Month: February 2012

“When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be”

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday

And our present thought build our life of tomorrow:

Our life is the creation of our mind.

-Buddha

When you look back on your life, the things that you want people to remember you for are not the long hours you worked, not how much money that you had in the bank and not what a wonderful job you did at work. You want to be remembered for who you are and what you gave to others.

Be remembered for the life gifts that you are blessed to give to others.

-Karel-

 

Did you ever think about responsibility? I love having responsibilities, but that wasn’t always the case. There were times in my life when I looked at the unbelievable number of responsibilities I has in life and was so overwhelmed – how could one person deal with so much responsibilities? If you are at all like me, then you know how hard it is to say no when someone asks you to take on yet another one.

Then one day, I looked at the word – responsible – and smiled. It was one of those light bulb moments: the workd is a combination of two words:

Response +able.

So first of all I was so glad that I am able, and then I thought how often am I able to respond, really respond. Am I able to respond to all fo the demands made on me. I understood that in order to be responsible, I need to think about the additional responsibilities that I take on.

It made my life so much easier – I have responsibilities that are basic and a part of my life, there are responsibilities that come with my job and that I volunteer for. Today, whenever asked to take on additional responsibilities, I stop and ask myself – am I able to respond to this request? Do I have enough time? Is this something that will hinder me or will it enrich me.

How about you?

Don’t say you have to see it to believe it

If you believe it

You will see it….

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