Constructive Living (Kolowalu Books (Paperback))

The more skill you develop in doing everything well, the more satisfaction and confidence you bring to your life. Whether you are reading, or carrying on a conversation, or making love, or playing tennis, or giving that speech in front of a group, you can be creating who you are and who you will become by doing the activity well, with full attentio

We change only by changing the now. That is all we have to work with. What I do now is me and molds who I will become tomorrow. Make no mistake, there is no other time. The whole rests on what I do now.

Feelings are uncontrollable directly by the will.

Feelings must be recognized and accepted as they are.

Feelings can be indirectly influenced by behavior

Action—in the present—changes the future. A trip of ten thousand miles starts out with one step, not with a fantasy about travel.

Discomforting information is only discomforting when it gets through the filters of awareness and pops up in the middle of the spotlight of consciousness. In other words, we only hurt when we notice that we are hurting.

Feelings fade in time unless they are restimulated.

That’s the ultimate goal of Constructive Living—to help you do everything well, with full attention.

The TōDō Institute allowed the time for writing, reflection, and