Worry will destroy all your dreams. Never agonize about something before it happens. Instead make the proper preparations, face the worst case scenario, and act. Worry is the interest you pay in advance for a debt you may never owe. What you tolerate you worry about. Do not be afraid to speak your truth. If you can’t say no to what you don’t want or tolerate, then you will never have the time and energy for what you do want. Extrapolate this to other aspects in your life. Insight is the spontaneous organization of chaos.
Category Archives: Philosophy-Zen Buddhism
Life is Execution
Having a great idea, knowing what to do and what action to take, writing down a list, and setting up a plan is essential, but they do not equal execution. Doing is what it is all about. Implementation is everything, and objectives mean nothing unless they are transformed into action.
Your fortune, however difficult to achieve, is there. The trick is to recognize it. It comes sporadically and in forms disguised. But most of all, it comes to you in opportunities that are few and far between, sandwiched within an infinity of plausible futures. We look at the chance and see only the present. You must observe the opportunity and see the seeds of the future. If you are to succeed, waiting for ideal conditions or a situation is rarely an option. Excellent opportunities never last long and usually require a change in your thinking and actions. Often, you have just one chance, and if you do not take advantage of that moment in time, the possibility is forever lost.
Satoru
Action and Time 
Life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
Doubt entails self-examination because a check on the plausible beliefs and attitudes checks all that constitutes the self. So self-examination entails self-awareness and revising your fake assumptions, a matter of degree. We hold onto the beliefs that maintain a particular conception of ourselves and our relationship to the world. Usually, we have a personal investment in these beliefs; hence these are the ones most resistant to change. This is another reason why changing thinking and actions are so complicated.
Perhaps, to be more objectively analytical, considering action and time are life’s most essential concepts, we should concentrate our beliefs and faiths in taking advantage of what we have and do it in a timely fashion.
All we see and touch is all we will ever have in this life. Your existence is not a dress rehearsal, immerse and absorb it up and do it now.
Satoru
Opportunity
Some people wait all their lives for an opportunity that is right in front of them. They end up missing this potential because of trepidation, the reluctance to take a chance, or their preconceived ideas. They let their fear of failure and excess baggage get in the way. Be ready; luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Satoru
A major fitness tool
Walking is the single most underutilized tool in health and wellness. The reason we rarely hear about walking as a major fitness tool—in the same conversations as stuff like yoga or expensive spinning bikes—is that people aren’t emotionally prepared for fitness to be easy. Most people want to believe that working out and fat loss needs to be hard. A basic program performed consistently—even a half-assed effort done consistently—can bring you a really long way, much further than going hardcore once in a while. Expecting that you’ll accomplish the training required for a movie star body when starting out a fitness routine is setting yourself up for disappointment. Walking a lot, on the other hand, is something that is relatively simple to fit into your everyday life. The best fitness routine is always going to be the routine that you follow consistently. Satoru.