LIVING IN THE MOMENTLIVING IN THE MOMENT

Briggs PrasharBriggs Prasharbp@thebizstop.usbp@thebizstop.us

OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE

• CREATE more value by giving meaning to life• OVERCOME emotional and mental handicaps• MANAGE daily challenges • DEAL with intergenerational relationship issues• CREATE a worthy legacy

HOWHOW

• INCREASE your personal worth• DEAL with pressing life stage issues

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

You Are Not Your Thoughts

How many times have your said to yourself “today sure went by

fast”. It seems that our lives are so complex and so full of things to

do that we forget to feel the moments that together make up a

day. Moments are lost amid the clutter of everyday and they become

blurred by the activities we invent. It seems like activity is

more important than the moments in which they occur.

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to

recognize it as such.” Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to

improve the world.” Anne Frank, Diary of a Young

Girl, 1952

In seizing the moments of your life you extend their value and allow

each (MOMENT) to create magic. You see each (MOMENT) as a

miracle and know that within them lies the importance of life. Life is

not full of quantity time but full of quality time. It is up to each of us to recognize the quality within

each moment and to allow it to shine throughout our day. This alone will begin to change our world.

“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to

solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never

return, and you may remain in ignorance.” William Wirt

‘In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look

around you.” Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

6 STEPS

To improve your performance, stop thinking about it (unselfconsciousness)

STEP 1

STEP 2

To avoid worrying about the future, focus on the present (savoring)

STEP 3

If you want a future with your significant other, inhabit the present (breathe)

STEP 4

To make the most of time, lose track of it (flow)

STEP 5

If something is bothering you, move toward it rather than away from it (acceptance)

STEP 6

Know that you don’t know (engagement)

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Love and Respect

LIVING IN THE MOMENTLIVING IN THE MOMENTLove & Respect Love & Respect

Briggs PrasharBriggs Prasharbp@thebizstop.usbp@thebizstop.us

OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE

• CREATE more value by– giving meaning to life– overcoming emotional and mental handicaps

PERSONAL WORTH

• MANAGE daily challenges – DEAL WITH

• intergenerational relationship issues

• pressing life-stage issuesWORTHY LEGACY

You Are Not Your Thoughts

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

……..It seems like activity is more important than the moments in which they

occur.

…….It is up to each of us to recognize the quality within each moment and to allow it to shine throughout our day.

‘In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look

around you.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

6 STEPS

To improve your performance, stop thinking about it (unselfconsciousness)

To avoid worrying about the future, focus on the present (savoring)

If you want a future with your significant other, inhabit the present (breathe)

To make the most of time, lose track of it (flow)

If something is bothering you, move toward it rather than away from it (acceptance)

Know that you don’t know (engagement)

Love & Respect

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my boyfriend"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

Respect denotes both a positive feeling of esteem for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respected (e.g., "I have great respect for her judgment"). It can also be conduct in accord with a specific ethic of respect.

Attention is the most basic from of Love:

Through it we bless and are blessed

Love yourself first Self-criticism X

Self-doubt X Fear X Guilt X

Feeling discouraged X

Walk through these and you will gain

confidence to LoveYou gain the strength of the temptations you

resist

Love & Respect go hand in hand

One can’t be w.o the other

With love, see the true, magnificent value of what you have this day. With love, make it even greater.

Thank youNext week

Acceptance and Forgiveness

LIVING IN THE MOMENTLIVING IN THE MOMENTAcceptance Acceptance

Briggs PrasharBriggs Prasharbp@thebizstop.usbp@thebizstop.us

OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE

• CREATE PERSONAL WORTH

• MANAGE daily challenges WORTHY LEGACY

You Are Not Your Thoughts

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

……..It seems like activity is more important than the moments in which they

occur.

…….It is up to each of us to recognize the quality within each moment and to allow it to shine throughout our day.

‘In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look

around you.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

6 STEPS

To improve your performance, stop thinking about it (unselfconsciousness)

To avoid worrying about the future, focus on the present (savoring)

If you want a future with your significant other, inhabit the present (breathe)

To make the most of time, lose track of it (flow)

If something is bothering you, move toward it rather than away from it (acceptance)

Know that you don’t know (engagement)

Love & Respect

Attention is the most basic from of Love:

Through it we bless and are blessed

Love yourself first Self-criticism X

Self-doubt X Fear X Guilt X

Feeling discouraged X

Walk through these and you will gain

confidence to LoveYou gain the strength of the temptations you

resist

Love & Respect go hand in hand

One can’t be w.o the other

With love, see the true, magnificent value of what you have this day. With love, make it even greater.

ACCEPTANCE

“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance”

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

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Fear

LIVING IN THE MOMENTLIVING IN THE MOMENTFearFear

Briggs PrasharBriggs Prasharbp@thebizstop.usbp@thebizstop.us

OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE

• CREATE PERSONAL WORTH

• MANAGE daily challenges WORTHY LEGACY

You Are Not Your Thoughts

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

……..It seems like activity is more important than the moments in which they

occur.

‘In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look

around you.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

6 STEPS

To improve your performance, stop thinking about it (unselfconsciousness)

To avoid worrying about the future, focus on the present (savoring)

If you want a future with your significant other, inhabit the present (breathe)

To make the most of time, lose track of it (flow)

If something is bothering you, move toward it rather than away from it (acceptance)

Know that you don’t know (engagement)

Love & Respect

Attention is the most basic from of Love:

Through it we bless and are blessed

Love yourself first Self-criticism X

Self-doubt X Fear X Guilt X

Feeling discouraged X

Walk through these and you will gain

confidence to LoveYou gain the strength of the temptations you

resist

Love & Respect go hand in hand

One can’t be w.o the other

With love, see the true, magnificent value of what you have this day. With love, make it even greater.

ACCEPTANCE

“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance”

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”

FEAR

• “Video on Synthetic Happiness”• when we learn to accept things as they are we

find happiness. When we cease to strive for happiness in the future we find it in this moment. Getting what we want doesn't make us happy, being happy with what we have does. Craving causes misery, acceptance and peace makes us happy.

“Fear is faith that it won't work out.”

“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”

“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”

FEAR:

F--FALSEE--EVIDENCEA--APPEARINGR--REAL

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

FearKrishnamurthy

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ”

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ”

Henry Louis Mencken

“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”

George S. Patton

“Fear is not our enemy. Fear may be good if understood.”

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Personal Worth