Principled Philosophy Beyond Competition For some people, competitive thoughts and feelings help them excel. A healthy sense of competition motivates some to accomplish their dreams. However, competitiveness can also be destructive if poorly applied. Some people see life as a competitive game, where the winner comes out “on top”. People who think like this often [...]
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Principled Philosophy The Secret of Gratitude One reason why highly successful people frequently recommend cultivating an attitude of gratitude is because a grateful mind is constantly fixed upon how right and wonderful things are, which naturally tends to make it easier to identify ways to make things even more right and wonderful. A man or [...]
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Principled Philosophy Play Your Way to Productivity A big part of living a happy, well-balanced and productive life is learning to appreciate simple moments. Life is not a race where the person who crosses the most items off of some arbitrary checklist wins the prize. Many of us “waste” a lot of time being “busy”. [...]
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Principled Philosophy Don’t Underestimate Yourself Every person on this planet was born with something beautiful to give to the world. Period. This isn’t a Hallmark card quotation (okay maybe it is, but it also happens to be true, and it isn’t just a wishful cliché. You have something to offer that other people need. Unfortunately, [...]
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Principled Philosophy The Ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and has been repeated throughout the centuries. It may seem like a strange command, but many people don’t really know themselves very well, and therefore they are not attuned to what brings them happiness. [...]
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Principled Philosophy Doing the Right Thing It’s a common phrase, “Do the right thing.” But what does that really mean? If everybody really knew what the “right thing” was then there would be no need for war, prisons, and alarm systems. We would have a Heaven on Earth. Unfortunately, not everybody does know what the [...]
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Principled Philosophy Letting Joy Happen When something doesn’t give us the happiness we thought it would, we tend to think we must not have enough of it, or that we made a mistake in choosing it. But the real question—whether it has to do with money, relationships or something else—is if we’re asking for something [...]
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Principled Philosophy Have you ever let something eat you up inside because it “wasn’t fair” or you felt taken advantage of? Eckhart Tolle, a spiritual counselor, relates the following experience. He once regularly visited a terminally ill woman in her home. Their visits were usually very peaceful ones. But one visit he showed up to [...]
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Principled Philosophy Yielding Vs. Resisting When tragic loss or disappointment occurs people typically either resist or yield. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is, which ultimately (and sometimes even immediately) leads to peace. Resisting, on the other hand, increases the pain one feels and further entrenches one into the identity of a victim, which makes [...]
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Principled Philosophy Being Vs Having In life, we often get confused about the worth and nature of possessions. We even start to think they are a part of us, or that they define who we are. The human ego tends get confused with the difference between “having” with “being”. The ego thinks that “The more [...]
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