Zen College Life

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This week we will focus on living a prolific life. Being prolific is being intellectually productive. Most of us are taking our summer vacation now, but that is no reason to sit around and do nothing. We are the generation that can make a difference in every aspect of life, from ridding our planet of fossil fuels to curing diseases in third world countries. Our passion and compassion will pave the way to our generation’s success. Our actions will make a difference, and the sooner you realize this the sooner you will be able to start creating waves of success for yourself and those around you.

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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa

In Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People, one of the most important qualities he mentioned in getting along with people is honest and sincere appreciation. Now whether or not you realize it, appreciation is one of the most motivating gifts one person can give another. How do you feel when you work really hard every day at work, and your work goes unnoticed? Or even better, how one small comment of thanks and appreciation can make your day so much better?
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“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” -Mary Kay Ash

This week we will try to focus on being honest. As it pertains to last weeks focus, Purity, a lack of honesty is a digression from purity. So to build on purity one must live a life of honesty. And as we all know honesty is the best policy, right Read more »

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For Zen College Life’s first ever weekly focus I chose a characteristic that is pretty easily identifiable and understandable: Purity. It is a simple principle, and with a little conscious effort and dedication it could change either a little or a lot of your daily routine, all for the better.

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So here’s my new idea. In order for us to better ourselves, to grow mentally, and to reach a greater potential we have to make conscious efforts to develop certain characteristics that would be richen our lives. Now we all want to be better people, we all want to develop into a person with greater potential and power than we have now. But without guidelines and ideas, we are retarding the potential for growth that we have. ,An idea, characteristic or aspect of life that we can consciously remember and work towards improving in our daily lives could really boost our potential for being something better than we are today.

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