today is not yesterday
so yesterday i was feeling a bit depressed due to work/financial situations, and today there are a million possibilities everywhere i look. i'm excited and i can't wait to get started.
i had a great discussion with my friend today, and it awoke me to a few things that i hadn't fully grasped before. one is on how interconnected everything really is. one was how everything can provide you with the tools to be applied everywhere it was never intended. my friend has a marketing degree, and i've long had a bit of a hatred of marketing because i only saw the negative over-commercialisation that it produced. but today i realize that marketing is only a set of tools, the impact of which is all in what you use them for. just as you can use a hammer to build someone a home, you can also use it to bash in their head. it has nothing at all to do with the tool itself, it has to do with the person weilding it.
my friend showed me how she was using her marketing skills as a way to break down problems in her life and how to overcome problems and help to unlock her potential. it never ever would have occured to me that this is even possible. had i not known her, i would still today hate marketing and everything it stood for. now i see how it can be very effectively applied to life's problems and the tremendous benefit that can be achieved using its lessons.
she also mentioned how she thinks this is always possible, for example if you had an engineering degree instead of a marketing degree, it would also provide you with a set of tools which could be applied to tremendous benefit in other areas in life which it wouldn't necessarily seem to apply to. it was this which made me realize how interconnected everything is, and how any education in any field is of benefit to not only the person who has that education, but potentially everyone around that person as well. it made me excited to pursue more knowledge in anything i can get.
i'm excited to learn anything i can learn, about anything i can, and to extract the tools from that knowledge and begin using it in my pursuit of changing the world. the things that i see being achieveable really are out there all around me. it's up to me to prepare myself for them.
i also became aware of how the zen meditation thing, specifically the enlightenment aspect raises one's awareness of the things around them. how to explain that? it is said that when one reaches the state of enlightenment, that that person becomes aware of everything around them, rather than being only partially aware of the things around them. this is fairly simple to achieve in moments in life, many people attain enlightenment in zen meditation (and other types as well i've no doubt), but the thing with people who dedicate their lives to this is that they are striving to achieve that enlightened state in every minute of their lives. rather than simply being enlightened while one is meditating, they remain enlightened in everything they do every day. this is what allows them to fully realize their potential in life.
that's what i saw when i was talking to my friend, the possibilities that become available to you when you are fully aware and conscious of everything around you. i'm amazed by just how huge the difference is in the world around you depending solely upon your own state of mind. the fact is that nothing in the world changed while i was talking to my friend, certainly nothing in my immediate environment, but the difference in what i saw before me is just indescribeable.
the world you see before you is not the world as it is. the world you see before you is the world as it is, filtered by the limits and constraints that you put on yourself. most people go through life imprisoned. chained, and held back from what's truly possible. and there is no conspiracy taking place here. make no mistake, you are a prisoner of yourself, a prisoner of your own mind, living in a prison of your own making. there is no reason to live this way, nothing is really holding you back from accomplishing what you want to accomplish if you simply open your eyes.
the beautiful thing about being a prisoner in your own prison is that you have full access to the blueprints of your prison, you know it inside and out, better than anyone else. and the other great thing is that you are the prison warden. you must realize that you may see guards in the prison keeping you from escaping, but you also get to be the one who can fire those guards if you choose to. the truth is that you are free to walk out of that prison at any time of your choosing, you have only to have the realization that it's possible, that you have that power, and the determination to do so to make it happen.
today, i am taking another step outside of my prison and out into the world. today i am taking another step in removing the veil from my eyes and learning to see the world as it really is. today, i am making things happen for the future.
i'll keep you posted. :)
i had a great discussion with my friend today, and it awoke me to a few things that i hadn't fully grasped before. one is on how interconnected everything really is. one was how everything can provide you with the tools to be applied everywhere it was never intended. my friend has a marketing degree, and i've long had a bit of a hatred of marketing because i only saw the negative over-commercialisation that it produced. but today i realize that marketing is only a set of tools, the impact of which is all in what you use them for. just as you can use a hammer to build someone a home, you can also use it to bash in their head. it has nothing at all to do with the tool itself, it has to do with the person weilding it.
my friend showed me how she was using her marketing skills as a way to break down problems in her life and how to overcome problems and help to unlock her potential. it never ever would have occured to me that this is even possible. had i not known her, i would still today hate marketing and everything it stood for. now i see how it can be very effectively applied to life's problems and the tremendous benefit that can be achieved using its lessons.
she also mentioned how she thinks this is always possible, for example if you had an engineering degree instead of a marketing degree, it would also provide you with a set of tools which could be applied to tremendous benefit in other areas in life which it wouldn't necessarily seem to apply to. it was this which made me realize how interconnected everything is, and how any education in any field is of benefit to not only the person who has that education, but potentially everyone around that person as well. it made me excited to pursue more knowledge in anything i can get.
i'm excited to learn anything i can learn, about anything i can, and to extract the tools from that knowledge and begin using it in my pursuit of changing the world. the things that i see being achieveable really are out there all around me. it's up to me to prepare myself for them.
i also became aware of how the zen meditation thing, specifically the enlightenment aspect raises one's awareness of the things around them. how to explain that? it is said that when one reaches the state of enlightenment, that that person becomes aware of everything around them, rather than being only partially aware of the things around them. this is fairly simple to achieve in moments in life, many people attain enlightenment in zen meditation (and other types as well i've no doubt), but the thing with people who dedicate their lives to this is that they are striving to achieve that enlightened state in every minute of their lives. rather than simply being enlightened while one is meditating, they remain enlightened in everything they do every day. this is what allows them to fully realize their potential in life.
that's what i saw when i was talking to my friend, the possibilities that become available to you when you are fully aware and conscious of everything around you. i'm amazed by just how huge the difference is in the world around you depending solely upon your own state of mind. the fact is that nothing in the world changed while i was talking to my friend, certainly nothing in my immediate environment, but the difference in what i saw before me is just indescribeable.
the world you see before you is not the world as it is. the world you see before you is the world as it is, filtered by the limits and constraints that you put on yourself. most people go through life imprisoned. chained, and held back from what's truly possible. and there is no conspiracy taking place here. make no mistake, you are a prisoner of yourself, a prisoner of your own mind, living in a prison of your own making. there is no reason to live this way, nothing is really holding you back from accomplishing what you want to accomplish if you simply open your eyes.
the beautiful thing about being a prisoner in your own prison is that you have full access to the blueprints of your prison, you know it inside and out, better than anyone else. and the other great thing is that you are the prison warden. you must realize that you may see guards in the prison keeping you from escaping, but you also get to be the one who can fire those guards if you choose to. the truth is that you are free to walk out of that prison at any time of your choosing, you have only to have the realization that it's possible, that you have that power, and the determination to do so to make it happen.
today, i am taking another step outside of my prison and out into the world. today i am taking another step in removing the veil from my eyes and learning to see the world as it really is. today, i am making things happen for the future.
i'll keep you posted. :)