Daily Wisdom Motivational Podcast

The person you are today is what you’ve attracted by your actions, accept them. If they’re not exactly the way you wish them to be or you wish to make a difference for your own children, then make it a difference.

People often confuse the difference between humility and pride. They believe that if they are humble, they will be naive and that they will be bullied around. That’s not what humility is; they also believe, at times, that pride is arrogance. That is also not pride is.

Let me explain the difference between humility and pride.

We often focus on, in our lives, about a “closed door”. We say, this is the end of it. What am I going to do now? I lost my job. I can’t finish this project. My spouse doesn’t like me. My friends despise me. My parents want to disown me, and on, and on.

For many of us, it’s easy to get caught up in what we can’t have, can’t do, what the person we wish to be in or not. And it’s extremely disheartening to pull our heart and soul into something and then find a brick wall to stop us and make it so clear that we can’t do that thing, whatever that is. Isn’t that amazing?

In life, we all want to feel as though what we’ve earned was done with dignity, integrity, honesty, and with sweat; then we could appreciate it. It’s the result of our work.

Regardless of how old you are, whether you are starting your journey in this world, you are in the middle of it, or you think you are close to the end of that, you can become better. You can acquire as much knowledge as possible. Your mind will stretch, accept, and learn anything that you put in it.

There is an interesting concept about the difference between water and fire. You see, the two cannot quite live together; let me explain.

If water comes too close to fire, it will extinguish it. If the fire on the other hand is too hot, then it will make the water evaporate. So how do these two live together? There is a way they can live together. 

Have you ever thought about your life and what is stopping you from being the person that you wish to be?

A writer once wrote, “The decision to be happy is actually the decision to stop being unhappy.” Interesting, isn’t it?

I once read a story about two people who were stuck on a mountain. One immediately worried and started thinking, how will we get down? What will we do for food? How are we going to live? What will happen to my family? While the other immediately focus on the beauty of what was around. That person was able to look and admire, and appreciate the breadth of the amazing scenery.

This is quite interesting, isn’t it?

Everyone is looking for happiness. No matter who we are and in what circumstances, this is what each person in the world is looking for. This is what we long for.

Happiness is the experience of the sheer joy of being alive. Now you see, it’s such an important value that the Declaration of Independence identifies its Pursuit as one of only three undeniable rights. Isn’t that amazing?

You think about that.

It is quite interesting to see how the world has evolved and keeps on evolving in that direction. Our wonderful world has become a consumer society and it hasn’t stopped. We want more stuff and whatever we can get, if we don’t get it, the media, the advertising, and the companies out there try to make us feel bad that we don’t have that extra stuff. We need the latest computer, the latest phone, the latest car, the latest gadget, the latest clothes, the latest of anything, and it never stops. There’s always more. There’s always greater. All of it is there to entice us and there is a lack of nostalgia that if we don’t have it, then we will not be satisfied.

Quite interesting, isn’t it? And it doesn’t stop.