Archive for the ‘"Perspective"’ Category

Simple Ways to Master Effective Communication

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In the following post, Dawn of the Salt Lake Tribune asks James Rick about how to master effective communication.
1. Explain how people can master effective communication?
A:#1: Paying Attention to the Non-Verbal First Impressions.
Body language and overall physical appearance speaks volumes before you ever say a word.. Effective communicators must first think about [...]

There is Truth in Impermanence

Posted in Perspective |  Email This Post | by James Rick

Real truth most closely aligns with the Law of Impermanence – which states that all of matter is in a state of change. No one thing lasts forever – and few things last even a lifetime, except life itself.
To suffer loss of anything in an ever changing environment is the result of human attachment to [...]

Using Questions to Live Happier – Immediately

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I found myself going down an emotional road that was well worn and crowded with lost Souls. I too had lost my way for a moment – but gripped in the fear / terror of emotions that I thought I had long disposed of, I remembered something from better times:
#1: QUESTIONS are the starting place [...]

How Do We Have Empowering Thoughts in Spite of Circumstances?

Posted in Perspective · Self Improvement |  Email This Post | by James Rick

IF THOUGHTS DETERMINE HOW WE FEEL, WHAT ROLE DO CIRCUMSTANCES PLAY?
Circumstances challenge our thinking. Our thinking is an attempt to know circumstance better – in fact, thinking is an attempt to predict future circumstance. And the illusory nature of thinking is that most of what we know about real physical laws such as gravity or [...]

Living a Good Life

Posted in Perspective · Self Improvement |  Email This Post | by James Rick

What is the Key to Living a Good Life?
It’s not in achievement – which means honor and praise or self congratulations. A good life is measured in terms of how well aligned you are with aiding the universe in its evolution (value). Change is essential and you are essential part of that change. Where you [...]

Own Your Life Philosophy

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The trials and tribulations of life are testing grounds for your philosophy. Your behaviors are testaments to its value. If you do not find the principles of your life philosophy valuable enough to apply – how is it that someone else will find value in watering a seed you cast aside? Simple enough – you [...]

Elevating Goodness

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Elevating goodness and value is the primary driver of all great humans.
Refinement of character, self mastery, self discipline – these are the foundations upon which great souls become great lives.

A Worthy Cause

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I found myself watching the movie Avatar yesterday rooting for the natives of the planet Pandora – against the humans. I wondered how this rooting against humanity could be possible and discovered that the cause of the natives (in this movie) were more noble than the humans: the natives wanted to protect their mother and [...]

Passion, Letting Go and Choosing Your Vehicle of Self Expression

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All people share a common value. The value for freedom of expressing who they truly are. This is what a passion is: a vehicle for full a complete self expression. Anything less than this is unacceptable to the Soul.
We all have a book to write, a picture to paint, a dance to perform or a [...]

Financial Unrest Makes for a Worthy Voyage

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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the [...]