Dr. Dahan's Daily Wisdom - Motivational Podcast

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 456 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I was once traveling to a third world country. There, I watched an artisan using mosaic on a beautiful piece of art and each piece was placed so carefully. Every single day in our lives, every single moment of our life, represents the mosaic of our lives. Every piece represents a moment. You have to be very careful on how you spend that moment. That little piece can make a difference, just like with this artist. He was a poor artisan, and had literally no tool other than a small piece of metal  which he would carve around the sculpture to place these small pieces of mosaic. Why not spend each and every day, a moment, and analyze your day? Did you, at all times do the best that you could? Did you help someone else? Did you make “your” world a better place than it was when you found it? Was there a purpose to your day? Did you accomplish more or less than you were supposed to? Every moment, think about this: if you could, at the

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 455 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond If you want to live a life of happiness, try to remember these basic facts. They are important because they might set you in a path that you will always appreciate. The first is to accept responsibility for the things that you do. If you've made a mistake, admit it and let it go. It's not about anybody else. It's just a mistake, something you've done. Whether correct or not, it was a mistake; let it go. It's not worth dwelling on it. The second is, you have to realize that if you wish to be happy, you have to work at it. You have to work on it because it doesn't happen haphazardly. Happiness is an art that you design and the person that you wish to become, benefits from that art. It's all about you. It's not something that happens by itself, and you can, at any given time, be better than you were just a moment ago. You can do that. You always have to be happy with what you've got, and in pursuing these different opportunities or

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 454 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Yesterday, I had the opportunity to take a walk with a young boy. He was 10 years old. As we were walking, he was just looking at the flowers, enjoying the stroll, not paying attention to any details. You know, this is what life is all about, enjoying the way things have been created. Did you know that for close to 6,000 years, the seasons have been coming and going, and there's always been a change. There is the spring, and then the summer, and then fall, and then comes the winter. That cycle has been the same for thousands of years; imagine that. And it seems that even though at times, we feel that there's an endless winter, spring appears, and so it is with life. When things look so difficult, challenging, terrible, even exhausting, the season will change and things will get better. They always do. Just like the seasons of life, so it is in our own personal lives and everything that we do. Life is like the changing seasons a

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 453 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond It is incredible, the power of a mirror. If you were to look at yourself intensely in a mirror, what would you see? Is It a sad face? A person who has been hurt and has struggled but not succeeded? Someone who cries and feels as though they have not gotten everything they wished? Or is it someone who feels desperate and cannot move forward? If that's what you see, then I invite you to go back in front of that mirror and look intently at yourself. Think of who you could be; what you've got, and everything that is within your power. Animals don't have this opportunity to understand who they are and neither does vegetation or inanimate matters. We, human being, we can. It is all within our power. What is the difference between a person who cannot see themselves as great as they are, and the one who believes that this is the end of it and that they can't change? I'll tell you what the difference is. It is very simple. One wants to

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 452 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Growth is such a beautiful word. What it means, is that there's a change, there's an expansion. How do we experience growth in our lives? How can I change? How can I become a better person or a greater person? What can I do? There's so many things that I've done in my life, does it matter? Of course, it does. You are not only deserving a better life, but everyone around you deserves to have you become better. Do you know that if you change in the person that you are, everything around you will change? Now, you don't have to change the circumstances in your life but you can affect them. You don't have to change the things that you have no control over, like the seasons, the storms, the rains, or even the traffic; it's not in your control. Everything that's outside of you, is not what you want to change. You want to change what's inside, and you can become the person that you wish to become. You can let the past be bygones and cre

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 451 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Attitude is such an important component of happiness. It is the very basis by which your future will be designed and developed. Attitude is how you feel about the person that you are and the actions that you engender in your life. You're affected by attitude: attitude of others and your own attitude. What you know, the things that you've accomplished, and perhaps, the things that you would like to do. Attitudes can be directed towards positive or towards negative. When you discipline your life, when you decide that your attitude should be beneficial, not just to you but to everyone around you, you are at that moment determining the direction that you will face and the direction that you will head towards. It's interesting that your attitude can actually determine the success of your day. Here's something else you should realize: attitude is the determining factor of all your actions. By doing good, so much more can happen. Why

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 450 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Progress is such an important word. It means growth, moving forward. You always have to move forward. You know, life expects us to do certain things properly. But it expects us to be productive. What it does, is that it wants us to make a quantitative or a perceptive progress in a way that what happens, develops over a period of time. You may say, "What would be the time required?" It has to be an “important” time, but it should be in a time frame that you feel is appropriate and reasonable. We just have one life. We have to make it worthwhile. Your life has to be better than it was than when you first got here. Otherwise, what would be the purpose? You could become the ultimate human being. You cannot be compared to anybody else in this world. You are just compared to yourself. There are a few fundamentals in the world that makes these principals count for what we do. These principles are things that we learn throughout our

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 449 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond "Why do I love you?" is a question many people ask when we speak to our parents, to our spouse, to our friend, to a colleague, a child, or an acquaintance, or even the Creator of the world. Have you thought about the question, why does G-d, the Creator of the world, love us,? Obviously, he created us in an image which has a purpose; but why does He love us? Why would He nurture us, Save us, Guide us? What is the reason for that? And if you were to ask the Creator of the world, why He loves us, here's a suggestion at what He might say: "Why do I love you? Because you are perfect. I have created you in such a way that you can do anything you want. I have given you strength, beauty, courage, understanding, and love. I will follow you wherever you go and I will be with you. Even when you are asleep, I will watch over you. When things seem to be difficult or challenging, these are the times that I will hide myself so you can find

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 448 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond When I landed in one of the destinations I visited, on my way out from the airplane, I thanked the pilot. He was standing there and I walked right up to him and I said: "Thank you for such a wonderful and pleasant journey." He seemed so pleased. It's interesting. How many of us thank the pilots of our lives when we're given such a pleasant ride and we arrive at our destination safe and sound? Do we understand, remember, sometimes even agree, that this deserves a “thank you”? The parents who showed us the way where to go. The taxi driver who takes us to our locations, the persons who taught us so many things in our lives: teachers, friends, colleagues, mentors, various people in our lives who take us on a ride and get us there safely. This is the pilot and yes, for those few hours we are in that plane and he, the pilot was in control. You had the opportunity to rest, perhaps even sleep, read, speak, joke, whatever you wanted to

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 447 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond The quest for a better life is a difficult concept but if you think about it, everyone is looking for a better life. Everyone is looking for happiness. It is often said however, that the process of change in life begins, unfortunately, with things that are difficult. Once a person “hits” a wall or is desperate in a situation that is somewhat difficult, it's at that time that they start looking for a better life. Sometimes, our circumstances are such that things become out of control and we don't know what to do. We even want to give up. Because of our lives, seemed to be filled with questions that cannot be answered. Desperation comes in and we find ways at that moment to look for a better life and we find it. Quite interesting. Not that desperation is the key or the answer to the “quest for life”, but it's often the momentum that it creates. It creates this impetus and that's how and where it all starts. Now, we can all make a

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 446 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Think of this concept, if I may impose upon you, regarding the pharmaceutical profession. There are many lessons and it may impact some of our mission in our life, so think about that. Upon entering a quality pharmacy and seeing the great and varied selection of medicines, there are hundred drugs. They provide relief and possible a cure for all sorts of illnesses, including the most deadly of them. The person seeing this, is greatly impressed and that would make sense. Now, the pharmacist however, must explain to him that most importantly, all this is but a preface and  preparation. In order for a sick person to actually be cured, two crucial things are necessary and must happen. First an expert must instruct which specific drug and the specific manner of the administration of this drug and is for this illness. This however is not sufficient in itself; the patient must also actually take the medicine. So now,  think of this a

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 445 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond “What we do with what we have says so much about us”. Did you know that? It's interesting. It actually reveals our own philosophy about our life, our attitude and what we know, what we think, and the makeup of our character, and the person that we truly are. It's a reflection of our thoughts, and our value of systems. This is the way we do things and the way we see those things. What you need to do, is to decide how you want to live now, versus how long you want to work. Clearly, you need to think about work and how much time it's going to take you to get there. The fact is you're not sure what will happen but how you want to live, that will make a difference on deciding the type of life you will have. So if you spend everything you make now, you'll have no choice but to work longer and harder. You have to think for tomorrow, today and you will live a better tomorrow. You have to be careful with all of that. You can't go into

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 444 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond The whole world benefits if we all leave more profit. You touch something and you leave it better than you found it. Imagine going to a hotel room and spending the night there. When you are finished, the morning before you leave, you will turn off all the lights, you would pick up some of the trash that you had and put it in the trash bin. Then at the same time, straighten up everything, so that it looks as good or better than the way you found it. I'm not saying making up the bed and finishing it as though it was ready for the next person. But imagine the parents, to touch a life and leave it better than they found it. This is how they raise children. The life came into being and they raise that child to become better than when they came to this world. They help them see themselves greater than they are. Same thing for employees. Imagine, for an employee to “touch” a job and to come and work at a company, and leave it better

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 443 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I once spoke to a leader who was telling me that life is not so simple as a leader. Actually, leadership is quite often an exercise in facing reality; and he couldn't face this. This leader had dealt with someone who was very unethical and dishonest, and he couldn't understand that. Well, I tried to explain to him that dishonest people are just that, they are “dishonest” and they lack integrity. That's who they are. That's how they live. This is what they do. It is what they want to be. Now there's a concept called the 80-20 rule. It is to learn to spend 80% of your time as the leader with the 20% of the people who deserve it. A leader has to know that difference. Why is that? Because in trying to figure out the things the way they are, sometimes, we don't have an answer. Let's say for instance, the laws of nature. You might say, why does fall occur after spring or summer? That should not be a question. That's just the laws

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 442 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are some people who live with if only: "If only I were rich. If only I had more possessions. If only I had great health. If only I had been born in this country. If only I had this and if only I had that." Ask yourself the question, what if you would think differently by saying: "Now, that this is what I have, what do I do? How can I grow? How can I change?" Rather than saying if only I had this, why don't you use what you have, what you know! What you have got at this point and all the material and physical, and emotional possessions, use those talents, use these commodities, and do everything that you want to do? Why wish for things that you don't have? Why wish for things that only perhaps you could have had, but didn't get? If only only means a dream that you wish that has never happened. What if you did the other way around? Use what you've got, use the strength and be grateful for all the good things that you

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 441 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are people who can't function well at times and they wonder why is that. Is it mental, physical, spiritual? Believe it or not, often it is a physical concept that they don't understand or don't pay attention to. You see, it's very hard to be happy or be able to function productively when you're completely worn out, and especially today with the demands that we have. It's extremely difficult to tune out the world and be able to focus on just some of the concepts. Our “systems”, if you think about it, either emotional or physical, and sometimes even spiritual get depleted mentally and emotionally, in every aspect and rather than turning it inward to rejuvenate and be able to say, "Let me replenish these depleted forces," we shut it out and say, "Just get a cup of coffee and keep me up. Let me get some caffeine somehow, or a bar of energy and I'll be better." It's interesting. There was a study, in Los Angeles County and

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 440 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Just recently, I was speaking to a friend who reminded me that since some of my loved ones are still alive, I should at times just go and touch their hand. Because he did not have the opportunity to do that anymore, he missed that ability. There are no guarantees we know in life against tragedies when it strikes, we know that; but what could we do when we start feeling the fear or understanding that we cannot appreciate what we have because we’re afraid to lose it? We can't control the future, that we know; but we can enjoy the people that we're with, places that we visit, or the things where we are right now and we can experience the maximum joy possible in every moment. Now, I want you to remember this and you’ll see that you will always love if you can remember these three things which I'm going to write here. This is something that's important to remember for all times. For someone, for instance, that you care about, kno

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 439 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are people who say we do not have choices in life. Life was a structured and set and we do not have choices. This, I believe is an inaccurate statement. We do have choices. We have the choice at any given time to become either a victim of our circumstances or to become the person who makes those circumstances change. Believing in yourself to be just a mere pawn in a game which is played by some Being or Creator is not the proper attitude. You have to know that those limitations or any hardships that have been given out there are for you to be able to experience and overcome; and you always have choices. You could choose the meaning you make out of those circumstances and the freedom that you can acquire from choosing not to be what you don't want to be. I have spoke about this before. Viktor Frankl who spent years as an imprisoned person in Auschwitz, in the concentration camps noticed something which was quite amazin

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 438 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Having a productive life and the feeling and knowledge, and understanding that we are here for a purpose gives you a sense of productivity. What that means is that wherever you are, you have to seize the moment. It means that while there are many formidable obstacles and challenges in life, and they are unique to each person, we understand that, it seems that the circumstances that block our ability to fulfill our purpose in this world can be overcome because within each and every one of us, hidden deep within our personalities, our psyches, our characters, our beings is a very strong will, and this will is to fulfill our purpose in life. And sometimes, we may think, how will that happen? Will one thought or one word, or one action change the entire world or even things around me? “There are billions of people in this earth and my lone voice in this part of the world will make all the difference?”. Is that even believable? We

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 437 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that something terrible or difficult, or challenging has happened? Death, for instance or perhaps losing a job, or having all kinds of issues that have come up that you did not expect. You thought it might even go away but things happened, but yet the whole world around you says, "This is good, everything is alright." The truth is, in your life, it's not. We have part of our brain that experiences fear and sorrow, and sometimes even worry, anger, all kinds of feelings. These helps us at times protect us from causing dangerous things to ourselves but still, however, sometimes, a person is “stuck”. They're stuck in an anger or in a chronic worry, or even in a fear and they just don't know how to get out. Things are difficult, challenging. They're not sure. They can't appreciate the rest of life. They can't seem to move up or on to the next level. They just don't know