This Is How Change Is Made

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Uncategorized and tagged 4 quarters, Action, Change, changes, God, Happiness, Inspiration, Journey, Mind, Mindfulness, Motivation, one dollar, Peace, Philosophy, Power, revelations, self made, Soul, Success, Thinking, Thoughts, transform, transformations, Truth, WIsdom, Zen.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”—Leo Tolstoy

I could give you four quarters for a dollar or you can get the change yourself.

Simplicity is Sophistication

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle, Success and tagged da Vinci, Genius, Happiness, Inspiration, Leonardo da Vinci, Mindfulness, Peace, simplicity, sophistication, Success.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci

In the shower I really had a whole article I was going to write inspired by this quote, but I forgot it…haha, I guess it will come back if it’s meant to.

Happiness Is The Path

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle and tagged Buddha, Dan Millman, Happiness, Happy, Inspiration, Jesus, Journey, Mindfulness, Panda, Peace, Peaceful Warrior, Philosophy.

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

I don’t have much to add to this precise quote from Buddha, but here’s a similar one from Dan Millman:

“The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.”

Action > Chatter

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Success and tagged Acting, Action, Believe, Create, Ego, Focus, Happiness, Inspiration, Inspire, Life, Mindfulness, Motivate, Motivation, Passion, Philosophy, Power, Soul, Spirit, Success, Thoughts, Trust, Truth, Universe, WIsdom, Writing.

Do you ever get carried away in thinking about what other people are doing?

I don’t do that, but! – I’ve found out that a lot of people actually spend their entire lives watching & talking about other people, while never living their own life.

What a life!! haha…

But I’m not actually laughing…

This article is a reminder to myself to — Although others are living their lives watching & talking about other people, To NOT be one of them on the sidelines watching & chatting, but to actually BE in the game.

Be Live. Be in the Action & Create while everyone else is on the sidelines watching & talking about you & I, The Creators. The ones who choose to live & live fully.

So, let people talk. It’s what people do best! Let them watch us as we continue taking action, creating, playing, living.

1 Empowering Message From The Alchemist

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle, Motivation, Philosophy, Self-Help, Success and tagged alchemy, Empower, empowering, fact, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Motivation, Mystery, Paulo Coelho, Peace, Philosophy, real life alchemy, real life magic, Science, Success, The Alchemist.

“…That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
—Paulo Coelho

Life can be a mysterious experience, and yet, in one way that life is not mysterious is that when we become better versions of ourselves, everything around us improves.

This is a Fact of Life.

4 Quotes on The Importance of Remembering Death

Posted on November 20, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle, Motivation, Philosophy and tagged Aurelius, Buddha, Death, grim reaper, Inspiration, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Meditation, Michel de Montaigne, Mindful, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Meditation, Philosophy, Shakespeare, Stoic, Stoicism.

After reading these quotes, let me know, comment about what the thought of death inspires within you.

“Of all the footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditation, that on death is supreme.”
-Buddha

“Every third thought shall be my grave.”
-William Shakespeare

“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happens to us. Now you anticipate the child’s emergence from its mother’s womb; that’s how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment.”
-Marcus Aurelius

Act With Purpose

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Dream, Lifestyle, Motivation, Philosophy, Stoicism, Success and tagged Act, Action, Aurelius, Create, Creation, Drive, Focus, Goals, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Purpose, Stoic, Stoicism.

“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.”
—Marcus Aurelius

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What purpose are you living for?

Here is A 3-Step Process to Begin Creating YOUR Life

More helpful resources:

Set long-term goals & Focus

& Then Stop Looking Back & Live Life Like You’re Driving

The JOY Of Missing Out

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Ken Thompson in Uncategorized and tagged covid, Dream, FOMO, Imagination, Inspiration, JOMO, Joy, Life, Love, true life, True Story, Within, you.

Most people exist and never truly live.

The funny thing is, at some point in your life you’ll realize, if you ever had FOMO, that you weren’t missing out on anything important.

Most people never Truly live – most are only spectators – watching others live & commenting on other peoples’ lives…

Most exist, but never live.

Do you need other people to enjoy life? Or can you enjoy life with yourself first?

If you don’t enjoy spending time with yourself, do you think others will?

Love yourself first.

Look within before you look without.

The important question is: “Are you a spectator in life or are you a participant?”

“Are you merely watching other people live their life? Or do you have any life of your own within you?”

Enjoy time you have with yourself – it’s some of the most important time you’ll ever have in this life.

Don’t know where to begin?

Start Dreaming

Know Your Why

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Ken Thompson in Dream, Lifestyle, Motivation, Philosophy and tagged busy, Dream, Inspiration, know your why, Life, Love, Mindfulness, Peace, Philosophy, productive, Success.

Why are you doing what you are doing?

Are you just staying busy or are you actually being productive?

And more importantly, what is it that you actually want to do?

What dreams do you have?

And how are you achieving them?

There is a big difference between being busy and being productive.

And we all have experienced both.

What’s important is what you do Today.

Know your why and then take action.

To Blame or Not To Blame

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Ken Thompson in Dream, Lifestyle, Motivation, Self-Help, Success and tagged Aristotle, blame, Buddha, insecurity, Inspiration, non judgement.

“They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”
– Buddha

This Buddha quote reminds me of an Aristotle quote:

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

We live in a hyper critical world of insecure projections.

^This makes it hard for any of us to live.

Because when we go against the grain – when we don’t conform to how they say we should live – we get criticized & blamed.

The crabs in the bucket try to pull us back down into the bucket with them – for whatever reason – mostly fear.

But we weren’t meant to live in that bucket.

We we meant to live free.

We Are meant to live free.

So let’s do a little less blaming, and a little more living.