#apurpose

[timothylawrence]

wait are you telling me all her outward distaste and hostility at her brother disappeared the moment Miles asked her to get that evidence and bring it back. all that anger was just gone because her brother needed her. almost like how she needed her dad. i need to lay down.

[ashs-nerd-den]

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ENERGY MANAGEMENT

A human based organisation method

The problem with simple time management?

It makes you focus on getting the greatest number of things done in as little time as possible

What about the quality of the work?

You feel constrained to accomplish everything you have to do

What about human feelings?

What's the alternative?

Instead of trying to control ourselves to fitinto a rigid construct like time, we should utilize time in a way that works best withour own energy and attention. This means spending our energy, focusing our attention, and developing habits aroundthings that matten to us. The main goal of energy management is to increase our overall energy levels, fill upour energy reserves for when we need them, and use our energy effectively.

First Steps:

Monitor your energy levels throughout the day

Identify tasks you do during the day and how much time they take up during different energy periods

Train yourself to be aware of changes in energy levels and attention levels. eg one of my friends writes down "stopped listening" whenever she loses focus in a lecture

Types of energy to manage

Physical energy - which comes from nutrition, exercise and sleep

Emotional energy - which comes from feelings and experiences

Spiritual energy - which comes from the values we hold and the purposes we are working towards

Mental energy - which is the energy we use when we think

Optimizing Energy Levels

What can we do with the information about our energy levels?

Know which energy periods should beassigned to which type of activities, e.g.

High Energy: coming up with new ideas, having discussions with other people, learning new material, working on challenging assignments

Moderate Energy: routine work, admin worklike answering emails,reviewing previouslystudied material

Low Energy: rest, eat, sleep,leisurely activities

2. Plan according to energy levels

e.g. if you only have a certain number of high-energy hours but you won't be able to finish all your high-energy work during those hours, estimate the time it will take for you to do the lower effort high-energy tasks in the low-energy period

3. Shift around your habits to accommodate for your energy levels

e.g. if you usually feel energetic in the morning, you don't have to waitfor your day to officially start (after your first class, for example) to start getting work done.

Influencing Energy Levels

Many factors influence our energy levels, e.g. our habits, people we spend time with, ouremotions, etc. But there are ways to influence them.

Use energy periods appropriately

Use low-energy periods to recharge, to maximize the energy you'll have during moderate-energy and high-energy periods

E.g. you might be tempted to watch 2 hours of a tv séries during a low-energy period, but you might feel sluggish afterward, even if it's usually a moderate-energy period

Similarly, don't spend high-energy periods doing leisurelythings - it's just a waste. Instead, remove distractions andhelp yourself get into a flow state.

2. Form habits around your energy levels

This will reduce the amount of energy required to do your tasks. You won't be thinking about whether or not you should do them, or how you should start; you'll just start automatically.

3. Find your reason why

While self-discipline is great and reliable, having intrinsic motivation or apurpose will boost your energy and make you more willing to do the thingsyou have to do. This often ties to a larger goal you wanna pursuea

4. Don't be afraid to test things out

For example, suppose you aren't normally a morning person. You decide to get up an hour earlier and spend time in the morning working out or going for a run, and turns out that this gets rid of your afternoon sluggishness.

Need A Recharge? What kind?

Physical: take a nap, rest, or eat healthy food

Mental: try meditating, taking a walk for mind-wandering, or listening to a talk unrelated to any of your tasks

Spiritual: meditating, journaling, reflecting, listening to music, or listening to a talk could help

Emotional do anything that's enjoyable to you, e.g. pursuing a hobby, having some alone time, spending time with friends

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Energy Management

A human-based organization method

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Other posts that may be of interest:

Getting stuff done: How to deal with a lack of motivation

Flexible time-blocking: A more breathable way to get things done

The ABCDE Method

[healinglight-love]

Faith!

When you know not,Where to turnStay still.Where you areThere is. SomethingYet toLearn.Be carefulLest you Jar theThreads thatFate isWeaving in aPatternYou can’t see.Be passive.Trust The handThat works.The looms ofDestiny!Though it isYour wish toSet things.Right andPut things.Straight,Choose theWiser WayHave Faith!With PatienceWatch andWait…There is aPurpose in itAll as Time will Surely prove…When…

[drrishibhargava]

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[bookoformon]

1 Nephi Chapter 9, "Rubies."

Nephi makes two sets of records—Each is called the plates of Nephi—The larger plates contain a secular history; the smaller ones deal primarily with sacred things. About 600–592 B.C.

1 And all these things did my father see, and hear, and speak, as he dwelt in a tent, in the avalley of Lemuel, and also a great many more things, which cannot be written upon these plates.

"It is the interchange of valleys and peaks that enables us to appreciate and aspire to the peaks. Sitting on the peak day and night loses its appeal."

Lemuel "the dreamer" says a woman wife is more precious than rubies.

= To dwell in a tent in between the vision and its "record" is called Kruvim, a gap between today and tomorrow. We call this place life, also the Synagogue:

2 And now, as I have spoken concerning these plates, behold they are not the plates upon which I make a full account of the history of my people; for the aplates upon which I make a full account of my people I have given the name of Nephi; wherefore, they are called the plates of Nephi, after mine own name; and these plates also are called the plates of Nephi.

=Nephi is derived from the word "cloud". Nephi means "Extraordinary person from the clouds" a "trailblazer."

3 Nevertheless, I have received a commandment of the Lord that I should make these plates, for the special apurpose that there should be an account engraven of the bministry of my people.

4 Upon the other plates should be engraven an account of the reign of the kings, and the wars and contentions of my people; wherefore these plates are for the more part of the ministry; and the aother plates are for the more part of the reign of the kings and the wars and contentions of my people.

The TABLETS were made of sapphires, but the PLATES are made of Brass a highly reflective alloy.

Plates appear in Judaism as the breastplate of the Ephod and also the Seder Plate. In this case, the Prophet says there are two types, and we know they number 24 total, and they are apportioned out of this text based on criteria that are being left behind like bread crumbs.

Our Temporal Plates are named after wars and kings, apparently. The Spiritual Plates contain the Ministry. The Book of Alma details how the ministry is to take place. Let us keep these things in mind as we read on.

5 Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me to make these plates for a awise purpose in him, which purpose I know not.

6 But the Lord aknoweth all things from the beginning; wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men; for behold, he hath all bpower unto the fulfilling of all his words. And thus it is. Amen.

Nephi writes a new scripture that explains all the wars and the small sacred things we have accomplished, while his father "Lehi" the voice of God" dreams of in between yesterday and tomorrow of a time and place where women are like rubies, which give birth to 'Reubens" or leaders.

This being untrue of our current culture at the moment which is vapid and lackluster in the leadership department, let's forge some different concepts of ourselves using this precepts to be discovered in this positively marvelous Midrash, "inquiry into the mysteries of the goodness of God."

[the-hem]

Regression to the Mean: The Conclusion to the Perfect Series. Part 2.

12.2. Atonement and Regression to the Mean.

Jesus Christ could have and probably should have destroyed humanity after his betrayal and execution in cold blood. Pontius Pilate did not want to crucify Him and it was Pesach, so not a Jew in Toledo would have dared to press for capital punishment.  Still Pilate could not get the Roman crowd to let it go, and Christ was tortured and then hung on the cross. 

Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, gave the blind their sight, hearing to the deaf, fed the hungry. He earned His keep and His reputation, and His Instruction was clear: Civility Rules. Amity, Clemency, Industry, Piety, Propriety, all of these things glue diverse men into a mankind. In spite of us these have provided many of us with a highly desirable quality of life. Still, we falter just as the jury did in ancient Jerusalem.  We digress into sin, instead of progressing towards the Grace of God. 

Upon being resurrected, Christ surveyed the world going about its business as if it hadn’t lost its most important opportunity, to shine the light of reason upon its most pivotal moment- intercession.

We learned from the Prophet, Joseph Smith we are all an Embodied Christ, and have the intellect and involvement with the world. Through the flesh, precept upon precept we are supposed to make a better world. When we fail to understand the Precepts, the world degenerates and turns to filth. 

This Regression Analysis Joseph produced explains how this happens: We act in Accordance, or we Oppose. 

From 2 Nephi 2: 

10 And because of the intercession for aall, all men come unto God; wherefore, they stand in the presence of him, to be bjudged of him according to the truth and choliness which is in him. Wherefore, the ends of the law which the Holy One hath given, unto the inflicting of the dpunishment which is affixed, which punishment that is affixed is in opposition to that of the happiness which is affixed, to answer the ends of the eatonement—

11 For it must needs be, that there is an aopposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

12 Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no apurpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the bjustice of God.

13 And if ye shall say there is ano law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not bthere is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.

14 And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for your profit and alearning; for there is a God, and he hath bcreated all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be cacted upon.

15 And to bring about his eternal apurposes in the end of man, after he had bcreated our first parents, and the beasts of the field and the cfowls of the air, and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the dforbidden efruit in fopposition to the gtree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.

16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should aact for himself. Wherefore, man could not bact for himself save it should be that he was centiced by the one or the other.

So how should man act for himself, by what should he be enticed in order to modify his behaviors?

Mosiah 3:

19 For the anatural bman is an cenemy to God, and has been from the dfall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he eyields to the enticings of the fHoly Spirit, and gputteth off the hnatural man and becometh a isaint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a jchild, ksubmissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

So the Atonement of Christ is a model for action rather than an act itself. And it must be done “because of the intercession for all” and the instinct for this clearly does not come at all naturally to us.

The Book of Mormon is not alone in suggesting the instinct of caring requires a process but rather than being an ending, intercession, according to the Highest Order of the Law states it is a beginning.

13.0 The Answer: Instrumentation.

Matthew 22:37-40:

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 

38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 

39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Here ends the discussion on the Sastras entitled the Siddha Upanishad, the Exploration of the Perfection of Method.

[uefeeds]

You were created for a purpose. . First, have it in mind that you were created. You didn't fall off from the sky. The creator took time and made you. For Him to have spent His precious time creating you, He had something in mind. He created you to serve a purpose. Just like the manufacturer of a product creates a product for a specific function God created us individually for different functions . And this is why He took His time to add different and unique features in everyone of us. . These features can only function well in your area of assignment. Always remember that you are not just living. Also remember that God loves you the way He made you and He expects you to impact the world with that uniqueness, with that special feature you've got. . . . . #Godslove #creation #madefor #apurpose #youareperfect #inspirationalpoetry #poetry #writersofinstagram #creative #specialyou #uniqueness #creatorswill #themindofGod #perfection (at Enugu, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5sw0V8lwnQ/?igshid=175p8307m5bs6

[jon-no-h]

Every thing has a purpose we may not see it right away but when the time is right you’ll know. . . . #viewbug #thingsleftbehind #lakehodges #hikecalifornia #escondido #thetrail #apurpose #blackandwhitephoto #nikon100 #nikon #nikond5600 #greatweekend (at Lake Hodges)

[shednteventalk]

high thoughts

ever since I watched the disney movie soul ive been wondering. are we born with a purpose?? or do we find it throughout life?? then that got me thinking. arent they the same thing? arent we born with a purpose that we have to find by living life? bc you could think your meant to do something, then you become an adult and start living; everything could change. I also believe that life is about just LIVING. we’re here to live, and what you chose do with it is up to you? life is about deciding what living is to you. idk

[ladyflava]

It’s been 25 years or so since I worked a 9-5 Mon-Fri 😁 Steaming #TGIF 😁 #Prayer ✔️ #Meditation ✔️ #Exercise ✔️ Now to chill before getting ready for work. #ImAnEarlyMorningPerson ... #ImOnAMission with #APlan and #APurpose #BuildingMyDream #AchievingMyGoals #Focused #Faithful #FeelingBlessed #Peaceful #Ready https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJ1xO2HuEU/?igshid=ojr49oyb58mn

[rrasmussen54]

#aseason #apurpose https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Rgod-AUWPFeCCLjU7tMbNbn-CFZVzsFVNitE0/?igshid=6lzwq34780z5

[mermaidgirl1990]

I speak my mind. I say what's on my heart. I state facts and truths. However, my words get twisted around, making it look like I'm the bad guy. Before I allow people like that to trigger my Depression/Generalized Anxiety Disorder though, I try to remind myself that they don't matter. My family, real friends and the boyfriend is who matters in my life, not those who twist everything around. Thank you to those who see straight through my tears, pain, anger, harsh honesty & irritation. You guys still see my good heart underneath it all♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗 #speakyourheart #youhaveavoice #apurpose #dontletanyonedullyoursparkle #iwontbesilent https://www.instagram.com/p/ByRGXZAHDv5Bw2bdp3fZP04a5zT2YgZwLA-3zM0/?igshid=1xsbduix2a897

[kryptic-krab]

i am satisfied knowing thhat i can chuck shin tsukimi across the room like a ragdoll

[trifeboss]

#Repost @thcediblesandthings (@get_repost) ・・・ #StayBless #DontGiveUp #APurpose #AliveForAReason https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3UXOPFhw1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y0bdg8cdvo4

[downthepub]

You really gotta ram it in there, I guess.

Rhett McLaughlin

thank u for that rhett

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