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Dieter Langenecker
Purpose Counseling & LifeMentoring
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"My Favorites" routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
The Benefits of Minimalism: 7 Reasons to Declutter Your Life
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." ~ William Morris
Have you ever noticed that every time you move you need a bigger truck than the last time you moved?
People love to collect things, and we have a tendency to keep collecting things in order to fill the available space in our homes (and sometimes beyond).
I'm a firm believer in the idea that material possessions do not equate to happiness, so I recently started to explore the idea of living a minimalist lifestyle, to see if a less cluttered home would result in a less cluttered mind.
I concentrated on decluttering each element of my life by reducing the amount of material possessions I owned and removing those that were unnecessary. This allowed me to focus on those items I valued most.
I followed the seven steps below to declutter my possessions:
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Why so Many Love the Philosophy of the East - and so Few That of the West
Miranda Kerr is pretty, successful and very rich. She's been named the sexiest woman alive. She's also deeply interested in developing her mind. That means she's into yoga, chanting, meditation and Japanese Buddhism. She recites Nam Myoho Renge Kyo twice a day - invoking the mystic law of the lotus flower which asserts that Miranda and the cosmos are two sides of the same coin.
Kerr has had some real difficulties with loneliness and loss. Her first boyfriend died in a car crash. A later lover turned out to be a crook. She married Orlando Bloom but it all fell apart pretty quickly. Her needs are real. And she's turned for comfort and help to the East.
She might have looked elsewhere. She might have found that Plato or Tolstoy had things to teach her. Maybe she could have been touched by Bach or medieval architecture. It's not as if the West doesn't also have a deep and long engagement with the sorrows of life. But, like so many spiritually curious people, she didn't end up engaging with its culture. Instead she joined the Soka Gakkai Buddhist movement.
Miranda is deeply sincere in her longing to be educated and instructed. She's a tireless advocate of an analysed life.
So how has it happened that Western culture largely passed Miranda by? It's not her fault. She needed something and the West wouldn't give it to her. So she went elsewhere. And her decision tells us something hugely important about how the Western world handles - or more accurately, mishandles - its culture.
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Does your passion come from a positive place?
Passion is useful and can make life worth living, If your passion comes from a position of strength and emotional maturity then you have a much better chance of achieving your
goals.
An acquaintance was having problems selling his services. He explained his business was the passion in his life. When I asked him what drove his passion, he told me his father had
passed away a number of years ago. His father had suffered from stress from work for a number of years. With observable anger, my client explained if only his Fathers work environment had been better then he may not have traversed that downward spiral which led to his passing.
Shortly following his father's death, my acquaintance set up his consultancy explicitly to help businesses improve and eliminate stress from the workplace. A worthy and much-needed intervention. However, he was having problems engaging with businesses who sorely needed his services and he couldn't understand how they just couldn't see how he could help.
I've seen many people in similar situations who desperately want to make a difference. They always have a good cause or they have identified a valid problem to solve yet they still find it difficult for people to hear them, much less engage their services.
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Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
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