Junko Tabei & 5 Tips to pick your rock

In 1975, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. This four-feet-nine-inches tall Japanese woman went on to scale the highest peaks on seven continents by 1992. Junko Tabei presently aims to climb the highest mountains of every country in the world. Is that not a daring feat? Is it not challenging goals that motivate us to become the best that can be? Her accomplishments have inspired over 100 women to summit Everest and she also teaches us all how:

1) Size can be misleading.  This woman proved she could be small yet, mighty when many people might've assumed her size wouldn't be an asset to serious climbing. Note "size isn't really everything."

2) What we do doesn't make us who we are. As a housewife, Junko Tabei was originally stereotyped. People saw her as capable of doing only what she appeared to be doing in society. History teaches us that she actually had other plans. She decided her capacities were defined within. You also define what consitututes your identity.

3) We take routes we have planned before. Whenever we look at images and nurture dreams, we give our attention to ideas and experiences before we make them happen. Tabei reminds us how we envision what we desire to perceive and then, we simply attract the attitude that makes our dreams possible. No thing or opportunity suddenly appears. You prepare for it with your mind, body and soul.

4) Everything happens in the right sequence. Each time Junko Tabei hits another climbing milestone, it prepares her for her next achievement. Each thing we do in life is also preparing us for something we don't yet foresee. You choose to see reality you're ready to see, but not before its time. We would all benefit from understanding that the continuity of learning never stops.

5) Regular words may fall short to describe your emotions. As you find courage to step outside your comfort zone, as you open yourself up to experiences that expand all you are, then words may fall short of adequately describing how you feel or what you perceive. Junko Tabei teaches us sensations are experiences that aren't always meant to be translated through words. You sense your own success.

5 Factors in a great decision

Under which conditions would you be sure you made a great decision? People will discuss this ad infinitem.  Did you base your predictions on trends? Do you ask experts all the right questions? What could you have done that you didn't do? Continual questioning may begin to drive you crazy.  Why not reflect on the points below to appease your conscience? Conclusive answers may be hard to come by, but reading your vibes will help.

1) You control processes.  Wisdom has taught you outcomes result from many variables over which you have little or no control.  To take time to reflect and base your choice on your goals is supposed to enable you to feel good about yourself.  If it doesn't do that, something's not right.  You may be startled at how much of your conclusions make perfect sense about your direction.

2) You don't second guess your decision.  The slow development of things since your key decision isn't necessarily a bad sign.  Patience is a virtue.  Do you sense reason to feel proud?  If you feel content about what you've done, you're unlikely to spark self-doubt and indecision.

3) You feel enough commitment.  Observing successful people has helped you realize you don't always have the luxury of 100% commitment before making a decision you feel good about.  Remind yourself that your commitment can grow stronger as the outcomes unfold. Are you able to detail the nature of your commitment and how you foresee it could grow?

4) You foresee increasing opportunities.  Life is full of surprises.  That is, we never know exactly where the next great opportunity will come from.  However, making certain decisions will enable us to feel as though we are on the road to expanding even more desirable choices. Could your dedication to your upcoming race potentially lead to doors opening?   

5) You grasp the implications of reality.  Optimism is only as useful as a person can ground it to real issues that require attention and consideration.  Can you afford to undertake a particular venture? Is timing appropriate given your recent health concerns? 

As it should be

You may have this nagging feeling that something is missing in your life.  You may sense a lack of confidence, humour, motivation, love, attention, money, abundance or other things. Whatever you believe you need, you can identify and claim it.  It isn't beyond reach unless you decide it is.  The process is as it should be. Simply learn to shift perspectives. Focus on accepting everything about your life and expanding.  You'll attract new circumstances from which you may also grow.

It is useful to realize circumstances that evolve and unfold will become what you make of them.  Judgment begins in the mind.  You will only be in a position to decide anything needs to improve once you are aware of what has happened and why. You need to understand the reasons behind your decisions.  What or whom motivates you? Why do you permit yoruself to be driven as such?

As you begin to recognize that you create everything about your circumstances, you can also learn to change them.  This part of the process requires that you step away from what you think you know and assume you're mistaken.  You can learn to experience your life as it is very differently.

Why is it that your co-workers may complain about how much they're paid when you manage to invest and live well on the same amount? Why is it that people will make light of not having enough energy to accomplish what they desire, and you can teach yourself to make do with what energy you have and even develop your endurance?  Why is it that people you know will belittle others in their spare time and you choose to apply yourself differently in the time you're given?

Self-improvement implies a willingness to raise awareness about things you like or dislike about yourself, as well as a willingness to do something to change that.  It requires the desire to explore your feelings and the root causes of your behavior that may cause you some discomfort.  As you work to decipher your feelings, you can move to a new level and put your body in action. 

The ultimate destructive weapon

For people who dream of having the power to change the past, time travel could become the ultimate destructive weapon. Imagine how it could introduce unpredictable catastrophic events and their consequences into history.

Think of Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451.  It suggests that killing an insect in another era could have unfathomable changes across many spheres. The idea of Michael J. Fox's adventures in the film, Back to the Future may no longer appeal to you if you realized making desirable changes for yourself and reversing decisions could trigger other undesirables for balance.  Would you care?

The growth of advanced science and technology lessens the relevance of natural physical boundries. This is natures' way of stabilizing balance for humans, other creatures and things. Future technology promises to be able to remove or compensate for what we assume would be missing. This could lead to a future world were human actions or achievement might be entirely controlled by ego, drive to achieve and desires to do so.

Already, we see such motivation in the arenas of genetic engineering and software engineering in cyberspace where holograms are meant to enable us change who we are.  Why is it that the world around us sends messages that convince us we should seek to change aspects of ourselves? Should we not be happy withour past and learn what we can from it rather than seek to change it?

Restraint may only be found in those people who have created a consicence, who nuture ethics, moral wisdom, self-control, and self-discipline. And what of the rest of us? As warp cores and other technology that fragment and send us through time and space come to be, it may not only be up to us to sense and change our moments. Would it be desirable for you to become suspended in time?

Success formula

You may have dreamed you exert a degree of influence over your life, and your view of success.  Yet, did you ever realize your hopes do nurture your beliefs?  This process predicts what you'll come to know, who you'll evolve to meet, what you'll choose to create and set out to experience?  Its no coincidence people will tell you that success begins within.  This may not yet have sunk in.

Consider that an individual who defines success based on the money he obtains may only seek out like-minded people.  His beliefs may justify vitually any venture.  If the 'how' or consequences won't matter, then this person could devise ways to obtain lots of money, but he may also find himself in jail for perpetrating criminal acts.  A state of mind can evolve to justify anything in the name of success.  Would morals and ethics come into play in your own version of success?

Consider the terminally ill person who defines success based on nurturing a peaceful mindset toward death.  To ly in a hospital bed waiting for the inevitable is an opportunity to reflect on emotional connections with life and to ponder the value of detachment.  What wisdom would you extract from people and experiences?  How would you find meaning in existence by reframing suffering?

Consider the individual who defines success as something earned through sacrifice.  An athlete may train long and hard to develop endurance and stamina for a big competition.  This person would commit to workouts, diet and psychological preparation, and redefine overall priorities.  Time spent on soem areas of life would mean less or no time left for other people or activities.  What kinds of lifestyle changes are you prepared to make in view of your desired goals?

Consider the person who defines success based on the idea that anything is possible.  This kind of person may push personal limits, take risks to step outside a comfort zone.  Such a person may imagine what success would look and feel like and then, take steps to create desired experiences.  How would you be ready to mkae different choices, from right here, right now? 

Consider the individual who defines succes based on what other people think, say and do.  People you respect or admire may tell you what they did and you may simply adopt their old approaches to life and believe you will do what they did, only your way.  Is what someone else did satisfying enough for you? What are the influences and sources of conditioning of your views?

Consider the person who perceives success as multi-dimensional with many phases at different periods of life.  This kind of person will never be wanting a new kind of success.  S/He will not say "where is success?" or "it's not there yet."  Rather, this person will evolve to see success everywhere.  In which ways do you think events unfold at the perfect time? Do you look past timing? At what point will you be ready to take each experience in as anew facit of your success?