Reach for the moon but keep your feet in the mud.

Make no little plans. If you dream, dream big. Aim high in your love, work and life goals. If you fall on your head, you will fall higher if you made big plans. If you fail, so what? A hundred years from now it will not make any difference.

We are poised at the edge and end of forever. Every move counts.

Satoru

Life is doing, everything else is just waiting. You have to be open, engaged, and implement. To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes. “To reach the port of success and happiness, you must sail. Sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it. Always sail, never drift nor lie at anchor.”

So, luck, or in reality preparation meeting opportunity, only works if you are flexible and have the scope to face the realization that you have been; procrastinating, preoccupied, not prioritizing, and making excuses, (which in reality is just a well-planned lie,) and not making time to alter your direction and grow. So, meditate on living in the now and being absolutely engaged, open yourself to new opportunities, cultivate a more objective persona, simplify and plan, and adapt as your new mantra, Life is Action.
Satoru

Have you ever seen a stonemason split a huge rock? He will hit the rock many times just to draw a straight line. Then he will strike the rock on the sides to guide the fault. After tapping the boulder many more times in incremental steps he will, at last, give the stone a final blow and split the rock. Sometimes when we work, it is hard to see the cumulative effect or results. There is usually no easy way so expect difficulties and solve them in progression. All choices lead somewhere. Fix the difficulty, do not place blame. Define the problem and then adapt to the challenge.

Happiness has less to do with your circumstances than how you perceive them.

Satoru

We fabricate our illusions, basing our perceptions on thoughts rather than realities. Perhaps it is because thinking is more entertaining than knowing. And although we think in generalities we live in details. So, we focus on the details of planning, compiling and refining lists, calculating variables and alternate scenarios, and dreams of improvements and expanded life styles. This lack of objectivity in our thinking manifests itself by allowing us to become emotional attached to possessions, expectations, and situations. But the real quantum leaps of improvement in our lives escapes us because we are not detached enough to simplify our existence to concentrate on the absolute priories and look at the world with fresh interest.

Open your eyes and see in the Now, simplify, understand, search, meditate, read, plan, and begin.

Satoru

Objectivity alone is valid. Blind trust of authority leads to self-deception and misunderstanding. Truth is a rear bird but not completely extinct. We have to be more accommodating to reality and not pay homage to every cultural diversity, appease every ethnic sensitivity, and bend to political correctness. Or else we become the personification of passive aggressive and, especially when faced with overwhelming incompetence and political powerlessness, turn to considering only our own lives, first and exclusively, and become too busy with our careers, ambitions, successes, failures, and improving our lives at any costs.

 Satoru