My motivationblog for a better life

To live happily ever after requires hard work ever day

rampongi — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:08:37 +0000

That’s it. You have to get up in the morning with the intention that the day will be one of the happy ones. You have to work for pleasure and not sit and wait for someone to hand over happinesd. Take matters into your own and work for it yourself.

Francis of Assisi said something similar: to make a marriage happy is like running a farm. You have to start fresh every day.
and it applies not only marriage, but motherhood and farherhood also!

Do not expect that the world makes you happy, do the job yourself.

If we all have the intention that the world is a happy place to be at and that it is possible to be nice to strangers, give of ourselves, be available and happy – think how nice the world had become.

So what can we do that morning to have a touch of happiness and not just stress and chaos?

How to create a space for good conversation round the dinnertable and how to smile when 2yearold is as stubborn as only a 2yearold can be?

I believe a breather, at least for me. A breather with the mouth closed. Just sit there and enjoy breakfast, leave the idea of reaching that particular bus or train and let the minutes pass. Actually in africa the time does not run, it comes..

After breathing some seconds, I could mention three positive things that will happen that day and rejoice in it.

I can speak in a normal voice instead of raising it.
I can lower expectations and let the chaos absent by providing clothes the day before, set the clock for 5 min before, so I can stretch a few minutes before the 2yearold requires me to wake up.

I can try to stop time some moments when I would rather stress off to get to the kindergarten. I could enjoy the little hands in my while chugging off to kindergarten. We can stop and watch the stars if that whats the 2yearold wish to. What would we lose well if we pause a few seconds and le the heart breahte during the day?
Probably nothing in the world!

All are equal and everyone has the right to work for their own happiness (as long as you not do so at the expense of others)
(Quote: lovelivenow)

How do you view the world?

rampongi — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:26:07 +0000

I think I have a kind of balance in how I view the world, sometimes I think it’s coming looking for me, other days I see the angel’s wing on everyone.

Not so easy always to be neutral and consider the world without the “spectacles”.

But I have a belief that the world acts back the way you behave towards it, and if you have a positive view of the world, it is more likely to get something good back.

When the shepherd boy in the alchemist says / thinks this sentence, he’s just come to Tangier and was being robbed by a peer, while a coffee-owner tries to warn him. The shepherd boy first of all do not understand because of language problems, but also because he chooses to see the peer as a friend and not as the thief he is. He did not think he would be robbed.

That’s probably the case with most of us. We see the world in a slightly different angle than what is actually reality. What the reality is I am not getting into, that will be taking all night to read, but I think we often get something nice back if we add the goodwill rather than if we are sour and believe that everyone is looking for us to keep us down.
Right?
-Sometimes they still will be coming after us, but when that happens; just smile!

The future is in our hands and hearts!

rampongi — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:59:14 +0000

I have just finished an exam now about social responsibility and ethics in business. Incredibly exciting and relevant today.
Norsk innlegg finner du her: hjelpmegselv.blogg.no.

I find it incredibly sad that we consume more of the world now than ever, and never has the wealth been more wrongly distributed. We are tiny rich people have too much of everything and also have so little respect that we make chaos over some butter .. How vulgar is not that we have access to most information, can afford personal trainers and can buy exactly what we want, but still get fattest?

For comparison, I know of families in Tanzania who earn only 50 dollars a month and they have many children. They are starving, but is far from the poorest in the world. They have a job, they have a small house with a roof, they live their lives as best they can.

Then you have all the refugees, those who are raped on a trip home from the well or on the run, those who see their mothers being shot down in front of their eyes, some already have HIV at birth. These will never be able to live like us, never!

It is up to us rich people to override this misguided ship called Earth in the right direction. The rainforest is cut down even if it is made laws and rules to avoid it. Factories pollute a lot, and much more than the permissible limits, why? Because they can, they pay someone to look the other way and presto; we have a timber plant in the rainforest and the opium factory out in the countryside in Afghanistan.

Food production is indeed in the wrong field … eg poor little brother Mexico that produce soy on a large scale for import into the United States, so that the cows in the United States will get fatten up a little faster than if they ate the grass, so they can be harvested more quickly and the big guys can earn even more ..

Chickens living on grain production of soybean that is planted in the cut down rainforest, so they grow fat in 30 days in a dark room until they (often) are irresponsible killed and sold to us health-conscious Norwegians and others.

BUT THERE IS HOPE!

As a country we can claim better laws againts corruption, but politics gets in the way. So it is perhaps not all the way to go.

We earthlings as individuals must teach our children about ethics, what is right and what is wrong and what is terribly wrong. We must teach our children that the world is huge, and it is full of solutions for both cancer riddles and other puzzles, we can find the answer to most if we use the resources in the right way.

This our soil, we just need to get better at taking care of, it can go only one way and that is to come. So march out to save the world

Ahoy there mates!

rampongi — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:53:30 +0000

Dette er min nye blogg. Jeg har en annen blogg jeg har jobbet med i 1.5 år. Den heter hjelpmegselv.blogg.no og den har jeg hatt det mye gøy med. Jeg tenkte at jeg ville begynne å blogge på både engelsk og norsk, så dette er et forsøk på det. Bær over med meg!

English translation will follow ..

Målet med lovelivenow er å skape mer motivasjon for endring i våre liv. Jeg vil at vi alle skal bli flinkere til å ta vare på hverandre, til å stresse ned og finne ut hva som er viktig for å leve et godt liv med et herlig innhold.

Jeg håper denne bloggen kan inspirere deg til å ville ta mer samfunnsansvar og ikke minst mer ansvar for miljøet, handle mindre klær og mat, spise mindre kjøtt, vær bevisst i flere valg og lev sunnere, både psykisk og fysisk. Vi har alle godt av å bli enda bedre, selv om vi alle sammen er uslepne diamanter med glede og håp i hjertene våre.

This is my new blog. I have another blog I have worked with for 1.5 years. It’s called hjelpmegselv.blogg.no and I have had a lot of fun with it. I thought I would start to blog in both English and Norwegian, so this is an attempt at it. Bear with me:)

The aim of lovelivenow is to create more motivation for change in our lives. I want us all to become better at taking care of each other, to unwind and find out what is important to live a good life with a wonderful content.

I hope this blog can inspire you to want to take more responsibility and not the least responsibility for the environment, buy less clothing and food, eat less meat, be aware of more choices and live healthier, both mentally and physically. We are alle good people that will be even better, we all are rough diamonds with joy and hope in our hearts.