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This qualifies as Idle?

Live your life as if your glass is half-full rather than half-empty, all you need is a change of thought.

by Madisyn Taylor


We are all familiar with the metaphorical story of two people looking at the same glass and one perceiving it as half-full while the other sees it as half-empty. As much as we’ve heard this, it’s still a valuable exercise to really observe our minds and notice whether we are engaged in half-full or half-empty thinking. People will refer to themselves as being of one type or the other as if it was a permanent characteristic, but we are all capable of shifting into a half-full consciousness if we simply make the effort.

When we look at our lives with half-empty consciousness, we perceive a lack and think that the other half of what we want is missing. We are coming from a position of expectation and entitlement. On the other hand, when we look at our lives as half-full we perceive fullness. It is as if we recognize that our cup could be fully empty and so we are grateful for what we see as bounty—not something we expect or believe we are owed, but a gift. In half-full consciousness, we count our blessings. When we look at our lives we see all the elements that are in place and all the things we do have. This doesn’t necessarily mean we don’t seek more, but we seek from a place of fullness instead of from a place of lack. This fullness draws positive energy into our lives and often attracts more abundance.

If you would like to begin to make the shift into half-full consciousness, try imagining your life as an empty glass. This is your life without all the people you know, the work you do, your home, or your current state of physical wellbeing. This is just an empty, open space waiting to be filled. Once you have that feeling of openness in your mind, begin filling it with all the people, things, and places that make up your life. You may be surprised to find your glass overflowing.

TFIR wrote:This qualifies as Idle?

Live your life as if your glass is half-full rather than half-empty, all you need is a change of thought.

by Madisyn Taylor


We are all familiar with the metaphorical story of two people looking at the same glass and one perceiving it as half-full while the other sees it as half-empty. As much as we’ve heard this, it’s still a valuable exercise to really observe our minds and notice whether we are engaged in half-full or half-empty thinking. People will refer to themselves as being of one type or the other as if it was a permanent characteristic, but we are all capable of shifting into a half-full consciousness if we simply make the effort.

When we look at our lives with half-empty consciousness, we perceive a lack and think that the other half of what we want is missing. We are coming from a position of expectation and entitlement. On the other hand, when we look at our lives as half-full we perceive fullness. It is as if we recognize that our cup could be fully empty and so we are grateful for what we see as bounty—not something we expect or believe we are owed, but a gift. In half-full consciousness, we count our blessings. When we look at our lives we see all the elements that are in place and all the things we do have. This doesn’t necessarily mean we don’t seek more, but we seek from a place of fullness instead of from a place of lack. This fullness draws positive energy into our lives and often attracts more abundance.

If you would like to begin to make the shift into half-full consciousness, try imagining your life as an empty glass. This is your life without all the people you know, the work you do, your home, or your current state of physical wellbeing. This is just an empty, open space waiting to be filled. Once you have that feeling of openness in your mind, begin filling it with all the people, things, and places that make up your life. You may be surprised to find your glass overflowing.

Nicely shared, TFIR.

I have constantly strived to see and seek the "half full" glass as I have raised my living kids and paid for their education while putting my personal trials and tribulations and prior family suicides and incarcerations and cancer deaths and stillborn kids at arms length and got down and did what I needed to do for those that still mattered and needed my help to move forward positively, as they are currently doing.

I DO get pissed off at the current state of society, ESPECIALLY in the hellhole of Current Cleveland which was so much better of a place with it's suburbs 50+ years ago when I was a kid, and no one in Cleveland or here seems to care the place has deteriorated as much as any other urban US area that combined to gift The US Presidency to Barack Obama.

My Great Grandmother was Shawnee, which makes me I understand 1/16th Native American.

Adult Native Americans are taught not to try to teach others, unless they have also walked in the same moccasins as those they try to teach.

On a lighthearted related note, I did assist in negotiating a business agreement with two ladies this week who wish to teach Yoga on paddle boards in the Gulf of Mexico and Southwest Florida coastal bays and waters.

I love to ride horses, and with age my stretching ability to get "a leg up and over" has diminished, regardless of my otherwise fitness regimen success.

The two ladies in their tight and well fitting thin clothes told me they could cure my problem


I have a couple free classes with their studio upcoming.

Mental case !

I'm banned from The Browns Board for honest opinions.


I'll offer this evening that Jeff Fisher is a complete arse, and not so good of a coach as I have espoused on The Browns Board for years. And I remember when he got his arse kicked in a locker room (fried chicken and beer were not observed or clocked by onlookers as he was pummeled by one of his "comrades"). And most writers have forgotten THAT story.

Jeff Fisher calling Bernie Kosar out for exhibition season broadcast comments that few likely saw, is proof pudding that Fisher could use a penis pump.


I got such a laugh and shot of joy when MtFan and Hillbilly came out as gay State of Montana lovers, ala "Brokeback Mountain" on The Browns Board, before I was blocked.

The memory of Rusty crying, "You Go Girls!" to support them was special.

Just saying.....

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:I'm banned from The Browns Board for honest opinions....

I got such a laugh and shot of joy when MtFan and Hillbilly came out as gay State of Montana lovers, ala "Brokeback Mountain" on The Browns Board, before I was blocked.

The memory of Rusty crying, "You Go Girls!" to support them was special.

Just saying.....

????!!!

You have already told us that you are a racist.

Both HB and Mt Fan have told you that you are an egotistical jerk, liar and all around pain in the ass. So now you have decided to call them gay and call them lovers.

What is next ?

You were kicked off the Browns board by the designer of these forums. They have allowed you to post here but I am sure your comments are starting to make them reconsider that position.

Must be important to you since you keep showing up. Your time is short. Have another drink.

Turn up the radio so you don't hear the crash.

J.R. wrote:

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:I'm banned from The Browns Board for honest opinions....

I got such a laugh and shot of joy when MtFan and Hillbilly came out as gay State of Montana lovers, ala "Brokeback Mountain" on The Browns Board, before I was blocked.

The memory of Rusty crying, "You Go Girls!" to support them was special.

Just saying.....

????!!!

Just saying.....

The Cleveland Indians lost tonight again, for those paying attention or still caring.

Apparently yet another one of my posts here has been deleted by those losers seeking political correctness.

I simply, in now less harsh words, noted that the typical story of a kid becoming enamored with The Game of Baseball often begins with a walk beside a Dad onto a seemingly endless emerald green stadium, with the fresh cut grass in the air.

I previously noted, before I was deleted.....and likely will be again.....that Mark Shapiro is effing up by having night games on Saturdays at this time of the season.

Kids and families need DAY GAMES on weekends to build baseball bonds for life. However cursed it might make them in later years.

Delete THAT, Gestapo Guy.

For the record, I have not edited or deleted any of CALIFLA's posts in over a month. So maybe somebody else is an admin here?

Yes, there is someone else.

rusty2 wrote:Yes, there is someone else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8m64Ys1Ts

Tribe Fandom is kind of crazy with a spooky girl like you, Rust Man,

"Rust Man"

Hee hee. I just made that "Rust Man" moniker up.

Priceless. And a winner.

Shaps and MarieAntoinetti are complete losers.

Again Rust Man, I'll never find another YOU.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY

http://www.onebeforeidie.com/product/ju ... d-baseball

J.R. wrote:

http://www.onebeforeidie.com/product/ju ... d-baseball

My wife brought two for a surprise present. One with Indians colors, one with Browns colors.