Conscious Life ebook

The biggest problem is that a person cannot understand someone who is at a higher level than his own. We can imagine development as going up the stairs with our backs to them. From this position you can only see the steps below, and you cannot see those that lead up. The man standing at the top of the stairs sees the whole, and the one standing on the first step sees nothing, but he is under the illusion that he has reached the tops.

Preface

This book may seem too harsh for some people, but it is a kind of motivation to act and encouragement to make the necessary changes in your life.

Sometimes I can repeat myself, but I will do it until you start applying to what I am writing about in practice.

The book is addressed to both women and men, which is why I ask all women for forgiveness when I address men only. It was necessary to make the book have the intended end result.

I encourage you to read and reflect on yourself and, if necessary, to make changes.

Change your life for the better now.

„It is worth remembering before starting anything that a person whose awareness is the size of a golf ball, his understanding will also be this size, while a person who is aware of the size of a medicine ball, his understanding of a given thing, issues will be much greater. Analyzing the same thing, one man is able to extract a lot from it, he can understand it, while the other cannot. A person with greater understanding sees what someone else cannot see. That is why it is so important to constantly develop "- Author unknown

Greatness and uniqueness

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” — Albert Einstein

Without following blindly others, just follow your own path in spite of all adversity — this is how great, outstanding individuals, warriors, and giants of this world are formed. This is a challenge, so few succeed. It’s strange — when you are low, at the bottom like others — people like you, accept you, but when you get out of this unconscious state, people begin to envy you, talk to you behind your back, hate you. They suddenly become hostile towards you, saying, for example: „he is heading over the corpses to the goal”, „he is lucky in life.” However, they cannot see what is behind the success — how much hard work, sweat and effort, how many sleepless nights. They do not see the enormous amount of time, and how many sacrifices of pleasure — without which small people of this world cannot live — it cost us.

„Only the poor are called crazy — the rich are eccentric.”

Don’t do the same as everyone else. Be unique and irreplaceable. Follow your own path. Break the scheme. Nobody said it would be an easy task.

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — The Dalai Lama

Are you saying, „I’ve tried it so many times and I still don’t get it”? Then draw conclusions from these lessons! Behind every such failure is the experience that you gain and learn what you should not do anymore and how to behave.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

You really only live when you are ready to sacrifice yourself and your own life to defend some ideal, some truth. Is life without our life mission and passion worth living? Does going through life, not knowing what we want from him, have any deeper meaning? Then why are we here on earth? Are we here to observe and admire the achievements of others? Can we afford so little? Can we not have our own dreams? Don’t we have ambition and imagination? Let us skilfully use what has been given to us from life.

We didn’t get the same from life, but prove that you can cope even in adverse conditions, that’s how great people are created.

“Little things affect little minds.” — Benjamin Disraeli.

A great man does not deal with insignificant things. His mind and thoughts are directed to ideas that affect hundreds of people. Such a man has the courage to dream. He has the strength to lead, and his personality is charismatic enough for people to be willing to embrace his vision and follow him.

Such an individual — this leader, is a man of success because he skillfully exercised the laws ruling the human mind and the universe. This man certainly strives for his goals, and the rest follows him, because they sense that he is a concrete man, great and can achieve a lot.

The strength of confidence has a significant advantage over its lack, so what choice do people have without an idea for themselves? They must follow their „shepherd”.

“The greats of this world should stay away from the small of this world, who are as many as swarms. The little ones will never understand the great ones, so they will be biting them, biting them like rain rushing rocks. The great should run to their loneliness " — Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

A small person is interested in small, insignificant matters. His life is just like his thoughts — he is probably focused on himself and no one else. This man thinks in categories not what others can gain from it, but what he can get from it. This is the wrong way.

„Small people derive enormous joy from the mistakes and blunders committed by great people” — Arthur Schopenhauer

Mistakes made on the way to the top are inevitable, so don’t worry too much about what others will say. They are laughing now, but you will be the last to laugh. Let them waste time talking about you, and devote it to something productive. Focus on your goal and the way you can achieve it.

„The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. — Albert Einstein

If a person is interested in small things and himself, does not do any major work, does not show signs of entrepreneurship, what remains for him? I think you know immediately how little such an entity is capable of achieving. Even if he is lucky, he will not be able to meet this task. The burden of the task and the inconvenience will quickly make itself felt and the fate will probably turn again, and our man will return to his old, comfortable and familiar life.

People want a lot, but they just say it. First of all, few of them would be able to cope with the new circumstances. We can’t bear much without proper preparation.

„Giants often wander and fall. Worms don’t because they just dig and crawl "- Author unknown

People are already so, that they expect a lot, demand and do nothing themselves, do not give anything from themselves. Nothing will happen without their involvement. An interesting example are people who have won a large sum of money on some lottery. Such people spend too much quickly lose all their property, all their money, and usually remain with debts to pay.

Someone will ask how this can happen? It’s easy. Appetite grows with eating. These people spend more and more, not wanting to notice that their money is disappearing. They do nothing to save money and invest it.

If you do not have such a habit, with small amounts, it will certainly not be with larger ones. Such people are quickly bored with new gadgets and are getting newer and newer. When they realize that something is wrong, it is too late. Living costs far outweigh their real capabilities and sooner or later they will lose everything.

Great people are not great for no reason. They traveled a long way to the top and skillfully seized the opportunities. It seems we can’t see it. Man sees only what he wants to see.

So dare to think on a large scale. Commit your strength to ideas that are worth it and do not give up pursuing your goal.

We hear about such giants, because they were able to overcome all adversities, overcome all obstacles, skillfully using what they received from life. So what’s the point of your life? What sense did you give him? Whether it is teaching others or pushing the world forward into a new era. Or maybe your goal is to live for others? Choose for yourself!

What vision do we have on ourselves? Are you going to sit out all your life at home? Are you going to waste yourself and your skills in any job, spending most of your life in it? You can do better than that! First of all, find a goal! You must give your life meaning. Nobody else will do it for you.

Dare to dream and aim high! Reach for what you want!

Time

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

Time is something fleeting, something that we cannot stop, slow down or recover. The dream of every human being at the moment of death is to have more of it, to be able to use it again or to make better use of it.

„There are thousands of ways to kill time, but no one knows how to resurrect it” — Albert Einstein

We still lack him to do the most important and necessary things, to deal with our responsibilities, and at the same time we can lose him for hours of unnecessary things. Each of us has 24 hours a day and it is up to us how we use it — not all of us use it effectively. Just look at the achievements of the great personalities of this world. I think that the best example illustrating what a single person can achieve was Leonardo da Vinci — painter, architect, philosopher, musician, writer, explorer, mathematician, mechanic, anatomist, inventor, geologist, sculptor.

His achievements could be used as a colorful biography for several people at once. Of course, there were many people like him, and there will still be many — the secret lies precisely in the skilful use of the time available to us.

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates

When we have a specific action plan, our productivity increases, thanks to which we are able to perform a given activity in a shorter time. By delegating tasks that can be performed by other people, as well as skillfully using the things that surround us — various gadgets and devices, we gain a huge amount of time, and how we use it depends only on us …

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! — Michael Landon

The years you have lived through will not return, so don’t think too much about them. Instead, engage your energy in more useful things for yourself and others. Do you lose your precious time on unnecessary things in your life? Do you abuse entertainment? Are you arguing about trivial things? Start living really! Fill your life with passion and enthusiasm. Start realizing your goals and dreams. Dare to finally do the crazy things you’ve always dreamed of, but you kept putting them off for later. Realize that later there may not be time, it may be too late and do it today. What are your obstacles? You have nothing to lose and you can gain a lot.

„People would do better if they knew how to do it better,” Jim Rohn

Don’t you think you could make much more of your time given to you here on earth? Don’t you think that it would be worth spending several minutes a day on your development? Saving a dozen or so minutes a day is not so difficult. Maybe it is worth giving up watching TV and thus receiving negative information from the TV? Maybe you sleep too long, waste time on unnecessary activities? Benefit from the knowledge of the best, those who managed to achieve something on their own, who lead a full and happy life that is prospering. Apply the most valuable things and methods to your home and discard the rest. The time invested in yourself now will certainly bring you a lot of good in the future. This is time well spent.

„Life is something that happens to us when we are busy planning other things” — Anthony de Mello

We’re still busy. We live in a constant race. We hurry everywhere and complain about the lack of time. Despite the technological development and the appearance in our lives of many facilitations and improvements, we still lack time.

It is worth looking at even the way of moving, once it lasted all eternity, and today? (And so much ahead of us). Despite this, we assume more and more responsibilities — maybe we achieve more thanks to it, leading to faster development, but at what price?

Do we still remember about ourselves in this race? Have we completely lost ourselves in this life, completely losing the meaning of life? Instead of becoming more and more aware, we lose ourselves in the whirlwind of technology and mania to fill every second of our lives with activities. Do we still remember about ourselves?

Maybe it is worth putting aside everything for a moment and spending some time with yourself in peace and quiet. When was the last time you meditated? Never? So maybe it’s time to start?

Take a few minutes a day for yourself, and I assure you that it won’t be a waste of time. The reward is always waiting for the persistent ones.

We’re still planning something and we’re busy, and we never really think about ourselves. We put personal life in the background. In this case, only one thing can be said, namely: something definitely went wrong!

Think for a moment where you are in your life, what plans you have on yourself and your future — what you want to achieve and what you expect from life. Strive for it! Don’t focus only on everyday matters, work, school, etc.

Live your life so that you do not regret old age, that you could have done something differently or that you did not do something. Live in such a way that at the end you say: it was worth it!

„Remember that when you make an appointment with someone, you assume the responsibility of being punctual and you have no right to be late even a minute” — Napoleon Hill

Punctuality is now more and more rare nowadays. It can even be said that this is a legend. It seems that all technological development that makes life easier should change that, and it’s only worse. It is true that access to information is now easier than ever. We no longer waste time on long searches, but we still have less and less time. This is due to the fact that we receive too much information and should then be skillfully assessed and sorted, whether in terms of truth or from the perspective of usefulness.

The same can be said, among others, in the case of transport and human communication. The development of civilization has changed nothing in terms of how it continues to approach punctuality.

The only thing everybody has in life is time. It’s up to you what you do with it. Will you spend it on entertainment or development, will you work hard or wisely, will you think positively — in terms of success — or negatively?

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg

The most surprising thing is that if someone took even a small amount of money from us and spent it, we would probably be angry. However, the situation is different in the case of time. How many times have we allowed someone to be late, take our time irrevocably, which did not result in anything valuable for either party?

Is this madness? Losing money hurts us more than losing time, and it is time that is most important here. When someone is late, you should clearly and clearly present the situation that next time you will not wait that you are a punctual person and expect the same from others. Lack of punctuality is an obvious disregard for another person, which somehow people do not really care about. Of course, there can always be a random event, etc., but we are still responsible for the consequences.

“Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

While waiting for someone, you can of course somehow use this time — for example, reading a book or learning, but can we focus on something else, especially when something important is waiting for us? Let everyone answer this question for themselves.

A successful man knows the value of his time. He knows how valuable it is and doesn’t waste it on unnecessary entertainment and pleasure. If you have wasted at least an hour ever, then you will not do anything about it, so do not reproach yourself, and in the future do not do it again. Everyone has certainly done it once. It’s a thing of the past and you can’t do anything about it. Focus on the present, because if you really want to live consciously, then you must appreciate the true value of life. Remember that you can’t buy time for yourself — you have it like everyone else — a certain amount — and then you leave this world.

„The unexamined life is not worth living” — Socrates

You can go through life without knowing anything but how far it will lead you, and what will it make sense? Without realizing certain things in life, we are doomed to stumble, erring, which can be significantly reduced by just passion for something.

Without showing any signs of interest in anything, we will not be able to understand even the basic laws ruling the universe. Certainly we receive all stimuli then as something supernatural, everything seems to us great created just by God. One is simply happy and life is constantly surprising us through various situations and events.

If everything looks so beautiful, why don’t we all live like that? After all, no one really knows where we come from and what happens to us after death, or where we are going. We don’t know what the purpose of our life here on earth is. Each of us must find it ourselves, each of us is called to a different mission and seems to be „sent” to earth to undergo some teachings, gain some experience, simply to „better understand”.

Everyone decides how they want to live their lives. Our decision depends mainly on previous experience and lessons learned.

After all, we can experience the time given to us here, seeing everything as miracles, which is certainly much more valuable and interesting, or we can allocate the received time to eternal complaining, whining, wandering and be convinced that miracles do not exist. As always, the choice is yours, dear reader. Choose well how you want to spend the time available to you.

Will you use it to help others, for your own development or for less valuable things? My advice to you is: go through life confidently, with a positive attitude, have your goal and believe in its implementation. Choose wisely!

„If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” — Omar N. Bradley

These words are becoming more real for us day by day. The development of technology and its huge „jumps” occur only within a few years, right before our eyes.

Annually, more and more devices and gadgets are produced in the world, in many cases completely unnecessary. It is happening faster and faster. Today, completely functional electronic equipment is thrown into the bin, just because a new and better model came out, although it is not much better than its predecessor, you need to be up to date. Heaps of electric waste are constantly growing.

Our main concern is taking control of the world by machines and enslaving humanity. No matter how you look at it, we are still enslaved, although not in the way we imagined it — but time is still ahead. We can’t sit in silence, waiting for something, because we have to look at the screen of a smartphone or laptop every now and then.

“What had once been life’s quiet moments of solitary reflection — a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment — now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.” ― Dan Brown, Origin

Technology put into the wrong hands or simply misused can do us more harm than good. This is perfectly illustrated by the following statement:

Technology should be a product of humanity, not the other way around, for when the population becomes a product of technology, it self-destructs.

“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.” — Bill Watterson

Are you one of those people who are always short of time? In that case, the first thing you need to do is eliminate harmful habits and learn to reasonably manage and manage your own time. This is a basic skill if you want to fulfill your responsibilities, be it at work, at home for the family, as well as for yourself.

Let your time be valuable to you and let others know about it so that they won’t take it away from you. When you really lack time for yourself, it is a clear sign that something is wrong. It’s time to take care of yourself and your busy schedule. Let there be time to fulfill all duties, but also to rest.

„Getting Things Done is not just about realizing tasks. It is also about getting properly involved in life and work.”

Postponing things is called procrastination. Intelligent people postpone the biggest matters and things for later, because they feel physical rejection from matters that cause them difficulties. Let’s start with doing the first and easiest things to do, i.e. those that need the least time to complete and those closest to us.

The implementation of small things gives us motivation to continue working and dealing with more difficult matters. (I also recommend that you read the theory described by Brian Tracy in the book„Eat that frog.” To put it simply, he suggests starting with large frogs and then taking up the smaller ones. Personally, I think that both methods work, only for everyone another will work. The choice of method depends on ourselves and the challenge we face.)

One of the very useful techniques to organize your time is to keep a notebook that will always be at hand, in which we will often look in and in which we will have all the tasks that we should perform written. This is the best way to reduce unnecessary stress caused by a lot of „things on your mind” by freeing our memory of unnecessary information at the moment. Checking the notebook regularly, we will not forget anything, and after a short time you will see for yourself how such seemingly trivial thing can help, and the exercise itself will become a habit.

Another very simple method is to perform tasks from a list in a notebook, which takes less than 2 minutes to complete. Do these tasks right away, and remove finished items from the list.

If you have a big project to do that you don’t feel like doing and you don’t know how to go about it, just take this first step. Start anything directly related to this project. Do not think about the whole, and after completing the first step, perform the next and the next one and you will see how easy it is, and the tension associated with reluctance to the project passes and before you see it — the project will be ready. This is a way to deal with an unpleasant task for you.

The small steps method is effective in overcoming the habit of procrastination.

Choices and habits

„Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life.” — Robert F. Bennett

It is amazing that even the smallest choices shape our fate. It is surprising how few people pay attention to these small decisions. Of course, we don’t pay too much attention to our unconscious choices, because we do it automatically, through learned behaviors, reactions, habits. That is why it is so important to eliminate bad and harmful habits, replacing them with good ones.

When we fill our daily lives with as many habits as possible for us, we can almost be sure that our lives will be ordered and we will have control over it. This is an important factor when we are on the road to freedom. Remember that you alone are responsible for your decisions, so think now what to change in your life, what to organize and what to fix. Choose wisely!

„Make self-discipline your habit, only then will you achieve the great goal”

Both self-discipline and self-control are supported by motivation. People with a strongly developed self-control feature follow their own rules carefully. They are their own supervisors and do not allow themselves a moment of weakness. Too extreme self-control is asceticism, but this is not the point to be mortified. Everything should be approached with common sense and it is best to stick to the middle way — which the Buddha himself was a supporter of.

„Self-control involves sacrifices. You have to let go of what is nice and easy, keeping only hard work in mind.”

Careful cultivation and development of these qualities in us will make us become better people, and our activities and work will be more efficient. By the way, we shape our character in this way.

„Real golden years are when you are young, intelligent and full of strength” — MJ DeMarco

The years of youth are the most important for most of us, because that’s when our habits shape and we build our character. Man reaches his full strength and intellectual ability at the age of about 25 years. That’s when we have the biggest ambitions and motivations to follow our goals. This is the time when the biggest changes in our life take place — e.g. starting a family.

Do not waste these years, only for fun and carefree life. Think about your future and take care of it now.

Are you older? Nothing lost, just awaken a great desire to change and start acting. The sooner you start acting, the sooner you can expect positive results from your efforts.

“For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision, But today well lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day” — SANSKRIT

It depends on your current activities who you will be in the future. You don’t have to run your mind far ahead to the next years, just another day, another hour or even a minute. Everything you do now affects your further life. What you do now affects you.

The present moment is also your tomorrow, from your yesterday perspective. Right now you are experiencing the effects of your previous actions and choices. What decisions you have made in the past has an impact on you in the present.

Our life is the sum of our habits as well as the sum of all decisions made. Did you achieve what you dreamed about yesterday or a year ago? If not, then this should be a good lesson for you to start working finally. Time is always flowing, only we stand still. So do not let you stay in place, go ahead, develop yourself!

As if to meditate more deeply on this, we come to the fact that we are finally beginning to see the real power of „now”. We realize that the future and the past do not exist. There is only the present moment.

The past is nothing but our memories, and the future is our imagination. We have no influence on the past, but we have influence on our future. It all depends on what you currently do, whether you take actions that lead you to your goal. The past cannot be changed, but you are creating the future right now.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it present” ― Master Oogway “Kung Fu Panda”

When man realizes the power of the present moment, he is never the same again. He tries to use every moment of his life as best he can. He accumulates as much experience as possible, learns and constantly increases, thanks to which he intensively builds his future. Make good use of every single day, take care of it, and tomorrow will take care of you.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant

We are a product of our habits. They shape us as a human because they fill our lives at every moment. Our relationships, activities, answers — everything works according to a learned pattern that we have consciously acquired or not.

By repeating the action dozens or even hundreds of times, they are remembered and it is very difficult to get rid of them later. The method that accompanies us is usually the most suitable, easiest, most convenient. It is memorable and, although there may be others that are more effective and efficient, we will insist on our own.

That is why it is important to choose and learn, as consciously as possible, only good habits, thanks to which our lives will be much easier and better, because better habits mean a better life.

We make some habits unconsciously, mechanically, without paying attention to them. Some habits that are easy and pleasant for us are usually harmful and are remembered very quickly, while others that are useful, but cost us some effort, require a little more time. However, after some time, even these habits will not cause us problems.

Habits lead us to perfection, because a useful thing for us and for others every day will certainly give us the opportunity to find success.

Performing useful habits, e.g. ten minutes learning a foreign language every day, is certainly useful for us, and who knows how and in which situation this skill will be useful in the future. None of us knows where time and our activities will lead us, but regardless, it is always worth being prepared to know how to use it when the right opportunity arises.

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” — Horace Mann

Indeed, after a while this cable becomes so thick and extremely strong that it is almost impossible to break it. To do this, it will require a lot of effort and dedication, and above all time, because to break or untangle such a rope for good, you will need to work for a long time.

Be aware of your own actions. Do every day, even for a few minutes, activities that you consider valuable that may be useful to you, and you will certainly be happy to do them after some time. Such activities go deep into the human mind and they become a kind of daily ritual for us. When we implement them, we feel a bit better immediately.

So choose your habits wisely and sooner or later they will bring measurable benefits.

„We are all victims of our habits”