When I was in grade school, I remember some of the crazy perceptions I had. One of these was that only people born with innate special talents in something were successful in it. For instance, if I played basketball and did not have some immediate success, I figured I was not meant for the game. Based on what I was taught, mistakes were not a good thing. They meant you were not good at something. They were a sign of failure.
In the life teaching art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), there is another valuable lesson I have learned through many years, and numerous battles. I am now applying this lesson to not only my life, but my businesses as well. It is a lesson that could help us all in life and is not something you can learn in school, or from reading a book. It is a wisdom only gained through experience.
The lesson is how to deal with the walls you will encounter throughout your journey toward any goal. What am I talking about? Well, in every journey there is progression. A wall is a stage that you hit in your progression where there is seemingly no progress.
One of the most important parts of business, especially today, is networking. With the internet at its peak, and communication in many mediums as easy as a touch of a button, it is more important than ever for people to be good networkers.
Networking is important because it opens doors. Nowadays, contacting professionals in your field is as easy as can be online. However, people tend to be afraid still to reach out. ‘What if I sound stupid?’ some people think. Well, at least you sound something, because without ever trying to open the door, you can only guess what is behind it.
By Peter James
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Posted in Balanced Life, Secrets of Success
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Also tagged Balanced Life, business relationships, email, fortune, happiness, inner peace, Money, opportunity, phone, Success, text message, yang, yin, yinvsyang
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I was driving home the other day from training thinking about the phrase ‘paying attention’. I love history and have always found it interesting how sayings originally developed into common practice. The reason I was intrigued was because of something I noticed during training, but more on that in a bit. Right now I was thinking of the common phrase ‘paying attention’.
I don’t know of any other nouns that have the verb ‘paying’ in front of them that are not associated with anything financial. You don’t, or at least I hope you don’t, go around saying you are ‘paying thought’ or ‘paying observation’. No. The only word not associated with money that I can think of is ‘paying attention’. As stupid as this sounds, I think I figured it out during training.
For those of us that workout, our goal each time is to push the limit of our stamina. Whether measured in reps, minutes, or miles, most of us continue to push the limits of our body. But what if I told you it was not your body setting those limits? What if I told you it was really your mind?
The mind is a very powerful tool. It is so powerful, that it’s greatest trick is making us forget it exists at all. We run as far as we can. As soon as we start to breathe heavy, sweat, and our limbs tire, we know we are pushing the limits. But again, the limits of what? Have you ever just kept going when you think you can’t any longer? The trick is, you can, and you know it.
By Peter James
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Posted in Balanced Life, Healthy Living
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Also tagged breathing right, health, help me, increase stamina, life help, mind, positive thinking, power, self help, stress relief, Working out, yang, yin
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The other day I was watching television and I saw a 3-legged dog. I am an avid animal lover, so I immediately felt bad for the dog. However, the dog seemed not to have a care in the world. He went about his day happily on 3 legs as if that’s exactly how his life was meant to be. We could all learn a lesson from this 3 legged dog.
Everyone has a few bad habits. It’s natural, something that developed over the course of life. Bad habits are hard to break. For some, it can be as dangerous as heavy drugs or smoking. For others, it’s that midnight snack they regret in the morning. What ever it is, it’s something we all commonly refer to as a ‘bad habit’.
What exactly does that mean? What is a habit? Oxford American Dictionaries defines a habit as ‘a settled regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. This can develop into a bad habit.’ I feel that definition we have all accepted gives the word ‘habit’ a bad name.
March 15, 2008 – 10:17 pm
This is a place where there is no right and wrong. There is only what is. We do not judge. We do not hate. We simply understand. Welcome to our site.
The basis of this site is based on an ancient philosophy that simplifies the complexities of life: The Yin & the Yang. In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang are generalized descriptions of the antitheses or mutual correlations in human perceptions of phenomena in the natural world, combining to create a unity of opposites in the theory of the Taiji. The term liang yi, “two mutually correlated opposites”, also known as Yin and Yang or heaven and earth, has a similar meaning:
By Peter James
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Posted in Balanced Life, Welcome
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Also tagged health, help me, life help, mind, positive thinking, power, self help, stress relief, yang, yin
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