When I go to the gym for my exercise program I always start out slow,
doing some stretching exercises to warm up. I've noticed several others
doing the same thing before a long run in the park. Then comes the heavy
lifting like curls, or running on the treadmill or on the elliptic. I've
also got a habit of stretching in bed when I wake up before I get up and
start walking around the house.
When taking an exam in school, experts say to read all the questions
before you start, then work the easy problems first, and save the more
difficult ones for last. In one one class I took, Business Math, when
the final exam came, I already knew what my average was in the course
and how many points I needed to make on the final in order to pass with
a 'C'.
So, in just a few minutes I completed all the easy questions and I had
over two hours to complete the difficult ones. Sure, I made an 'A' in
the course by completing all the questions, but I could have left the
room in about ten minutes knowing I had already passed the course with a
'B'. If I had attempted the hard questions first, I might have run out
of time and really screwed up. Go figure.
On 11/24/2013 7:41 AM, William Leed wrote:
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From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Nov 24, 2013 5:15 am
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Right Place, Right Time
That's my way too, the other way, Marshy's way you keep the spectre of the
unpleasant task looming in your awareness while you do the easy stuff - creates
stress and screws up the enjoyment of the stuff one loves to do. Amazing that an
enlightened feller got it wrong.
On Sun, 11/24/13,s3raph...@yahoo.com mailto:s3raph...@yahoo.com s3raph...@yahoo.com
mailto:s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Right Place, Right Time
To:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 2:40 AM
Re I also thought it
interesting that Maharishi said that when you have a bunch
of tasks to do, do the easy ones first to build up momentum.
Then do the difficult ones.:
The exact opposite
of my approach. When I have a series of tasks to get out the
way I always do the ones I dislike most first so that
I'm always advancing towards the tasks I find easiest -
even enjoyable. That's better psychology - at
least it suits my temperament.
---infairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@...
wrote:
John, I also thought it interesting
that Maharishi said that when you're taking a test or
have a bunch of tasks to do, do the easy ones first to build
up momentum. Then do the difficult ones.
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:29
PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote:
Richard,
MMY
stated to take the path of least resistance. That is
the more likely the correct alternative. Jyotish can
help in that regard.
But
some people have a problem with that. IMO, they end up
fighting for a lost cause. FWIW.
---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
punditster@...
wrote:
This
got me to thinking too, about being in the right place at
the right
time. I wonder how much being in the right place at the
right time is a
matter of personal choice or just plain old karma.
As I get older I've begun to think back about the
choices I made in the
past, and why I made those choices. Only a few times can I
remember
actually deciding what to do - there's always some force
involved that
is often unseen or accounted for.
Most of the time being where I was was not something I had
much control
over - it was mostly a matter of necessity and/or survival.
Most of us
don't get to make real choices - we think we do, but
mainly we make
choices because of finances that seem to dictate where we
go, how we
live, and what we do.
But, if you look back and examine things and events real
closely, you
may find that things and events happen for a reason,
sometimes for
reasons we don't understand at the time. Everything is
connected and
every action we take comes from a cause - there's not
much free will
when you really think about it.
If we've all lived lives in the past, you'll realize
that there's
nothing much we can do now to change what came before - all
we can do
now is try to make things better for ourselves in the
future. For some,
being in the right place at the right times is just a matter
of fate,
but I think most of what happens to us is the result of what
we
