Inspirational Reads, and the Single Most Important Question to Ask Yourself.

Hey guys, what’s going on?

I hope that you all had an awesome weekend. It’s Monday and to get the week started on a positive note, I wanted to leave you with this week’s inspirational articles and one, very very important question.

Below you will find a few articles and videos I thought would will help you stay positive and keep things in perspective.

1. 4 Simple Mantras to Help You Stay Positive and Happy by ME! – This was a guest blog I wrote for Tinybuddha.com last week sharing 4 mantras that have helped me get through some pretty difficult times in my life.

2. What’s Motivating You: the carrot or the stick? by Ali Luke – From TheChangeBlog.com. In this post Ali discusses 2 types of motivation: 1) Being motivated to get something and 2) Being motivated to avoid something. Knowing the difference between the 2 can help you figure out what’s going to be the best way motivate yourself.

3. 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed by Ric Elias. 5 minute clip of a TEDTalk by Ric Elias. Sometimes, unfortunately, it takes a near fatal incident to make us stop and think about what really matters.

I hope that you take the time to read the articles and watch the video, as I think you’ll really gain a little insight from them.

And as I mentioned earlier, I also wanted to ask you an extremely important question. It will probably be the single most important question you could ever ask yourself.

However, before I do that, I have to give credit to my friend Hannah for being the first to ask ME that question.

Last week, I posted on Facebook a link to the article I wrote for Tinybuddha.com (you can find it above) and in  response, Hannah left me with a very simple, yet extremely thought-provoking quote from the author and poet, Mary Oliver. And that was:

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”

The question has been stuck in my head all weekend and it has sent my imagination in a frenzy.

What will I do with my one wild and precious life?

The question stopped me dead in my tracks and I haven’t been able to shake it for the last few days.

I’ve realized it before, but the quote reminded me that we all only have 1 life.

1 chance here on this planet.

Just 1.

I will only have one chance to be 29.

I will only live August 1st, 2011 once.

Ever.

This it. This is our one chance.

To do the things we enjoy.

To live the life we dream.

And to love the people we care for.

I don’t think I can put it any better than how Mary did – our lives are precious.

And it is our responsibility to ourselves to respect and treat our lives as the rare commodity that it is.

To do or be anything less, would be disrespectful to our creator (whoever, or whatever it is).

So, today I will leave you with these articles.

And this one very important and life-changing question:

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”

Think about it, and share with us what you will do below in the comment section. I’d love to hear your thoughts

Your friend,

Sirena