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#301 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Not enough time in the day? Not after reading this gem. How To Live On 24 Hours A Day was first published in 1910 and was a major bestseller, as part of a larger work entitled “How To Live”. Arnold Bennett has some great insights about using time wisely and puts forward proposals for getting more out of our time each day. It is an old book and some examples may not apply to you, its philosophy definitely applies to everyone in the present day. (Link is below)

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How To Live On 24 Hours A Day

In How To Live On 24 Hours A Day, Arnold Bennett has some great insights about using time wisely and puts forward proposals for getting more out of...

Life Power Tip Train yourself to stay focused on “one thing” if you tend to be easily distracted. So many things can keep us interested and sidetracked from where we say we want to be going. Place reminders everywhere about your primary targets and take actions daily that move you toward those intentions. If you are an easily distracted person, design one, single, super goal and stay on target with that until it is accomplished. Then create another. Juggling several goals may not be for you! Action Put on your favorite CD or audio and listen to it, without multi-tasking. Challenge Study babies. They fall, get up, and try repeatedly, and then they walk. Quote What you want in your life occasionally shows up, what you must have always does. -Doug Firebaugh Clearing Sharpen all the knives in your kitchen. Question What practice do you have in place to manage your thoughts consistently? Affirmation I choose to feel more and more imaginative. Uplifting Extra Enjoy reading an extensive selection of articles covering a vast knowledge in the fields of Kabbalah, sacred geometry, Egyptian wisdom, Jewish tradition, Tibetan Buddhism and many other sacred concepts. (Link is below)

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#300 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Incrementally and painlessly take action each day from the Time For My Life book (now at Amazon in Kindle or Paperback), your life and your environment will certainly look very different at the end of a year. Snippets of time, well spent every day, can lead to extraordinary changes. (Link is below)

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Life Power Tip Start where you are. Allow. You do not need to do a quantum leap. Know the direction you want to travel and by when you would like to get there, then map out a plan. If it is not feasible and it does not look fun, change the plan so it fits amongst all the other things to which you are committed to achieving. Have some compassion for yourself and be a little generous. Taking daily steps toward the goal will grow your accomplishments exponentially. Just keep taking the steps that you know you need to take. Action Book a hairdresser appointment, within the next three weeks. Challenge Stop having mental arguments with the things you think should not have happened. Quote What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. -Alexandra Stoddard Clearing Shake out and/or vacuum all rugs and mats in, and around, your home. Question What positive contributions do you make through your work? Affirmation I choose to always be lucky. Uplifting Extra Self-improvement and personal development topics lists are in and of themselves, a great resource to get you thinking about areas of your own life that you might next delve into for improving and expanding yourself and enhancing your experience of life. At this next link, I’ve collated a list of 105 personal development topics for you to use in a variety of ways. (Link is below)

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105 Personal Development Topics To Explore

105 personal development topics for you to use in a variety of ways https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/105-personal-development-topics/

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The Art of Climbing Mountains René Daumal My observations are those of a beginner. As they are completely fresh in my mind and concern the first difficulties a beginner encounters, they may be more useful to beginners making their first ascents than treatises written by professionals. These are no doubt more methodical and complete, but are intelligible only after a little preliminary experience. The entire aim of these notes is to help the beginner acquire this preliminary experience a little faster. Alpinism is the art of climbing mountains by confronting the greatest dangers with the greatest prudence. Art is used here to mean the accomplishment of knowledge in action. You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again . . . So what’s the point? Only this: what is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above. While climbing, take note of all the difficulties along your path. During the descent, you will no longer see them, but you will know that they are there if you have observed carefully. There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know. . . Keep your eyes fixed on the way to the top, but don’t forget to look at your feet. The last step depends on the first. Don’t think you have arrived just because you see the peak. Watch your feet, be certain of your next step, but don’t let this distract you from the highest goal. The first step depends on the last. When you take off on your own, leave some trace of your passage that will guide your return: one rock set on top of another, some grass pierced by a stick. But if you come to a place you cannot cross or that is dangerous, remember that the trace you have left might lead the people following you into trouble. So go back the way you came and destroy any traces you have left. This is addressed to anyone who wants to leave traces of his passage in this world. And even without wanting to, we always leave traces. Answer to your fellow men for the traces you leave behind. Never stop on a crumbling slope. Even if you believe your feet are firmly planted, while you take a breath and looking at the sky the earth is gradually piling up under your feet, the gravel is slipping imperceptibly, and suddenly you are launched like a ship. The mountain always lies in wait for the chance to trip you up. If, after climbing up and down three times through gullies that end in sheer drops (visible only at the last moment), your legs begin to tremble from knee to heel and your teeth start to chatter, first reach a little platform where you can stop safely; then, remember all the curse words you know and hurl them at the mountain, and spit on the mountain; finally, insult it in every way possible, swallow some water, have a bite to eat, and start climbing again, calmly, slowly, as if you had your whole lifetime to undo this bad move. In the evening, before going to sleep, when it all comes back to you, you will see then that it was just a performance. It wasn’t the mountain you were talking to, it wasn’t the mountain you conquered. The mountain is only rock or ice, with no ears or heart. But this performance may have saved your life. Besides, in difficult moments, you’ll often surprise yourself talking to the mountain, sometimes flattering it, sometimes insulting it, sometimes promising, sometimes threatening. And you’ll imagine that the mountain answers, as if you had said the right words by speaking gently, by humbling yourself. Don’t despise yourself for this, don’t feel ashamed of behaving like those men our social scientists call primitives and animals. Just keep in mind when you recall these moments later that your dialogue with nature was only the outward image of a dialogue with yourself. Shoes are not like feet—we are not born with them. Therefore we can choose them. Let yourself be guided in this choice first by experienced people, then by your own experience. Very quickly you will be so used to your shoes that every nail will seem like a finger, capable of testing the rock and gripping it firmly; they will become a sensitive and reliable tool, like a part of yourself. And yet you were not born with them; and yet, when they wear out, you will throw them away and remain what you are. Your life somewhat depends on your footwear. Care for them properly, but a quarter of an hour per day will be plenty, for your life depends on several other things as well. A climber far more experienced than I told me, “when your feet will no longer carry you, you have to walk with your head.” And that’s true. It is not, perhaps, in the natural order of things, but isn’t it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as often happens? If you slip or have a minor spill, don’t interrupt your momentum but even as you right yourself recover the rhythm of your walk. Take note of the circumstances of your fall, but don’t allow your body to brood on the memory. The body always tries to make itself interesting by its shivers, its breathlessness, its palpitations, its shudders, sweats, and cramps. But it is very sensitive to its master’s scorn and indifference. If it feels he is not fooled by its jeremiads, if it understands that enlisting his pity is a useless effort, then it falls back into line and compliantly accomplishes its task. ~ • ~ This excerpt is from René Daumal’s Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidian and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures, Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004, pp. 105–108, and is used here with their kind permission. Copyright © 1981 Editions Gallimard, Paris. English translation Copyright © 2004 by Carol Cosman. For more information contact The Overlook Press, One Overlook Drive, Woodstock, NY 12498. Traditional Studies Press has published a recording of Dr. William Welch reading René Daumal’s Mount Analogue. Dr. Welch saw this book as a many-facetted jewel, and appreciated its poetry, its humor and its truth. He reads it with great gusto and delight. Look for it at: www.traditionalstudiespress.com. This webpage © 2007 Gurdjieff Electronic Publishing Featured: Spring 2007 Issue, Vol. X (1) Revision: June 1, 2008

#299 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Routine can become very comfortable, avoiding any need to define and challenge your comfort zone. Although it may feel safe, however, allowing yourself to remain stuck in a dull routine of existence can bring you to a very low energy point and will strip the joy from your experience of life. (Link is below)

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Life Power Tip Start out with promises that you can, and will, keep. If you have been a committed couch potato for the past ten years and you decide to set a goal for completing a record-time run in this year’s New York City Marathon, then a logical move is not to run the 42.2km distance on day 1, of your training! Step one may be to buy a high standard pair of running shoes and to map your daily training plan, between today and the day of the race. Then, when you keep that first promise, you can move on to a second promise, and so on. Action Book a dental appointment, within the next three weeks. Challenge Stick to a challenging task a little longer, one you might otherwise let go. Quote You should not change yourself but create yourself, that means build around your strengths and remove bad habits. -Peter F. Drucker Clearing Sew all buttons onto clothes, or stitch repairs. Question What perceived dangers are you avoiding? Affirmation I choose to feel that I am lucky. Uplifting Extra “You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again… So what’s the point?” That quote is from René Daumal’s Mount Analogue and is such a great little article that, just in case it ever disappears, I have taken a screen capture image of the article and saved it for you. It's in my next Nostr post after this one. You might also like this article which gives you a little more to read bout it. (Link is below)

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René Daumal: Mount Analogue | The Culturium

A motley crew go in search of Mount Analogue, the hidden peak reaching from earth to heaven in this allegory of man's search for himself.

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#298 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Whatever your goals, you must have total faith and belief in achieving them. I know you will enjoy the 22 Tools To Transform Fear free ebook to help you on that journey. Fear is undoubtedly one of the strongest, most influential emotional responses we have, and it can act as both a protective and destructive force depending on the situation. Download this free ebook with 22 powerful tools to transform your fear into happiness, peace and inspiration. (Link is below)

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Life Power Tip Dr. Joe Dispenza D.C., in the What The Bleep movie suggests the following as a daily practice. Spend time each morning to truly create your day with these words, “I am taking this time to create my day and I am infecting the quantum field. Now, if in fact the observer’s watching me the whole time, and there is a spirit aspect to myself, then show me a sign today, that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won’t expect, so I am as surprised at my ability to be able to experience those things, and make it so that I have no doubt that it is come from you”. Action Send a handwritten greeting card or note to a friend. Challenge Stay focused on an important task and finish it. Quote What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. -Alexander Graham Bell Clearing Set up timely reminders for birthdays so that you have time to purchase a card or gift. Question What part of your life have you sacrificed by not telling yourself the truth? Affirmation I choose to attract luck. Uplifting Extra We are the only animals that can peer deeply into our futures, the only animal that can travel mentally through time, preview a variety of futures and choose the one that will bring us the greatest pleasure and/or the least pain. Listen to this 11 min. talk The Big Wombassa with Daniel Gilbert. It’s all about what you think you’re going to get and what you don’t get, when you get what you want! The video link is in the right hand side-bar of the post. (Link is below)

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