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Designing a passionate life requires nurturing of your relationships. Relationships are the key to our lives. As human beings, we crave them. When I speak of relationships I am speaking about all types which include; your relationship with yourself, parents, siblings, romantic partners, business partners, co-workers, customers, children, and vendors. The list can go on and on.

Relationships are key elements to living a passionate life as well. Without good relationships you aren’t going to make it very far down the road with your passions. You need people to support you in your passion in one manner or another. Relationships are the foundation of functioning on this planet in any culture.

To come up with ideas on how to nurture your relationships ask yourself the following questions:

• How can I create a deeper connection with myself?
• How can I improve my relationship with my parents?
• How can I take my service to my customers to the next level?
• What areas in my romantic relationship could use more love and understanding? How will I accomplish this?
• What can I do to improve my communications with my co-workers?
• How can I contribute to a higher level of team participation with my business partners?
• How can I bring fun to my relationships with my siblings?
• How can I contribute to a deeper connection with my children?

Nurturing relationships is an ongoing process and one to be aware of in all dealings with people, even people you meet in passing. Think about it, what makes or breaks your day? For me, it is usually the interactions that I have with other people. If they went well, I feel good about my day. If there were challenges then I don’t feel as good and my energy level is low.

How you handle and nurture your relationships has a direct affect on your energy level, your feeling of well being, and the ease with which your life flows. Time spent nurturing and improving all of your relationships will reward you on many levels.

How do you nurture the relationships that will support you in living your passions?

I wonder what would happen if you were able to identify your passions and start living in alignment with them? I offer tips and methods for living passionately on my blog. I’d like to invite you to receive my free Passion Deficit Disorder (PDD) Report and find out why passion is so important in your life and what you can do about it. You can get your instant access at http://www.DesigningAPassionateLife.com

In what article did the Dalai Lama say “It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act”?

I have been trying to figure out what speech, interview, book, article, etc…. this quote came from. Does anyone know?

I am pasting the full quote from the book Ocean of Wisdom by the Dalai Lama – Publisher: McClelland (Feb 1/90

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.
There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

-Dalai Lama, Ocean of Wisdom; Guidelines for Living, 1989

For more date clic this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama

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Here’s the truth: Unless you are the Dalai Lama or his equivalent, it’s likely that your relationship is held together with power lines. By power lines I mean the invisible cords that exchange energy back and forth creating a dance – otherwise known as a power struggle.

It works like a puzzle. We are attracted to those who have a complementary or opposite pattern, or who are a good energetic fit. Your relational template was formed during childhood based on how you interacted with your parents or primary caregivers. My mother for example, was busy with four kids. Same with my father who was ran his own business. My business was to get their attention.

Picture then, cords streaming from me hungering for some energy and attention. Getting barely enough to get by, I’d keep the cords out there hoping someone would throw me a bone. The bones I received usually came in the form of “Great job taking care of your sister…” Therefore, you can add caretaker to the mix of attention starved.

Because I’ve spent nearly twenty years in the self-help industry, I’ve become acutely aware of this pattern, which is exactly the reason I’m writing this article. Until you become aware of your relational template you are imprisoned by your own cords.

Most people fall toward either being attention starved or attention smothered (positive or negative.) Those of us pathetic souls who fall into the attention starved category fit like the perfect puzzle with the attention smothered. It all comes down to familiarity and fit. Two attention starved people wouldn’t be attracted to each other because their puzzle pieces overlap.

Attention smothered people typically had caregivers who controlled or overly doted on them, to the point of making the child feel like running for the hills. I once dated a man who ran from Great Britain all the way to the United States – hence the nice legs.

Here’s a checklist to see what side of the continuum you fall into:

Attention Starved

You like to analyze conflict

You love intimate time

You find aloof men or women sexy

You tend to chase after what you want

Attention Smothered

You avoid conflict at all costs

You need your space

You enjoy attention from the opposite sex

You let others chase you

It may appear that the attention smothered are more evolved, but the truth is both are equally dependent. The only difference between them is the way in which they get energy and attention.

The attention smothered draw energy, while the attention starved types seek it. Here’s the way out of power struggle hell: Identify your relational template and then change it. You do this by mindfully altering the way you would normally react to your partner, and instead focus on getting the energy you crave from inside yourself. With deliberate action (and some emotional tension, a.k.a. cravings) your patterns can be transcended.

Eastern philosophy calls this non-attachment. Western religion calls it unconditional love. With practice, you get to the point where you compassionately express your feelings, needs, and preferences, but refuse to manipulate your partner for energy.

This is not a painless journey. In fact, sometimes relationships held together with these sticky cords fall apart once the glue of dysfunction dissolves. However, if you’re dealing with a person who’s willing to grow, your relationship could transform into a healthy, beautiful exchange based on mutual respect and honesty.

If you’re tired of drama and like the idea of inner peace then you know what to do:

o Become aware of your template or pattern for getting energy from your partner.

o Notice how you react when you do not get the attention you desire.

o Breathe as you access your internal source of energy.

o Mindfully choose a different approach.

You will soon find these life-long patterns shifting as you transcend your childhood template and take your energy back!

Energy coach and speaker, Kimberly Kingsley is author of Opening to Life: Reconnecting with Your Internal Source of Energy, Wisdom and Joy, and upcoming The Energy Cure: How to Recharge Your Life 30 Seconds at a Time (New Page Books, January 2008.) http://www.kimberlykingsley.com

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Have the great leaders really changed the world?

We have seen and heard of some great leaders throughout history such as Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Pope, Dalai Lama, etc, etc…. Have they really been successful in their task of bringing peace and happiness in the world? No matter what they say, the world just seems to be heading in the wrong direction. Have your say.

Great leaders have been influencing the world and changing the path of huge masses of human beings. But the impact and effect of a leader is only upto certain geographical territory, certain period or certain sect. It is impossible to make all people in the entire world to agree onto even on one small issue.

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Over the past few years, I’ve noticed several things changing in me: 1) a deep inner search for what makes me happy, and 2) an ever-growing stack of books next to my bed.

People read for a whole host of reasons, some need help getting to sleep at night, while others are living out their fantasies through fictional or non-fictional characters in exotic places, still others read for the educational value and the joy of learning.

My devotion for the past ten years has been purely based on the subject matter as I’ve discovered a passion for the philosophical.

Currently, I’m doing two books at the same time. It wasn’t a cosmic jolt that led me to do this, but instead, half way through book one another arrived in the mail. I started to review the second one and found it in some ways in direct contrast to the first. Then it became fun to watch the two authors do combat without knowing they were in a battle. Bear with me because this isn’t a book review, but a way to show divergent views of acquiring happiness.

“Doing Nothing” by Steven Harrison (Tarcher/Putnam $16.00) and “The Art of Happiness” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D. (Riverhead Books $22.95) are both enjoyable reading, if you are in search of deep thought and abstract ideas.

Harrison writes in a style that forces you to stretch your traditional bounds. Half way through his book, I found his discussion on quieting the mind during meditation completely opposite the Dalai Lama’s.

Let me quote: Harrison: ” What is the nature of meditation when using techniques? Through the use of meditation techniques, one can concentrate the mind…by bringing our mind back to the object of concentration, over and over again, we become less agitated. We bring our mind back to our breath or back to our mantra…this is not quiet, this is dullness. We are concentrated, but we have lost our sensitivity.”

On the other, hand the Dalai Lama says: “When I say training the mind in this context I’m not referring to ‘mind’ merely as one’s cognitive ability or intellect. Rather, I’m using the term in the sense of the Tibetan word ‘sem’, which has a much broader meaning, closer to ‘psyche’ or ‘spirit’, and it includes intellect and feeling, heart and mind. By bringing about a certain inner discipline we can undergo a transformation of our attitude, our entire outlook and approach to living.”

Both men seem to have a sense of the movement of man towards happiness and away from suffering. They both do agree on the attributes of positive thinking.

If you have an untrained mind you will lean towards negative thinking and unwholesome acts. If you have taken the time to learn how “your” mind works you will, hopefully, have learned to recognized when it takes the negative road and when you have the opportunity to change to a more positive path. In doing so, we sidestep the unhappiness created by the acts brought on by the negative thought pattern.

Happiness is defined in so many different ways and by its diverse meanings becomes even more illusive. When you have too many choices of ways to obtain happiness, life’s complexities loom large. Gaining focus and concentrating will narrow the field and thus simplify your goals. But, happiness is still a state of mind that you create.

It may be the very process of discovery that brings you joy, rather than the ultimate outcome. Like the child that can’t cry hard enough for the ice cream or cotton candy, only to get sick from overindulgence. Where was the happiness? The untrained childhood mind hadn’t yet learned to weigh the choices and take the appropriate action, which was probably the frozen yogurt.

If we create our own happiness and learn to love life in the moment we’re living in, it has a tendency to slow down and become a continuous meditative state. After reading the Dalai Lama’s book, I think that is what he has obtained, an ongoing meditation during normal everyday activities.

I had the good fortune to see the Dalai Lama when he visited Denver a few of years ago and the man does give the impression of someone who has perfected the art of happiness. I, on the other hand, am getting closer, but I fear I have a long way to go.

How do you view your state of happiness? Are you striving to be positive and happy, or do you dwell on the negative and wallow in despair? I challenge you to take some quiet time and find out who is in charge, your soul or your mind.

No matter how you look at it, it’s fun to ponder.

Keith E. Renninson is a motivational speaker and co-author of the popular parenting tool and illustrated storybook “Zooch the Pooch, My Best Friend”. Through the 1990′s with much self-examination, academic study, bicycle racing, and mountain climbing, he discovered a renewed zest of life, which included a love of metaphysics, philosophy, humor, and writing and speaking. As Keith says, “Some days you’re the pigeon and some days you’re the statue…it’s all in what you make of it.” You can read more about “Zooch the Pooch” or contact Keith to speak at: http://www.zoochthepooch.com

Do you seek happiness?

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama

Namaste

Peace and Love

Thanks that was a wonderful addition to my day I like to walk in spiritual peace.

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In Western society, particularly America, leadership is typically left-brained.

Why? Because leaders are chosen for their knowledge…their knowledge of a particular industry, and how and where all of the stovepipes of the industry go, and how they must function to make the business work…how all the widgets fit together to make the perfect product.

And where does knowledge come from? The left brain. The side of the brain that thinks linearly, making logical, rational decisions.

To the present time, we have created, trained and chosen leaders who are “well-educated manipulators of information and deployers of expertise.” We have taught in our schools and in our businesses the logical, linear thinking that created the Information Age.

There is now more than ample evidence to suggest an imperative for immediate change in how we train and select our leaders!

In A Whole New Mind, a current New York Times and Business Week bestseller, Daniel Pink asserts that “for nearly a century, Western society in general, and American society in particular, has been dominated by a form of thinking and an approach to life that is narrowly reductive and deeply analytical.” He argues that we are entering an age where the “left brain” capabilities that have powered the last century will not be enough. Anyone who wants to survive and thrive in the new emerging world, what he calls “the Conceptual Age,” will need right brain “inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities.”

Organizations that succeed will need to retrain or replace left brain leadership with whole brain leadership. Whole brain leadership will champion the creative processes of innovation.

Today’s businesses realize that in what is obviously a rapidly changing business climate, leaders must be more responsive, more adaptive, more innovative than they they have ever been. Many large businesses now tout the benefits and values of innovation, yet leadership remains ensconced in left brain training and implementation of business practices and programs that lacks reward for innovation and creativity.

How many organizations ask their employees to develop stories, to use their imaginations, to be subjective rather than objective, or to look at and value interdepartmental relationships in a contextual rather than segmented sense?

How many organizations truly encourage and reward “out of the box” thinking? Are meetings where ideas are “tossed at the wall”; where no idea is a bad idea, and fun and participation is really endorsed, the “norm” or the exception? Or do most of your organization’s group meetings fail not only to get the best possible solutions, but fail to generate contributions to get solutions?

To advance into the new “Conceptual Age”, America and Western Society, needs to change its educational process –to create a seamless transition from the time a student enters the educational system until they leave it to enter the business world. Rather than dropping their art, music and drama programs, educational facilities need to enhance them, and add these elements throughout the entire teaching process. In addition to preparing students to enter the new world of business, it may well be the missing element needed to stem the alarming drop-out rate. By stimulating the creativity and innovation of the right brain, and balancing left-brain/right-brain teaching, education may renew students’ interest, and be revived to include teaching not only what to think, but how to think.

Businesses need to begin training, and rewarding leadership for development of the new aptitudes that include right brain thinking, the intuitive, imaginative, holistic half that provides the qualities of empathy, joyfulness and meaning.

In A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink crafts a cogent argument that for business “it’s no longer enough to create a product that’s reasonably priced and adequately functional. It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful.” He describes the most telling factor as Target’s sale of designer wastebaskets to feed the “middle-class obsession with design.” Design in a functional component…a wastebasket… has no “meaning” to the left brain! What the author points out is that in the new “Conceptual Age: “To stand out in the marketplace,”individuals and businesses must master the “soft” aptitudes”, gaining “mastery of design, empathy, and play.”

According to Daniel Goleman in Working with Emotional Intelligence, one particular cognitive skill that distinguishes the strongest leaders from other executives is that they recognize patterns, and can pick out meaningful trends from the “welter of information around them and are able to “think strategically far into the future.” The is not a left-brain function, but a whole brain function.

The whole brain leadership of the “Conceptual Age” will create working environments where data is analyzed and “imagined” into the sum of its parts, and its contextual relationship to determine and define “what really matters;” where products and services will meet the “aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual demands of a prosperous time.”

Are you ready?

Are you ready to embark on a journey to search for meaning in your life? Does the idea of developing a multi-functional, “ambidextrous” brain, and using it in your leadership role intrigue you?

If so, then be not “rigid of mind” nor “slow of foot.” We are now in the Conceptual Age, and opportunity abounds.

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help with a quotation by the Dalai Lama? ALL points to best answer?

Dalai Lama once said ” There is no one who is born under a bad star, there is only people who don’t know how to read the sky”
to me this quote means that there is no one who is born with more chances then others. You are the one who creates the path to your own life. You choose to do what you want to do and that’s what makes it good or bad.
What do you think? i have to write a speech about this

All points to a very good long answer!
Thanks

If the Dalai Lama said this and it means that no one is born with more chances then others, then he was wrong! There are millions of starving children who will never have the chances you or I have! So that isn’t what he means by this.

born under a bad star. I think he means this literally, there is no time of the year that one could be born that would be worse than another time. Libra, Gemini, Cancer, etc.

there is only people who don’t know how to read the sky. This I believe is literal as well as figuratively. The stars don’t rule our lives, we must understand the constellation in order to read the stars. We must understand our predicaments in order to achieve success.

For instance: A rich kid – silver spoon – doesn’t learn how to share. Doesn’t learn how to communicate. A poor kid – struggling – learns the world is a hard place to live in, learns by those around him.

The rich kid who can see that he has to share and learn how to communicate is somebody understanding the circumstances that can arise from his life style (thusly reading the sky). The poor kid must learn how to not let circumstances overcome his goals or dreams. He cannot give up. (thusly reading the sky).

This is my best guess, and quite frankly – I don’t like the quotation -

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