What you've said here has nothing to do with what Seraphita was saying, just so you know.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: 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: -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> mailto:mjackson74@... To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto: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, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... <s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@...> 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. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> mailto: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@..." mailto:jr_esq@... <jr_esq@...> mailto: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@...> mailto: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 did in the past, which we often don't even understand. If we could go back and make another different decision, who knows what would happen? Karma is a bitch! Remember the future. On 11/23/2013 8:39 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > Bein' in the right place at the right time... ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links
