“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau
Good morning peeps, meditation done.
Quote for the day:
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau
Pinch, punch it’s the first of the month and the beginning of the final quarter and final push to achieve our goals for 2015.
Apologies for the lateness of my blog today but I am on a 10 day online course in the states on how to grow your online business called The Growth Hacker — Hangathon, by Christopher M. Duncan and Bishop Stewart hosted by Yifat Cohen, which involves being on a live webinair at 1am in the morning UK time for between an hour and a hour and a half every day. Yesterday was Day 3 and I won a webinair training product worth $1,999, for being an action taker, by the fact that I have been on the course everyday in the middle of the night. There seems to be people from all around the world, mainly from the states, but there is a guy from Brazil and one guy from Australia that I see every night.
I am actually in bed when I am on air, but I sit up propped up by a pillow wearing a shirt and have to use the torch on my phone as a backlight to give a decent backdrop.
I am learning a lot, but I am absolutely shattered this morning as yesterday I was training and travelling with sessions in North London, meetings in Shorditch House, then The Library, which is another members club situated in St.Martin’s lane, Covent Garden, before teaching my friend Tim yoga in Mada Vale and staying for a really lovely dinner party, getting home just before 1am jumping into bed and joining the webinair live.
The writer of today’s Quote For The Day was Henry David Thoreau who was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
His books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes and among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism.
Thoreau’s political writings had little impact during his lifetime, as “his contemporaries did not see him as a theorist or as a radical, viewing him instead as a naturalist. They either dismissed or ignored his political essays, including Civil Disobedience.
But when he died Thoreau’s writings went on to influence many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mohandas Gandhi, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau’s work, particularly Civil Disobedience.
Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his autobiography that his first encounter with the idea of non-violent resistance was reading On Civil Disobedience in 1944 while attending Morehouse College.
He wrote that it was,
“Here, in this courageous New Englander’s refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery’s territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times. I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement; indeed, they are more alive than ever before. Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau’s insisitence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.”
I am hoping my efforts to improve the health and happiness of as many people as I can world wide, have a more immediate effect during my own lifetime than Thoreau’s did his, but one useful lesson I have learnt from his story is to keep on doing what you believe, in stay focused and never give up and eventually you will get to your end result, no matter how long it may take.
Breathe, Believe and Achieve
Be Happy, Health and Wise
Have a thrilling Thursday peeps,
Keep on Winning, Smiling and Living the Dream
Namaste
Steve Agyei
Founder of Beyond Lifestyle Secrets
Author of Celebrity Training Secrets
