Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way

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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
I love stories and movies about giants. Not the
Jack and the Beanstalk kind of mammoth giant who
steps over mountains as if they were ant hills
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
but, giants who make a difference, who guide and
teach values, who pop into someones life to wake
them up, help them see the whole picture in order
to change their direction. Giants who create
more giants in life.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Giants like the angel Clarence in the movie Its
a Wonderful Life who accepted the assignment of
helping George Bailey see how his life affected
so many others.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Giants like Yoda, the strange looking little
creature in Star Wars whose wise words to Luke
Skywalker spurred him on to face fear . . .
There is no try, there is only DO.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Glenda, the beautiful Good Witch in The Wizard
of Oz who could have waved her magic wand and
sent Dorothy home, but knew the value of allowing
Dorothy to overcome the challenges she faced in
order to realize the power was within her, not in
a magic wand.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
And, its not only the fictional giants that
move and inspire . . . there are stories and
movies about real people making a difference in
someones life
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Based on the true story of Erin Gruwell, Freedom
Writers is the movie about a naïve young teacher
at a California high school who found a way to
reach the hearts and minds of her unruly students
. . . one giant creating a classroom of giants.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Another true story of giants is found in The
Blind Side, a movie about Michael Oher, a
homeless black teen taken under the wings of
Leigh Anne Touby whose strength and compassion
guided and transformed Oher and started him on
the path to the NFL.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
All these giants, both fictional and real, had
one purpose, one never ending goal to change
lives. The inspiration and motivation received
from reading the story or watching the movie have
a continuous ripple effect . . . not just one
life was changed, but hundreds, thousands more.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Lately, Ive discovered another character to add
to my growing list of giants in the book The Way
of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
In this book, Millman tells his story of meeting
a strange, but powerful man, nicknamed Socrates,
who guided and taught him a whole new ideology .
. . one that valued being conscious over being
smart, and strength in spirit over strength in
body . . . becoming giants in life.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Socrates uses humor and love and peace and
serenity to teach, and I find myself struggling
right along with Millman to grasp the meaning of
his words, for they are powerful and insightful
and true . . . wisdom from giants.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
As usually happens, the messages in the book or
movie from the character giants come home to me,
and opportunities to apply them are ever present
in my daily life.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Yesterday, I had a flat tire. Aaargh! What an
aggravation I felt as my day was interrupted with
the nuisance of dealing with it. (Actually,
aaargh wasnt the exact words that came out of my
mouth!)
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
I was given two lessons about giants from the
flat tire.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
First, as I was on my phone, requesting roadside
assistance, a co-worker (one of the many giants
in my life) appeared in my office and offered to
change the tire.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
In an instant, I had to choose between taking
complete control or accepting a genuine offer of
help.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
I hate relying on others, asking for help, being
put in the position of helplessness . . . but,
his sincere offer penetrated those barriers and I
accepted. (humility grows giants!)
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
As I plunked myself down in the waiting room at
the tire shop, the TV was blaring an episode of
Bonanza.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
I could have stared blankly at the TV to help
pass the time, but instead I picked up Way of
the Peaceful Warrior to read and thats when
lesson 2 from giants appeared as clear as the
bright sunshine outside.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Socrates said, You see, Dan, when you resist
what happens, your mind begins to race the
thoughts that assail you are actually created by
you. My mind is like a pond without ripples
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
. . . Your mind is full of waves because you feel
separated from, and often threatened by, an
unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is
like a pond into which someone has just dropped a
boulder.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Oh boy, is that ever an exact account of my
reaction to the flat tire. A boulder dropped
into my pond . . . and my reaction was immediate
. . . how did this happen, where will I get help,
what can I do to fix it, why this, why now, why
me?
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Socrates words were an exact match to how I
reacted to this unplanned and most unwelcome
event. I thrashed around and created huge waves
by my frustration instead of just letting it go.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
I learned in that waiting room that instead of
reacting to the flat tire with oh shit . . . I
should have laughed at the situation and said,
shit happens!
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
What kind of ripples are you creating by your
reactions to people, to circumstances, to
unplanned occurrences?
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Its a choice everyone has to change from
creating a big splash of drama, to calmly
accepting and letting go of the aggravation and
frustration . . . choosing to keep the waters of
your mind peaceful and serene.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
Its the way of the peaceful warrior, its the
way of giants.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
If you havent yet read Way of the Peaceful
Warrior, do it. It will impact you. It will
change your mind and inspire you to a powerful
life through peace and contentment.
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
It will transform you into a giant! It will
teach you to create more giants!
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Becoming Giants . . . The Peaceful Warrior Way
Life is Too Short To Wait For Someday!
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