Dr. Dahan's Daily Wisdom - Motivational Podcast

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 336 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond It has often been said that when a person does not increase his knowledge, it actually decreases his abilities. The reason is that each of us is actually created to grow as much as possible in all aspects. That is from a spiritual standpoint, physical standpoint, emotional, or plainly from knowledge. Knowledge is something that you acquire on a daily basis. This can be through experiences that we’ve gone through or attributes that we’ve learned and that we try to enhance upon. But one thing is for sure, everything that we learn, everything that we acquire makes us the person that we are today. If we increase this knowledge, then we become better and each day becomes greater than the day before. If we stop at any given time, we actually decrease the person that we could be, and decrease the knowledge that we’ve acquired. We always stand on the ladder and the question is, “Are we going up the ladder or down the ladder?” Each and ever

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 335 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond It is interesting that there are some people in this world who seek nothing but fame. They want to be known by everybody and they want to be seen by everybody. They want to be at the forefront of every single story, sometimes within the confines of their lives and other times, wherever they go and wherever they may be. A person who seeks renown is likely to achieve the opposite effect of what is actually desired. This concept is so true, and here’s how it works. When you try to tell everyone who you are, and you want that fame, you may find a simple fame. For instance, at the office you want everyone to believe that you are smarter than everybody else around you. At home, you want to let them know that you are the master and that you are the one that rules everything. Wherever you go, wherever you are at any given time you want to project the image that you are superior and that you are better, greater, stronger, and smarter; all t

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 334 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There two very important concepts to discuss today. One is the difference between loving peace and pursuing peace. Loving peace is described as a person who avoids a quarrel and someone who tries to the best of their ability to stay away from what is negative or perhaps even a dispute. Pursing peace, however describes what happens when the quarrel has already taken place and there has been a dispute. It is common for people who have quarreled and are into some kind of an argument to avoid each other. It is then necessary to pursue peace in order to make peace between them. This is such a great attribute to try to do that. Loving peace applies between a person and his friend, whereas pursing peace applies to one’s dealing with other people. Pursuing peace also is if peace runs away from a person; when your friend doesn’t want to make peace with you, makes disparaging remarks or says things that are not pleasant about you. Then, y

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 333 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I read a message today from a man with an incredible story. He wrote that he had listened to one of my podcasts and hearing the message, he decided to change his life. By changing his life, he was also able to affect other people around him including his spouse, the relationship with his children, and also the attitude that he had at his job. His life had been completely changed. I wondered, what was it he heard that I said which was so unique or special? He wrote in his message: "It was nothing you said, but rather it's the words that were expressed in what you said." It's interesting how by making a podcast or sending a message, you can affect people on the other side of the world. This person lives miles and miles away from here, in a different country, speaking a different language, but he heard one of the podcasts and it affected his life. Is this what you're all about? You and I, changing the world? The answer is “Yes”. Each

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 332 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I have given many lectures throughout the world pertaining to many different subjects. Just recently, during one of my lectures, several of the people who were sitting in the front had tears in their eyes; unexpected tears. Something that I said, a concept that I spoke about, a story that I told, an idea that I shared had caused those tears to come down their cheeks. Now, you may say, "Is this the right thing to do?" If you affect people and they react in such a way that unexpected tears come out, you know that you have touched their heart. You know that you have come into a place in their life where goodness resides. Through your words, your story, your cues, your examples, or even whatever it is that you shared with them as an idea, somehow brought out an emotion which caused their tears to come down. This is the right way to do what you want to do. This is the right way to give a lecture. A speaker can touch the heart of the

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 331 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Recently I was on a flight, I was scheduled to fly at a certain time. I arrived at the airport on time. I registered and gotten my ticket and my boarding pass. Everything was according to plan. But for whatever reason, everyone had gotten on the plane except me. They said they didn't have a seat for me. I couldn't understand what had happened. I calmly approached the desk and asked the stewardess, "What about my seat? I have not been assigned a seat?" She said that my name had been bumped off. The airlines had overbooked the flight and one name was bumped off, mine. I had flown many, many times over the years. This has never happened to me. I was in a quandary because I had a business appointment. My flight was going to be now delayed and I would not be on time, and many people were waiting for me to make a presentation. What should I do? Being bumped off is not something which is desirable yet it's not controllable. I didn't h

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 330 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Often the questions come to parents on how to raise their children. What should they do, and how should they approach situations as they arise throughout life? Often parents are not sure. It seems with all the books and all the research that has been done over the thousands of years, we have yet to write a manual that would be used by every single parent, which would give us the answers of what to do and how to raise our children properly. That is by far the most difficult challenge any one parent can go through, how to raise children properly. I have a suggestion for you. As a father, and grandfather, something I have learned may be a solution to one of your challenges. I’m not saying this is unique, or perhaps the answer to all of your questions, but this may be one advantage. Children have to be taught on what to do and how to follow their instincts versus their discipline. If you were to teach your children “selective listening

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 329 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever heard the expression, “Leave me alone”? It seems that when someone says this to you, or anyone else, this expression has a negative connotation. “Leave me alone” may sound like, “I don’t want to be with you. I don’t need you and I don’t want anyone around me. I just want to be by myself.” The truth is, a “leave me alone” time can be the ultimate gift to yourself on a daily basis. Every single day we manage to go through obstacles, and at times try to overcome some of the most difficult challenges that we have in our life. Sometimes we succeed and other times it seems that we don’t succeed. One thing is for sure is that we try our best. For those of us that do our utmost to overcome all these challenges, it may seem that we fail at doing what we want to do. There is no failure – failure is only when a person does not try, that is failure. But when someone gives their best and tries the most that they can, that is not f

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 328 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond It is quite incredible, when you think about the power of a shadow. Depending on the time of the day the sun’s location in the sky, the very same object’s shadow will be either short and fat, or tall and thin. Since your shadow is always with you, it is actually a built-in compass. As long as you are not in the forest or a city of skyscrapers, your shadow will be there with you until you sleep. It’s also a ready-made source of outdoor fun for kids. Do you remember when you were younger and actually tried to chase your shadow? It was always a lot of fun. Just as the movement of a person’s body is reflected and magnified in his own shadow, every step of our conduct in this world arouses spiritual forces of incomparable power in the universe. Think about this for a second, it is a magnifying concept. Every single action we take in the physical world and every single deed we do, has a reaction and a ramification in the whole universe.

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 327 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are people whom we love and those whom we respect. There are also those that we miss. A way to keep in touch with them is to call them. To some it may be difficult because it's been quite some time since you've spoken to them. To others it maybe not as simple because you may have had an argument with them and you feel that that call will not be beneficial. And for others, you don't want to call because you don't have much to say to them. My suggestion is just to make the call. Whoever they are, if you know them and they are acquaintances of yours, make the call. Call them to wish them a good day. Call them to tell them you miss them. If you've had an argument with them or a disagreement, call them to make up. Call them. That was the sole reason why the phone was invented, so that you can make the call. So that we can bring people together and communicate while we're away from each other. That is the sole purpose the phone

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 326 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Each and every human being has been given a heavenly gift. Every single day that you wake up, you have been given a gift. The gift of time, the gift of opportunity, and the gift to choose what you wish and make this world a better place than you found it. The Creator’s mercy forever means that I have an excellent chance to do much better today than I did yesterday. One concept is financial independence, where nobody and nothing has a claim on you. You are totally and incredibly dependent upon the resources of your own work. If you think about that, there is an incredible feeling there which gives you a serenity which is absolutely, undeniably quiet, fruitful, and always there. It is more than a mystery – it is actually a reality. Is it possible that you are able to do whatever you wish in this world, and no-one has a control over you? That’s what a human, a person can do. That’s called the heavenly gift to man. That ability to

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 325 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Life is all about “me.” Often people say things such as, “The world was created just for you.” Now if that is true, then the question is what are you going to do about it? There are things that we need to be selfish about. Those things are particular to what it is that makes us different than others. But selfishness is not a good trait. It is interesting when a person says, “Everything is all about me at the end of the day.” This is subjective to selfishness and conflicting interests. But if you pay attention to other people and the collective effort focused on being unselfish, it not only brings unity among people but it brings success in everything that you do. Seeking selfishness, being selfish, or liking to be selfish does not get you anywhere. It just keeps you, yourself in your own world. “All about me” means that the world was created so that I, as an individual and human being, have the opportunity to make this place wh

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 324 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are three vices which are important to know and to learn about: envy, lust and the perception of honor. These three vices weaken a person’s physical health and, interestingly enough, can drive a person to destroy his spiritual life and driving him away from all the good things. Each person is born with these three vices. If it’s allowed, nature can take its course, and these vices will actually drive this person away from bliss. Away from eternal bliss, goodness, health, and happiness. But a person can also choose to purify these vices and use them for good. For instance, envy either used to be jealous of those who are spiritually superior, or a person should try or yearn to become just like them. That would be a good use of envy. Another example, lust can be used for the pleasure to be closer to the Creator of the world, and not for anything else. This will make it a holy purpose. A third one would be honor. It says, “Who is

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 323 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Sometimes you will speak to people who say, or perhaps even you say, "I keep falling. I keep making the same mistake that I made over and over again. Even though I try to be better. I try to overcome these challenges yet I keep falling. I keep falling in the same mistakes and sometimes even more so than I did before. I keep falling. No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, no matter what happens, there's another obstacle, and I keep falling, so what's the point? What should I do? Why do I keep falling?" Here is the answer to that question. It's not "you keep falling," look at it as "you fell,". It's just an incident, that's it. You may say, "Yes, but this incident keeps on coming back." Break it down into multiple incidents and take one at a time and rationalize on how you can and should make that one incident better. When a child, for instance, tries to walk for the first time in his life, he gets up and he falls, and he get

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 322 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are times in our lives when we feel that the challenges are bigger than we are, and we are not able to overcome them. It seems that, in an unconditional way we’re not going to succeed and things are very, very difficult. This is an option that we have. We can live in this anxiety, and we can live with the passion of knowing that we are going to eventually come out of it, but with sadness. Or we can overcome that. At times you are not sure, because things are challenging and difficult. You may not know where you’re going or whether or not the outcome will be what you would like it to be. If you’re down, go ahead and sing. You can hum or you can sing. I suggest you sing to yourself without words. Make sure that the song that you’re singing is something that you heard once that touched your heart. I have such a song in my life. I remember that when my own Mother used to put me to sleep she would sing a song. That is the song tha

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 321 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond We all go through life experiencing various conditions which make it difficult at times to overcome, and sometimes even scary. We're not sure of some of the things that are happening and we're not sure of the future. Sometimes, even though it looks promising, it's not what happens; so what do we do? Some advice which I think could be beneficial if you were to do it properly. It is called meditation. The power of meditation can truly help you, and that doesn't mean that you're going to your room and get yourself into a strange position and start humming; that is not meditation. Meditation is the ability to close your eyes two, three times a day in a peaceful environment and recount of who you are and try to figure out where you are going. Ask yourself the question, “Am I doing the right thing? Am I going in the right direction? Is everything I'm doing benefiting myself and the world?” If the answer is yes, then keep it up. Huma

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 320 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond At times, you hear people saying they are mad about a situation, circumstance, or something that has happened to them. For whatever reason, they are just mad. They have at this moment realized that what they wanted, did not get accomplished; or what they needed, did not get done. Why be mad? What does madness bring to the world. What does the negativity of the madness generated, from this attitude, bring to you or the rest of the world? Absolutely nothing. Being mad means that you are only downgrading yourself and losing the opportunity to become better. Now you can be bitter about your situation so you can improve; that is a good quality because then things will change. Things will become better. Things will become improved. You will then apply diligence onto whatever it is that didn’t get accomplished. You will electrify yourself; nurture your new passion and reinforce your belief to do the best that you can. Being mad accomp

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 319 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond When we have meetings with people the question is, “Is the meeting beneficial or not?” If it is the next question would be, “Is it beneficial to both parties or just one?” For a meeting to be beneficial it has to be able to be beneficial to both. Both parties, as they meet, have to walk away with something. Something which is greater than they had before the meeting. The approach of a meeting should be with respect and affection. The reason for that is because you have to judge every single person favorably, irrespective of what you find out about them. It is necessary to bear in mind that the person that you’re meeting with could be making a self-commitment in their lives or perhaps may not even be responsible. It simply may not be because something they want, but it could be because they may not have had the opportunity to receive the proper education, or guidance, or success that you’ve had. That may be the real truth behind tha

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 318 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond As a parent and, while we are helping our children grow up, we often remind them of how careful they have to be while they play with other children or the habits that we want them to develop. One of them is the ability to be compassionate and sharing. “Share everything you have”, we tell them. “Share your toys, share your bed, and share maybe even your lunch.” We tell this to our children as they are growing up. We want them to be kind, compassionate, and giving. Sharing is an important component of our lives. As we grow to become adults and many people forget the importance of sharing. They believe that “this” is theirs, that they have earned the right to have it. Or they’ve earned, for whatever reason, the opportunity to use it. It becomes to them a fact. This is my car. These are my clothes. This is my office. This is my money and everything becomes then, just ‘mine’. Let me tell you something about the word, “Sharing”. Shari

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 317 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I’m sure that you have met people who are very proud of who they are. Sometimes this pride hinges upon not just “extreme” pride but almost arrogance. What is the point of that? Why be that way? To be proud is a good thing. It’s showing that you care and that you are confident in what you’re doing. To be that arrogant, however, has no purpose to it and there’s no benefit to anyone. A person must strive and toil strenuously with patience and friendliness and you can prevail in all things. With a denigrative attitude towards others and inflating your own importance, you lose everything. There’s nothing left for you. Everything that you want to do in this world is given to you not as a package but as a step. A step in order for you to move up to the next level. Each step is one of the steps of the journey that you need to accomplish throughout the world. And throughout your life. So, be proud of what? The fact that you were born?