Finally I finished the book after so many months, so slow right? I think so too, and terrible. I learn about different types of meditation by the end of the book. They are 1. The Focusing/Visualization Meditation, 2. Listening or Watching, 3. Static Transcendence and 4. Mobile Transcendence. The idea of practicing meditation is to train one to be focus at any time, especially to achieve your goal.
I guess the problem with most people including myself is to get started on something and be persevere to achieve the objective. It is always simple and short term objectives being achieved as compared to long term ones. The consciousness to be persistant and energy to charge towards it are the crucial ingredients. I hope after reading book, or anyone who does, serves as a self reminder not to give up our dreams.... and I will also persevere here too, with another new book to start soon.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Pillar of Physical and Spiritual
I saw the date from my last post and I got a shock, its 2 months back! I better start it quick this time. The next pillar is about physical and its very interesting how the author relates on this pillar. The question on physical is very simple, how much is your body worth? How do you value your physical body? Is it $10,000, $1 million or $10 million or more based on how much this body you expected to make money for you? How much does each individual organ in your body worth which if you sell them (of course its only a valuation)? The next question would be how are you treating or feeding this multi million dollar piece of body, with junk food or quality and nutricious food?
Take this question from another perspective, is your body a Porsche or Hyundai or Cherry QQ? How would you maintain this "car" and what petrol would you be using? In whatever perspectives we have on our body, how well we maintained it will definitely determine how well we can used it. Of course by having a good "car" is definitely not enough, as you would need a good "driver" but the car must always be ready when the "driver" needs it to deliver.
As quoted in the book, "the more evolved and high performance you choose to become, the more effort you'll have to put into maintaining a high level of health, fitness and vitality. You have to choose if you want to be a Porsche or a Hyundai. The money I spend on my health is an investment in myself, allowing me to run at top speed for the long haul." Do you all agree? Nevermind, I do....
We often talked about multi-tasking and it feels great when we achieved it or percieved to be so. It is actually about how much stress we are adding on to ourselves. In reality, we can only cope certain amount of work at any one time, there is no such thing as multi-tasking within a specific timing. We are only adding scope of work within a time frame, zone, period, etc to be completed. So is there really multi-tasking or just a phrase to encapsulate a list of job scope or an alternative for time management? There is so much questions to be asked on what we are doing everyday.
In the pillar of spiritual, the author is talking about fulfillment and to give connection to your life in the things you do. Only when we fall in love with someone or something you do so completely that you give yourself totally to, that is when your heart is open and the consciousness is visible and felt. You will find yourself totally immersed and giving all you have to it. It sounds familiar, right?....
Take this question from another perspective, is your body a Porsche or Hyundai or Cherry QQ? How would you maintain this "car" and what petrol would you be using? In whatever perspectives we have on our body, how well we maintained it will definitely determine how well we can used it. Of course by having a good "car" is definitely not enough, as you would need a good "driver" but the car must always be ready when the "driver" needs it to deliver.
As quoted in the book, "the more evolved and high performance you choose to become, the more effort you'll have to put into maintaining a high level of health, fitness and vitality. You have to choose if you want to be a Porsche or a Hyundai. The money I spend on my health is an investment in myself, allowing me to run at top speed for the long haul." Do you all agree? Nevermind, I do....
We often talked about multi-tasking and it feels great when we achieved it or percieved to be so. It is actually about how much stress we are adding on to ourselves. In reality, we can only cope certain amount of work at any one time, there is no such thing as multi-tasking within a specific timing. We are only adding scope of work within a time frame, zone, period, etc to be completed. So is there really multi-tasking or just a phrase to encapsulate a list of job scope or an alternative for time management? There is so much questions to be asked on what we are doing everyday.
In the pillar of spiritual, the author is talking about fulfillment and to give connection to your life in the things you do. Only when we fall in love with someone or something you do so completely that you give yourself totally to, that is when your heart is open and the consciousness is visible and felt. You will find yourself totally immersed and giving all you have to it. It sounds familiar, right?....
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pillar of Mental
I did not get a chance to continue my writing or even my reading much as I just got on to my new job and re-starting my academic semester. All my evenings are almost packed with something. I guess I am still trying to squeeze some time here to update what I have read so far.
I have caught up with the next pillar with James talking about Mental strength. The ability to control your emotions gives you tremendous power to change the quality of your experiences, the quality of your results and the quality of your life. In my own relation, I would like to think that this is part of self-cultivation and improving the way you carry yourself. As the book reads, owning your own emotions is important and we start off with appreciating that our experience in life has nothing to do with external events. We are the ones who gave meaning to these events based on the emotions we put in. I recall at times I am swearing at slow drivers or inconsiderate ones on the road and often it results me getting impatient. I have since calmed myself better and just sway my head but just accepts that every day there would be new drivers on the road. So it means I just have to keep a look for these people and serve as a reminder to be more careful on the road. But I did not have an easy time trying to achieve this but it helps me better each day and I can control my emotions better.
I would want to continue on the next pillar on physical but I guess this will be left to my next writing. This book is really interesting and like I mention early, it brings great self cultivation for sure, a wealth which will truly own by you or me for long time to come....
I have caught up with the next pillar with James talking about Mental strength. The ability to control your emotions gives you tremendous power to change the quality of your experiences, the quality of your results and the quality of your life. In my own relation, I would like to think that this is part of self-cultivation and improving the way you carry yourself. As the book reads, owning your own emotions is important and we start off with appreciating that our experience in life has nothing to do with external events. We are the ones who gave meaning to these events based on the emotions we put in. I recall at times I am swearing at slow drivers or inconsiderate ones on the road and often it results me getting impatient. I have since calmed myself better and just sway my head but just accepts that every day there would be new drivers on the road. So it means I just have to keep a look for these people and serve as a reminder to be more careful on the road. But I did not have an easy time trying to achieve this but it helps me better each day and I can control my emotions better.
I would want to continue on the next pillar on physical but I guess this will be left to my next writing. This book is really interesting and like I mention early, it brings great self cultivation for sure, a wealth which will truly own by you or me for long time to come....
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Five Pillars
Having read through the book for about 2/3, I have already covered the Financial, Relational and Mental pillars. One of the recommendations from the book in the Financial pillar is to use Intention cards in our daily life to remind ourselves what we are our goals sounds familiar but hardly anyone puts to action, including myself. This is what I am going to get started, to use these intention cards to remind myself and set goals. To create the goals and attract my own attention towards them.
I happened to be going through a mid career reflection during this period and it seems the book teaches me quite a few things especially when I am reading through the mental pillar section. I like some of the phrases used in the book such as "life isnt about fault, its about results", "everything is your responsibility, not your fault", "let energy go and forgive", etc... Very often we carry lots of burden from our anger and bad memories which zaps our energy from focusing on things to move us forward. Believe me too, I tried this and it helps changes my mind. I initiated to patch up with some colleagues which I thought I would be angry with and forgave some friends whom I have got angry for long time during this period. Guess what, I think I gained more friends than enemies and makes me feel so much better.
I would also like to share another quote from the Mental pillar "Motivation is something that comes from external, or at best must be generated. Inspiration, on the other hand, is something that comes from inside and requires no effort whatsoever". Upon reading this, I felt it is connected to what people have always been saying about finding a job or career which is of your interest. On a self evaluation, I do feel that many of us lack the courage to do what we are best at or we have already carried too much commitments / lack of the freedom to pursue. Most of us only realized or being matured enough to understand our own personality or strengths beyond our 20s. This also explains why we ended up looking for motivation to continue what we have started rather than to follow our inspiration to pursue. But from this point, I would like to balanace from both and be able to fulfill my commitments as well as to pursue my intuitions...
I happened to be going through a mid career reflection during this period and it seems the book teaches me quite a few things especially when I am reading through the mental pillar section. I like some of the phrases used in the book such as "life isnt about fault, its about results", "everything is your responsibility, not your fault", "let energy go and forgive", etc... Very often we carry lots of burden from our anger and bad memories which zaps our energy from focusing on things to move us forward. Believe me too, I tried this and it helps changes my mind. I initiated to patch up with some colleagues which I thought I would be angry with and forgave some friends whom I have got angry for long time during this period. Guess what, I think I gained more friends than enemies and makes me feel so much better.
I would also like to share another quote from the Mental pillar "Motivation is something that comes from external, or at best must be generated. Inspiration, on the other hand, is something that comes from inside and requires no effort whatsoever". Upon reading this, I felt it is connected to what people have always been saying about finding a job or career which is of your interest. On a self evaluation, I do feel that many of us lack the courage to do what we are best at or we have already carried too much commitments / lack of the freedom to pursue. Most of us only realized or being matured enough to understand our own personality or strengths beyond our 20s. This also explains why we ended up looking for motivation to continue what we have started rather than to follow our inspiration to pursue. But from this point, I would like to balanace from both and be able to fulfill my commitments as well as to pursue my intuitions...
The Singapore sold version is in purple cover....
Monday, June 23, 2008
My First Post
I started this blog with the intention to share what I have read. Unfortunately, I have planned for 2 weeks and yet to get started till now. Nevertheless, finally I have.
I started to pick up reading recently, with advice from friends, lecturers and the urge to make some personal improvements. The first book after so many years which I started was on economics and I lost the book on a bus without even have the chance to finish it.
The second book which I got started about 2 weeks ago was Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray. This is a book from the author to share his concept on harmonic wealth achieve through the 5 key pillars in life – Financial, Relational, Mental, Physical and Spiritual. I have only completed half of the book so far but was already very motivated to finish it as soon as possible.
The first pillar was talking about Financial Wealth. In order for one to be making the money that we wanted, are we ready for that? Do we have the personality, character, discipline, etc to handle and live in it?
One of my favourite phrase in the book – “you cannot give what you don’t have, if you want to give more, you have to become more”. Why do we need to give more and become more? Well I think its better to read the book to understand better.
I started to pick up reading recently, with advice from friends, lecturers and the urge to make some personal improvements. The first book after so many years which I started was on economics and I lost the book on a bus without even have the chance to finish it.
The second book which I got started about 2 weeks ago was Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray. This is a book from the author to share his concept on harmonic wealth achieve through the 5 key pillars in life – Financial, Relational, Mental, Physical and Spiritual. I have only completed half of the book so far but was already very motivated to finish it as soon as possible.
The first pillar was talking about Financial Wealth. In order for one to be making the money that we wanted, are we ready for that? Do we have the personality, character, discipline, etc to handle and live in it?
One of my favourite phrase in the book – “you cannot give what you don’t have, if you want to give more, you have to become more”. Why do we need to give more and become more? Well I think its better to read the book to understand better.
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