Meditation

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Hi 🙂

The reactions on the word ‘meditation’ are different from person to person, but most people give me a ‘What, are you serious about this?’-Look, when I use this word. So I tend to describe it with other words or try to give it another touch. This quote does this description very well in my eyes and is therefore my dailymote for today:

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Well, to be honest, I don’t think that it defines Meditation or anything, but it merely gives an idea of what it means to stop the rush of daily life, to stop the always ongoing noise of your mind and to just be quiet for some time, being inside your head and just spectating your own thoughts, without any judgement or logical treatment. If you first try to do so, if you first try to ‘watch yourself’, you’ll find it to be very hard, almost impossible. But with time and training you will gain a better understanding of your own personality and you become way more calm and happy.

With some patience and the will to experience something new and positive, this exercise (call it meditation, sitting quiet, watching your thoughts or oompa-loompaing) will help you a lot and give you a clearer mind to cope with daily life problems and situations.

/phil

Enemy or Friend?

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Hey there 🙂

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher

Dalai Lama


Friend or enemy, it is your decision!

Think about it, has any of your good friends ever given you a harsh lesson of how to accept shitty things as they are or how to be friendly and open-hearted even to persons who behave completely different than you like them too? When it comes to practise of tolerance, people you really don’t like around you help you more than any friend can ever do, no matter how hard he tries.

This is another example of how there is a good use of every situation in life. For example in school, the teacher places you next to the class bully, who you really dislike. You know that you have to sit there for a long time, for many hours during many boring lessons, so you start getting used to it and make the best out of your situation, which is: Being tolerant and open-hearted.

Keep this advice in your mind the next time you interact with people, no matter if it is at work, on the street in the cinema or wherever.

/phil

Action, Action, Action!

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Hi Hi 🙂

Only can action can transform knowledge into wisdom

Dan Millman

One of my favourite quotes of Dan Millman, one of my fafourite authors 🙂 Knowledge without action is just like fuel without an engine to put it into. For an example if you study science for 20 years, but never start an active project using your theoretical knowledge, you did not gain much from all the studying, did you? Life is about doing and experiencing, not about watching and thinking.

Lazy dog

Being lazy and sluggish? Wake up, take action!

Instead of standing at the borders of life watching other people around you succeed in areas you just know in theory you should just get out there and make your own experience. You can read thousands of books about swimming, but nothing will teach you better how to swim than jumping into the water and being in action. Like Bruce Lee said:

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water.  On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you

If you want to become a successful manager for instance, you have to start managing in some way, you won’t become successful by reading books about management! The same goes with personal development: It is definitely good and helpful to read or listen to self development texts or watch motivational movies, but if you do nothing else, if you bother putting those things into action, nothin will happen at all.

The crucial point is: YOU have to do it! YOU have to go out there, YOU have to start now and YOU can’t waste any more time sitting around, doing nothing in the end. Better get started, if you don’t want to oversleep your life!

/phil

Positive Thinking

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Hey 🙂

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Gandhi and/or Lao Tse

I have read some different variations of this quote, but this on seems to be the easiest in my eyes. It is very important that we keep our thoughts positive and maintain a positive mindset. Without a positive mindset, no success will come in the long-run. If you start thinking with a bad attitude towards things in life, they will turn out badly, because you will unconciously project your reality and your impression of things on your environment.

Ever thought about seeing things through a new perspective?

That is why some poeple live as there were no miracles at all and some poeple just see everything as a miracle. Many people still categorize into good or bad things and pretend that there are certain circumstances that are just bad and that bring you down, but everything is relative and a definition like “good” or “bad” is nothing that a situation or an object can obtain, it is something that is created by YOUR mind.

So watch your thoughts and make it a habit to see the bright side of life, the results will come! Life is plain beatiful, but you have to allow yourselves to see it like that, so free your mind from negative influences or bad ideas!

/phil

You got no time?

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Good Mornin’ 🙂

You tell me you don’t have enough time to do shit? Look at you, you have the same fucking time as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama or Michael Jackson had!

Philipp Kleidt

When it comes to work or on  the other hand procrastination, we always find our own personal excuses. “It’s too cold”, “There are risks” “I’m too old” “I’m too young” and one of the most heard excuses is: “I don’t have the time to do this or that”.

To say you don’t have time just means you don’t give a shit. If you want to do something, you find the time to do so. Why should you have not enought time, you got the same time as everyone else. You just have to set your own priorities and get out of your comfort zone in order to achieve stuff and that’s when efficient time management comes in. You have 24 hours a day and that is definitely a lot of time if you spend it on things you love to do and if you do them with passion and eager.

So stop wasting your time with useless stuff and take time for things you relly love to do! The fact that today is sunday is random but definitively a good day to start thinking about how to use your free time 😉

Make youselves a happy day,

/phil

PS: A nice video about excuses:

Thinking outside the box

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Hey hey, day two 🙂

Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it.

I read this quote some time ago around the interwebs and fell in love with it in no-time 😀 People, especially in buisness, always talk about thinking outside the box and establishing new standards etc., but the concept of thinking of no box at all is so outside of any box, it’s just awesome how the author played with this metaphor 🙂

So, get rid of your thought box today and try something genuinely new and fresh to you. You’ll enjoy it, one way or another 😉

/phil

Sleep vs. Work

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Hey there 🙂

Today’s quote to start off the blog will be:

“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks.  I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.  I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.”

Greg Evans

I really like this quote because it always reminds me of the fact that there are no “easy ways” or “shortcuts” when it comes to success. You have to work harder than anyone else, if you want to achieve more than anyone else!

Of course it won’t bring you that much if you put boxes on an assembly line for 16 hours a day, 40 years of your life (except you’d be probably the most skilled box-putter in the world 😉 ), but even if you found something you’re really good at or something you really love, you have to keep doing it and work your hands to the bones in order to exceed others around you. If you want to achieve something extraordinary, you have to put extraordinary effort in that.

And now go out in the world and show the people what you’re made of and that you rock as hell!

/phil

Hello World

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Yep here it is, my dailymote-blog, A blog where you’ll find your daily portion of motivation and inspiration! I decided to give wordpress a shot before i take it to another level by going top-level >:-) (I created the banner because of style reasons and “.wordpress.com” is just not looking as good as “.com”, so let’s hope that some day I’ll really go top-level :D)  Have fun with this blog and recommend or feedback it, if you like too, i appreciate both 🙂

Btw: There will be two categories, “dailymote” and “personal” or sth. like that. Dailymote is the category for the daily quotes I’ll be delivering and personal will be the category for personal texts and thoughts about the topic motivation/inspiration 🙂

/phil