Joy's Write-a-long

  The Wikipedia definition of Self- awareness is “ conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires” The process is painful, but it leads to greater self- awareness and personal development.    Self-awareness is the first step to personal development. Without self-awareness you will always feel your way is the right way.   You will always feel what you think is always correct.   Self-awareness helps you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and be empathetic.   It helps you to make changes in your lifestyle, changes in how you speak, changes in how you walk, changes in how you dress, personal hygiene changes, changes in how you behave, changes in the way you think and perceive things, changes in the way how you feel. It helps you face reality.   It gives a meaning to your life and helps you grow within.   Only when you grow within you will start to grow outward.      It is very easy to point fingers at others and correct them and critic them in an offend

  Life is filled with mysteries, happiness, success, opportunities, breakthroughs, sadness, breakdowns, failures and much more.   We live just once on this earth.   We pass through this life just once.   So why not make the best of it and live it to the fullest.   If you have made a lifelong difference in at least one person’s life you have lived your life to the fullest.     Be bold and courageous, do not fear because fear will put you down, fear will keep you behind, and fear will not bring out your potential for what you were born to do.   There is a purpose in all our lives. We need to find out that purpose.   Dream, and dream BIG.   Dream so big that you cannot accomplish your dream by yourself alone, but you need all the people around you to help you accomplish your dream.   In this way you will connect with all the people whether you know them personally or not.   In this way you will make a difference in other people’s lives.   When you dream a lifelong dream, you get to make a

  Sometimes CHANGE is inevitable, but at times our mindset is so obstinate and refuses to go with the flow of change.  Human beings have the tendency to normally accept change when it is external.  For some, even the external change is obnoxious and revolting.  Here are some examples of external changes: -           From manual typewriters – we changed to electronic typewriters – to computers - laptops. -           From switch board lines – we changed to electronic board lines – and now direct lines. -           From land line telephones – to cell phones – to smart phones – to video chatting. -           From a kerosene stove – to an electric range. -           From fountain pens - to ballpoint pens. -           From Carbon copies to photocopies. -           From Store shopping – to online shopping. -           From manually calculating – to calculators – electronic calculators. -           From manual cars - to automatic cars - to electric cars. -           From B

  Stop for a while and think about TIME .   Think about the time that has passed by in your life.   Think about the Time you were happy, excited, proud of yourself, sad, angry, lonely, helpless.   At which time were you most productive and energized.   Was it worth your time? Time does not stop for anyone; it keeps ticking on and on.   It is up to us to make use of our time in the most productive manner so that it brings about benefit to us and our surroundings.   It is totally up to us to consciously and deliberately make use of our time to generate happiness and productivity to us and our loved ones and surroundings. Our life is a journey.   We have our routine work we do every day, and we do not realize that time has passed so quickly, and by the end of the day we are looking forward to the next day and prepare ourselves to start a new day already. When your day is done at the end of the day, sit down and make a note of what you did throughout the day. Remember, each day h