Be Kind for Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. This was once said by Plato. It is very beautiful and meaningful.

Sometimes life proves to be unfair. Things do not work the way you want them to. No matter how much you try, you have to try even more, and you cannot get things to the way they were.

You have experienced such times in your life one time or another. People get laid off. People lose their loved ones. People have to leave each other, etc.

All these situations represent change in our lives, which by the way in most cases we do not like very much. We want things to stay the same all the time. But that is not the case, and it is only through changing that we can learn and grow.

Some people anticipate change, some embrace it when it arrives, and like it, and some hate it. No matter what your attitude toward change, it is here to stay, so we had better like and enjoy it, otherwise we cannot be happy.

No matter what the change or the nature of it, you will go through a process of transformation, and you will have become the change once the process is over.

It is sometimes too hard to stay on track while you are going through some kind of change, and you need to know how to maintain yourself so you can keep moving forward.

One of the very valuable resources you can use at such times is your friends, family, your contacts, and those who love you.

Sometimes you do not need any material thing; you would not be satisfied even if you were given the whole world. Sometimes you simply need someone to listen to you, to talk to, and to share with them. Sometimes you need someone who listens to you without being any judgemental. And when you need it, nothing in the whole world can be traded for it.

If you want to have people in your life that care for you, you need to care for people first. In other words, you need to pay it forward. You need to be there for those who need you, treat them as you would like to be treated if you were in their shoes, care for them, and really connect with them. People around you are the most valuable resource in your life. You are going to need them all throughout your life.

It is simple to have good and nurturing relationships. Whenever you meet with someone, pretend as if you were meeting with the most important person on the planet, and you are on your way to becoming a relationship wizard.

Thank you for reading. I would appreciate your comments.

All The Answers Are Already Within You

We all face problems in our lives that paralyze us one time or another, but all the answers are already within us. You can find them on cue if you believe they are there, and will not see them, if you believe not so.

When you have a problem, you must face it early on, or it grows in size and importance, and creeps into other areas of your life sooner or later. For example, if you have financial problems, you can start early in life, read books, take courses, join communities, or do whatever you can do to permanently solve the problem. If you put it off, as time goes by, it gets much more complicated, and much more difficult to tackle.

It is important to note that we have our own share of problems for each time period of our lives, and each must be dealt with on time. If not, they will be carried forward to the next stage of your life, and before you know it, you will have a pile of problems, and not much time to work with.

It is also important to note that problems are the best tools for us to learn and grow, and if you are looking for one, there is a seed of an opportunity in every problem that you face in your life.

All the answers you ever need all throughout your life, are already within you, no matter how complicated the situation. The only thing you need to know is how to go about solving your problems. you need to start gathering information from the inside, rather than relying on the outside sources.

You might not have the solutions to someone else's problems, but you definitely have the solutions to your own problems since they are your problems. You just need to keep looking for them, and trust the intuitive little voice inside you, although in many cases it seems to be totally irrelevant.

It is interesting to know that no matter where you are in your life, you are a perfect human being with all you ever need, integrated within you. Your whole life purpose is to realize this as a result of finding your own perfectness over time. It takes time, not because it has to, but because you think it has to. It is not about developing the skills you want to have or need to have; it is all about realizing the fact that you already have them all. You have heard it said that you cannot teach anybody something they know nothing about; you just remind them of what they already know. Patience, as you might already know, is your best friend in this process.

There is always something between you and whatever you want to have in your life, and it is always you coming in the way. Let the natural flow of life flow within you, and you will be a perfect manifestation of all you can be, or want to be in no time at all. All the answers are already within you.

Thank you for your attention.

Tackle Your Problems

For a moment, close your eyes, clear your mind, and relax.

You must have a lot of things to take care of, or even a lot to worry about. It could be your kids, their future, your obligations, your bills, things around the house, your relationships, your financial life, etc.

Our minds are so good at finding faults with things, and start complaining about them, and once things get worse we suspect that they might endanger our personal lives. If we cannot do anything about them, we start worrying. Worrying creates the very kind of life you do not want to ever have!

This faculty of our minds to find faults with things that are not seemingly working now is really good and healthy if it is utilized in an empowering way. If we did not have this power, we never would move forward in our lives. But we need to train our minds, and take this to the next level on a day-to-day basis.

The point is that although it is very good to keep looking for the problems we see around us, it is not good to stop there. When you do not know about something that you identify as a problem, it does not harm you most of the time, although it may be someone's biggest problem in their life. But when you see something as a problem, and notice it in your personal life, you must take action to eliminate it from your life thoroughly, or it will stay there, grow in size and importance, and will take the peace and tranquility away from your personal life and as a result, from those in contact with you.

Once you have noticed the problem, and identified it, you must find the best solution available to you based on your situation, and take action on your solution immediately.

Perfectionism might want you to keep thinking for a better and a better solution, but that does not work. As soon as you have a solution that you think it works, or may work, or even might work, take action on it, and you will be amazed at how wonderfully the next steps will be shown to you as you go along.

It takes courage to take action in the face of adversity and uncertainty. Courage is like a muscle you have to keep working with until it is strong enough, and the action taking process is automatic.

Alway remind yourself that you can do anything you set your mind to.

Right now, there is within you the potential to be, have, or do anything you want. You just need to tap into your inner power reservoir, and look for more as you go along.

Do not limit yourself even to the extent of your imagination. You can achieve far more than you can imagine. You can achieve anything even if you cannot imagine it yet.

So, here is a little exercise for you.

Identify one of the problems, that has stayed with you from the past six months, and you have not taken appropriate action to eliminate it.

Try to see the problem as it is. Do not make it any bigger than it already is. Try to detach the emotions you have attached to it. For a moment, forget about your emotions about that particular problem, so you can glean the facts out of the situation. The best way to do this is to see yourself as an expert who has been hired to solve this problem for somebody else. If you were an expert in this area, how would you see the situation? What would be the facts you would see? What would be the emotions that your client would have attached to the situation? How would you separate the facts from the emotions?

Once you see the problem as it is, try to find a solution to the problem. Do not fall into the trap of being perfect. "Perfect" does not exist in this world. It might, in a perfect one. Find any solution, anything that pops into your head, and just do it. Do not try to over-analyze the situation. Just do something, anything.

Did you take action? How did it go? Great!

Still can't think of a solution? Do not worry. We will find you one.

Try to break your problem down to as many digestible chunks as possible, so solving each part is easier and possible for you. Now, try to find a solution to each of the chunks. Club the individual solutions together, and you have the one single solution to your main big problem. Problem solved!

I would appreciate your feedbacks. Have a wonderful time.

Modeling Leaders

"What we need to do in modeling people is to find out the specific beliefs that cause them to represent the world in a way that allows them to take effective action. We need to find out exactly how they represent to themselves their experience of the world. What do they do visually in their minds? What do they say? What do they feel? Once again, if we produce the same messages in our bodies, we can produce similar results. That's what modeling is all about." -- Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins

Take Control of Your Destiny

No matter where you are in your life, one time in your life, you have had dreams, dreams about your ideal house, car, workplace, wife, children, the quality of your life, and your relationships. You may still have those dreams, or you may have forgotten them as time has gone by, or through the hardships of your life.

If you can awaken your dreams, keep dreaming them on a consistent basis, attach strong emotions to them, and get yourself to believe that you really can achieve them, you can achieve them. Everything you see around you today, including the technology we are using today, a great work of art, scinetific discoveries, inventions that have changed the world, has started as a dream in somebody's mind. Hadn't somebody dreamed about them, you wouldn't see any of them around you.

The point is that dreaming, even if it is not going to help us in our lives at all, does not cost anything. You probably know that you already are doing it. Worrying is a kind of dreaming. You dream that something really bad, something you really don't want to have in your life, is going to happen, you attach strong emotions to it, you review it in your mind over and over again, until you see it right before you in the world around you. Many people do this on a consistent basis, but do it unconsciously. So the whole story starts with taking control of our thoughts. Isn't it true that fully 99% of what you worry about, actually does happen in your life? If you looked at your life in the past, couldn't you realize that this pattern exists all throughout your life?

So you can decide what it is you really want to do with your life, form the dreams in your mind, or make a movie of that dream in your mind, go over that movie over and over again until you can see every detail in there as if it were some scene you were actually looking at with your own eyes. Once your mind movie is ready, you can start taking action, and actually realize that dream.

The important point here is that you can't afford to work for your whole life, realize your dream, whatever it is, and then realize that it is not really what you want. In other word, realize that it does not make you happy. If you choose your goals according to your values, according to who you really are, not only achieving the goal makes you happy, but also you will be happy along the way toward achieving your goal. You feel you are working toward something that is really important to you, something that really matters to you.

Some people have external locus of control. They are happy when others approve of them, and are not, if others don't like what they're doing. These people usually work toward others' goals, and neither they are happy along the way, nor are they happy once they attain what they set out for in the first place. Don't let this happen to you. Always remind yourself that nobody is better than you, and nobody is smarter than you. You are who you are, and you don't have to be like anybody else. You are perfect the way you are. Achieve your own goals. Don't work on others' goals.

Dreaming is an important part of having the kind of life you want to have, or the person you want to be. but you won't have any results unless you do something for what you want. According to the law of cause and effect, if you want something, you have to work for it, and nobody is going to do it for you. You are responsible. Plan ahead, and take massive action. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Believe you can do it, and YOU CAN DO IT. Thanks for reading. Have a great time. John Azh

Leadership Characteristics And Traits

If you pay close attention to what is going on around you, you will notice common trends in society. These trends keep repeating themselves in every society at all times, and many of them have survived from the time human beings came into existence. Some businesses do better than others in certain localities.

Some people do better than others having the same businesses. Some people have better lives than others in the same society. Some just want to get rid of their problems, and never even let themselves dream about having a better life. Some people already have good lives, but they constantly work on improving every aspect of their lives. And many more common trends you notice in society.
Why do you think some make more money than those who have the same business, having the same customers, at exactly the same time, and under the very same circumstances?
Why do you think some are more successful than others in their personal lives? You might reply that they have more money than others. But where did they get the money from in the first place, and how did they manage to maintain it in these risky times? Were they all born with a silver spoon in their mouths?
Once you have the right answer to these questions, you will have as much money, happiness, and success as they have, or even more, and you may start to think about doing something no one has ever done before.
All the sentences above and their true meaning could be labeled as leadership and those who manage to do so are called leaders.
The good news is that all leaders have had certain qualities, character traits, or skills in common, and they are all learnable. With a little bit of persistence and trying, anyone can learn those skills, and be a leader themselves.
Although learning anything is easy and anyone can learn anything, being a leader is not very easy. You have to walk your talk to be a leader. You already realize that the best way to teach something is by doing it yourself. It takes discipline, determination, persistence, and perseverance to achieve anything in life. But how is it that some people have dedicated a large portion of their lives to specific causes, if not their whole lives, to achieve something, realizing in the beginning that although it was so hard to achieve what they set out for, they would not be benefited much, if at all they could achieve their objectives after a long time. They had very good and strong reasons for doing what they had to do, a reason that really made all the sense in the world to them. You cannot be a leader unless you have a great reason for yourself to start something. That reason is your why. Your why helps you to hang in there when it gets too hard to go forward, or to hold your ground. It is simply the reason why you will not quit no matter what.
You must have heard of the law of cause and effect. It simply states that for every action there is a reaction. With regards to the topic under discussion here, it says that success is not an accident. Financial success, for instance, is the result of doing certain things or causes, in a certain way, over and over again, until you get the results, or the effects, that you desire.
The good news is that nature is neutral. It does not play favorites. You could generalize the concept of nature here, to the marketplace, the society, or even the economy. They do not care who you are, what you are, or where you come from. As long as you take the same actions that others have taken before, and have attained some specific results, you as well will get those specific results, if you do not tamper with the order, and with the totality of them.
Whether you like it or not, you are going to get the results that your current actions are causing you to get. Consciously or unconsciously, you are already taking a specific set of actions, in a specific order, on a day-to-day basis. If you like the results you are getting now, keep doing what you have been doing, and if not, change the causes, and you will change your results. This is simply how the law of cause and effect works in your life.
Many people sell themselves short, and cause themselves underachievement and lack of financial success for the simple reason that they think those who are doing better than them, are actually better than them. This is simply not the case. Nobody is better than you, and nobody is smarter than you.
The fact is that most successful people, let’s say in this case, the financially successful, are average people, with average educations, working at average jobs, living in average neighborhoods, in average houses, and driving average cars, but they have found what the financially successful do, and they have done the same things over and over again, until they have attained the results they were after. Once you do the same things, you too will begin to have the results you want to have sometime down the road.
There are simple principles that have been used, tested, and proven over a long period of time, maybe since the time human beings came into existence, and if you learn them, and apply them to your life, your life will change forever. Learning those principles is easy. You can learn them just as you learned to ride a bicycle, or drive a car. Remember that you did not learn how to ride a bicycle upon your first try. You kept trying and trying until you got it right. You never gave up for the simple reason that you believed you could do it. Failure was not an option. Is that not true?
There are 21 principles of success:
Dream big dreams.
Develop a clear sense of direction.
See yourself as self-employed.
Do what you love to do.
Commit to excellence.
Develop a workaholic mentality.
Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.
Always save a percentage of your monthly income, and try to increase the percentage over time.
Learn every detail of your business.
Dedicate yourself to serving others.
Be impeccably honest.
Set priority on your activities and concentrate single-mindedly on one thing at a time.
Develop a reputation for speed and dependability.
Be prepared to climb from peak to peak in your life, and in your career.
Practice self-discipline.
Unlock your inborn creativity.
Surround yourself with the right people.
Take excellent care of your physical health.
Be decisive and action-oriented.
Never consider the possibility of failure.
Back everything you do with the twin qualities of persistence and determination.
Every single one of the above qualities must be learned and practiced on a day-to-day basis until they are second nature to you, like breathing in and breathing out. Remember that life is all about sacrificing what is less important for what is more important, and also sacrificing what is important for what is urgent. We cannot try to achieve everything all at once, but we can try and accomplish what is really important right now. The only thing you need to do is to learn to manage yourself in time, and make the best use of your life.
I hope there has been something new for you in this article. Thank you for your attention. Stay tuned.

Who Is John Azh?