Relationships with people are important. To help us building stronger bonds, we need to learn and know about each other. By this it will help us work together better, understand each other , and to help one and other achieve success. You might even find out that you have more in common with someone than previously thought. Here are 15 things to know about the people in your life.

1. Know at least one of their life’s goals.

2. Know one of their weaknesses.

3. Know what makes them truly happy.

4. Learn about their childhood.

5. Learn about what they want in the future.

6. Find out what they feel was their biggest failure in life so far.

7. Find out what they do and don’t like about their life.

8. Discover what their dream job has always been.

9. Find out what their favorite book is.

10. Find out something they’ve always want to try, like skydiving or bungee jumping.

11. Find out who they admire.

12. Know what their biggest fear is.

13. Discover why they aren’t pursuing their dreams.

14. Find out where they would live if they could live anywhere.

15. Find out what they thought was the worst day in their life.

As you learn about others, don’t forget to share your life with them too.

Yours for purposeful relationships.

“Show me a man who cannot bother
  to do little things and I’ll
  show you a man who can be trusted to do big things”

  - Lawrence D Bell

  Do not underestimate the little things.
  They are the building blocks to the big things.

  These little things are usually the routine,
  They are mundane,
  They seemed insignificant
  But if you lose sight of them
  The big things will suffer.

  So what are the little things …
  Our exercise routine
  That one word of “Thanks”
  Or “I’m sorry”
  A hug for someone close
  A Smile
  Even a word of encouragement.

  So let’s get serious with the little things!

  More on little things ….

  Jesus said “He who is faithful in a little is also faithful in much; and he  who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.” Luke 16:10

  Yours for Purposeful Living

“I believe that it is not dying
That people are afraid of, something else.
Something more unsettling and more tragic
That dying frightens us,
We are afraid of never having lived,
Of coming to the end of our days
With the sense that
We were never really alive.
That we never figured out what life was.”- Harold Kushner

You are alive and yet have you lived?
What is life about?

So live with purpose.
Live to give.
Live to do good.
Live to inspire.
Live to make a significance.

Not too late to start now. Go and live fully!

More on living…

Jesus said “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.” - Mat 5:13

“You must never fear anything at all.”
~ Vernon Howard from The Power of Your Supermind

What are you afraid of?

Why?

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

Some More Thoughts From VH:

“When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.”

“If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.”

So … fear not and move it!

Yours for Purposeful Living

“Today, beginning, we take our first steps
into whatever comes next,
we open our hearts to life and faith,
we find courage,
we hold it out to others
with the kind of compassion
that comes only from having lost,
or never having known …

We look out from interior worlds
through handprints on the glass
we see behind us
know there is more
find the seed of acceptance,
somewhere deep inside,
or maybe it was planted
by one who loved us
long ago or only just this morning
when the sun rose like it always will.

We go on into the day
into love, into wonder, into joy
we go into our future
as if there is only this wonderful world.”

- Author Unknown

It’s a wonderful world in spite of the financial storm currently wrecking damage along most of our paths and lives.

Be patient, the dark clouds will go and the storm will subside.

It’s still a wonderful world!

Yours for Purposeful Living

“Henry Fonda was still throwing up
before each stage performance,
even when he was seventy-five.
In other words, fear doesn’t go away.
The warrior and the artist
live by the same code of necessity,
which dictates that
the battle must be fought anew every day.”

- Steven Pressfield, 21st century writer from The War of Art 

I’m going to bang on this drum again…and again…and again…

Let’s quit thinking the fear’s going to go away and that people we admire don’t feel the fear.

Reminds me of Georgia O’Keefe’s comment: “I’ve been afraid every single day of my life, but I’ve gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Be afraid. Then do it anyway.

Yours for Purposeful Living

“This is the true joy of life,
The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
The being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments
And grievances complaining that the world would not devote itself to
make you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community;
And as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment,
And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
Before handling it on to future generations.”

- George Bernard Shaw

So, you do not belong to yourself.
You are here for the community.
They need us. We need one another.

Well ….. is your light burning brightly?
Turn it on!
Make it brighter!
Pass it on!

More on light ….

Jesus said “You are the light of the world. …. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven”
- Mat 5: 14-16

Yours for Purposeful Living

“Faith is really your consent to let your own uniqueness unfold and to let that which is attracted by your uniqueness manifest in your life. Thus when Jesus said, “All things are possible to those who believe,” he did not say that a swan can become a duck or that a nonmusical person can become a concert pianist. You cannot become something that is not the outforming of
your own inner potential. You can only be you. However you can unfold more of the you that may have been long frustrated.”~ Eric Butterworth, 20th Century Spiritual Teacher from Spiritual Economics

You can only be you…

Who are you trying to be?

A version of yourself as requested/demanded by your family or peers?

Or YOU? The real you? The highest version of yourself?

Um.

Good.

Be you!

More Wisdom from Butterworth:

“The important thing is to know yourself, have faith in the cosmic process that will unfold in you like the life force unfolds in the lily of the field which toils not nor spins, and yet “Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these” (Mt. 6:29).”

“When you believe you can do it, the “how-to-do-it” develops.”

Yours for Purposeful Living

“Ask the great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.”

~ Eric Butterworth, 20th Century Spiritual Teacher from Spiritual Economics

Think about that for a moment longer.

The higher the greats climb, the GREATER the need for practice.

Wow.

How’s your practice going?!?

Let’s step it up.
(What’s one thing you know you should be doing as an integral part of your practice that you’re not currently doing…and that would have the greatest positive impact on your life? Get on it.)

More on Practice!

“The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”

Practice, practice, practice ….

Yours for Purposeful living

“The takers are the people who believe that their lives will always be the total of what they can get from the world. They are always thinking get, get, get. They plan and scheme ways to get what they want in money, in love, in happiness, and in all kinds of good. No matter that they may be applying metaphysical techniques, they still may very well be takers. But whatever may be their spiritual ideals or lack of any, no matter what they take, they can never know peace or security or fulfillment.The givers, on the other hand, are convinced life is a giving process. Thus their subtle motivation in all their ways is to give themselves away, in love, in service, and in all the many helpful ways they can invest themselves. They are always secure, for they intuitively know that their good flows from within.”

~ Eric Butterworth, 20th Century Spiritual Teacher from Spiritual Economics

So, which are you?

A Taker?

Or…

A Giver?

Let’s give more… and more… and more…

And…

Yours for Purposeful Living