Blog of Inspiration – Many things in life using the term ‘ideal’ to describe a good and interesting thing. There’s so many ideal terms we use in our daily life, such as job, ideal partner, ideal school, ideal woman, or the ideal man. So many people vying to get everything connoted by that word. Actually, what is meant by the ideal concept?

Ideal is a good all-round condition born by a desire process. Ideal is more personal and subjective for each person. Something that is ideal according to a person, not necessarily ideal as well according to others, and vice versa. Modern life often offers so much an ideal concept for us. The concepts are sometimes perceived as something that needs to be met. Not infrequently did we rule out the level of ability and our real needs. To be called ‘ideal’, many of us willing to sacrifice their life. In the wrong perception, the ideal is often confused with prestige. Today, many people who idolize their prestige so considered better than others. Thus, many people living in a state-imposed ideal.

Ideal is relative and can not be forced. Ideal circumstances born naturally, not through the modification process, which is instant and shallow. Ideal is not something impossible to achieve, as long as he continually sought through a living process. Ideal is not something temporary. He was created through a long and heavy process. Do not be afraid of others’ opinion on your life. You created the concept of the ideal by your own. Remember, something that looks good for others, not necessarily good for you. Do not look for something that is just fine. Look for something good and right for you. So, create your ideal life right now.

Blog of Inspiration – When was the last time you thanked God? Is the time you get a job promotion? Or when you get the bonus money in significant amounts? Could you do when you wake up and realize that you were given the opportunity to continue your life?

If we’re honest, our gratitude to God, turning once synonymous with the matter or special events that occurred in our lives. The situation that the momentum for us to remember and give thanks. Why is it so hard to give thanks every time? Why must wait for special events happening before our gratitude conveyed?

Indeed, everything that happens in our lives deserve to be thankful for, be it special events or regular events that occur daily. Perhaps the attitude and point of view which prevents us from expressing our gratitude. Attitudes to forget and ignore the simple details in life is one thing that causes us to be picky grateful. There are some things we choose to be a strong reason for us to say our gratitude. Always have the choice fell on something big, special, and phenomenal. Rarely do we choose something ordinary and simple, something that was so important and feasible for us to be grateful.

Our opportunity to continue living is something that is very inappropriate for us to be grateful. If the opportunity was taken by God, regardless of the amount of money and materials will be something totally meaningless. Sometimes so many things we ignore and forget. This should be the basis for us to give thanks us every time. Try to see and look at life more deeply. There is no single reason for us not to give thanks to God.

Blog of Inspiration – Once upon a time I experienced a fairly complicated problem. Problem are grabbing nearly half of my energy. I became not excited in my life. This situation is clearly reflected in my attitude and expression. I continue to stay in this conditions, until one day my daughter was only three years old came up to me, looked at me and said, in a way that was so pure and innocent: “Why be sad, everything will be fine. God has a plan for us. ”

That words are like lightning going to grab me. Immediately I felt strengthened and became aware that God is speaking to me in a way that is so unique and unexpected. God reminds me through words of three-year-old child.

Not infrequently the Lord greet us in ways so unique and magical. He communicates with us through a mechanism which would exceed mind and paradigm that we believe. Greatness of God is sometimes portrayed in these events great and admirable. But it is not unusual for God’s power is shown by simple languages. Languages that we often encounter in our lives. God uses all things to keep in touch with us. Nothing is impossible for Him to continue to show kindness to us. To be able to see and capture the ways and language of God, we need a sense of self. Sensitivity that is built from our spiritual life. Prayer, faith, and belief that we have able to make us more able to hear and recognize the language of God, which so unique and magical.

If we are able to communicate with God, we will not feel alone to live our life. We will feel confident and strong in our lives under any circumstances. There are terrifying forces that sustain and protect us. Try listening to God in our lives. Be willing to see and understand the language of God, which is sometimes conveyed in a simple in our lives. Language and the way that we sometimes get from people around us.

Blog of Inspiration – It’s easy to understand that a difficult situation certainly encourages us to curse our circumstances. Our inability to control something that doesn’t comply with our wishes will deplete our energy. Whether by complaining and wailing will solve our problems?

Complaining and cursing is an act which emit negative energy from ourselves. We shouldn’t make room for negative energy to become bigger and bigger. We shouldn’t allow us to be trapped in bad thoughts, perpetual regret and cursing our situation. If we are controlled by these bad thoughts, we’ll drift in the sense of despair and surrender. It wasn’t easy for us to raise head and looked at every bad situation confidently.

You might think it’s easy for me to say because I wasn’t at the same position as you who had experience with difficult life. Wait a second! My wife and I had been in a severe financial crisis. At that time I have no steady job and awaiting the birth of my second child. I don’t have any savings in the bank at all. Our money will last less than one week. Want it or not, we must think how we passed the next day. All the negative thoughts in our heads had been discarded from our life. After going through a tough struggle, we finally passed away from our bad conditions. According to my experience, complaining doesn’t fulfill all of our lives needs . Complaining doesn’t yield anything for me and my wife. If I just complain all the time, of course now I can’t write this article. I believe that my life would be much more difficult when I choose to complain.

Don’t ever indulge ourselves with complaints. Complaining makes us weak and unaware of great abilities we have. When life was difficult to live on, is worth pausing to collect all our best ability. Abilities that we have will generate tremendous positive energy, where the energies that will allow us to pass our lives whatever the circumstances. We all know, every storm will pass and just great people who will survive to become a winner of life. Complaining such as cancer that we unknowingly undermine our bodies each second. If we ignore it, death becomes something that we can’t avoid. Stop complaining on everything. Life is still beautiful to live on.

Blog of Inspiration – A young man came to a college as a new student. Until one day he gets a chance to see the dorm rooms. He was cleaning and rearranging the room. A moment later he mounted a small copper symbol. The symbol has a shape that resembles to letter V. Each person who visited his room was always asking the meaning of these symbols. The young man always refused to tell them the meaning of these symbols. Every day the boy always clean and polish it. After some time the young man finally graduated. Upon his graduation, his name was announced as valedictorian (who graduated). When walking to the podium, copper symbol mounted on his left arm. The symbol is very aesthetically shining.

All success begins with a dream who meets our heads. We are free to choose to succeed or not. If we imagine the defeat, we will lose. Conversely, if we imagine the victory, it will be easier for us to achieve it. What do you imagine will faithfully easier to get.

Success comes from self visualization according to what we want. If you think you are a successful then that is you are. Not easy for me to convince you about this, because people would not be convinced that he is a great, if he did not feel that they are great. Many people don’t dare to imagine their future success. Negative thinking is going to hamper his courage to imagine success. Many people use an excuse or a declaration not to become what they should be able to. There also are a pessimist says, “What’s the point to try again just to feel a failure!”

How do you imagine yourself? The vision of you today is the image of yourself in the future. Don’t ever limit your amazing achievement in the future only by negative thoughts that come from fears without reason. Success did not come from what you expect. It stems from the ways of thinking and your actions. Think positive and visualize the success because it will give strength to reach your great achievement.

Blog of Inspiration – One of my friends once said: “If you want something, ask God. If you believe it in faith, you will definitely get! “. Those words always motivated me when my belief in God’s grace began to thin. How can we ask God? Through any media attention to our petition and be heard by God? The answer is only one: Prayer!

Prayer is a way to connect spiritually with God.  By praying, we can communicate with our creator. We can say and ask everything in prayer, including our petition and hope. Through a process of prayer, we try to communicate our petition and demand, with the hope God will listen, pay attention, and make it happen. Prayer provides a private space for us to ask without feeling ashamed or afraid.

Prayer is the door that will be the beginning of the grace we receive in life. Prayer gives extraordinary power to achieve our desires and goals. Prayer drives us to feel confident and believe in our personal privilege. Privilege that gave us the amazing abilities to do everything. With the best resources we have, it is possible we will obtain a remarkable achievement in life.

If we expect the grace and good things happen in our lives, there is an initial step we have to do, is pray. Pray with your heart and faith, not just verbal activity of our mouths. Brief prayer sincerely and honestly believed it would be pleasing to God, rather than a long prayer and a long but not believed in its strength.

Blog of Inspiration – Life is a choice. That’s the phrase I often hear. Whether it’s from the books that I read or from the seminars. When I think of it, the phrase is indeed correct. Life offers so many choices to us. People must choose in their life. Without choosing, we will not get anything in life. Not even choosing is a form of choice that has its own consequences.

We are always faced with so many choices, no matter the situation we face today. When we stuck in the middle of problems, we are faced with choices that we can choose. We can choose to remain silent without doing anything or dare to confront and solve them. So also when we’re in a state of happiness. When we have a lot of money, we are faced with choices about how we use that money. We can buy things we need or invest for the long term. Whatever our circumstances, our lives will lead to the choices. We must be grateful over it. Just imagine if life does not offer any choice to us.

With so many choices in life, we should live our life easier. Life has been providing all the answers to all questions and our problems. All depends on the attitude of our own for interpreting and understanding all the choices. We must make a choice consciously. We must be understood of the consequences of each choice we choose. A choice that is chosen consciously and wisely should not lead to regret and disappointment. Wise choice is something that is believed to be the best thing to get more value in life. So determine your best choice at this time.

Blog of Inspiration – Can you calculate how much affection you have received in your life, from birth until today? Can you describe your family’s attention so far in the nominal scale? Perhaps the answer is not, even if you are equipped with modern calculators which have the most sophisticated technology.

There are some things we can count in a certain scale, such as test scores or the number of our account balances at the bank. But there are also things that we can be impossible to count them. Attention, love and sincerity is the gift of life is too precious to be counted. Its strength is more than just rows of numbers. Its size will never be answered with calculus formulas and arithmetic.

Grace in this life can not be traded with a nominal value of any well. Its value far exceeds our earthly riches. We can not change love and attention with our wealth. Conversely, if we are permitted by God to accept it all, without spending a dime, our lives will be blessed tremendously. We will get a gift and miracle of life without losing a single cent of account balance that we have.

Everything that comes from God can not be measured. All this illustrates the power of God is not limited. The power of God can penetrate the boundaries of space and time. Be aware of the limitless power over your life every day. Be aware of his presence and give thanks for all that.

Blog of Inspiration – While aspects of you encourage, “Go for your dreams,” simultaneously other parts threaten, “Don’t you dare.” A cast of characters lives inside of you and at different times you may receive conflicting or contradictory messages. If you are want to be happy, successful, and fulfilled, consider putting your “dreamer” in the director’s chair.

What are the voices inside of you saying? As you turn the volume up on the voice of your dreamer and down on the voice of your doubter, you can practice discernment allowing for greater clarity. To assist you in hearing these voices, let’s set up a simple scenario. Picture something you want, something that matters to you. Choose a personal or professional dream and consider how these various parts of you might respond.

Dreamer – The dreamer inside says, “What if…” and is open to a creative process without over-analyzing it. This is the part of you that imagines, believes in possibilities, has hope, and seeks kindred spirits. Dreamers talk about their ideas with intention, clarity, and passion. Great dreamers get others excited about their vision. And most importantly, successful dreamers take action to make their dreams a reality.

Doubter – This voice is often heard saying such things as, “I don’t think this is a good idea.” The doubter provides concern touting, “But what if…” and imagines the worst. If you crank the volume up it can even become annihilating with accusations shouting things like, “Are you out of your mind?” William Shakespeare said, “Our doubts are traitors.” Carlos Castaneda said, “In order to experience the magic of life, you must banish the doubt.” My favorite quote on this subject is in The Prophet where Kahlil Gibran wrote, “Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that Faith is its twin brother.”

Realist – “Be realistic…” Modulate the doubter down a notch or two and it becomes the essential voice of the realist. This part wants to know, “What’s the plan?” including where is the time and money coming from. However, in the early phase of dreaming, you may not know. The challenge is not to allow the realist to immediately turn into a doubter who might judge or obliterate your idea. Honor this voice by (to the best of your ability) giving it the information it needs. If you ignore or reject it, it will cleverly agitate or distract you. Being realistic offers prudence and makes you do your homework but if you are overly realistic or go to strategy too soon, you will most likely compromise the dream and kill your passion.

Visionary – This voice says, “Anything is possible so let’s dream big!” These are the leaders and people we look up to and admire. They have learned the process of realizing their dreams and embody what it means to be a big dreamer. Setbacks or failures do not stop them. Simply put, a visionary has a vision and invites others to join them. They are found in all walks of life and we are often so inspired when they are in the presence of a true visionary that we sign up just to be near them or part of what they’re doing.

A visionary is not defined by the size of the dream since dreams are precious and come in all sizes, shapes and areas of life. If you were living your dream life, how would it be different? What do you see yourself doing? How many lives would you touch? What would you change? Who would you help if you were truly living as a visionary?

Avoid Sabotaging Your Dream

When these different voices merge they can become muddled and result in confusion and poor decisions. For example, you might poison your dream by projecting doubt into it. Then with each step you take toward what you want, you also move toward your doubt. Doubt and fear, which most of us may have at some time or another (especially when embarking on a new or big dream) do not belong in your dream. These feelings are simply part of your reality. This is a subtle and essential point.

Here’s a simple technique for avoiding this sabotaging pattern. On a piece of paper draw a line across the middle. On the top half write out your dream with as much detail as possible. On the bottom write out your reality in relationship to your dream, where you are now. Reality usually includes good news and (so called) bad, as well as any fear or doubt you may have. Just state the facts and your feelings about them.

Now, which one are you more committed to; your dream or your reality? We tend to choose “reality” when we don’t have a clearly defined dream or when we saturate our dream with doubt. If your dream is loaded with your worst imagined nightmares, reality will always seem safer and saner. But doubt placed appropriately as part of your reality, allows two things to happen. First, no longer blown out of proportion, it’s an obstacle that basically requires a strategy to manage it. But more importantly, with doubt where it rightfully belongs, you are free to move forward.

It’s like a play. All the characters have wisdom and insight, but you can’t clearly understand them when they’re speaking at once. Take time to tune in, to listen, and on a regular basis, have the courage to give your dreamer its directorial debut or even the leading role.

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Blog of Inspiration – Life is a linkage between past, present and future, that influence each other. These relationships have a law of causality, the law of cause and effect which gave birth to a state of synergy in which we live today. The present is a result of our actions in the past.

Not infrequently the past that affect the person’s view on his life today. Someone who can’t make peace with himself of a past event would have a negative outlook on life now. Regret the negative perspective that will impede the person to accept his current situation. Imagining the person will get back into the past and fix all the mistakes.

We all know that it is impossible to change our past. We are only able to change the future by maximizing what we have today. Our lives today are very valuable capital to face the future. Capital should we increase the quality if we want a better future than today and the past. A true adventurer will be able to conquer the wild jungle with high quality ‘assets’, both knowledge and equipment. Good quality ‘assets’ are essential for our achievements.

Don’t be too proud of the past because it was just history that can never be changed anymore. It’s good to see and appreciate the ‘gifts’ that we already have today. Wonderful family, loyal friends, and the most important is the opportunity to enjoy our life today. Keep those ‘gifts’ beautiful and useful for us.