Fleet Foxes

This album is so good

Go on Teddy

Quote of the day

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

-Theodore Roosevelt



A little bit about Theodore Roosevelt:

"He is noted for his exubert personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity."

What a cracking little summary. I wouldn't mind being described as a high achieving cowboy!

P.s.

There's something quite selfish about dwelling on your mistakes and worrying about your problems - What are you grateful for? What good do you have in your world? There's always someone, somewhere that is worse off, make the most of what you have. Celebrate life! Love everyone and everything!

5 things I am grateful for today:

1. The sun is shining in Melbourne
2. I have a busy week ahead, seeing friends and working hard
3. I have a great job and a great boss
4. I will be seeing my family in less than 9 weeks in India
5. There's lots of food in the fridge

“Negativity and pessimism bring about laziness while positivity, hope and optimism increase action and faith.”

Feel better, move forward

This is a post for the dwellers. People how allow their mistakes to consume them. I'm guilty of it sometimes too, but I'm making a conscious effort to cut that shit out. Life is too short for living through your mistakes and misjudgements. Wipe your tears away and crack on forward.



I think the key to happiness is positivity. Positivity does not always come naturally but I think it can be found... through the people you surround yourself with, the places you visit, the things you read, the conversations you have. So what I'm trying to say is, when things in life don't work out how you'd planned, don't dwell on it, stop thinking about it over and over... change the record, focus on the solution instead of the problem and you'll feel a change.



Sometimes mistakes are inevitable and it's true that you sometimes need to learn the hard way. It's not always sufficient to take peoples advice, sometimes you need to live through the activity, even if the outcome is destined to be tragic, the experience helps you learn. All experiences, good or bad, help you grow and shape you into your ultimate self. It's not the actual experience that defines you, it's your attitude towards it, the way you process it, what it means to you and how you use it.

The past does not define your present - there's no advice less constructive than when someone goes on and on about what you did wrong. For example "you should have revised. It's your fault for not revising! Why didn't you revise?" or "why didn't you book the flight last week? It was $500 cheaper!" oooor "why did you call him, you're an idiot you shouldn't have called him!" It's like, OK I feel pretty shit about this whole thing anyway, you're really not helping in the slightest. Or you're just like, oh I don't even care, and you end up being angry at them and yourself. Lose, lose.

I think it would be useful to check if the person can address and accept their mistake - you won't be able to help them if they're not ready to help themselves, and to be able to help yourself overcome a problem, you firstly have to see and understand the problem. You work out the reason you decided to do things that way, you think about other ways you could have handled it, and you plan for next time. The key ingredients are patience, maturity, positivity and respect (I think respect in general; for yourselves, others and for the world including the mysterious*) so the sequence should be: acceptance, interest, desired outcome, define solution, action and then ultimate satisfaction! It's easier to go through these motions discussing with someone who's a good listener, but at the same time it's easy to be influenced by other people when you're feeling confused or any other powerful emotions, so sometimes it's good to think by yourself for a while - write things down, brainstorm, read.

Without being deluded, our mistakes can help us become more righteous. You must forgive yourself of your mistakes before you can learn from them. It is a great gift to be able to see the positives in a bad situation. Embrace the message that your guilt gives you but don't punish yourself continuously for it. Associate with the solution.



(going off on a bit of a tangent here but this is a good quote) * The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein

Help yourself

This song makes me really happy. Today I've got so much love, it's so cheesy but I have love for everyone (apart from really rotten eggs like Hitler but he's dead now so it's all good)