Category: Cambia tu Vida – Augusto Cury

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Cambia tu Vida – Augusto Cury #4 – Tener un Sueño Reparador

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Chapter 4

HAVE A RESTFUL SLEEP

Fourth law of quality of life

FOURTH WEEK OF PROGRAM

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I. HAVING RESTFUL SLEEP MEANS…

1. Sleeping enough to recharge the physical and mental energy spent during the day.

2. Not falling asleep right away or having intermittent sleep (waking up, getting up).

3. Having a deep, restful and pleasant sleep.

4. Not being tormented by nightmares or bad dreams.

5. Not taking social or professional problems or conflict to bed.

6. Wake up rested and motivated to face the day’s stress and challenge.

7. Stay alert and concentrated to be mentally productive.

8. Being calm to make well informed decisions.

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3.  We spend one third of our lives sleeping; sleep is our most important encounter with ourselves, it is the time when millions of cells relax and reorganize energy to be able to withstand difficult battles to survive.  Sleeping isn’t losing time, it is finding it.

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10.  Depending on the quality of your sleep, you will be an agreeable, tolerable or insupportable person.  If you find yourself irritable or impulsive, think about the quality of your sleep.  People who don’t sleep are bothered even by their own shadow; don’t withstand joking around from others, or continued errors or faults.

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19.  Life is a battle, and our bed is the only place where we an absolute truce should reign.  Sleep is the place where only should exist unconditional peace, even though the world is crumbling around.

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22.  It is less expensive to not expect too much from people and to pardon them, even when they don’t deserve it.  Do it for you:  enemies who are not pardoned, sleep in our bed and perturb our sleep…  Hmmm “watch out” : ) 

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The first person who benefits from a pardon is the one who pardons and not he who is pardoned.

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41.  You must know that, behind a person who is authoritarian, hides someone who is fragile.  Behind someone aggressive hides a person who is miserable.  Surprise them, praise them, pardon them.  Inside those who are most complicated is found a child who needs love and attention.

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Sow serene sleep to harvest a tranquil day.

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Cambia tu Vida – Augusto Cury #3 – Liberar la Creatividad / Superar la Rutina

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Chapter 3

FREE CREATIVITY: OVERCOME ROUTINE

Third law of quality of life

THIRD WEEK OF PROGRAM

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FREEING CREATIVITY IS…

1. Beeing a traveler of our own being.

2. Doing things which aren’t planned.

3. Overcoming routine and constructing an oasis is the desert of tediousness.

4. Opening the windows of intelligence leading to new discoveries.

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5. Thinking of other possibilities, freeing the imagination.

6. Renewing sentiments and liking oneself.

7. Positively surprising those around us. Doing things we haven’t done before.

8. Praising someone we love: penetrate their world, know their dreams, their joys, their fears.

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… freeing creativity is expressing things never said before, doing things never done before;  it is going past the veil of conduct of those we love and conquering them from within.

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Routine hardens and destroys is pleasure; we don’t know how to become calm, relax, create, change what is planned.

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Save the criticism and the judgment and let flow praise to those you love or with whom you work.  Spend a weekend someplace new.  Walk in different places.  Give flowers for no reason.

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Cambia tu Vida – Augusto Cury #2 – Contemplar lo Bello / Contemplate Beauty

English translations follow the excerpts from Augusto Cury’s excellent book THINK AND MAKE IT HAPPEN,

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Contemplate Beauty
Second Law for Quality of Life
Second week of Program

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8. Learn to be rich without the necessity of enormous amounts of money; be happy without great reason.

9. Live lightly, event though we may be burdened with responsibility.

10. Maintain a love affair with life composing poetry with life without having to write any words.

11. Hug children, admire people old people, maintain pleasant conversations with friends.

12. Read a good book, travel through its pages, liberate creativity. Listen to good music, penetrate the details of a painting, of an architectural work of art. In sum, navigate through the waters of emotion.

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14. How about you? Do you spend part of your time watching sunsets, the brightness of the stars or the marvels which guide existence, or are you too busy?

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18.  Vaccinate yourself against the paranoia of fame, look for success in all you do, but don’t get crazy for fame. If it comes, do not over play it. Remember that one of the sickly symptoms of our species is to place some up on stage and the majority in the audience to applaud.

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Someone who is contemplative and of good humor lives better and longer. Being negative and bad tempered will not solve problems, but it may cut short your days…

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To contemplate beauty is to write a romantic story with life. Have you written this romance?

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Cambia tu Vida – Augusto Cury #1 – Ser Protagonista de la Propia Historia / Write your Own History

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I like this review on Amazon which shows each of the 12 steps and gives a nice summary
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Write Your Own History: Rescue Leadership of your “I” – First law for quality of life – First week of program
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5… we always end up dividing among ourselves. The paranoia of wanting to lord over others and the idealogical, economic and physical warfare are a reflection of a sick and divided species. 6. … in the theater of our mind we are all the same. 7. We have cultural differences, but the phenomenon constructing chain of thought and which transform emotional energy are exactly the same for every human being.
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8. Perhaps you haven’t heard, but becoming passionate about life and the human are fundamental conditions to achieve a high quality of life and acquire wisdom.  9.  Please always remember this:  i.  The life beating within us, independently of our errors,  successes, status and culture, is a unique gem in the theater of existence.  ii.  Each human being is a world to explore, a history waiting to be understood, soil to be cultivated.
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The most important problem is that the majority of people don’t develop a critical “I”, lucid, coherent and capable of making correct decisions at the right time.
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We should get out of the audience, get up on the stage of our thoughts and emotions, and direct our story.
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When our instincts control our intelligence, fear, anger, and anxiety drive us to react without thinking.
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… in an environment where it isn’t possible to think clearly, the best response is to give none. Use the wiseness of silence. 58. … The worst errors we commit in the first 30 seconds of a stressful situation.  (Breathe Deeply!!!)
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62. Only someone who leads themselves is capable of maintaining the muscular coordination and the serenity to start writing en a moment when a death sentence hangs in the balance. (In the eye of the hurricane)
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71. The best way to disarm an aggressor is to oblige him to open the fan of his intelligence and surprise him, being it with silence, a compliment or some unexpected attitude… The next time you are in a tight situation, don’t feel required to give an immediate response, decide to become silence’s best friend.