to get the nice house and the fancy car? Are you interested in that work? Are you willing to do it? Will the work itself bring you a sense of fulfillment even if you don’t succeed quickly—or ever?
if you’re driven by intention, you will feel joy.
Satisfaction comes from believing in the value of what you do.
if we’re doing it for the external result, we won’t be happy. With the right intention, to serve, we can feel meaning and purpose every day. Living intentionally means stepping back from external goals, letting go of outward definitions of success, and looking within.
your breathing changes with your emotions.
We hold our breath when we’re concentrating, and we take shallow breaths when we’re nervous or anxious.
Controlled breathing, on the other hand, is an immediate way to steady yourself,
Breathe in for a count of 4 through your nose in your own time at your own pace Hold for a count of 4 Exhale for a count of 4 through your mouth
When your natural talents and passions (your varna) connect with what the universe needs (seva) and become your purpose, you are living in your dharma.
Living in your dharma is a certain route to fulfillment.
55 percent of our communication is conveyed by body language, 38 percent is tone of voice, and a mere 7 percent is the actual words we speak.
Passion + Expertise + Usefulness = Dharma.
If we’re only excited when people say nice things about our work, it’s a sign that we’re not passionate about the work itself.
And if we indulge our interests and skills, but nobody responds to them, then our passion is without purpose. If either piece is ...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
mastery requires deliberate practice, and lots of it. But if you love it, you do it.
Play hardest in your area of strength and you’ll achieve depth, meaning, and satisfaction in your life.
In order to unveil our dharma, we have to identify our passions—the activities we both love and are naturally inclined to do well.
look for opportunities to do what you love in the life you already have.
Instead of listening to our minds, we must pay attention to how an idea or activity feels in our bodies.
When we’re aware of our own strengths, we’re more confident, we value others’ abilities more, and we feel less competitive.
When we have the confidence to know where we thrive, we find opportunities to demonstrate that.
Dharma isn’t just passion and skills. Dharma is passion in the service of others.
Your passion is for you. Your purpose is for others.
Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it ...
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.
Now visualize yourself continuing the day as your best self. See yourself inspiring others, leading others, guiding others, sharing with others, listening to others, learning from others, being open to others, their feedback and their thoughts.
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert or a cup of tea, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert or my tea when I finally have them. … Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. In this light, no boundary exists between the sacred and the profane.”
No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them.
Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
Studies have found that only 2 percent of us can multitask effectively;
To make single-tasking easier for myself, I have “no tech” zones and times. My wife and I don’t use tech in the bedroom or at the dining table, and try not to between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m.
humans have roughly seventy thousand separate thoughts each day
our minds are only in present time for about three seconds at a time
Other than that, our brains are thinking forward and backward,
your brain is not reacting to events in the world, it’s predicting … constantly guessing
figure out the meaning of a thought. That’s what helps us let go.
“Insanity is doing the same thing again and again, expecting different results.”
researchers concluded that talking to yourself not only boosts your memory, it also helps you focus.
talking to yourself “helps you clarify your thoughts, tend to what’s important and firm up any decisions you’re contemplating.”
There are three routes to happiness, all of them centered on knowledge: learning, progressing, and achieving.
Identify the ways you’re making progress, and you will begin to see, feel, and appreciate the value of what you are doing.
Reframe your self-criticism in terms of knowledge.
Rather than amplifying your failures, amplify your progress.
