Three times yesterday, I was presented with a “message” that apparently I needed to hear.
In the morning, I was at a coffee shop and I, not surprisingly, struck up a conversation with a stranger. We were discussing what we do to get going in the morning. He told me that when his wife was alive, the two of them took a few minutes every morning to talk about their upcoming day over a cup of coffee. It started him off right. Now, that she’s gone, he’s not sure what to do in the morning. He said, “We are what we repeatedly do,” and given his life change, he didn’t know how to create a new and positive morning habit. I have to admit, I kind of didn’t hear the quote, because I was focused on his story.
When I was out to lunch, the person I was with talked to me about a quote that he lives by, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” I immediately realized that this was the quote I had heard earlier. Hmm. I meant to look it up but got tied up during the day.
Later in the evening, I had a “communication” with a friend that reminded me of this quote and by the time I was going to bed, I noticed on FB that a friend had this quote! Ok, enough already! I looked up the quote and here’s the message I got:
It is important to make positive thoughts and actions a habit in our lives, both individually and collectively. It is important also for us to learn mental skills which we can use to protect ourselves from negativity and hence make the world a better place to be.
We create our own reality. We do that by continually and automatically playing our same old tapes over and over again. This leaves us truly unable to seek positive change in our lives.
Excellence (in any area of our lives) is not an act, it is a habit. It is about investing in the direction you want to go and focusing on it in a habitually positive manner. We are what we repeatedly do. When we get into the same behavior patterns, the same eating habits and the same communication patterns, we need to recognize what we are doing and then commit to something different and commit to doing the right thing (excellence) over and over again.
Maybe these “messages” to me were a reminder to move on from any negativity in my life to a better place. To stop playing the old tapes and being in the same old negative situations and to really make a change. In fact, if we all moved away from those places of negativity, I think the collective conscience of the world – would become a better place.
The “birthday” is almost here. Enjoy today!
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