It doesn’t matter what you said or believed yesterday. Life is about evolution. Creator Villa
Tag: discipline
A brother came to Abba Poemen and said, “Abba, a variety of thoughts are coming…
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things…
The reward for mental activity is knowledge. The reward for physical activity is peace. Creator…
Fasting is like working out. You break yourself down to build yourself up even stronger.…
If we assigned each month a theme, January’s would be personal growth. For many, the…
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid 100 days of…
Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves. Al-Ghazali
Do something today that your future self will be grateful for. Creator Villa
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself…
Don’t say something permanently hurtful because you are temporarily upset. Wisdom of the Internet
In the documentary Becoming Warren Buffet, Bill Gates’s father asked Buffet and his son to…
On July 4, 1776, representatives from the 13 American colonies declared their independence from the…
As people, we often do things without thinking. Especially harmful things, like smoking, overeating, or…
One of my favorite Spanish expressions is prefiero morir en el intento (que no intentar)…
If love is the most powerful force for good in the universe, then it may…
Decide what kind of life you want to live. Then say no to everything that isn’t that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is known for many things. His former status as Mr. Universe, his role…
Sun Tzu, the famous mind behind the Art of War, studied war throughout his life.…
Kobe was a 5-time NBA champion and Oscard award-winner for his short film “Dear Basketball.”…
Note to Reader: I wrote the following article a few weeks ago and had it…
People tend to think of meditation and exercise as contrasting experiences. When you meditate, you…
Watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Watch your words, for they become your actions. Watch your actions, for they become your habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. What your chatacter for it becomes your destiny.
The hard work that no one wants to do yields the results that everyone wants to see.
What better way to kick off the new year than with a Steve Harvey motivational…
Do you have the patience to wait ’till your mud settles and the water is…
How many times have we reacted in the heat of the moment and lived to…
Routines trump intentions. A lot of us have good intentions in areas like work, relationships, and health, but routines are what dictate whether they will ever materialize.
In my last article, I made the case that deep breathing is the ultimate self-control.…
Even experienced meditators can’t always articulate how meditation works. I used to fall in that…
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
On this blog, I’ve shared many insights drawn from a rigorous fasting discipline over the…
The Toronto Raptors’ championship run not only brought Canada and Toronto it’s first ever NBA…
Recently I noticed my thoughts trending in the wrong direction. Challenging life circumstances seemed to…
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
We like to have fun on this blog. And sometimes that fun involves pain. Here…
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
It seems like every month a new challenge makes its waves across the internet. Some…
Discipline is between choosing what you want now and what you want MOST. Impulse is the enemy of success.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
On this blog, I’ve written about celebrities who practiced semen retention and documented a potential…
I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely ‘want’ to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire – event enthusiasm – for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.
The old saying, “You snooze, you lose,” may have a much deeper meaning than any of us realizes. When you delay waking up until you have to–meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out of bed and start your day–consider that what you’re actually doing is resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a state of resistance to your day, to you life, and to waking up and creating the life you say you want… It’s as if you’re saying, I don’t want to live my life, at least not to the fullest.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention
In a previous post, I discussed how Steve Jobs, Muhammad Ali, Nikola Tesla, and other…
On Tuesday, Maxim Dadashev tragically passed away from health complications following his July 19 fight…
In my previous post on fasting, I discuss why I started fasting to heal my…
In ancient times, fasting was commonly prescribed to treat a host of mental and physical…
There are two types of people in the world. Those who take cold showers and…
