Possible ways on how to die young (kindly read as Don'ts by suitable modification)

How to Enjoy Life (The Illogical Way)

Life isn’t logical. There’s no way you can predict what’s going to happen. Well, at least not if you’re like most humans. Who knows, that might change in the future, but for now we’re stuck.
There are better ways to live your life than let your mind control every single move you make.
Think about all those things you’ve wanted to do, but never did, because you thought they were silly. Have you noticed how that approach is slowly sucking the enjoyment out of your life?
There are better options.

Recently I read a really, really good article over at Steve Pavlina’s blog on How to Fall in Love with Procrastination.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/06/how-to...

In the last two months I’ve immersed myself in language learning, specifically Spanish. I’m a forward thinking person, and I have a tendency to want to get things done as soon as possible.
This leads to doing tasks that aren’t fun. In language learning that would be studying grammar, word lists and what have you.
Instead of doing that I’ve started watching TV-series and movies in Spanish. I’ve also started listening to Spanish podcasts, reading Spanish books and chatting with Spanish natives.
The problem with only doing something to reach a goal is that there will always be more goals to reach.
Blogging has taken a back-seat, because I’m enjoying the fruits of my labor. I’ve spent the last few years building up passive income streams online so I can live a life of freedom and do what I want.
Don’t worry though. I will keep blogging and sharing my experiences. When I say blogging has taken a back-seat, that just means that I’m not guest posting or doing anything other than writing my own posts.
As I’ve let go more and more, I’ve realized that I can take breaks. I can take a day off and watch 12-hours of Lost in Spanish (I know, I have problems, but hey, at least I’m learning Spanish! )

http://www.wakeupcloud.com/language-le...s/

How Much Fun Are You Having?

It doesn’t matter if I’m learning a language, learning to paint or just sitting and talking to somebody. There are always lessons to be learned.
In the last few months of immersing myself in language learning I’ve grown more patient and started focusing on having fun instead of working myself to death.
Learning another language has helped my English as well. I’ve become more aware of intonation and pronunciation. I’ve started looking at speaking as a way to practice languages as well as connect with others.

I used to look at everything as a means to an end. I was always looking to reach my latest goal.
As time passed, I’ve come to realize that enjoying the current moment is more important than reaching any goal. If I’m not enjoying what I’m doing, then why keep going?
There’s a big obstacle to all this though, and it will hold you back if you let it, and it’s this: What you feel like doing won’t always make logical sense.
The truth is that you never know if your short dabble in learning Spanish will lead to something else. Maybe you’ll meet someone who knows someone and things start rolling from there.

Are You Aware of the Adventure?

I work best when I can immerse myself in something for an extended period of time. For example, I immersed myself in blogging for 6 months and did almost nothing else during that time. Now I’m easing up on it and experimenting with something else.
I’ve learned to follow my heart and trust the process. I’ve been following my own path for over half a decade. I’ve trained myself to listen to my heart, even if it sometimes doesn’t make sense.
I’ve received many e-mails from people asking me advice on what they should do with their life. The answer is always the same: follow your heart.

http://www.wakeupcloud.com/guide-to-following-y…
We’ve been taught to look for validation, but when you realize that all you have to do is listen to that thing in your chest, everything becomes much more fun.
You start looking forward to what’s going to happen. I have no idea what I’ll be doing in six months. I’m excited to see what I come up with, where I end up and what I’ll be doing.

I Just Love What I Do …

The last few years of playing poker, I just held on, because I was afraid of letting go. It was familiar and it was the only way I knew how to make a living.
My heart was telling me to play around with websites, but my mind was full of fear.
“It can’t be done! You can’t do it” my mind said to me.
In early 2009, I finally let go. I started building websites and I did what I felt like I wanted to do.
I worked day and night on my early websites, because I loved it. Many have commented on my work ethic, but I don’t see myself as an incredibly hard worker, I just love what I do.
The income from my websites and this blog are what allow me to take months off to study Spanish, take a swim in the pool and walks with the missus.
This is what life is about. Life is about freedom. Life is about doing what you truly feel like doing, even if it doesn’t make any sense at all. Life is about being a child and doing whatever you want.
Have you ever wanted to learn a language, but never felt like you could?
There’s a reason you feel drawn to do the things you want to do. If you don’t start following your excitement today, when will you?
Stop pushing away the things that bring fulfillment, enjoyment and happiness to your life. Start following your hunches and start playing.

A Powerful Consciousness Of Faith In Critical Situations

Having accepted the reality that negative situations in our mind, body, wealth or relationships will arise in our life from time to time, a question arises what kind of consciousness do I keep in these kind of situations and how do I ensure that the situation does not overpower my consciousness.

Because only a powerful consciousness of faith or victory will keep me protected from the negative emotional (internal) and physical (external) influence of these problems but will also become the most important influencing factor which will help me in overcoming the problem and going towards the solution or attracting it towards me, sometimes immediately and sometimes slowly, but steadily, without losing my inner stability during the period that I wait for the solution to arise.

What is a powerful consciousness of faith when faced with a negative situation? “No negative scene or situation of any type in my life lasts forever and this scene shall also pass and I shall emerge victorious over it using the power of thought, the power of positivity, the power of spiritual knowledge, the power of meditation. Victory is my birthright and it is dead certain.” This is in short a powerful consciousness of faith.

The Neuroscience Of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier

http://www.dailygood.org/story/578/the-neurosci…

15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy – we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go:

1. Give up your need to always be right. There are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. It’s just not worth it. Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?”Wayne Dyer. What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. Give up your need for control. Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, coworkers, or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu

3. Give up on blame. Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk. Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don’t believe everything that your mind is telling you – especially if it’s negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” Eckhart Tolle

5. Give up your limiting beliefs about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!
“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle

6. Give up complaining. Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. Give up the luxury of criticism. Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. Give up your need to impress others. Stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not just to make others like you. It doesn’t work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not, the moment you take of all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. Give up your resistance to change. Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change – don’t resist it.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” Joseph Campbell

10. Give up labels. Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Wayne Dyer

11. Give up on your fears. Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. Give up your excuses. Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses – excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. Give up the past. I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for – the past that you are now dreaming about – was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. Give up attachment. This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but it’s not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn’t mean you give up your love for them – because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another, attachment comes from a place of fear, while love… well, real love is pure, kind, and self less, where there is love there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. Give up living your life to other people’s expectations. Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need….and eventually they forget about themselves. You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path.

Baby

giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson rather early in life. A lesson

that all of us would do well to remember. The birth of a baby giraffe is quite an earth-shaking

event. The baby falls from its mother’s womb, some eight feet above the ground. It shrivels up and

lies still, too weak to move. The mother giraffe lovingly lowers her neck to smooch the baby

giraffe. And then something unbelievable happens. She lifts her long leg and kicks the baby giraffe,
sending it flying up in the air and tumbling down on the ground. As the baby lies curled up, the

mother kicks the baby again and again until the baby giraffe, still trembling and tired, pushes its

limbs and for the first time learns to stand on its feet. Happy to see the baby standing on its own

feet, the mother giraffe comes over and gives it yet another kick. The baby giraffe falls one more

time, but now quickly recovers and stands up.

Mama Giraffe is delighted. She knows that her baby

has learnt an important lesson: Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself

up and get back on your feet.

Why does the mother giraffe do this? She knows that lions and

leopards love giraffe meat. So unless the baby giraffe quickly learns to stand and run with the

pack ? it will have no chance of survival.

Most of us though are not quite as lucky as baby

giraffes. No one teaches us to stand up every time we fall. When we fail, when we are down, we just

give up. No one kicks us out of our comfort zone to remind us that to survive and succeed, we need

to learn to get back on our feet.

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A little boy wanted to meet GOD!

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He packed his suitcase and took some packets of cakes!.He started his journey,walked a long distance and got tired.So he decided to sit in a nearby park and relax for a while..He opened a packet of cake to eat..

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Just then he noticed an old woman sitting nearby, sad with hunger, so he offered her a piece of cake !

She gratefully accepted with a wide smile. Her smile was so pretty, that the boy longed to see it again !. After sometime he offered her another piece ..She smiled again ..

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They sat all afternoon eating and smiling without any word spoken. The boy got frightened when it grew dark , he began to leave and before leaving gave the woman a hug and she kissed him with her prettiest smile !

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Back home..

when the boy knocked the door, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face!

She asked him : What did you do today that made u so happy??

He replied : I had lunch with GOD !

and further said..

U know what? she has got the most beautiful smile I have ever seen in my life

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Meanwhile the old woman also radiant with joy returned her home. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face and asked- What did you do today that made u happy??

She replied :

I had cakes with GOD.. and you know he is much younger than i expected !!!

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Too ofter we underestimate the power of

a touch

a smile

a kind word

a listening ear

an honest compliment

or

a small act of caring

all of which have the potential to turn a life around !!

nobody knows how GOD look like!!

people come into our lives

for a reason,

for a season

or

for a lifetime..

so

let them see GOD in you

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self-control

In the world there is this idea that self-control is about repressing something. For instance, if someone wants to drink wine, we usually tell that person: “You need to have self-control not to drink.”

Self- control is usually about going over the “temptations” in life, for the sake of feeling beyond our “normal” wants and desires.

The word “temptation” is truly a misleading word. All of the sudden, to drink wine becomes a “temptation,” something “negative,” something which we must resist…

In fact, the problem is not wine, but it is our own “whining” our mind-set and lack of “self-control” to behave in a non-damaging way.

The world of duality is the one that we live in. There is every object, every situation, every thing which could be easily put in convenient opposite labels. The most common: “good and bad.”

Please see how our mind is set up to believe in things as merely representing one side of the spectrum: They are either in the light or in darkness. Our beliefs then, can make a religious ideal, a dogma or way of living based on a static idea of something, which is continually changing in time.

Wine is neither bad nor good. It could be useful in some occasions and not useful in others. It all depends in our circumstances, our state of consciousness and our own openness to see things beyond a defining label.

If someone is an addict of drinking wine, obviously the issue is not “wine” itself but the issue is with a personality, but to extend that personality to all people, that is; to assume and place everyone under the same label… is a very costly but comfortable assumption.

When we observe the movement of life and duality, we could see that there will be things bringing pleasure and pain. Many times we reject one side and try to get a hold of the other, not realizing that things will change by itself. The day changes into a night without our help, without our judgment, without considering our beliefs.

Nevertheless, enjoyment of the Moon happens at night. Enjoyment of the Sun, is in the day. To be in the day longing for the Moon to appear … That is the issue of many!

To call the day “bad” because there is no Moon there, is to reject what is there and to live without fullness.

Self control then is that art to move according to time and circumstances, to flow with life without having a mental label or script to determine how our life should be lived.

Self control is about knowing the right time for everything since nothing remains the same. When we act with self control there is neither rejection nor indulgence. There is enjoyment at every step for living is not a thought, it is not a static idea of how things should be, but rather is a flow, a dance where the steps in dancing are not the same for all tunes.

In this way our mental structures will collapse, they will not be able to construct a being which is constrained by ideas and beliefs; but rather a human being in tune with the totality, with the wisdom of knowing the timings in life…

There is time to live, there is a time to die. A time to smile, and a time to cry…There is a time to enjoy and another… to keep enjoying…the movements, the seasons of life.

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice (Italy), the city of lights and water. As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat at an empty table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his order saying, ‘Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall.’
We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was served with one cup of coffee but he paid for two.

As soon as he left, the waiter pasted a piece of paper on the wall saying ‘A Cup of Coffee’.

While we were still there, two other men entered and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had the two cups of coffee but paid for three and left. This time also, the waiter did the same; he pasted a piece of paper on the wall saying, ‘A Cup of Coffee’.

It was something unique and perplexing for us. We finished our coffee, paid the bill and left.

After a few days, we had a chance to go to this coffee shop again. While we were enjoying our coffee, aman poorly dressed entered. As he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, ‘One cup of coffee from the wall’.
The waiter served coffee to this man with the customary respect and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying.

We were amazed to watch all this, as the waiter took off a piece of paper from the wall and threw it in the dust bin. Now it was no surprise for us – the matter was very clear. The great respect for the needy shown by the inhabitants of this town made our eyes well up in tears.

Ponder upon the need of what this man wanted… He enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-esteem… he has no need to ask for a free cup of coffee… without asking or knowing about the one who is giving this cup of coffee to him. He only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left.

… probably the most beautiful wall you may ever see anywhere….

worth thinking

एक कलाकार से दिल के दरवाजे की
तस्वीर बनाने के लिए कहा गया, उसने
बहुत सुन्दर दिल की तस्वीर बनायी
औरउसमे एक छोटा सा खुबसूरत
दरवाजा लगाया | मगर उसमे हैंडल
नहीं था…किसी ने पूछा भाई इसमें
हैंडल क्यों नहीं लगाया ? कलाकार ने
बहुत खुबसूरत और दिल को छूने वाला जवाब दिया की-
“दिल के दरवाजे अन्दर से खुलते हैं,
बाहर से नहीं”..

जिंदगी तुझसे हर एक सांस पे समझौता करूँ,
शौक़ जीने का है मुझको मगर इतना तो नहीं .

ज़िन्दगी कभी फुरसत से मिलना तेरा भी हिसाब करेंगे

जब से सुना है मरने का नाम ज़िंदगी है
सर पे कफ़न लपेटे क़ातिल को ढुँढ़ते है।

See The Photos Of What Death Row Inmates Requested As Their Last Meals

If you had just one day left on earth, what would your last meal be?

Henry Hargreaves photographed what death row prisoners in America requested as their last meal in his “No Seconds” series, saying that his main goal was “to have the viewer identify with the prisoner though their meal request. I wanted the viewer to think of them as a person for a moment instead of them being anonymous.”

It’s interesting that Henry’s photography project doesn’t make a judgment of the prisoner’s crime, but rather humanizes the individual with a subtle glimpse of the prisoner’s character and personality.

http://www.upworthy.com/see-the-photos-of-what-…

Finding Happiness

https://i.imgur.com/gallery/s...Iq

Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.

At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
Now each one was asked to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it.
Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.

The speaker began— exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.

Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own happiness.
And this is the purpose of human life.

A Businessman who lost everything in a fire
placed a Sign Board:

“Everything burnt but luckily
faith & confidence
undamaged.
Business starts tomorrow.

वो मेरी राहों में गुन-गुना रही थी,

फिर ढूंढा उसे इधर से उधर,

वो आँख मिचोली कर मुस्करा रही थी,

एक अरसे बाद आया मुझे करार,

वो सहला कर मुझे सुला रही थी,

हम दोनों क्यूँ खफा हैं इक-दूजे से,

मैं उसे और वो मुझे समझा रही थी,

मैंने पूछ लिया, क्यूँ दर्द दिया जालिम तूने?

वो बोली, मैं जिंदगी हूं पगले,

तुझे जीना ही तो सिखा रही थी..

Jab Laga Tha Teer Tab Itna Dard Na Huwa,
Zakham Ka Ehsas Tab Hua Jab Kamaan Dekhi Apnon K Hath Mai

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is
the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you
have to.

3. Enjoy the ride. Remember this is not Disney World and you certainly
don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the
most of it and enjoy the ride

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My
purpose is to __________ today.’

5. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

6. Play more games and read more books than you did last year.

7. Make time for prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives and take us closer to God.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that
is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water.. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan
salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and
flowing energy into your life.

14. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues
of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead
invest your energy in the positive present moment.

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems
are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra
class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a
college kid.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.

18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years,
will this matter?’

26. Forgive everyone for everything.

27. What other people think of you is none of your business.

28. GOD heals everything.

29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends
will. Stay in touch.

31. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or enjoyable.

32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

33. The best is yet to come.

34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

35. Do the right thing.

36. Call your family often.

37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:
I am thankful for _________. Today I accomplished __________.

38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

Enterprising Mum of The Year Ranu Mehta-Radia
http://www.tescoliving.com/mum-of-the-year/winn…