Seek to understand

As we seek to understand before reacting or being understood, our communication skills will soar. We will experience more joy and success in our families, our businesses, our churches or community groupings. Further, we will become less prone to anger or suspicion. 

We know the incredible power of dreaming big and setting goals. Space exploration achievements exhibit it. Research confirms it. Why not start setting goals even today? What about dusting off dormant childhood dreams and pursuing them? Whatever you set your eyes on and focus on may become your reality someday. What except past dissatisfactions do you have to lose in dreaming big?

Socializing correctly opens the door to learning, modeling, and coaching. We get to rub our minds against other successful minds and we become more perceptive and efficient in detecting opportunities and in finding solutions to our issues. Yes to socializing, but socialize deliberately.

Sometimes, our circumstances or frequent urgent matters do not leave us the time or predisposition to seek serenity. That’s precisely when we need short retreats to understand ourselves and the world around us. Further, in serenity our subconscious mind brings out solutions we have been after for a long time. 

Since patience is such an important virtue, why  don’t the majority of people practice it? Why does instant gratification often trump a lofty delayed reward? How often would people have reached their goals if they had applied patience by reframing the situation, understanding other peoples’ attitude, and avoiding assumptions?

Every successful day takes a fair mix of the right diet, physical activity, social connection as well as cultural and spiritual upliftment. Sometimes, we need to bring the load of our professional activities or other concerns down to a Miami Airport in Covid-19 time traffic level in order to focus more on what matters the most, our health.