The Path is the Goal

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Health

Business

Friends

Family

Passions

Relationships

The price of anything is the amount of life

you exchange for it.

Henry D Thoreau

He who has a why to live

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life

only has meaning if he's reaching out

and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

Decide who you will be five years from now and then vizualise what success looks and feel liks for you.

- What do you look like and how are you dressed?

- Who are the people you surround yourself with?

- Where do you live? What does your home look like?

- Are you traveling to some exotic location or in an office at your dream job?

- Where do you go to have fun and who do you enjoy spending your time with?

- In what ways do you give back to your community?

- What do people know you for and how will you be remembered?

Once you have established this vision clearly in your mind's eye, begin writing out an in-depth description of this version of you that you just saw. Write your account in the first person and as though you have already achieved the healthy body and vibrant lifestyle you just envisioned.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire,

you will what you imagine

and at last you create what you will.

Bernard Shaw

Close your eyes and feel yourself

already having what you want.

This takes you from a state

of wanting to a state of being.

Mastin Kipp

SPECIFIC:

- What, specifically, are you ready to work on achieving?

MEASURABLE:

- What measuring stick will you use to make sure you are staying on track?

ACTIONABLE:

- What steps of action will you be taking on the path to achieving your goals?

RELEVANT:

- What will achieving this goal contribue to the overall vision you created for yourself in step 1?

TIME BOUND:

- Create a window of time to achieve your goal and commit to it.

- Reaffirm to yourself every morning how much time you have left to complete it,

then again before going to sleep.

The difference between a dream and a goal

is a timeline and accountability.

Dr. Phil

Your M.O. should be one or two sentences and reflect what it is you are going after and how you are going to achieve it, concisely and with precision.

Recite it daily, anchoring yourself to the pursuit of achieving your goal.

Most people just want to be in the result and not

in the process, and it's in the process where you

realize who deserves to be in the result.

Work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

Focus on becoming the person of your dreams.

Leave the outcome to the universe.

It'll be better than you can imagine.

Mastin Kipp

Victory is reserved for those

who are willing to pay its price.

Sun Tzu

1. Write down your dream life.

2. List what changes you need to implement to create this life.

3. Break down each change into bite-sized action steps.

4. Implement the action steps into your daily habits.

- Remind yourself of why you're doing what you're doing every day.

- Visualize how the outcome of your goals is going to make you feel. Look at pictures. Say affirmations. Journal.

- Train your self-discipline. Exercise every day. Stick to a whole-food, plant-based diet.

The path is the goal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Open Your Eyes

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge

but an active aversion to knowledge,

the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,

pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

Jo Frederiks

Consciously or subconsciously, it is with

deliberation that we do not know or fail

to understand - because incomprehension

allows us, with good conscience, to evade

unpleasant responsibilites, because

ignorance is the best excuse for going on

doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley

Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes,

even if it were the truth. They don't want

the truth; they want their traditions.

Isaac Asimov

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

Recognize meat for what it really is:

the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden

corpse of a tortured animal.

Ingrid Newkirk

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

What an amount of suffering the poor creatures

have to endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

If slaughterhouses had glass walls,

everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral

excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Harold S. Kushner

Highway to Hell

Many would rather believe a lie

because the truth requires change.

Tony Gaskins

When the suffering of another creature causes

you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but

on the contrary, come closer, as close

as you can to him who suffers,

and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

You were Designed for Influence

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion

and something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

The only questions that really matter

are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing,

you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

Champions are made from something they have

deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Find out what makes you kinder,

what opens you up and brings out

the most loving, generous,

and unafraid version of you,

and go after those things

as if nothing else matters.

George Saunders

I don't know what your destiny will be,

but one thing I know: the only ones among you

who will be really happy are those

who sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you to live

your purpose. These have been lessons and now

it's your time to step into your purpose and make

your mark. You are stronger than your

circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is

only yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp

Emotional Intelligence & Inner Peace 🪷

All that we are is the result

of what we have thought.

Buddha

Better keep yourself clean and bright:

you are the window through which

you must see the world.

Bernard Shaw

- Intelligence is the ability to spot patterns.

- Bodily intelligence is connected to your intuition.

- A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.

- Your instincts and self-concept based on cultural inculcation is not your intuition.

- Clean eating. Whole food, plant-based diet.

- Practice spiritual disciplines, based on empathy and compassion.

- Consult mentors and experts. Use your intuition as to whether you trust their advice.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts

are someone else's opinions, their lives

a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

People should be more like animals... they

should be more intuitive; they should not

be too conscious of what they do

while they do it.

Albert Einstein

- Treat your emotions as visitors. Allow all emotions to come to you.

- Understand what your emotions are telling you. For example, envy is you projecting your unrealized potential onto another. Ask yourself what it is that you need to do that you're not doing.

Pain is neither unbearable nor unending,

as long as you keep in mind it's limits and

don't magnify them in your imagination.

Marcus Aurelius

1. Identify the stressor.

2. Create a calming atmosphere.

3. Find an outlet for stress. Journal.

4. Boost physical health.

5. Practice relaxation techniques.

6. Reassess priorities and take action.

1. Take a day off.

2. Do not engage in arguments and negative talk.

3. Remove negative influences.

4. Prayer and meditation.

5. Sleep and take care of yourself.

War: first one hopes to win; then one expects

the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that

the enemy is suffering; in the end, one is

surprised that everyone has lost.

Karl Kraus

1. Balance your day.

2. Find mindful practices that work for you.

3. Progress over perfection.

4. Never underestimate five minutes.

5. Ask yourself: Is this something I can control?

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear

understanding of one principle.

Some things are within your control.

And some things are not.

Epictetus

Freedom is what you do

with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

- Identify your triggers. Journal.

- Don't make decisions when you're emotional.

- Don't be a drama queen. 

- Don't tell. Journal.

- Don't bring your emotions to work.

- Don't try to bring other people down to your emotional level.

- Don't post on social media when you're emotional. 

- You reap what you sow even if you're trying to hide your identity while doing it.

A Feminine Impression - Emotional Maturity

- Acknowledge your physical reactions to your feelings.

- Calm yourself down. Take deep breaths. Relax.

- Avoid being sarcastic.

- Create an emotional strategy before things happen.

- Take care of your health. Eat well, get enough sleep, exercise regularly.

- Avoid toxic situations, people and places.

Let the refining and improving of your

own life keep you so busy that you have

little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A Feminine Impression - Butterfly Mail

Emotional triggers

- How do you want people to experience you?

- Decide ahead of time how you're going to act in difficult situations.

- Set a time limit. Have an exit strategy. End the conversation first.

The mind unconsciously loves problems

because they give an identity of sorts.

This is normal, and it is insane.

Eckhart Tolle

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Never argue with stupid people.

They will drag you down to their level

and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

Know how to listen, and you will profit

even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

If anyone can show me, and prove to me,

that I am wrong in thought or deed,

I will gladly change. I seek the truth,

which never yet hurt anybody. It is only

persistence in self-delusion and ignorance

which does harm.

Marcus Aurelius

The superior person is calm and composed;

the lesser person is continuously

worried and distressed.

Confucius

From the errors of others,

a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters

will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Cato the Elder

The mind must have relaxation, and will rise

stronger and keener after recreation.

Seneca

Make the Connection

Compassion is ethical intelligence:

it is the capacity to make connections

and the consequent urge to act

to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago

when I looked at the pork chop on my plate

and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall

Jo Frederiks

Don't talk of love and peace when you

have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Until he extends his circle of compassion

to include all living creatures,

man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

You meet saints everywhere. They are people

behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The indifference, callousness and contempt that

so many people exhibit toward animals is evil

first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results

in an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,

can only attain its full breadth and depth

if it embraces all living creatures and

does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others,

it is not fitting for you to to be called a human.

Saadi

What do they know - all these scholars, all these

philosophers, all the leaders of the world -

about such as you? They have convinced

themselves that man, the worst transgressor

of all the species, is the crown of creation.

All other creatures were created merely to

provide him with food, pelts,

to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

All beings tremble before violence. All fear

death. All love life. See yourself in others.

Then whom can you hurt?

What harm can you do?

Buddha

What I want people to know is that it's a joy

to be vegan. It feels good intellectually, morally,

spiritually. It's just leading with kindness

basically. That's what we all need to do. Lead

with kindness and that will change the world.

Jo-Ann McArthur

I felt that if I were to continue to live

in this world I had to do what I could

to reduce the suffering around me,

or at the very least, not to add to it....

I gave up eating meat.

I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

How to Travel

The purpose is not the destination

but the journey itself.

Amish Tripathi

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story

and tell no one, live happily and tell no one,

people ruin beautiful things.

Khalil Gibran

1. No running shoes.

2. Sneaker & dress combo.

3. Linen.

4. No sports wear.

5. Dress modestly.

6. A daytime hat.

7. Avoid backpacks & fanny packs.

8. Sleeve-less shirts.

9. Avoid jeans hot pants. Wear white shorts.

10. Sun-glasses.

1. Make a list of your essentials.

2. Coordinate outfits in advance.

3. Use packing cubes.

4. Fold heavy items, roll smaller items.

5. Have a waterproof bag for liquid.

6. Wear the bulkiest items and accessories on the plane.

7. Make use of every space.

8. Travel with less.

Who wouldn't travel if they could? Who

wouldn't want to enjoy different sensations,

especially when the world is filled with

so much great stuff? I like new things.

I like learning about stuff. It makes me

happy. I like being wrong about stuff.

Anthony Bourdain

My Personal Choice

It is our choice of good or evil

that determines our character,

not our opinion about good or evil.

Aristotle

What do your choices say about you?

In matters of conscience,

the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

The thinking person must oppose all

cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted

in tradition and surrounded by a halo.

When we have a choice, we must avoid

bringing torment and injury

into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

A great number of our decisions are not

really our own but are suggested to us from

the outside; we have succeeded in persuading

ourselves that it is we who made the decision,

whereas we have actually conformed with

expectations of others, driven by the fear

of isolation and by threats to our comfort.

Erich Fromm

The greatest evil perpetrated is

the evil committed by nobodies, that is,

by human beings who refuse to be persons.

Hannah Arendt

It's not your personal choice

when there are victims involved.

Asking vegans to respect your choice to eat meat

is on par with asking feminists to respect sexists,

asking people of color to respect racists and

asking homosexuals to respect homophobes.

It is ludicrous to think that difference in opinion

warrants mutual respect, when the opposing

opinion in question appropriates suffering,

defends oppression and encourages

the continuance of exploitation.

Felix Sampson

Human beings are not machines,

and however powerful the pressure to conform,

they sometimes are so moved by what

they see as injustice that they dare

to declare their independence.

In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

I show my love for animals by not eating

them or participating in any business that

profits directly from their exploitation.

Mayim Bialik

True morality consists not in following

the beaten track, but in finding the true path

for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn