Dr. Dahan's Daily Wisdom - Motivational Podcast

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 208 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Imagine you could open your eyes to see only the good in every person. Imagine you could open your eyes to see the positive in every circumstance. Imagine you could open your eyes to see the opportunity in every challenge. How would your life be? Think about this, if you only saw the good in everyone that you meet and everyone that you see, how would the world be? Imagine, instead of looking at it in a negative way, you would see the positive aspect, you would greatly grow from every circumstance. Imagine if every challenge that happens in your life, and the things that occur, you would see the opportunities that lay in them. What a different world that would be! What a different opportunity you would have. A life of growth, understanding, joy, and happiness. Happiness is not an accident, it is an art. It is something that you design. You are the master of your own destiny and you could be the architect of your own future, if you w

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 207 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever thought of the word fanatic? A fanatic seems to be someone who is the extreme, either way too far to the right or way too far to the left. When a person drives and they see someone in front of them, they always think that they drive too slow, and yet when they look back in their rearview mirror, they think that the person behind them drives too fast. So, basically, the one in front of me slows me down, but the one behind me actually is too close to me. We call them both fanatics. We always think we are in the center. We're not the one driving too fast or the one driving too slow, and so it is with most issues in life and most circumstances. If someone is way too far out, we call them fanatics. They are too religious or they're too liberal, or too frivolous, they're too frugal, they're too conscientious, they're too much of this or too much of that. The truth is, life is about being in the center; having a life of n

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 206 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever had the opportunity to deal with an elderly? A mother, a father, or grandmother, or grandfather, or even a great-grandfather, a great-grandmother? It can also be an uncle or someone of a distant relationship. An elderly, to a certain extent, if you look at them, they are like children. Indeed, elderlies lose their hair, their skin becomes very smooth and you can even see right through them to see the veins popping up. They also become temperamental. They become needy. They have to eat quite often throughout the day. Some of them even need to be changed, unfortunately. Many of them need help in walking, eating, or dressing or undressing. The elderly have within them a certain amount of power, but come their age, they start losing it. They think about that often. Elderlies think about what they had once and they no longer have. They regret it. Some of them think of their past and they wish they were younger. It's int

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 205 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond What is the opposite of a dream? Most people call it a nightmare. It's interesting but in dreams, paradoxes actually unite. They become together. You can have opposites; you can have a ball fit into a box and at the same time that box, can be inside the ball. That's what dreams are. Now, in the opposite of a dream, a nightmare as most people call it, somethings maybe scary. An interesting concept is that any scary dream or nightmare, one wakes up right before the worst happens. Have you ever realized that? For instance, someone's running behind you but just when that person is about to catch you, you wake up. Why is that? How is that possible? The reason is that you are the one running. You are letting that person run after you, and therefore, you won't allow the other to catch you. That's what dreams are, and so with nightmares: the ability to think of things which are above and beyond your conscious level but not so far that y

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 204 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever thought about the difference between light and life? When light is turned on in a dark room there are no new objects that are added to this room. Light allows you to appreciate that which existed there before that's what it does. Nothing was added. The same thing is with life. When a corpse is given life, the only difference is breathing and then it starts living but otherwise, it's the same thing. To be happy, you have a clear conscious or you will kill your conscious, it's up to you. You can decide what you want to do with that. For instance, a farmer who plants in the spring and then a storm comes and takes it all away yet he goes back the next spring and he plants all over again, he doesn't pay attention to the past. He knows what he can do. You can be discouraged by it at all or you can be inspired by it at all. That is part of the mystery and its part of your life. You decide. The magic is that at any moment

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 203 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I'm sure you recall often when your parents or teachers, or people who raised you, often said to you, "You have to be responsible. Be a responsible person. Responsible for your actions and responsible for everything around you." The truth is, that may be a misnomer. Responsible is important, of course, but here is what's more important, being accountable. Responsible is good because you become an adult. Accountable means that you realize what you're doing and you're doing it because there is going to be in your life, and in the rest of the world, some accountability as to what you've done to this world. Now, the reason why you want to be accountable for what you've done, it's because you are capable of doing it all. No one—this is a fact—no one was ever born in this earth without all the tools they need all the time to accomplish their full mission on Earth, no one. Knowing that, you can do whatever you want. You can get rid of

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 202 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond People ask, "How do you have a great relationship with your spouse? With a partner, with your children, with your parents, with a colleague at work, or a neighbor? With acquaintances or friends, or people that you're sitting next to on a flight? How do you become that person that makes others feel better than they are, so when they walk away they say, ‘This was an amazing meeting?'" That's the question. Some people say it's by obliteration. Obliteration means you don't exist; you are nobody and whatever you do, consider yourself smaller than anybody else. Obliterate yourself, your feelings, your wants, your needs. Imagine this in a relationship. You give up whatever you want and let the other person have everything else they want. That's really not the way to be. There is another way to do that and that is by sublimation. Sublimation means you realize that your needs are necessary, but they may not be important to come first. Y

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 201 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond The word love can be used in such a wide variety of situations, we often lose its concept. Children are the best ones to express what love means. When you look at a child, a small baby doesn't ask for anything. The small baby is just there and they look at you with a warm, kind, deep sigh. They have just slept and if they have been fed, and finished their needs, they are just looking at you. What they say is, "Love me. Love me for who I am, love me for what I bring to the world. Don't look at some of the things which make me sometime not the person you want me to be. Don't think of me as a difficult portion of your life. Don't look at me as an opportunity to do things that are not supposed to be done. Love me for who I am and let me love you the way I want you to love me." That's what a baby says. It is true, when you have the opportunity to look at a beautiful baby. The color, the age, the gender, ethnicity, religion, none of th

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 200 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond It is told that when iron was created in the world; wherever there was wood, the trees got worried. They thought, "Goodness, now that the iron is here, we can be cut down. We no longer are the majestic vegetation and growth and trunks that's we thought we were. We could be destroyed because of iron." This is not truth because in order for the iron to cut the tree, it must have a handle. The handle itself becomes the axe, and it's with that handle which holds on to the part of the iron which can cut the tree. Without the handle, the axe serves no purpose; it can't harm anyone. Nobody will cut you down without your consent at any given time. If you define me, who I am, then that means I have no mission. I must define myself. If you're in a bad mood, then where am I? Why do I act this way? I'm not in a place which is described as limited. I'm wherever I want to be. The tree thought it was limited but when it realized that it neede

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 199 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond What is a bad habit? A bad habit is something that you should not be doing, but for whatever reason you are stuck doing it. This is not something you have to keep or something you must have with you all the time. You can change it, but because it is a habit you have become used to it. The problem with a bad habit is not the fact that "it is not good"; a bad habit actually inhibits your success. It prohibits you from moving forward. What you need to do, is remember that unless you want to grow and grow in the right direction, this bad habit, serves no purpose. If you get out of this bad habit you can do so much more. For instance, how easy is it to get up in the morning when you know you are not doing well, or that you don’t have much to look forward to. It’s not very easy at all. You can just lay there awake thinking "oh what’s a few minutes more in bed? It won’t matter anyway. I don’t have much to do.” Well, this is all defin

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 197 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond If you see me at times doing things which are improper, lift me up. Such a beautiful concept. If you hear things that I say which are incorrect or harmful lift me up. If there is something that I have done to you or someone you know which was not right, lift me up. Lift me up on top of the world, and show me, help me, guide me. When you lift up others, you rise. Here is the key; by lifting someone else up you, are changing the world. What good is it to bring them down? Admonish them? Tell them how terrible they are? What does it accomplish? It may make you feel better for a while, but what good did it do? Destroy the other person? It is not necessary. If there is something that you see, that you think needs correcting, lift me up. Help me see it in a different light. Lift me up above the clouds and show me the color of the infinite sky. Lift me up above and beyond so I can believe you, so I can also change. I am as good as you

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 196 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Whether you have a successful life or not, why not share what you have? Now you may say, “How can I share what I don’t have?” We all have something we can share. Share the wealth of your knowledge, however limited it may be. Share the wealth of your smile. That is easy, all you have to do is smile. Share the wealth of your kindness and patience. Share the wealth of your wisdom that you’ve gained through your life, slowly but surely. Share it with others. Sharing the wealth means whatever you have, you bring to others to make them happy. To show them also that what you have is good for you and it could be good for them. Sharing the wealth does not mean keeping it all to yourself. What good is a book that just sits in your library after you’ve read it? It sits there and no one else reads it; that’s no good. But if you share that book with other people, especially if it’s a great book, they will get a benefit from that. What go

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 195 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are people who live two lives. The one that they wish to be and the one that they have to be. Some people believe that they have to do certain things in order to be accomplished or at least be successful. They believe that when they go to work, they have to act a certain way. They have to speak in a stern assertive fashion. They may even believe that they say things that are not true to accomplish a goal. But, when they come home they live a different life. One that lets them know they need to be nice and kind, and they do it with integrity. Now I ask you, why would anyone have two lives? Why would anyone live in two worlds? Why not combine the both and live one life? One world, one way, one direction with only one Creator. When the world was created, options were given to all creations. Either to do everything they were designed to be or to do less than they were designed to be. Since you have the choice in your life

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 194 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Everyday there is a prayer that you can say that will help you grow and change. Ask G-d to show you the way. These are the words that you can use: Dear Creator show me the value of time. Show me the dignity of simplicity. Show me the influence of an example. Show me the virtue of patience. Show me success to persevere and the worth of having a good character. Show me the obligation of my duties and the improvement of my talents. Show me the pleasure of working and being productive. Show me the power of kindness. Show me the wisdom of being helpful, but show me the joy of originality. Show me what to do. This is a prayer that we can use so that the Creator of the world would always be on our side. Helping us, guiding us and showing us the way to be. This is what I wish for you today and every day. You can make up whatever prayer you like, you don’t have to use these words. But, you do have to pray. You must know that there is a

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 193 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever admonished someone? Do you even know the definition of the word admonish? To caution, to advise, or to counsel someone against something. But this is often to reprove or scold and is usually ill mannered. You might say admonishing is good because it can help the other person change themselves. I believe there are two ways to help another person. One is to make them see the bad in themselves. To point out all the differences and all the problems and all the issues that they have. In this way, all the admonishing hopefully would help them see things better. There is a better way however.  Not admonishing, but loving. By loving someone and showing how good they are, and make them see themselves better than they are, and make them believe in themselves more than they do at that time then the admonishing would not be necessary. They themselves would want to change just from listening to you praising them. I know wh

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 192 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond How many times has it occurred, that you are facing a situation, a challenge, or just a question in your life and you’re not sure what to do? I'll tell you a secret… You have within yourself a voice. It’s a voice of reason, a voice of goodness, this mindful voice can always guide you properly. What you need to do is hear the voice. Hear the voice because it is within you and it is always there and ready to help you. At times, we may want to do things that are either forbidden, inappropriate, or for whatever reason not right. If that’s the case, how do you know? This voice within you is always right and it knows what to do. Now, you may say "I’ve made many mistakes and I’ve never heard the voice." Then if this is the case, and this is where you are today, then you need to speak to someone who can help you find that voice again. Perhaps read the right book, attend a good class, or let someone help you find that voice. Once you

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 191 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you ever noticed how sometimes you are around people who use words that don’t mean anything? They say things that they don’t mean or they sometimes express themselves in ways that make absolutely no sense. Then they say, “I didn’t mean that”, or “that’s really not what I said.” This is called “foolish talk”. What is “foolish talk”? Words, concepts, or a pattern of thoughts which are said in words and really didn’t get anywhere. What is the purpose of “foolish talk”? It has absolutely no purpose. It may seem harmless, but indeed, it is very dangerous. Before a word is expressed it has to have a source, and that source is your mind. This is the basis of where your thoughts come from. When you express yourself with certain words, concepts, or ideas that mean nothing, or if you said something you don’t really mean, this is “foolish talk”. I would strongly suggest that you stop with the “foolish talk”. Say things that matte

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 190 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond How much can you accumulate in one life time? It's quite incredible how many people accumulate so many things, trinkets, and all kinds of other objects that they bring into their home. You have to understand the difference between trinkets and treasures. You see, happiness is not an accident. Happiness is an art, something that you design, something that you choose for yourself. It is a unique lifestyle that you can have for yourself, figuring out ways to live meaningfully and understanding what you want and what you need, and keep that. The rest is just accumulating stuff, and what would you do with it? Once, I was at a funeral, and I met a person whose father had passed away. She was sad and definitely taken by what had just happened. The one thing that she remembered were all the memories that her father had left with her. Now, this in itself is a gift. Anything else her father could have left, what purpose would it had ser

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 189 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond The word “reverse,” means the opposite or contrary in position or in direction, of order or character. Reverse is an important term because it actually determines your ability to change anything at any given time, like driving a car. When you drive a car it can go either forward or you can put in reverse. At times, we do need to use this ability to reverse all our situations. Say for instance you are in a situation that is difficult, challenging, or even critical. You can reverse that. How, you ask? Know that you are never stuck in a situation, you never have to stay in that situation; and you never have to put up with all of the challenges you are facing. You can look in a different direction. You can apply for different opportunities. By broadening your vision, you can get away from that situation by reversing what you do. Go back to where you would like to be. Go back to the person that you were meant to be. And be whomev

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 187 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There is an interesting parable in the Old Testament. It says that at one point in time Moses went to see King Pharaoh with a stick in his hand. He threw the stick on the ground and it became a snake.  It says that the stick that became a snake was somewhat of a parable which was shown to King Pharaoh so that Moses would have all his people leave Egypt since they were there in bondage, as slaves. There's an interesting idea here about a stick versus the snake. A shepherd also walks around with a stick and so do some people, they just call it a cane. That stick helps them walk around and hang onto life without having to fall. In the olden days, aristocratic, people that were quite well-to-do also walked around with a cane, and they had all kinds of designs on them. Some of these canes can be found on the internet, and I invite you to look them up as they're ornate designs and some, absolutely stunning. Yet, the cane itself can be