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I just found this blog about life coaching. It's really interesting.  http://www.directlifecoach.com/
You can treat it as the spark notes in life. Here is a quote from today's read.

In reality, at any given moment we are surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands of different things that we could focus on. These might be actual physical images that are around us, or they might be thoughts, feelings, or emotions that seem to bounce and dance around our head from moment to moment.

All of these things are around us everywhere we go - so it then becomes up to us to decide which ones we CHOOSE to focus on.



If you are not careful, or rather, if you do not take control of what you actually choose to focus on, your emotional peace can get knocked around like a pinball.




In the recent film, "Invictus," starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Mandela shares that it is this poem that gave him great comfort through the bleakest times during his imprisonment. The last stanza of the poem by William Ernest Henley reads,




"It matters not how strait the gate,


How charged with punishments the scroll.


I am the master of my fate:


I am the captain of my soul."

Many of us will never know what it is like to be behind bars and experience the kind of loneliness, helplessness, or despair that one might feel, but we can all relate to being in situations when there doesn't seem to be anything around us except darkness.