Today is great. you have facebook and twitter. You have blogs like this one that anyone can get their message out to people. You have simple text messages that you can use to have whole conversations. You Can talk and see family all the way around the globe. It has created connections that before would have never been possible. It is amazing to learn and see things that the generations before us could never do. We learn more from the couch then ever before. They can put a camera in a womb and see a baby grow. WOW. What a time we live in truly one of the greatest times in history.
I bet you could see this but coming couldn't you.
What has this done to us. I truly believe it has made us a weaker people. addicted to instant gratification and afraid to get out of our homes. I am addicted to text messages myself. Think of it you send one and want a response when you don't get one from that person you feel hurt and offended. Then you get mad at them for not paying enough attention to you. Then you send another then another. it is an addiction. Then you have facebook and other social media where you can log on and see what your"friends" had for lunch and what their babies look like without ever breaking beard with them or even seeing those small babies. You can learn so much about people just by looking at their profile. But we don't pick up the phone and call a friend and say i love you we text it. We have lost the ability in a lot of ways to go and find those friends in real life. Technology has changed everything about society. Form the beauty in a handwritten note to the awesome feeling of talking to the girl or guy you are crushing on for hours. The things we are loosing are beautiful and they shouldn't be lost. Don't get me wrong technology has helped us reach more people and helped in so many ways. But don't ever forget how to love someone face to face and express those feelings other then a text message or on facebook.
My you have a blessed day. Call someone that you love and tell them today. Or better yet go see them. take them to dinner. Show your love in actions cause they yell while a text is just a whisper.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Gratitude
I haven't posted in the eddvate brand in a long time. To be honest this is because i have been doing some major soul searching. I am not going to discuss that here for all to hear but i believe sometimes it is good to move yourself away from things to see where you truly are. There are times where i have issues with gratitude and i focus on what i don't have. I know this can be an issue for a lot of the western world. I found this awesome list today that put things is perspective for me. I hope it does the same for you.
Even in uncertain times, it’s always important to keep things in perspective.
1. You are alive.
2. You are able to see the sunrise and the sunset.
3. You are able to hear birds sing and waves crash.
4. You can walk outside and feel the breeze through your hair and the sun’s warmth on your skin.
5. You have tasted the sweetness of chocolate cake .
6. You didn’t go to sleep hungry last night.
7. You awoke this morning with a roof over your head.
8. You had a choice of what clothes to wear.
9. You haven’t feared for your life today.
10. You have overcome some considerable obstacles, and you have learnedand survived.
11. You often worry about what you’re going to do with your life – your career , your family, the next step, etc. – which means you have ambition, passion, drive, and the freedom to make your own decisions.
12. You live in a country that protects your basic human rights and civil liberties.
13. You are reasonably strong and healthy – if you got sick today, you could recover.
14. You have a friend or relative who misses you and looks forward to your next visit.
15. You have someone with whom to reminisce about ‘the good old days.’
16. You have access to clean drinking water.
17. You have access to medical care.
18. You have access to the Internet.
19. You can read .
These are beautiful things that i and a lot of us take for granted. We may not have what we want but if we focus on lack you will always have lack. I will be writing another blog later today and posting tonight or tomorrow. Have a blessed day. And HUg someone.
Friday, April 4, 2014
eddavate: Thoughts are things
eddavate: Thoughts are things: Wow What a last few days Eddie has had. It is amazing ho...
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Thoughts are things
Wow
What a last few days Eddie has had. It is amazing how one mindset change that has
been holding you back can change your outlook.
Reading think and grow rich has really showed me the power our thoughts
have. We limit ourselves in so many
different ways in our lives. The human
spirit has so much strength in it and we just accept what we think we see. We let others control the happiness of our
days when it is the very lens we see life though that causes our days to be the
way they are.
We let our current situation define what our futures will
be. We let our current bank accounts
define our future earnings. How much could we achieve if we truly knew that
everything we think becomes something if we nurture it and let our subconscious
mind marinate it and bring it into reality.
If we will just give up the fear that life and people have taught us
over the years and just believe that the universe has our back. If we could just learn that God gave us fear
to push us though new situations. We
could achieve so much in life and have such a better experience on this little
rock in space if we just gave up the fear and went through it.
Until the past few
months I lived a life that I only saw the negative. I was never going to have enough. I was never going to be enough. Money would run out. And I brought a lot of this to reality. When I would date someone I wasn’t enough for
them so it would end. I would think they
are not interested in me and really they were I just read the wrong story by
their actions. It is amazing how much
time and energy I have given the negative in my life. I have always believed I wasn’t good enough
to do anything in life because I hadn’t done much already in life. That others were better because they were
still married or they had a nicer car or whatever. I would always find a reason I was not good
enough. But in the past few months I
have learned that the very thoughts that I was not good enough was making me
not good enough. I truly believe I had
to achieve to have the confidence to be able to achieve in my life. That is Bull shit. We must first love ourselves and believe we
are worthy of love, abundance and all the juice that life has to offer. I will a kick ass life to quote someone that
has helped my journey a lot. But only I
can make it kick ass. Only you can
choose to have a kick ass life and to be happy every day. I truly have found my calling in everyday
life of being a day maker and helping other find happiness and though that I
truly find an inner peace and happiness.
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