Introduction: Tiger Heart Tiger Mind
How do you start to empower your dreams and create your reality? Ron Rubin and Avery Gold suggest that you ask yourself the following questions:
- What turns me on and soars my soul?
- Where is it that my capacity wants me to go?
- What is it that I want to ultimately experience and succeed at?
The authors, Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold, explain that Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind is about
“waking up every morning of the world with a will and willingness to practice doing and being.” The book came about because of Carl Sandburg's poem “Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
While I was reading this book, I had some mixed feelings about it. Overall I liked it because it had some good information, but at the end, I didn't feel as if I could take any action. Or, to be honest, I didn't know what to do with this information, how to use it to my benefit.
What is Tiger Heart Tiger Mind About?
In this review, I will focus on some of the really good information. For example, the authors ask the question “How do you create the results you seek and live a life with full heart and elated mind?” Their answer, “By doing nothing.” Are they crazy? No! They do not mean that we should be lazy or idle, but instead be in “State of actionless action in which the individual reaches an ability to give rise to actions that are acutely intuitive and correct through intense, intrinsic concentration.” This is very difficult for people who do not meditate, or are not familiar with Zen and Buddhist principles, which often sound like babble, but when you think about them for a while, you finally get it, and suddenly it makes perfect sense.
Rubin and Avery Gold state that to become successful we must believe in continuously expanding ourselves and be open to discovering new things. They also recommend that we read biographies of great individuals, study success principles, take courses such as public speaking, writing and critical thinking. To empower our dreams, we have to make the commitment to be responsible for our dreams, and must realize and accept that “We can never know all that there is to know, and remember that every step of the way.” Another thing they mentioned, which I truly believe, is that to become wiser and more knowledgeable, we have to be open and empty, allowing ideas and insights to flow into us.
Five Common Sense Ideas from Tiger Heart Tiger Mind
- Too much of life is spent looking for the right answers, when in fact the secret to life lies in being able to ask the right questions. It's the questions we ask, or fail to ask that shape our path
- Too often people look outside their lives for what they want, when the creative power to build their best life lies within
- The great tragedy of our times is that too many give themselves over to the pleasing of others in hopes of gaining approval or avoiding disapproval
- Even enemies have enemies, and the enemy of fear will always be your courage to conquer it. Fear is an unreal response that holds whatever power we grant it. Courage is not the absence of fear – it is the acting in spite of fear. If you hold what you fear up to the light, the reality of it will begin to fade, allowing you to re-take control of your thinking process and your destiny. To fight fear:
- – Face it
- – Engage it
- – Assess it
- – Reject it
- Do not put your dreams up on a shelf to satisfy others. You have an obligation to yourself to discover and manifest your unique purpose and mission in life and set it free.
How do you start to empower your dreams and create your reality? The authors suggest that you ask yourself the following questions:
- What turns me on and soars my soul?
- Where is it that my capacity wants me to go?
- What is it that I want to ultimately experience and succeed at?
Final Thoughts: Tiger Heart Tiger Mind
So, you've answered the questions, what next? Your guess is as good as mine, but I do recommend the book because it will make you think.
