488. Never Retreat

A Mulvey never goes backwards, never retreats and never gives in. We may change our tactics or direction from time to time but we are continuously pushing forward towards our ultimate goals.

For us, moving backwards is the equivalent of decay, decline, mental and emotional breakdown, physical undoing, fatigue, tamas and death. We cannot be truly stationary. If we are not advancing we are retreating. Mulveys never repeat a year. If we say we have 20 years experience that is exactly what we have, the experience of 20 different years, each moment fresh and unique, not 20 experiences of the same year.

162. Survival

"Survival is important because to survive is the ability to start again." - Winston Churchill
While it is important to survive, don't settle for mere survival. Work on designing your life, not simply making a living. Basic study of the Martial Arts will enable you to survive but dedicated study will make you a warrior.

162. Politics are a Foul Business

Winston Churchill once said "Politics are foul - too foul for words." Yet that is where he made his career. This just shows the strength of his character. He was able to work in a foul environment because he knew he was doing good work.

161. The Measure of Your Strength

The venom of a man's enemies is a measure of his own strength. - Winston Churchill

160. Good Company

It is useless having a mind like a machine-gun without having ammunition to put in it - Winston Churchill.

It is vitally important that you feed your mind with fine material (ammunition). This is keeping the mind in Good Company. Good company for the mind is that which elevates your mind to higher ideals than the mere mundane. It includes such diverse sources of inspiration as the music of Mozart, the writings of Marsilio Ficino, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Descartes, Voltaire and other philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius etc. as well as the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci. Good Company means being in the presence of those who meditate and who are otherwise saintly. It means reading scripture an vedas. It alsomeans working with like-minded people on projects for the greater good of mankind.

159. Practicality

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. - Winston Churchill.

If you have thought out a plan of action, the next step is to write it down. Making written notes of your plans, poems ideas etc., is creating a physical bridge between your mental world (the intangible) and the physical world (the tangible). This is the first stage in realisation (the making real) of your plans and goals.

The advantages in this are :

1. It makes your ideas visible.

2. It provides a written record.

3. It can protect your copyright (intellectual property).

4. It gives a standard against which you can measure your progress.

5. It helps you to remember what you have created.

80.Heroes

Find good heroes and never lose them or your faith in them. People love to destroy heroes. This is the well-known Irish art of Begrudgery. Do not listen to tales of your hero's human failings. If you lose your heroes and become cynical, you will have nowhere to turn when things get tough. Let your teachers be heroes and your heroes be teachers. Study the lives of great men and women. Draw inspiration from the speeches that have changed the world. Find your own heroes but you may have some of mine : Padraig Pearse, Winston Churchill, Deepak Chopra, Countess Markievicz, Violette Tzabo,Alan Turing, Napoleon Bonaparte, Edward Hopper, Mahatma Gandhi, Catherine de Medici, Leonardo Da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Feyneman, Warren Buffett, Anthony Robbins, Paul Golden, Chuck Mellon, Joe Williams, Noel Coward and many more. Here are some links :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6NIt-Oye8,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7OBTiyMoSE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8u313eY_c&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srSbAazoOr8&feature=related,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHT3phgAurQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9ar3X_u1k