Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

by Maria Nemeth

By clarity, I mean seeing what is truly important and creating a game worth playing and goals worth playing

for.

focus, I mean directing our energies and attention toward accomplishing wh...

ease, I mean venturing farther than we normally would in going for our dreams — with a bit of e...

grace means being consistently grateful and using spiritual principles so that we are ev...

Luminosity is about living the life you were meant to live, without running yourself into the ground and driving those around you crazy.

if you could actually see a path in front of you, it wasn't your path but that of someone who had gone before you.

Looking back, we get a sense of continuity.

whatever I try to get away from only follows

in luminous moments you have taken action on something important to you.

What is important to you ?

Think about times in your past

As you think back, focus on one segment of time at a time. Five year increments. pick out your happiest seasons. What were you _doing?

the busy life isn't the same as the successful life.

And on this journey, you already have several things going for you: a good heart, the capacity to dream, and the desire to make a difference. How do I know? It's true about everyone, whether they know it or not.

Nevertheless, I Am Willing People who are successful are willing to do what they don't want to do. They are willing to do what they are afraid of doing. They are also willing to do what they don't know how to do. They have learned to say yes to their lives. Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld captured this well. He said, “For everything that has been, I say thank you, and to all that will be, I say yes.” Say yes to all that will be, and you're taking a step every bit as courageous as those knights who entered the dark forest in search of the Holy Grail. Think about it. You put one foot in front of you. You don't know what your path will look like, but you are going ahead anyway. No more standing at the outskirts, waiting for the trail to show up. You have begun. Even if those customary, limiting inner thoughts are yelling at you to stop, you're on your way. Say yes to all that will be, and you're giving life permission to serve up your experiences fresh from the oven. No cooling necessary, no added ingredients. You will take what you are given and will appreciate what is offered. You will take it in, digest it, and use it to wake yourself up to everything around you. But how do you say yes? One way is to say, “I am willing.” By simply being willing, you automatically energize yourself to take action. This is true no matter how long you've put that action on hold. You get in touch with the power that resides in your hero's heart. Before we go any further, let's look at the di...

Nevertheless I am willing

we cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that generated them.

That's Monkey Mind — a highly efficient, negative-possibility-forecasting mechanism.