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Leave Yourself Wanting More

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I think most of us have a tendency to do as much as we possibly can. But doing less might be better.

When we go to a great restaurant, we want to try all the dishes, eat as much of the delicious food as we can. And we leave overstuffed, sometimes painfully so, and our waistlines expand.

When I go for a run, often I’ll want to run as far or as hard as I can … and then I’m exhausted, and less likely to want to run tomorrow.

When we go on a trip to a new country, we want to see everything, do as much as possible, and that leaves us exhausted.

When we work or read online, we go from one task to the next, continuously, quitting only when we’re spent, well past what might be healthy for us.

How can we counter the tendency to want to do as much as possible?

Leave yourself wanting more.

The other day I went out for a run, and I really wanted to push myself to my limit. I let that desire go and did a moderate run, leaving some gas in the tank. The next day, I wanted to run some more, and I did. Today I’d be happy to go for another run, though maybe I’ll do something else instead. It’s sustainable and will make the habit last longer.

If you sit down for a meal, don’t try to eat as much as possible. Eat less. Leave the table wanting a little more. It won’t kill you. This is something I’m working on myself, but it takes practice. The result, though, is that you feel healthier and your waistline thanks you.

When you travel, don’t try to see everything. See a few things, and take your time. Leave the new city knowing that there’s more to see that you are leaving for next time. Leave yourself wanting more.

When you’re on the computer, shut it down before you’re done with everything. You’ll never be done with everything, and shutting down early means you’ve reserved some of your mental energy for other pursuits offline. You’ll be raring to go tomorrow. You won’t be as spent.

Let’s do less, and leave some in reserve. And enjoy the less that we do even more.

Your Internet Habits Create Your Reality

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Each of us has a different reality. And we’re creating that reality, and can shape it in many ways.

We tend to think of reality as something external and absolute, like the sun shining down on us on a hot, lazy afternoon. That sun is really there, whether we believe it or not, right?

But as humans, our reality is shaped by what we perceive. So one person will see the sun has overwhelmingly hot and oppressive, the other sees it as an opportunity for a great tan. Another will see it as a huge cancer machine. And still another will think the sun is an angry god to be feared and served.

Those people all have very different realities, even if the sun is objectively the same for all of them.

In that light, whatever you think about and do on a regular basis shapes your reality.

And that’s mostly the Internet (and phone apps), for a lot of people.

If you’re on websites that talk about how horrible the world is, and how gays and Muslims and feminists are causing everything to go to hell … then that will be your reality.

If you’re on Facebook looking at your friends’ food pictures or vacation photos, that will shape your reality. If you’re on porn sites, that’s what your reality is. If you follow people on Twitter who complain all the time, that affects your life in a major way.

What Internet habits shape your reality? Is that the reality you want? Can you shape it?

I don’t have any answers here. Just wanted to influence your reality a tad.

The last day in 2013

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Like my wife said, if you are working hard for your dream every day, the whole world will help you. Yes, she’s right.

In this year, I have the honor to join Envato market, to meet some warmhearted people, they were help me to improve my designing works, translate the product documentation, etc.

The most important is I’ve met a good friend, he was tell me more interest things about Zen.

Anyway, I have benefited a lot from them, thanks all the friends, Thanks Bodhisattva!

In the next year, I hope both you and me will be better and better, especially, I wish my English will be improved as soon as human possible, haha…

Why I turn to Buddhism?

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At the very early first, I was an atheist, now I’m a buddhist, you may ask me why, actually they are not confict with each other. People often say that Buddha bless me please, will buddha really appear and help us? I don’t know, but I prefer to believe that actually buddha is always live in our deep heart, however, most of the time, we can’t find him and it’s difficult for us to hear from him, because of too many noise around us.

Every time when I got scared, I will drive my car to go to a very silent temple just about 30 kilometer from my home, I like to sit in a corner and listen to the monks chanting, then my heart will calm down and I can hear my heart voice, what a deliverance not to have to think anymore! So, as my understanding, the real buddha is not the god, buddha is the Wisdom in Essence.

The other thing that I was always question before I converted, the existance of Karma, is it true?

I knew there are many scientific discussions and instances, but no one can jump to conclusions. Until my friend tell me a Zen story, I trust it.

An old zen master ask his little disciple to find a stuff in a very dark room, the little monk went into the dark room without any lightings, and he was found nothing, then he told zen master, “No one is there!”, Zen master asked “Really?” and burning a candle went into the dark room, under the lights, he find that stuff, asked the little monk, “It’s always there, only you can’t see it.”

Is it not so? We are always think that the things are nonexistent, just because we can not see them. How be opinionated! The human should hold the unknown nature in awe and keep to learning.

For these perceptions and cognitions, I decided to convert to Buddhism, ‘cause I know I have to face to face with my heart even if the process is very painful, this is practice, and life is a kind of practice, I know I have long way to go.

What’s the future of niche themes in the WordPress industry?

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I entered into WordPress Theme development field several years ago. In the first three years I provided the customization service to my clients, and then I joined Envato Market and sell my WordPress Themes on Themeforest since 2013. There are a lot of thoughts and feelings over the years and sometimes I feel confused, so I just want to discuss about what the future of niche themes is on Themeforest.

My impression is that more and more multiple purpose WordPress themes are selling on Themeforest, these themes looks omnipotent, developers provides many powerful options for their end-users, but I think too many options probably make the theme difficult to use, especially for the novices. The other hand, I often doubt that whether there is a future for the single themes which are focus on a specific field, let’s say niche themes. Sometimes the niche themes only sounds great and looks unique, but in fact, it’s hard to beat those multiple purpose themes, just look at the weekly top sellers on themeforest, the whole page is almost occupied by these multiple purpose themes or one page themes. It is not clear why this should be.  After analyzed, I found for the most part, many theme buyers are the WordPress / Web developers, but they are not  the real end-users, they just purchase the theme and customize it for their client. Obviously, the multiple purpose themes are more commonly used  than the niche themes,  and they will also help the developer to save costs on purchased the themes (Actually some developers will use one theme on the multiple project without purchase the license again).

So, what’s the next? This is why I said I often feel confused about the future of niche themes, especially sell on Themeforest. Now I only know that maybe the niche theme sellers should have more powerful marketing ability, any other good suggestion? We can discuss with each other below.

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