A Cup of Tea

I feel this is the best situation one can relate....


Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

No one realizes about their Goals

The biggest part of making huge changes in your life, by far, is getting started.

It’s getting that initial momentum built up, that initial traction, that’s the hardest part of making any changes in your life.

At one point, I had so many problems, I honestly didn’t know where to start.

I literally had to pick one and just get going on it.

Then what I did, is I moved on to the next problem and the next one and pretty soon I had a great deal of momentum going and success became more habitual.  Just like self-sabotage and self-destruction had been for me in the past.

It’s also important to understand that confidence will be a natural byproduct of achieving your goals and facing & overcoming challenges along the way.

What almost no one realizes about their goals is that they are a lot more interconnected than you may have realized. So, it almost doesn’t matter which one you start with.  What matters is that you get started.