Joy of the Journey

[Ann]

Are you so focused on results that you miss the joy of the journey? In your quest to get there quickly, are you bypassing much of the value along the way?

Certainly it is important to focus on the results you intend to reach. It is also critical to focus on and appreciate the real value that goes into making those results, and that value is to be found and to be lived along the way.

Achievement is not some future object. It is a present state of being.

Yes, achievement does indeed have a future objective. Yet the place where achievement happens is always here and now.

Because of that, the more you enjoy building the achievement, the more valuable that achievement will always be. The more you savor the journey, the more magnificent and fulfilling the destination will be.

Success is not merely something that you will someday attain. Success is yours the moment you begin to truly appreciate, value and enjoy the journey.

-- Ralph Marston

[Five]

I hope you don't take offence to this Ann, because it really is not directed at you, but this Ralph guy gives me the creeps somewhat. He seems to know everything about how people should live their lives.

I wonder if he ever has a "crazy" moment, where he just piles in the porn, call girls, huge caskats of cocaine etc...?

I can positivley predict that if I took on board what he says, on a daily basis, then the main emotion I would feel would be guilt.

I hope you don't mind my comments.

[Phinneas]

Good gravy, Mill. Don't read the posts if you don't like what's being said.

As for the rest of us (meaning me), I love the these posts and look forward to reading them every day.

Thanks, Ann.

--phinny

[Ann]

Originally Posted by Five

I hope you don't take offence to this Ann, because it really is not directed at you, but this Ralph guy gives me the creeps somewhat. He seems to know everything about how people should live their lives.

I wonder if he ever has a "crazy" moment, where he just piles in the porn, call girls, huge caskats of cocaine etc...?

I can positivley predict that if I took on board what he says, on a daily basis, then the main emotion I would feel would be guilt.

I hope you don't mind my comments.

Mill, I'm guessing that if he practices what he preaches, he has no need for porn, call girls or cocaine. If you do, that's really your business and your problem, yes?

I've never met the man, but personally I get a lot of inspiration from what he posts. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Hugs
Ann

[Dan]

Good gravy...
Cool expression, Phinny

[Five]

I just think he goes on a bit...

...and whenever I read them I feel guilty...

Thats all I was saying...

[Five]

I feel i've opened myself up here a little...

Of course he is probably a nice bloke, but I just find it impossible to live by his standards...

[FaeryQueen]

I wonder if he ever has a "crazy" moment, where he just piles in the porn, call girls, huge caskats of cocaine etc...?

I'm not trying to encourage bad behaviour on the forum, but that cracked me up.

[Five]

No way was I endorsing it either...

[Five]

Sorry Ann - I hold my hands up.

Shouldnt have taken over your post.

[Dan]

Yo Mill...
Little secret I want to share with you.
Try and learn to break down what you read in any given post to its basic elements.
I promise you walk away with something positive every time.

[FaeryQueen]

Mill

You will never gain entrance into the SR Undeground making those kind of comments.

[Five]

Originally Posted by Dan

Yo Mill...
Little secret I want to share with you.
Try and learn to break down what you read in any given post to its basic elements.
I promise you walk away with something positive every time.

Thanks Dan.

I have got some severe blinkers on at the moment.

I can sometimes achieve this, other times not so.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Five

I have got some severe blinkers on at the moment.

Blinkers and blinders and denial filters...
We all come equipped with sevaral pairs.
Shedding them as best we can is part of recovery, for me anyway.