One must make full use of all their resources, when the time is right. The art of living a good life is to know which choice to make. Our choices determine our destiny.
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Behaviors and habits are altered by changing the future with novel actions today. “We have come to accept our past history as our fate but tomorrow’s history is still to be written.” From the RenChenZa® 7 Step program © 2000 –2009 Andrew Ledford.
The Art of Living a Good Life
Self cultivation – education, training, and development of our emotional and cognitive abilities To live a good life includes what in Buddhism is called the eight fold path. The eight fold path consists of the right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. We need...
Behavior Patterns, Orientation, and Behavioral Themes
Behavior patterns make it so we don’t need to waist our precious resources of time and energy on decision making. An orientation or behavioral theme makes certain behaviors more reinforcing than others. Our orientation determines what in life we think about and what we work toward. Our orientation determines our goals. Within an individual’s...
Critical Thinking and Emotions
Most of our decisions are based emotions. The problem with this is that our emotions cloud and distort critical thought. When in an aroused emotional state it’s often difficult to make good decisions. In dog training I see this principal when people get angry. A common reaction to anger is to lash out with...
Selfishness and Self Destruction
I am not totally opposed to selfish behavior. After all selfish behavior is the basis for learning. We all want to know what’s in it for me. We all want to get a payoff for our effort. Making a profit or being reinforced for a behavior is not bad. However, when we go out...