know yourself
Know yourself
You should know your limit before trying anything. If you take action to a project that is out of your reach, you'd loose your power and may get sick for that. You should not try too much.
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It requires some explanation. Above notation is aimed to the old. Older people should know their limits from their past experiences. And that assumption leads to the above advice. How old is old enough to know themselves? I have no idea, do you?
If you were young, excluding young-at-heart, you should try to extend your limit. That is why you need mentor. It is very hard to measure your own limit. One way to tell that is that if you cannot set up plan to a certain objective, then the objective might be out of your reach.
Here's my experience when I was 50 years old. My worst experience that had triggered me of taking series of wrong actions resulted to loose most of my money. I had picked up a project to sell audio magazine in USA. The guy approached me wanted to build tape player that could be sold cheap.
To sell that kind of electrical gadgets, you need to build it in quantity. I was pretty sure of it from my past experiences. That was the limit but I didn't aware of it. Well, I have ordered 100K sets at US$20 a piece. I picked a manufacturer and placed the order. I was too busy to pursue this project myself.
I had to rely on guys who had been introduced by my business partner. At the beginning, I had 3 persons involved in this project, one for taking care of US relation, one for taking care of preparing the design of it and the guy who should take care of developing the market.
Sound smart? No way. I have known everyone of those guys for 6 months or less. I was pretty bad in measuring people. and the problem was that I didn't know that. I gave everyone of them my full credit to spend. Oh, and none of them was my employees.
To make a long story short, everyone of them had spent my money for themselves and consequently I had lost 2 million of my money in 2 years. So, here's my sincere advice. know yourself. However tough, it pays you return for sure.
Shut your mouth
It is the best to stay away from tall and long talk. It is better to avoid decorative talk. Your inner power would fluctuate with your long talk. Consequently it would hurt your power. It is the way of feeding your virtue not to talk much.
For us Orients, silence is the gold and eloquence is the silver. There was a TV commercial saying "Man drinks this beer without a word". This beer has been Sapporo. Do you know what would happen from this kind of mentality?
Well, ladies are much more talkative. They cannot shut their mouth. They need to talk about it from the start to the end. Or they need to talk just to hear and feel that they themselves are living, right? Don't take me wrong. I am not fed up listening to girls talk. I am not the believer of gender role. But you see girl talks much more than boys do.
After living so long, I currently see it rather nice to be able to talk much. We do not have the power of seeing other persons' mind. If you see anxiety on your friend's face, you have no way of knowing its origin. Is it possible to have the person talk? If you are not accustomed to talk persuasive, you may easily miss the point. So ?
The wise person values the honor.
There may be some people who would have such doubt as; a person who takes too much care of keeping own life cannot be considerate to the others.
But wise person values the honor. For this reason, wise person won't care about own life and gives one's life for what is right and die for the crisis of integrity. If one thinks of taking care of oneself and oneself alone, and tries to avoid to hurt a hair or to have scrape, this person would surely try to avoid hurting oneself when this person faces to the crisis of integrity. That is the possibility, but I'd answer to the doubt as followings.
There are status of static and dynamic. In static status you do statically and you act dynamic when you are in dynamic status. You act upon status of the honor. It is the correct behavior to stay in static while the status stays in static and you take good care of your life. It is the behavior of honor not to take care of your life while in the status of dynamic. What is required here is that you respect the honor as the status tells. And you can throw away the doubt brought up.
It is the best to follow the way as the situation or status tell and to be flexible with it. It can be said that you wear thinner in summer and wear thick in winter. The core is that you cannot behave same and you should not cling to the customs.
It is impossible to fight whenever necessary unless you keep your body in good condition and none of the bad health can fight at all. Then it is the best to take good care of yourself while in the status of static so that you can show your courage whenever required.
Your priority of healthy life
Your utmost priority to lead healthy life is to keep your inner power strong. You keep your mind flexible, keeping your inner power focused, controlling you rage and desire, having less anxiety and worry, trying to avoid trouble as much as possible. Those are the secret of keeping your inner power strong. Although it is needless to say, you should not take sleeping for granted. If you sleep longer than necessary, your inner power will be locked up inside of you body and it may bear malice toward yourself,
If you go to bed before digesting your dinner, it results to lose your appetite and your source of power at the same time. It is the best to stop drinking alcohol at the half way to your limit and enjoys the feeling of its effect. You should not eat heartily but try to stay at 80% of your fill. The matter is to set yourself the limit on both of the alcohol and your meal and try to stay within that limit.
You should not let out your inner power by giving way to your desire while being young. The more you let out, the weaker your inner power will be and as the consequences your life become shorter.
If you act upon your desire, you will not be able to find any effective means to fulfill the lost nutrition. It won't be able to fulfill what you have lost by neither taking medicine nor having breakfast/dinner. Further you need to protect yourself from outer environment such as flue, coldness, heat and humidity and stay focused on your correct way of living. It is best to have light exercise like jogging, occasionally stroking your hip and belly, keeping your arm and feet active and keeping your blood stream smooth and make such effort to digesting what you have ate.
It is not recommended to sit at the same posture long. This is another secret of your healthy life. The core consideration of living healthy is to keep your mind and you body out from extreme of any kind. It is rather the tips of wigs as taking medicine, staying calm and keeps yourself from extremes when you get sickness. The core consideration is to keep your body as well as your mind healthy in every day’s life
up 2009/12/14
Your body is designed last long
The life span of every human body has been designed last long. It is very rare a body destined to last short. Even if your body is born last long, if you donot know how to take care of it, there are chances that your body lose the power.
Your such doings as drink alcohol a lot, stay awake deep in night, try to take too much stress just for money may grind off of your life span and let you die much earlier. Do you like it?
On the other hand, if you were born weak, having heavy toll to your body, you might take care of yourself because of it. Consequently, your body last long.
You see so many examples on those two cases, right? The conclusion is that if you live as you want, you are like committing suicide. Sooner or later you will lose your power to live without a question. This explains why anti aging tactic starts with your mind. The seven sentiments are the utmost evil to avoid to enjoy your anti aging life for long.
2009/11/20 UP