Mardi Gras Brazil A Christian holiday and popular cultural phenomenon, Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites. Also known as Carnival, it is celebrated in many countries around the world–mainly those with large Roman Catholic populations–on the day before the religious season of Lent begins. Brazil, Venice and New Orleans play host to some of the holiday's most famous public festivities, drawing thousands of tourists and revelers every year.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Change is always hardest for the person who is in a rut. For they have scaled down their living to that which they can handle comfortably and welcomes no change or challenge that would lift them up.
Neil Jones
Many people fail in life because they are unwilling to make changes. In life there are three types of people: those who are unchangeable , those that are changeable and those that cause change. Which one are you?
If you find yourself in a hole stop digging. When things go wrong don"t continue but change directions. Chinese proverb," If you don't change directions you will end up where you are going"
Playing safe is the most unsafe thing in the world.
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who fear change. It's true you can't make an omelet without breaking the egg.
You have got to be open to change and embrace fear.
People who often fail are people who avoid failure. Your growth depends on failure. Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM said, "If you want to succeed DOUBLE your failure rate".
Shift your Mental Mindset in 2014 and Succeed
The Bushman in the Kalahari Desert talk about two "hungers"
There is the Great Hunger and the Little Hunger
The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger ,
the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning...
There's ultimately one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter,
and that is to have thrust upon them
a life without meaning....
There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness....
But of far more comfort to the soul...
is something greater than happiness
or unhappiness, and that is meaning.
Because meaning transfigures all...
Once what you are doing has for you meaning,
it is irrelevant whether you are happy or unhappy,
You are content---you are not alone
in your Spirit --- you belong.
Sir Laurens van der Post ---Hasten Slowly
There is the Great Hunger and the Little Hunger
The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger ,
the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning...
There's ultimately one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter,
and that is to have thrust upon them
a life without meaning....
There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness....
But of far more comfort to the soul...
is something greater than happiness
or unhappiness, and that is meaning.
Because meaning transfigures all...
Once what you are doing has for you meaning,
it is irrelevant whether you are happy or unhappy,
You are content---you are not alone
in your Spirit --- you belong.
Sir Laurens van der Post ---Hasten Slowly
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