Tips for 2015 from the book entitled Experience of Being Myself “CODE”: 30/100
- Start the day at the earliest hour possible,
- Do not leave the bed without having completed deep breathing exercises
- Take green tea with honey and lemon as your first drink
- Continue with prayer or meditation
- Prepare a “To do list”, and put it in your pocket
- Your breakfast should be fit for a King,
- Keep away from electronic devices until 9 o’clock.
- Flash a whole-hearted smile to the first person you will met,
- Do not miss any opportunity where you can practice your gentlemanship,
- For any unexpected negative situation that you may face during the day, arm yourself with this question: “What Should I Learn from this Situation?”
- If you do not spare at least one hour for reading during the day, you should try to do that. If you do not, whatever your, status or duty is, it means you are working as a “servant” Spare your time for reading.
- Choose what you eat. Do not just fill your stomach but get nourished.
- Do not start a work that you will not finish, and finish every work that you have started.
- Start making a collection, for example of the photos and videos of elders and children of your family.
- Stop doing things, for which you criticize others when they do it.
- Let people, who always criticize you and who do that honestly, stay around you. Let them complete you; these people do not miss anything out.
- Don’t be afraid of making mistakes but rather be afraid of being careless and mindless.
- Do not waste your time by accusing yourself or other people, Karma, which has won this tender many years ago, carefully records all and takes care of them.
- Appreciate the effort and the labor wherever you see it, and do not evaluate the person but his/her preferences.
- Exemplify your sensitivity to the environment. For example, you can buy a new car not just because of its color but taking into account its carbon dioxide emission level or you can drive your car slowly and carefully on the street to avoid hurting a child or an animal or use an environment friendly bag rather than a nylon bag for groceries.
- Don’t try to leave anything to your children as heritage other than quality time that you will spend with them and your exemplary behaviors. Even a beggar has the money, they can always earn it. But if you miss the opportunity to do things just mentioned above, there is no remedy for that.
- Surprise your neighbors, relatives and friends with small gestures and make them happy without any special reason at times when they expect it least. For example, you can leave newspapers and fresh simit (turkish bagel) before their door in a Sunday morning and sneak away.
- If you really want to know somebody, look at what he or she is doing while driving in traffic. How is he driving and parking his/her car, whether he or she is doing well with traffic lights? His/her relation with his/her car would reflect his/her relation with people. Yes. Traffic is life!
- Do not forget that “you are in conflict with yourself “as much as the number of persons you don’t like, maybe they do not deserve forgiveness,, but it is you who deserve peace of mind. Who holds a grudge shall also hold the dirt inside!
- Everything (but everything) you accept without questioning will exact its toll on you until it is truly questioned. You need not be either too much logical or too much emotional , give the control of these two decision makers to your consciousness (alias mindfulness) Keep your consciousness always clear, keen and ready. This can be provided through meditation, sports, work, prayer and by being in connection with nature.
- In every opportunity, spend time in nature without any plan or rule. Wonder, run, ride a bicycle, collect nylon bags . The nature transform…!
- Practice on the consciousness of self-sacrifice. The moment you learn how to give only from the things you love, nature’s laws of duality will come into play and whether it is love or Money, it does not matter, you will start to win.
- The most religious people are the most grateful ones, you will be surprised once you apply this code to the people you know and to your elders.
- Stay in a continuous flow. Don’t get congealed. If want to take in, you have to give away. If you want to give away, you have to take in. You can learn this life exercise from yourself from your breathing pattern.
- Maybe, you are living your current life, whether sweet or bitter, inevitably, due to the reason that are beyond your control. You did not choose the place where you were born, your family. You did not choose your name. But at this point in time, you must have learned something, more or less about this world. You have your own ideals, responsibilities, achievements and losses. With the things that are given to you, one by one, more and less, short and long, you have experienced this life and throughout the years, you have developed a unique personality peculiar to yourself. Now, you have an approved, known image, stile and statute. Now, like a lego, put all the parts that make you up, on the table and let us see which ones of these pieces of “persona” belongs to you originally, which ones have been added to you later and which ones have become instruments that are often used even without you recognizing about that.
After the separation of unnecessary, unsuitable, old, missing, defective, non-working parts this time you will make yourself out of the remaining parts (which make up your pure consciousness), YOU will shape your personality. Is there any goal in life which is more exciting and meaningful than trying to re-build yourself?
I wish you the best in your effort in this direction.
