The A to Zen life...

I have been participating in the A to Z Challenge this month. Each day, my blog topic starts with the next letter of the alphabet. Every day I write, except Sunday is my free day! Today, as I was perusing through my ever growing list of blogs that I check up on, I came across this post from the Inspirational Results blog. This week has been a bit of looking inward for me, so this blog post hit home. It inspired me to do a bit more research on the A to Zen Life. I hope these thoughts touch you as deeply as they touched me...to building our own A to Zen life!


A to Zen of Life~ Dalai Lama
 Avoid negative sources, people, places, and habits
Believe in yourself
Consider things from every angle
Don’t give up and don’t give in
Everything you are looking for lies behind the mask you wear
Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches
Give more than you planned to
Hang on to your dreams
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it
Keep trying no matter how hard it seems
Love yourself
Make it happen
Never lie, cheat or steal
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values
Practice makes perfect
Quality not quantity in anything you do
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer
Stop procrastinating
Take control of your own destiny
Understand yourself in order to better understand others
Visualise it
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson
Xcellence in all your efforts
You are unique, nothing can replace you
Zero in on your target and go for it

Om tare tutare ture soha- liberate my mind 

Comments

  1. UnknownApril 22, 2013 at 3:50 AM

    I love the idea of an A-Z list. Really makes you focus.

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  2. Anne AlecksonApril 22, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Great list. i just love that doing A allows you to do Z...by avoiding negative sources, people, places and habits you give yourself a better chance of being able to zero in on your target and go for it.

    Anne x

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