Mindful Quotes

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.

~ Richie Norton

MESSAGE + MISSION = MOVEMENT Its not that you want to be on TV or the radio or in a magazine. If no one watched or listened or read, you wouldn't care about those mediums. What you want is an audience. You want to be seen and heard. You have a message to share. That said, the world has giving you your own TV channel (YouTube and any other video platform). The world has given you a radio station and even hosts (podcasts). The world has given you your own magazine and newspaper (websites, blogs, etc). YOU ARE SEEN AND HEARD. YOU ARE ALREADY STANDING ON THE STAGE. NOW WHAT?We are watching and listening.

~ Richie Norton

No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.

~ Richie Norton

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

~ Richie Norton

During the inevitable times when you feel like your work has no meaning, find meaning at home. If you need something more to feel creative or need extra cash, then moonlight: start dream projects after work hours. At some point in time, a successful side project can become your main project and you’ll be fortunate enough to make your work and your dreams become one. || You should always have meaning outside the workplace. Work to support your lifestyle — don’t live to support your work.

~ Richie Norton

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

~ Richie Norton

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.

~ Richie Norton

One day employers will need to incentivize employees to actually work in an office. The office, in many ways, is obsolete. The office is more and more becoming a place for wasteful meetings and the work is actually being done at home. A Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE) is the path of future location-independent businesses.

~ Richie Norton

I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

~ Richie Norton

Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

~ Richie Norton

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, I could do that ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.

~ Richie Norton

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

~ Richie Norton

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

~ Richie Norton

Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.

~ Richie Norton

Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.

~ Richie Norton

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

~ Richie Norton

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.

~ Richie Norton

Always ask yourself: What will happen if I say nothing?

~ Kamand Kojouri

it's more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.

~ Nikki Rowe

Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's been instilled in us whilst expecting miraculous results. Retrain the core issue and the pathway will build itself.

~ Nikki Rowe

You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you.

~ Nikki Rowe

Think of money as energy like you would love and then the belief in the universe will provide all you have been dreaming of.

~ Nikki Rowe

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

It's very simple. Liars initiate, haters carry forward, fools spread, idiots believe and mindful void.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (“Buying now, dying later”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful.

~ Nikki Rowe

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.

~ Nikki Rowe

There is no certainty, not even your next breath. Live like you are dieing because in reality we all are.

~ Nikki Rowe

Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.

~ Nikki Rowe

We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.

~ Kat Lahr

No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don't go as planned. And, it's not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not designed for you. It is not a part of your destiny.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.

~ Nikki Rowe

I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can.

~ Nikki Rowe

Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

From 'Creating True Peace' by Thich Nhat HanhTo better understand the practise of protection, please study the Five Mindfulness Trainings in Chapter 3, particularly the third, sexual responsibility. By practising the Third Mindfulness Training, we protect ourselves, our family, and society. In addition, by observing all the trainings we learn to eat in moderation, to work mindfully, and to organise our daily life so we are there for others. This can bring us great happiness and restore our peace and balance.Expressing Sexual Feelings with Love and CompassionAnimals automatically follow their instincts, but humans are different. We do not need to satisfy our cravings the way animals do. We can decide that we will have sex only with love. In this way we can cultivate the deepest love, harmony, and nonviolence. For humans, to engage only in nonviolent sexuality means to have respect for each other. The sexual act can be a sacred expression of love and responsibility.The Third Mindfulness Training teaches us that the physical expression of love can be beautiful and transcendent. If you have a sexual relationship without love and caring, you create suffering for both yourself and your partner, as well as for your family and our entire society. In a culture of peace and nonviolence, civilised sexual behaviour is an important protection. Such love is not sheer craving for sex, it is true love and understanding.Respecting Our CommitmentsTo engage in a sexual act without understanding or compassion is to act with violence. It is an act against civilization. Many people do not know how to handle their bodies or their feelings. They do not realise that an act of only a few minutes can destroy the life of another person. Sexual exploitation and abuse committed against adults and children is a heavy burden on society. Many families have been broken by sexual misconduct. Children who grow up in such families may suffer their entire lives, but if they get an opportunity to practise, they can transform their suffering. Otherwise, when they grow up, they may follow in the footsteps of their parents and cause more suffering, especially to those they love.We know that the more one engages in sexual misconduct, the more one suffers. We must come together as families to find ways to protect our young people and help them live a civilised life. We need to show our young people that happiness is possible without harmful sexual conduct. Teenage pregnancy is a tragic problem. Teens are not yet mature enough to understand that with love comes responsibility. When a thirteen-or fourteen-year-old boy and girl come together for sexual intercourse, they are just following their natural instincts. When a girl gets pregnant and gives birth at such a young age, her parents also suffer greatly. Public schools throughout the United States have nurseries where babies are cared for while their mothers are in the classroom. The young father and mother do not even know yet how to take care of themselves - how can they take care of another human being? It takes years of maturing to become ready to be a parent.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Not Eve:Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.

~ T.f. Hodge

Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.

~ Nikki Rowe