To “Empty Your Cup” Is Necessary In Attaining Higher Levels Of Personal Development …
As we start a new week, shouldn’t we greet it with gratitude and enthusiasm?
Gratitude is a concious exercise of looking at our past and current condition and being thankful about the blessing of our lives right now.
Enthusiasm is another concious state of mental attitude. Its the joyous expectation that we are already being rewarded for every act of good that we pledge ourselves to accomplish… even before we have accomplished them.
In order to “be” in these mental and spiritual states, often times you have to empty your cup of all that you have already experienced in the past, so that you may be further enriched by new, different, and perhaps more wonderful experiences than those you already know.
Empty the Cup … Be Coachable
Whenever you come into anything new …
– a new relationship
– a new skillset or exercise
-a new book or some channel of new information
wouldn’t the experience hold more “possibility” for you, if you approach these new gifts with a spirit of a beginner.
Children and youth approach most things with a spirit of wonder and exploration.
They don’t assume anything .. therefore EVERYTHING IS possible.
As a matter of fact, your son or daughter approach most new things with an array of questions.
And … they expect to be AMAZED! … they seldom expect to be “disappointed.
When the WOW factor is small for them, instead of large …. their smiles of approval from learning something new never let you suspect that they are dis-satisfied.
Empty your cup and become more coachable!
Empty the Cup … Read Daily
Reading is an absolutely amazing gift.
It places the “wisdom of the ages” … at our fingertips !
The tales of ancient civilizations, the stories of men and women who met with the challenge of their age, and became legends for overcoming their own personal, political, and/or social challenges to contribute magnificently to the world around them.
Yet, even in technologically advanced societies like N.America and parts of Europe … few adults read and complete a book after they finish highschool or college.
Here’s what reading great books does for you …
– it allows us to “borrow the vocabulary” of the writer.
While we are inside of the book … we can gain from the rich use of words to paint ideas … in ways that our common use of language might never allow.
– it allows us to borrow the mindset and thinking capacity of the writer.
It is almost impossible to immerse yourself iin the writings of some man or woman who solved a problem, or created something useful for society… without also gaining insight to their personal disciplines and their outlook on life, that allowed them to make such an amazing contribution to our lives.
Empty Your Cup … Borrow From the Wisdom of Others by Reading Daily
Empty the Cup … Listen To The Words Of Masters
We are now in a remarkable age.
With digital technologies, we are able to carry the contents of THOUSANDS OF SONGS and AUDIOBOOKS in our purse or pocket.
Listening to the words of men and women who have gain “mastery” in certain areas of their lives, is the fastest way for you or I to gain mastery.
Take the joyful habit of finding someone who is excellent in an aspect of your life that you want mastery in.
Could be in sports, a favorite musician, an engineer, an entrepreneur, or a skilled professional.
Look to see if they have books or videos that you can copy and record …
then make it a habit of listening to their words daily.
Substitute “idle drive time” by instead listening to them on CD or MP3 while you are travelling.
Listening to those who have gained mastery, is the best way to accelerate your own progress.
Empty the Cup … Build A New Empowering Habit Each Month
If you took an “accounting” of all the habits that don’t serve you well, and replaced one bad habit each month with a good one, at the end of a year you would be a BRAND NEW person … almost unrecognizable from the collection of habits that you were before.
Take the habits that do not serve you, and replace them with habits that propel your towards your Life Purpose.
The world is anticipating the GOOD that you have been created to contribute …
YOU WERE CREATED TO BE A CHAMPION !
Empty Your Cup … so that you can attain higher levels of your own personal development.