What is the meaning of life?  Isn’t that the ulitmate question?  Well let me ask you what if I knew the meaning and told you, would it make your life any better? any simpler?  would it make you any happier?  I don’t know but I’m guessing probably not.  The meaning of life doesn’t really change anything about the way life is.  It might give you a sense of purpose but that’s about it.  And if all you want is purpose it’s simple really.  Just take some meditation time out and do some deep thinking, decide what you want to do with you life, and that will be your purpose.  Often one’s purose revolves around either growing in a certain way as a human being or giving something to others or both.  Here is an example “I would like to keep evolving as a human being so I can offer others a lot of value”.

What is compassion?  The best definition I found is “a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering”.  Now compassion doesn’t always require suffering.  Compassion could be just a deep understanding.

The biggest inhibitor of compassion is ego.  Often we are so stuck in our own heads, in our own world, worrying aobut our own problems and issues that we never stop and sympathize with others.  Once you become aware of your ego having compassion for others will start taking care of itself.

There are a lot of benifits in having compassion for others.  For one you’ll develop much deeper more satisfying relationships and friendships.  Others will love to be around you because you’ll make them feel understood.  You’ll find out about a lot of opportunities through those kinds of social interactions.  How can you be more compassionate today?

The biggest inhibitor of creativity is fear of failure.  Often we don’t even let our creativity flow because we are scared of sounding foolish, or trying and failing.  When we suppress our creativity due to fear, our creativity goes away altogether.  Fear is a prerequisite to success.  To become successful at anything you must repeatedly fail at it at first.  Often failure is the best way to learn.  However we often want success without any failure which is kind of impossible.  So how are you going to let your creativity flow?

A broke genius is simply someone who has great ideas all the time yet is always broke.  The most common way one becomes a broke genious is by not implementing the ideas they have.  Simply being lazy, thinking it will be too much work, or doubting one’s self will leave them a broke genius.

Whenever I’m around people I always hear them coming up with business ideas yet very rarely do I ever see them implement the ideas or at least try them out.  Is it because the ideas are stupid?  No in fact many are great.  I think is because ideas are one thing and doing the actual work is a whole other thing.  Many people look at a successful business owner and say he’s a genious, that was a great business idea blah blah blah.  Often they say that because they never started a business themselves.  If they did they’d know that even if you have a great idea you have to work your butt off to make it work.  So what idea are you going to implement?  Please share in the comments.

What is courage?  The simplest and most accurate definition I’ve heard is “doing right”.  Doing the right thing, taking the right action that’s what courage is.  Courage isn’t necesarily saving one’s life by putting yours in danger.  That usually only happens in the movies.  In our everyday lifes courage might simply mean being authentic and honest with others.  It might mean leading the life you always wanted even if others oppose your choices and your views on things.  Courage might mean simply living a lifestyle that you see fit yet your parents don’t approave of.  Courage might mean taking responsibility for your own actions and deciding to focus on what you can control instead of focusing on what’s outside of your personal boundry.  What’s one couragous act you can do today?  Please share in the comments.