Hi everyone and congrats on making it to the second half of this month’s challenge!
My TIP for today is this: Meditate your way to success!
I know this may sound odd at first, but all that meditation is, really, is taking a few moments or minutes from the busy day to slow down, breathe deeply, and refocus. That’s it! It doesn’t need to become some obscure esoteric booga-booga.
Stated that way, I believe it becomes much more clear how beneficial such a simple and short practice can be. If you take that quick break to recenter yourself and refocus on your real goals, what’s truly important to you and what’s aligned with your values, then success comes much more effortlessly.
On a related note, I remember reading an article about Yiannis Kouros many years ago (a fellow Greek, who is arguably the greatest runner who has ever lived), and how he described the process by which he would transcend his physical body in order to accomplish his inhuman feats. This struck me particularly because he is a very simple man, of Greek Orthodox faith (like us), and yet he spoke about channeling some form of higher power (in mid-race!) to go beyond the physical limitations of his body. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, but whether you buy it or not, his jaw-dropping world records continue to speak for themselves.
All this to say that having any form of spiritual practice or relationship with whatever power you believe in, can definitely be a real aid towards accomplishing things you may never have initially even dreamed were possible.
Keep fighting the good fight, and continue to transform into a better version of yourself!
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.
–Rudolf Steiner
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
–Diana Robinson
Just remember persistence and patience are the foundation of any success.
–Christopher de Castell Junghertz