“Observe due measure; moderation is best in all things.” It’s a wisdom that finds support across all ages, stages, and aspects of life."

Moderation

Locke adopted a “fair usage” view of property. He argued that one can hold any property that meets the following criteria:<ol><li>It can be used before it spoils (e.g., we don’t have huge stores of food that just rots).</li><li>It leaves “good and enough” for everyone else (e.g., one person cannot own all the land in a country).</li><li>The property must come from your own work and effort or what he calls “mixing your labor” with that thing (e.g., if you farm a field, the field and its produce become yours).</li></ol>But, there’s a lot of ambiguity in these rules, and money rather changes things.

John Locke Idea on Fair Usage

The idea that greed is an essential part of being human (or at least an animal) goes back at least to Plato and has a rich philosophical history from there."It’s when we think of little else than increasing our experiences and material possessions. This is the point at which greed has come to dominate your life." Richard Dawkins on The Selfish Gene

Too Much Greed

It’s when we are loath to spend our money and devote all of our waking lives to determinedly accumulating more and more at the expense of our relationships. It’s when we think of little else than increasing our experiences and material possessions. This is the point at which greed has come to dominate your life.But it’s also when greed replaces our common sense of compassion. It’s when property and wealth become virtues greater than charity, kindness, and solidarity with others.

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We should all check ourselves from time to time to see if some aspects of our life that are at least tainted by greed

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Trying too hard to get what you want in life—like love, respect, and happiness—often has the opposite effect: you end up lonely, dejected, and miserable. But there’s another curve, one that you’ve probably never seen or heard of before—and that’s largely because I make a lot of this shit up. That’s the inverted curve:<a href="https://markmanson.net/why-the-best-things-in-life-are-all-backwards#footnote-7">7 </a> The inverted curve is the bizarro “Twilight Zone” curve, where effort and reward have a negative correlation—that is, the more effort you put into doing something, the more you will fail to do it.

Diminishing returns

The goal is to take your mind—a wonderful thing that has spent its life learning to <a href="https://markmanson.net/your-two-minds">chase various creatures </a>—and teach it to stop chasing <a href="https://markmanson.net/the-meaning-of-life">meaning </a>and <a href="https://markmanson.net/real-cost-of-freedom">freedom </a>and <a href="https://markmanson.net/how-to-be-happy">happiness </a>because those only serve to move it further away from itself. To teach it to achieve what it desires by giving up what it desires.

The goal is to take your mind—a wonderful thing that has spent its life learning to <a href="https://markmanson.net/your-two-minds">chase various creatures </a>—and teach it to stop chasing its own tail. To stop chasing <a href="https://markmanson.net/the-meaning-of-life">meaning </a>and <a href="https://markmanson.net/real-cost-of-freedom">freedom </a>and <a href="https://markmanson.net/how-to-be-happy">happiness </a>because those only serve to move it further away from itself. To teach it to achieve what it desires by giving up what it desires. To show it how the only way to reach the surface is to let itself sink.And how do we do this? <a href="https://markmanson.net/how-to-let-go">By letting go </a>. By giving up. By surrendering. Not out of weakness. But out of a respect that the world is beyond our grasp.

And how do we do this? By letting go . By giving up. By surrendering. Not out of weakness. But out of a respect that the world is beyond our grasp. By recognizing that we are fragile and limited and but temporary specks in the infinite reaches of time. You do it by relinquishing control, not because you feel powerless, but because you are powerful. Because you decide to let go of things that are beyond your control. You decide to accept that sometimes, people won’t like you, that often you will fail, that usually you have no fucking clue what you’re doing.

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Trying too hard to get what you want in life—like love, respect, and happiness—often has the opposite effect: you end up lonely, dejected, and miserable. Here's why.

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In a world striving for perfection, Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim's wisdom shows us how only by accepting ourselves and the flaws which make us who we are, can we create compassionate and fulfilling relations with our loved ones ❤Little book of realism.This book is a beautiful treasure for your self to get lost in.

Accepting Yourself

When you hesitate to forgive someone, I pray you find the compassionate gaze inside you, as we all face our personal demons 🌟

Its ok to have flaws.How could we have lived our lives clean and untarnished like a blank sheet of paper?Instead of living a life doing nothing for fear of making a mistake, choose a life that improves through the failures and pains.Shout out to your struggling self 'I love you so much' ❤

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Even if someone I helped in the past, or I expected greatness from, causes me grave harm, may I consider him my greatest teacher.

No matter how good and how much you love a relationship, inevitably it will change over time.A close friend may move to another city, or a family member may pass away.Your circumstances too can and will change.But dont let this make you too sad, when one door closes, another one surely always opens.Bringing with it, new found love and joy 💫

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Just as I wish for a swift end to my suffering, I also pray for others to quickly recover from their pain 🙏

Listening is an act of love.If you come across somebody difficult for you, remind yourself of the following: <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Just like me, they need to support their family.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Just like me, they are thinking about their future.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Just like me, they must be facing a hardship unknown to others.</li></ul>We hurt each other through ignorance more than out of spite. If we have hurt each other, in order to resolve, say 'I am very sorry and I have misunderstood you'.

Empathy

Its best for two people to be equally drawn to eachother. When one person likes the other too intensely, soon enough, it can become scary, burdensome and annoying.We find love and purpose in life through those who care deeply for us. After all, we are all imperfect beings in need of each other. Do not try to control or change the person you are truly drawn to. Just enjoy spending time together. The connection endures when you just enjoy their company, without attempting to possess them.

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True freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.

After a negative experience, be wary of thoughts which make life seem worse than it is.Say 'so what?' to the nervous and inferior part of your self. Once you acknowledge the insecurities, you will find the courage within to overcome them.Failure is an inevitable human experience which we can learn from and become a little bit wiser and more prudent. See it as an opportunity to re-evaluate your self and grow mentally and spiritually.

Courage 

The biggest victim of your own hatred is you, if you continue to hate somebody that you feel deserves your hatred. 'The deeper the valley of hatred grows, the more it comes to feel like you are trapped in hell. Resolve to be mindful of these negative feelings, for your own sake'.The good heart that prays for the end of the sufferings of others, ends its own sufferings with such prayers. Send out blessings to family, friends, colleagues and strangers.Healing begins when we tend to our self. Breathe deeply, in and out..

Healing

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

5 ways to clear your thoughts and find peace in the present:<ol><li>Close your eyes and breathe deeply 10 times.</li><li>Close your eyes and listen to music that you like.</li><li>Enjoy walking without a destination in mind.</li><li>Smile as you look at beautiful scenery.</li><li>Shift your attention to your body, focus on how your shoulders and back feel.</li></ol>Your body may feel old, but your mind knows no age. It exists in the eternal now.

Enlightenment

Do you find yourself saying to loved ones 'If you love me, can't you change for me?' That is not love. Loves true face is acceptance and freedom, not restriction and control.The moment we allow ourselves to just BE, do we finally feel at peace with ourselves. When we accept ourselves, others begin to accept us too.If you live life denying yourself what you want, you may unwittingly deny the wishes of others, feeling others should live as you do. If you stop denying your self, it will become easier to accept others as they are.Labelling something a problem is often what makes it a problem.

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Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: "The world could surely use a little more love, a little more compassion, and a little more wisdom. In Love for Imperfect Things, Haemin Sunim shows us how to cultivate all three, and to find beauty in the most imperfect of things--including your very own self." A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with all our imperfections, by the Buddhist author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Hearing the words "be good to yourself first, then to others" was like being struck by lightning. Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inward and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others react by working harder at the office, at school, or at home, hoping that this will make ourselves and the people we love happier. But what if being yourself is enough? Just as we are advised on airplanes to take our own oxygen first before helping others, we must first be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world around us. In this beautiful follow-up to his international bestseller The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Zen Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim turns his trademark wisdom to the art of self-care, arguing that only by accepting yourself--and the flaws that make you who you are--can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships with your partner, your family, and your friends. With more than thirty-five full-color illustrations, Love for Imperfect Things will appeal to both your eyes and your heart, and help you learn to love yourself, your life, and everyone in it. When you care for yourself first, the world begins to find you worthy of care.

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Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: "The world could surely use a little more love, a little more compassion, and a little more wisdom. In Love for Imperfect Things, Haemin Sunim shows us how to cultivate all three, and to find beauty in the most imperfect of things--including your very own self." A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with all our imperfections, by the Buddhist author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Hearing the words "be good to yourself first, then to others" was like being struck by lightning. Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inward and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others react by working harder at the office, at school, or at home, hoping that this will make ourselves and the people we love happier. But what if being yourself is enough? Just as we are advised on airplanes to take our own oxygen first before helping others, we must first be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world around us. In this beautiful follow-up to his international bestseller The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Zen Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim turns his trademark wisdom to the art of self-care, arguing that only by accepting yourself--and the flaws that make you who you are--can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships with your partner, your family, and your friends. With more than thirty-five full-color illustrations, Love for Imperfect Things will appeal to both your eyes and your heart, and help you learn to love yourself, your life, and everyone in it. When you care for yourself first, the world begins to find you worthy of care.

Zen Buddhist teacher, bestselling author & founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul.Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, South Korea and taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world, with over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 different languages and sold over four million copies.His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of the year 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019.

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The essence of chronic mental and physical disease is being exposed to sustained levels of threat physiology. Our body is consuming resources for survival, and we cannot heal in this condition. Healing can only occur when we feel safe enough to replenish our reserves. But a major block to seeking safety is not recognizing our body’s cues that we are in fight-or-flight mode. There are many ways of it covering it up, but our body is still in high gear.

The Threat Physiology

Awareness is at the core of both survival and thriving. These are separate, and learned, skills.Survival is instinctual and includes whatever strategies we have embedded over our lifetime. However, many of the actions we have acquired are not only ineffective but can make situations worse. Acquiring effective stress-processing skills is important.

Awareness And Survival

Thriving is not as instinctual and must be cultivated and nurtured. If we are trying to use pleasant experiences, power, and material possessions to compensate for unpleasant emotions basic to survival, it can’t and doesn’t work. We cannot outrun our mind.The key to thriving is developing a working relationship with anxiety and anger; then we are able to create the life we want.Just solving problems doesn’t yield a good life. We must live a good life to have a good life.

Awareness And Thriving

Having awareness is critical. We can’t solve problems in any domain without understanding details from both our perspective and that of other involved parties. If we are projecting your views onto a given situation, we are not going to come up with consistently viable solutions. For example, we may have repeated troubles with relationships at home and work and can’t figure out why.

Awareness And Practicality

The first necessary step in using awareness is looking for clues that we are not as aware as we might think. By the way, if we think we are “aware” or “enlightened,” then we have already demonstrated that we are not aware. Any labels, positive or negative, block awareness.Seeing our un-awareness will allow us to deepen our awareness and start us down the pathway of using awareness as a tool.

Putting Awareness To Work - Step 1

Second, understanding and nurturing different types of awareness enables us to learn skills in each of these arenas. Here are four suggested types to use as a baseline.<ul><li>Environmental</li><li>Emotional</li><li>Judgment, or the stories we tell ourselves</li><li>Ingrained patterns</li></ul>

Putting Awareness To Work - Step 2

Environmental awareness is a tool by which we train our brain to connect to specific sensory inputs. It is used daily, and it shifts our attention away from disruptive thought patterns. With practice, it becomes automatic and calms our mind.

Environmental Awareness

Emotional awareness is difficult in that we are training our brain to experience pain that we have been suppressing or repressing. Remember, emotions reflect sensations generated by our various physiological states—safety versus threat. They drive our behavior to avoid danger and seek safety. Since mental pain and physical pain are processed in a similar manner, emotional pain actually hurts physically. Why would we want to feel it? But suppressed/repressed emotions fire up our body’s nervous system and chemistry so that we feel even more.

Emotional Awareness

Awareness of the stories we create about our life to make sense out of where we fit into the world is particularly necessary. Many of the stories have been programmed in by our family, friends, and society. A high percentage of them are actually cognitive distortions that continue to keep us ramped up even when our circumstances are good. The good news is that we don’t have to do anything about them, because they are not based on reality. We can just become aware, separate from them, and move forward. If we choose to prove them wrong or ignore them, we inadvertently reinforce them.

Judgment, Or The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Ingrained patterns are the essence of who we are; they make up our life view and evolve to become the lens through which all new information is processed. Since the human brain is programmed by interacting with others, each individual is incredibly unique. The early input is critical as it sets the trajectory for the rest of our life. By definition, we cannot see these patterns without outside help, as they are our frame of reference.Creating a clear awareness of our programming is a powerful way of switching our life from a reactive to a creative mode.

Ingrained Patterns

Once we become familiar with and skilled in developing these levels of awareness, we can actively use them as tools to calm down and redirect our nervous system. Some people make the strong argument that awareness is the only tool we need to heal. We know that we can’t “fix” ourself; our attention is focused on the problem, and from a neuroplasticity perspective, we are reinforcing it.

Awareness Is A Means To An End, Not An End In Itself

With awareness, we can watch ourselves respond; we are getting out of our own way and allowing ourself to heal. We become an observer of our own healing.Remember, the steps required to create neuroplastic changes in our brain are:<ol><li> awareness</li><li>separation (creating some “space” between us and our problem)</li><li>redirecting our attention</li></ol>

Awareness - Separation - Redirection

Finally, the “circle of life” can be used as a foundational template for implementing awareness into our daily life.The circle of life consists of 3 concentric circles. The inner (green-coloured) core is the place where we feel safe, content and connected; the outer (red-coloured) circle is the place where we feel anger, anxiety and threat; and the expanding (blue-coloured) circle is the place where we feel drive, excitement and achievement.

The Circle Of Life

On any given day or moment, we can quickly assess our relationship with any of the four kinds of awareness and see which part of the circle we are in. We then can choose to use our tools to move in whatever direction we want. But we can’t redirect unless we know where we are starting from.

How To Use The Circle Of Life

The circle of life provides a foundational reference point of awareness for embarking on any healing journey. The challenging aspect of using it as a tool is that we must allow yourself to feel everything—but only as we can tolerate it. Allowing ourself to feel anxious is difficult because no living creature is programmed to allow vulnerability; the consequences in nature are harsh. Yet, with language, we have the capacity to develop complex relationships, which requires vulnerability. It is a frustrating aspect of the human condition.

The Baggage Of The Circle Of Life

Once we are aware of where we are at in the circle of life, we do have choices. We can remain where we are—even if we are in the red—take a “refueling break” by entering the green center, or move on by engaging in blue activities.Freedom is being fully immersed in every element of our circle of life—on our own terms. And it begins with awareness.

The Takeaway

We must learn to become aware of our physiological state so that we can choose where and when we want to go or stay. Whatever set of tools we decide to implement begins with awareness. Do you think you know where in the “circle of life” you really are at this minute?

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Our presence here is just for a brief period of time. We do not have to further shorten it by fighting each other.

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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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Motivation , I think it is the most searched keyword over the internet and other social media platforms .Today something wierd happened with me , actually I was searching the top keywords or may be you can say the most searched keywords on Google trends and when I type motivation keyword then the result just shocked me . Motivation is being something that everyone is searching in the world wide internet some are searching for motivational videos , some are searching for motivational speech rest of the people are searching for motivational songs .

How to stay motivated ?  

Motivatio is the biggest issue in our society everyone is in search of motivation here and there but couldn't Do you know that we all have a common thing among what is that ? . It is they lack motivation and a short span motivation period . The terms used is big no ?

How To Stay Motivated ?

Motivation that lasts for a small period of time , in this type of motivation people gets motivated by watching a video or speech and tries achieve what they want , but after a short period of time approx 1-3 days they again reaches back to thier ground state . Just like the electron in the outermost shell of the atom , when the atom was heated then the outermost electron absorbs the energy and excites it's ground state and reaches into a higher energy level but after some time the electron releases his energy and reaches back to the ground state . .

Short span motivation period 

Here's the technique that I often used when I feels demotivated,1. Find a good place where you can sit alone.2. Remember to keep your phone aside or keep it silent.3. Now just ask a simple question how you see yourself in the next 5 years ? 4. Ask yourself that what will be your condition in the upcoming 5 years if you will waste your time as you have wasted earlier ?

Technique on how to stay motivated and succed in life ?

5. Imagine yourself in a condition where you don't have enough money to meet the expenses of your family .Even you don't have enough money to give the balance in your financial condition .6. Imagine yourself in situation where your childrens are struggling for their secure carrier & life . Imagine yourself when the teacher of that school will asks your children's about your employment status and your children's will shamefully say that my father is an unemployed person , we have no money even we have improper health, food , clothes and house facilities .

Stop wasting time, stop giving excuse, stop being lazy, just start doing hardwork for your goals in such a manner that when your child will born he must be smallest millionaire. Start doing hardwork for your children's future , start doing hardwork for a luxury life.

Few tips to stay motivated everytime,1. Stop being lazy in your work.2. Find out a reason for what you actually want to stay motivated.3. Set some rewards when you accomplish your tasks. This will give you a feeling of satisfaction. 4. Wake up early in the morning , it will make you more productive, energetic and enthusiastic towards your work .

Tips to stay motivated and succed in life

Be stubborn , stubborn towards anything that you want to achieve in your life. All sucessful people are stubborn they never focused about the failure they are getting back as a result they focused on one thing that is their dream. Their goals and hence they are successful .

Bonus tip

I will conclude my words with a on a simple note believe in yourself believe in your skill do hardwork and let the success speak for you.  Stop giving excuses be the best version of yourself . Good day

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When we're in a bad state, we don't want to fix our life, we feel guilty that we wasted time and we victimise ourselves of our past. We want to stay unhappy and miserable, thinking that we are like this, we deserve this, and this way we end up falling down to a deeper "bad state". So this is the loop we get stuck in, you and me and everyone once have gone through it or going through it. So, what's the solution? Find it yourself, hint:- begin with realising that this loop is operating right now in you, and maybe, next time you can catch it before another cycle starts!

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You must give early adopters the feeling that they're getting in on something special—before everyone else To get this group on board means you have to advertise to them in a smarter way. Targeting early adopters on forums and with non-intrusive ads on specific websites can speak to them at a higher level

Insights

Early adopters are hard to please. After all, their reputation is on the line when they announce their shiny new product find to their social circles. Early adopters aren’t innovators like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. They’re average individuals in society who like innovation. In "The Diffusion of Innovation", Rogers says that those who class themselves as early adopters are more likely to be younger, have higher education, and perceived social status.

Insights II

Early adopters want to be that family member that posts on Facebook about a new product. They need to be an employee in the boardroom that’s found an innovative solution to a problem that’s been dragging the company down. Because of their willingness to experiment more with new products compared to the early majority, early adopters are also financially stable. They're willing to spend money on products that excite them.

Insights III

Don't be fooled—early adopters aren't massive risk takers. They make calculated decisions about investing and purchasing a product and take calculated risks. To minimize the risk for early adopters, your company can serve up technical insights, testimonials, case studies and behind the scenes perspectives from innovators to encourage them to try the product for themselves. ﻿

Insights IV

<ul><li>They know they have a problem that needs solving</li><li>They know exactly what that problem is</li><li>They're actively looking for a solution</li></ul>

In reality, early adopters tend to have three traits in common:

Strategy 1: Target them in their own neighborhoodStrategy 2: Use push-based acquisitionStrategy 3: Get early adopters using your product (even if it isn’t perfect)

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We break down why early adopters are such a valuable target for marketers as well as the most effective contextual targeting strategies for reaching them. 

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