managing thought: think differently. think powerfully. achieve new levels of success by mary lore

Author:mary lore
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: 0071703411
ISBN: 9780071703413
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

SELF-MASTERY

One can have no smaller or

greater mastery than the

mastery of oneself.

—Leonardo da Vinci

To put the world right in order,

we must first put the nation in order;

to put the nation in order,

we must first put the family in order;

to put the family in order,

we must first cultivate our personal life . . .

—Confucius

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DAILY CULTIVATION

Wehaveprunedandshapedourtree.Wehavedecidedwhat

we want, determined what truly matters to us, and chosen

our intentions. We have, through self-awareness, noticed the

thoughts that are destructive and diseased—the thoughts that

block our view of reality; waste our time, energy, and money;

and move us away from our intentions. We have developed our

powerful questions and powerful statements and have chosen to

replace weak thought patterns with powerful thought patterns. So

now what?

As gardeners, once we have pruned our tree, we pay attention to

the daily cultivation of that tree—how it’s watered, how it’s fed, its

environment, and its exposure to natural and unnatural elements.

We take care in its daily cultivation so that the tree resists stress

because we know that the trees that are susceptible to insects and

disease are the trees that are stressed. With care in daily cultivation, the tree develops a strong root system, trunk, and branches and

thrives in its full glory.

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200 pM A NAG I N G T H O U G H T

It’s the same for us. We can pay attention to the daily cultiva-

tion of our mind, body, and spirit—how we think, how we’re

watered, how we’re fed, our envi-

ronment, and our exposure to nat-

We cultivate self-awareness, self-

mastery, and being on purpose. ural and unnatural elements. We

can take care in our daily cultiva-

tion so that we resist stress because we know that we are susceptible

to disease and injury—physical and mental—when we are

stressed. We know that with care in our daily cultivation, we

thrive in our full glory.

How do we cultivate ourselves? We cultivate our mind, body,

and spirit. We cultivate ourselves in how we live our lives in each

moment. We cultivate self-awareness. We cultivate self-mastery.

We cultivate being on purpose. We manage our thought, we

manage our energy, and we manage our spirit.

Cultivating ourselves is like a circular dance, and we can start

anywhere in the circle. Some of you may choose to begin by

cultivating your thoughts. This increases your energy, improves

your life, improves your choices in eating, drinking, and

D A I LY C U LT I VAT I O N p201

exercising, and develops your spirit. Some of you may choose to

cultivate your energy, which develops your spirit and helps you

refine your thoughts and emotions. Some of you may choose to

work on your spirit first, which favorably affects your thoughts and

your energy. However you choose to start, just start.

In the following chapters, we look closely at managing our

energy, managing our spirit, and managing our thoughts.

Choose your seeds. Plant the seeds. Cultivate.

Energy and persistence conquer

all things.

—Benjamin Franklin

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MANAGING ENERGY

Wecultivateourselvesbymanagingourthoughts,managing

our energy, and managing our spirit. Because it is a circular

dance, managing our energy involves managing our mind, body,

and spirit. Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, and Native Americans all

speak of the body being a temple and say that it is unnatural, and

therefore sinful, to harm the body. They

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