Important Life Lessons We Are Taught Too Late

Life is continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lesson to long way. Some of these lessons come from experience, yet there are others that we can learn watching others and reading inbox.

No matter how much we learn from the books there’s a significant difference between physical and theoretical experience. Furthermore there are many life lessons we cannot learn until we pay certain situations in our life. Most people say that there are lessons that come too late, catching us off guard and unprepared.

Here are a few:

Walk Your Own Path

People like to judge other people. This peer pressure can make you stray from the path you started to carve for your future. Don’t mind other people’s aspirations, don’t ever let someone else’s goals influence your vision of life. It’s your path and you decide where it takes you and how long it take you can see it through.

Don’t Hesitate When You Should Act

There’s an old Roman proverb that people often quote – “Carpe diem” – meaning “Seize the day.” More often than not, we fail to act due to the lack of confidence or courage. This hesitation keeps us from moving forward and puts us in a cage of wondering what might have been. Whenever you feel it’s time to act, take action. No matter the outcome you will end up smarter than before.

Experience What You Have Learned

No matter how much we think we know about some topic, it’s only after we have put that knowledge and he uses that we get the confirmation and the actual level of understanding that it possesses. Sure, we can read about painting, learn about technique and brush types, color and platelets, but only when we get in front of the canvas and start painting that we put our knowledge to the test,

People often face difficulties when it comes to putting what they have learned into practice, therefore all this knowledge becomes useless when it should be the fuel that propels our their lives.

Good Things Don’t Come Easy

If you want to have a good life successful career, emotional satisfaction, and trustworthy friends you have to work hard. Luck and take you only so far and the rest is entirely up to you, the amount of effort you put in everyday, and the ability to learn from your mistakes. Don’t think for one moment that someone else is going to fight your battles with the same vigor and devotion as you would.

Never Fail To Try More

Even when we’re feeling most prepared there is a chance we fail in accomplishing our goal. An athlete could lead thee entire race only to fall just before the finish line and lose. This doesn’t mean the athlete should stop competing, on the contrary, he would work even harder for the next competition. The results will come eventually.

Take Care Of Your Health Early

When we were young we can push our body to its limits day after day. It seems there’s nothing can touch us and we are invincible. However, as we grow old all the parties, drinking, smoking and eating fast food takes at toll on our health. Start developing healthy habits while you are still young and healthy. Get regular check-ups with your doctor and dentist in order to prevent future problems.

Make Every Moment Count

Life goes by faster than we think. When you’re in your 20s and you think you’ll stay there forever but before you know it you are in your 30s and then it’s too late or do you think you wanna treat you as a young person. Leave your life who is 416 because life is short and you never know what tomorrow brings.

Live And Let Live

We often try to help people when we see they’re making a mistake. This type of behavior can lead us into all kinds of trouble and misunderstanding. Don’t forget your ideas on others, let those who want your help in guidance seek you out. Sometimes it’s best to stay away and let them come to you or you might seem intrusive to others.

Be Flexible With Your Goals

Sometimes we feel is the right time to take action and put our plans in motion only to realize that we were wrong. It’s important to analyze our current position and how our activities could influence our future. Sometimes it’s better to postpone a certain goal or even change it for the time being. Excepting a promotion in a bad time to get us into more trouble than good if the timing is not right.

For Every Action, There’s An Equal Opposite Reaction

What are you say something or act in a certain way, think about the consequences. I personally could be unprepared to hear some truth I won’t respond well to your gesture, no matter how good your intentions are. Treat each word with caution.

Take these pieces of advice as guidance, not as a rule. You life is your own and you know what’s best for you. However, keep in mind that morning is wiser and evening. Enjoy life!

Dealing With Disappointment

When it comes to dealing with disappointment, the way you choose to handle it can determine how your life will turn out. When you feel disappointed, all that means is that something or someone will help me up to our expectation. For most people, this occurs when we reach for a goal and come up short. Everyone has to deal with this. The way we handle situations will determine our success or failure in life.

Let’s look into why we feel disappointed and something we can do to overcome this feeling.

Expectations are nothing but rules. These rules will dictate, at least in your mind, what has to happen before a satisfactory result is achieved. Say you wanted to lose 15 pounds in 30 days. You go out there and you start working out and eating right. You do everything the experts tell you and when the 30 days is up, you step on the scale to find out you’ve only lost 10 pounds. Chances are that you will feel quite disappointed. The reason is because you set a rule on that have to happen for you to feel satisfied.

So what do you do in this situation or any other situation where you fail to achieve what you set out to achieve? If you do let more people view and you give up or complain and whine about how you never get what you want, then you were going to continue to feel miserable. If you decide that you’re going to adjust and do better next time, you will be able to succeed at handling disappointing situations in a productive way.

Remember that disappointment it’s just a feeling that is caused by the rules you set up. This works externally as well. Let’s say you expected that your child will get straight A’s in school but they end up getting mostly B’s, The only reason you feel disappointed is because you created the rule that unless your child gets all A’s you will not be satisfied.

So how can we use this back to help you deal with disappointment? There are two things you can do. The first is to realize that when you’re feeling disappointed, it’s because certain rule that you have created were not met. Whether the rules were placed on you or by someone else it doesn’t matter. In order to deal with this feeling, one thing you can do if you change the rules.

Instead of saying, “If I don’t lose 15 pounds in 30 days, I’m going to be disappointed,” you can say, “I will do everything I can to reach my boa but if I happen to fall short, I will at least know that I gave it my all.” This is just an example but hopefully you get the point. You made the rules that card yourself to feel disappointed which means you can also change the rules.

The second thing you can do legs your rule you set up for other people. If you want to stop being disappointed all the time when it comes to other people, create the rules that make it harder for people who make you disappointed. The rules that hair to happen or you could be satisfied or not something you were born with. You created them. It’s great to have high expectations for yourself because you have control over your actions but when you place too many rules on other people who don’t have that self-control, be prepared to have a lot of disappointment.

Dealing with disappointment just requires understanding what causes a feeling you come up in the first place. Once you understand that it’s a result of you or other people willing to meet your rules of what has to happen for you to feel satisfied, you can begin to start changing those rules and make it harder for you to feel disappointment.

The Backbone Of The Bible

We don’t talk about the covenants today, but we should. Covenants are one of the most important themes in the Bible – They are the key to God redemptive plan to restore humanity to its divine calling. Starting in Genesis, God enters into one form a partnership another after with various humans in order to rescue His world. These divine human partnerships drive the narrative forward until it teaches its climax in Jesus. To tell the story of God redeeming humanity through Jesus is to tell the whole story of God’s covenant relationship with humans.

So what is a covenant? And how does the covenant story of the Bible begin?

A covenant is a relationship between two partners who make a binding promise together to work together to reach a common goal. They’re often accompanied by oaths, signs and ceremonies. Which are not very common today. Covenant divine obligation and commitment, but they are very different from the contract because they’re relational and personal. Think of a marriage – A husband and choose to enter into a formal relationship, binding themselves to another in lifelong faithfulness and devotion. Then they work as partners to reach a common goal, like building a life or raising children together.

Covenant relationships are found all throughout the Bible. There were personal covenant between two individuals, political government between two kings or nations, legal covenant with a nation, and so forth. These are found in 1 Samuel 23; and 1 Kings:5. Entering into covenant was a major part of the past. So God partnered with humans through a structure that they already understood.

The covenantal also story began when God created humans in his image to partner with him and spreading the goodness throughout the world.

God invites Adam Eve to be priest kings and represent his generous rule on earth. They could enjoy and reproduce blessing of eternal life as long as I continue to trust and partner with God. But as God lays out the terms of the relationship, he warned them not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it would bring a curse of death on humanity. I am pretty sure we all know the accounts that lead up the end of the Garden of Eden.

It was their first test of covenant faithfulness, and humans failed. They ate from the tree, fracturing the human divine relationship and plunging humanity into corruption and death. We were still gonna stuck on the record if God had never intervene. But the rest of the Bible is all about how God repaired this broken relationship with humans.

God had a physical covenant with the people in ancient times this means there was physical dimensions of the land and there would be no over spiritualizing into the realm. They had to have blood covenant, which carried a connotation of the shedding of blood. This were nothing unusual in early times, covenant agreements we ratified by animal sacrifice or an exchanging of blood.

Such a covenant is so binding that to break it you it would have to result in death of a person who broke it and often the family as well.

Abraham, therefore with following ancient custom where he cut the three animals in two and placed each of them in someway that the blood formed a pathway.

The two parties entering into this covenant would walk through the blood to confirm a covenant and with each party how to clean all the positions of the other party.

But in the case of this covenant, only the smoking burning Presence -a manifestation of God that is reminiscent of the pillar of fire that guided the Israelites through the wilderness centuries later walk through the blood.

Why? Only God can establish this everlasting covenant, and the responsibility for maintaining it fell solely on him.

This was no mere contract that could be voided, It was an unconditional, eternal trust. This covenant is often referred to as the Abrahamic Covenant.

The New Covenant

For generations, Israel ignored the terms of the covenant with God, breaking command and living by their own definitions of good and evil. Amidst rebellion and exile, the Hebrew prophet spoke of a new covenant, saying that God would One day per feel one of his promises, repairing his relationship and with his people the blessing the nations through them. (Jeremiah 31:31-34: Ezekiel 36:22-32).

This new covenant is to be everlasting. We are living this new covenant today. God will write his law on the hearts of the people, when you complete forgiveness of sins, and and raise up a king from the line of David who will restore all that is broken.

This anticipation of the covenant pushes the account forward into the pages of the New Testament where we are introduce Jesus (Matthew 26:26-29. Luke 22:19-22).

The physical covenant in the Old Testament and the spiritual covenant of a new testament progressively build upon one another, forming a complete redemptive storyline. God preserved the world through Noah initiated redemption through Abraham, establish the nation of Israel through Moses, promised an internal shepherd King through David, and fulfilled all the covenants through Jesus. With each covenant, God’s promises and plans to see the world through a sheet of a woman become clearer and clearer and how we finally see that redemption can only come through King Jesus.

Jesus Is The Covenantal Climax

New Testament authors presents Jesus as the offspring of Abraham who trusted in God, even to the point of death, and became a blessing to all nations. He is the greater Moses, leading us out of bondage, and He is the obedient Israelite who perfectly follows the law of God. Yes the Royal Sonesta David who inaugurated God’s kingdom in his life, death, and resurrection, and who now sits at gods right hand forever reigning as the one true King.

Jesus perfectly succeeded at every point where humanity failed. He is the guarantor and a mediator of a new and better covenant (Hebrews 7:21; 9:15). Now people from every nation, tribe, and tongue who trust Jesus can become part of God’s covenant family.

In this new covenant, receive the forgiveness of sins and God’s empowering Spirit to help us live lives full of self-giving love. It’s because of Jesus, we can live righteously and partner with Him as He renews the world.

It seems today that many people have forgotten the covenant with God, that our forefathers made when they landed in America. We have forgotten that line in the sand between good and evil. If you have read the Bible you know that God always gives a warning before he says judgment. The warnings are here, and will soon pass. Are you ready to meet Jesus?

Gut Feelings You Should Never Ignore

The quirky urge. A funny tingly. That little voice in your head. These are your gut feelings talking. But what are they telling you, and should you listen? Here’s how to make the most of your innate wisdom.

A few weeks ago I had an appointment in the city about 3 hours away. The day before I had a gut feeling I should cancel and reschedule. So, listening to the feeling, I called the office to tell them I needed to reschedule. After many attempts to reach them I gave up and just thought everything would be alright and I would go to my scheduled appointment. The following day I proceeded to the city, after horrible traffic, I pulled into the parking lot, as soon as I parked my car, my cell phone started ringing. I answered and it was the office where my appointment was, they were canceling my appointment because an emergency had come up. Yes, I was upset after driving all that way in awful traffic and wasting all that gas. When I hung up, I was more upset at myself for not better following in gut.

A few years back some scientists at the University of Iowa conducted an experiment where individuals played a game of chance with four different card decks and stacks of play money. Each card indicated whether they had won or lost money, and the goal of the player was to draw as many cash-delivering cards as possible. What the players didn’t know was that the decks had been rigged. Two of them as been stacked so they yielded high rewards but punishing losses, while the other two offered smaller rewards and virtually no losses. It took most player about 50 cards before they started to favor the safer decks, and about 80 cards before they could explain thy they did so.

Here’s the curious part, sensors attached to the players skin showed that after 10 cards, a player’s hand would get sweaty and nervous when it reached for the risky decks. Although the individual had little inkling of which card piles were the most lucrative, their emotions know which decks were dangerous.

Gut Instinct:

Most of us have experienced the sense of knowing things before they happen, even if we can’t explain how. Maybe you hesitated at a greenlight and missed getting hit by a speeding vehicle or you decide on a whim to break your no blind date policy and wind up meeting your life partner. You have a hunch that you should not go somewhere and find out later a bad accident had happened right where you were going.

If only we could tap into those insights more often, right? It turns out we can, especially if we learn to identify which signals to focus on – whether they’re sweaty palms, a funny feeling in our stomach, or a sudden and inexplicable certainty that something is up.

According to researchers, intuition is far more material than it seems. The right side of our brains are always reading our surroundings, even when our conscious left brain is otherwise engaged. Our bodies can register information while the conscious mind remains blissfully unaware of what’s going on.

Some theorists suggest we can feel approaching events specifically because of our dopamine neutrons. The jitters of dopamine help keep track of reality, alerting us to those stable patterns that we can’t consciously detect.

This means if something in the environment is even slightly irregular- the speed of an approaching vehicle, the slightly unusual behavior of someone at a party – your Brain squirts dopamine and you get that “weird” feeling. Whether you pay attention or mot can make all the difference. Your might meet your future partner, or meet your maker. Those signal carry a lot of important information, so, it’s wise to listen up.

Gut Feeling:s:

1. Listening to your bodies subtle signals is a critical part of exercising your intuitive sense.

Intuition allows us to get the first warning signs when anything is off in your body so that you can address it. Your body is a powerful intuitive communicator,

2. I’m in danger. If you don’t trust somebody, even if it turns out to be inaccurate, it is something to pay attention to. Have you ever been walking down the street at night and you get the feeling to stay away from that person, and you cross the street, or go into a business.

3. I want to help, you might think that gut instincts are something we’ve maintained mostly to avoid danger, the human species has evolved to an equally powerful capacity to sense when other people need support. Sympathy is one of humanity’s most basic instincts, which is why evolution lavished so much attention on the parts of the brain that help us think about what other people are feeling. (Sadly the instinct to support people seems to have gone out the window in some people).

Since evolution has made you a quick read of other faces and their emotional signals, you don’t always need to wait for a verbalized cue before you reach out. The sympathy instinct nudges us to change the subject when wedding tale makes a newly divorced colleague cringe, or to start up a conversation with a nervous seat mate during an airplane landing, subtle gestures that can make a big difference in someone’s day.

4. This is it, most people have a great “I just knew I was right” story. It might be about the time they first spotted their partner cross the threshold of their first house or figured out they wanted to switch careers. There’s a reason most of us have memorable stories about the biggest and best decisions we make in life.

When your intuition signals that you’ve found something or someone truly right for you, the choice often becomes strangely easy. It feels healthy, it feels good, it doesn’t feel like your forcing it, there’s not a lot of conflict.