My niece and I on 4/6/19. I’m super grateful to have these moments with my loved ones!
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My niece and I on 4/6/19. I’m super grateful to have these moments with my loved ones!
#niece #family #familytime #lovedones #priority #mindfulness #mindful #grateful #gratitude #thabkful #joy #happy #love
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There are 4 powerful energy sources to boost our motivation on our goals: Vision, Passion, Positive People, and Suffering. I use these energy sources to fuel my 4 rocket boosters that launches me towards the stars, my dreams.
Today, I want to focus on suffering. It’s a topic that isn’t placed on a pedestal but its superpower can be used for good if we learn to control its power. Many of us let our suffering bring us down. We also try to escape it. Negative people take it out on others. Instead, we should embrace our pain and make the most of this powerful source of energy.
In a previous post, I mentioned how suffering can expand our gratitude. In this article, I want to point out how suffering can boost our motivation on our goals. For me, suffering has been a tremendous motivator in my life. When I trained in the martial arts, specifically Aikido, we learned to take the energy from the on-coming attacker and use it to our advantage to win. Likewise, when suffering comes at us, we take that dark energy and convert it into positive energy by using it in our efforts to develop our mind, body, and soul. For example, my suffering gets me more pumped up to write, read, learn, exercise, meditate/self-reflect, and such. It has worked for me since I was a kid. When someone rejects me or attacks me, I get motivated to work harder. When people I love die, I’m motivated to hustle even more, and I dedicate my craft and success to them.
I wish you all the best in your efforts to turn your suffering into positive actions in your life. Keep crushing it my friends!
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
#suffering #pain #energy #motivate #motivational #selfdevelop #selfimprove #drive #hustle #grind #tenacity #perseverance #goals #vision #dreams #quote #quotes #motivationalquotes #writing #creativewriting #writer #nonfiction #mentalhealth #health #psychology #mindset #positivemindset #vision #passion #positivepeople #keepgoing #nevergiveup
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I’m grateful to be alive to experience life. I enjoy capturing beautiful #sceneries like this with the #moon and #clouds above the evergreen #trees at Waikele Country Club @golfwaikele on March 14, 2019 as I walked around the neighborhood in Waikele, Hawaii.
Daily Practice: Gratitude and Mindfulness!
#gratitude #grateful #thankful #mindful #mindfulness #happy #happiness #joy #photo #hawaii #pic #photography #evergreentrees #golfcourse #waikelecountryclub #oahu #hawaiilife #hawaiiphotography #hawaiiscenery #sky #skypictures #clouds #cloudpictures #peaceful
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My niece and I making different funny faces on 4/9/19!
Practice: Spend time with my loved ones!
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Being a 5th generation American on my mom’s side of the family and 4th generation on my dad’s and born and raised in Hawaii where there is a mixture of ethnicities with no majority, I was surprised to experience discrimination in Eastern Washington when I lived there and Idaho where I frequented with my law school friends for snowboarding and events. In Idaho, on a snowboarding trip, my law school friends Paul from Hawaii (hapa: Caucasian and Japanese), Joe from Southern California (Filipino), Marx from New Orleans, Louisiana (Jewish), and I went to a venue where we weren’t served. Not quite sure if my friend Karlin (Inupiak Eskimo and Caucasian) was there since he snowboarded with us. Also, in Cour d’alene, Idaho, on 4th of July, white supremacists drove by in their 4×4 trucks and jeeps yelling bad stuff with their Confederate and Nazi flags. Our country, the United States is not doing too well on these issues with a number of very public incidents.
My late great uncle Roy Okubo, my late grandma Bessie Karamatsu’s baby brother enlisted in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 522nd Artillery during World War II to prove the loyalty of Americans of Japanese Ancestry despite the racism and mass imprisonment done by our country.
When I became a politician in Hawaii, I pushed for equal rights for all, including legislation for gay marriage for the LBGT community and support of programs for single mothers and survivors of abuse. My political career has been overshadowed by my legal bouts with driving under the influence. Thus, now, I’m directing a good portion of my energy towards writing fiction, nonfiction, poems, and creative writing, on top of my business projects and legal career. Through stories, we can touch people’s souls by reaching into their emotions. Laws can’t do this in the way storytelling can. I’m hopeful that love, compassion, and empathy will overcome anger, hate, and discrimination. Together, we’ll make this world better!
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My niece and I on 4/11/2019!
Practice: Spend time with my loved ones!
#niece #family #familytime #lovedones #mindful #mindfulness #gratitude #grateful #thankful #happy #joy #fun #love #oahu #hawaii
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I’m super grateful for my REI Bookpacker Plus @rei from my law school days! It’s so comfortable and sturdy for walking a few miles here and there and traveling in mass transit on land and in air. It has a lot of space and small compartments to hold things. In this day and age, we can produce content on the go with a laptop, smart phone, and a great backpack to carry everything.
Here, I finished working at Starbucks at Ala Moana Hotel @alamoanahotel on 4/11/2019.
Daily Practice: Mindfulness and Gratitude!
#rei #bookpackerplus #backpack #work #travel #mobileoffice #business #law #government #marketing #branding #writing #creativewriting #books #novels #nonfiction #hustle #grind #dailypractice #mindfulness #mindful #grateful #gratitude #thankful #alamoanahotel #oahu #honolulu #hawaii #hawaiilife
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My niece and I on 4/11/2019 at 1 year and 3 months old. Our “why” in life is very clear when we have little ones in our hearts! 😊
#niece #family #familytime #love #joy #preciousmoments #oahu #hawaii #grateful #thankful #mindful #mindfulness #happy
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Make our #suffering strengthen our purpose! 👊
We can be selfish with our suffering or we can be #loving with it. If we are selfish with our suffering, we get frustrated and angry and then blame people, events, and things for the pain we feel. When we are loving with our suffering, we embrace its painful power and use its energy to #improve ourselves and execute on our #goals and #vision for a better life and world. Once we boost ourselves with positive energy, we are able to help others and our environment. In turn, these people will help others like a domino effect that will cause the environment and culture to shift. One practice will destroy you, the other will #empower you.
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
#mindset #positivemindset #mentalhealth #health #psychology #positiveoutlook #anger #depression #purpose #selfimprovement #selfdevelopment #selfhelp #writing #books #quote #quotes #motivationalquotes #motivationalquotesoftheday #motivation #reader #betterlife #readingcommunity #love
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It’s so far away.
Sometimes we get there.
Other times we don’t.
At all times, we get a hell of a story.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, April 12, 2019 –
#poem #poems #poetry #poet #creativewriting #writing #writings #reader #readers #book #books #fiction #nonfiction #author #authors #journey #process #goals #vision #hustle #grind #quote #quotes #writer #writers
Hi Everyone,
I’m helping Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant. I’ll be sharing with you some of their tasty dishes here and there that you may enjoy! Check the restaurant out at Ala Moana Center @alamoanacenter on the 4th floor, Honolulu, Hawaii!!! 😊🥢
Pictured is one of the dishes Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant is known for, their Snow Mountain Char Siu Buns with tender charsiu, a soft bun, and a nice sweet coating on top!!! So ono (delicious in the Hawaiian language)!!! 😋🥢
Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant’s website is at http://jadedynastyhawaii.com
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
#dimsum #charsiubun #charsiu #bun #chinesefood #chinesecuisine #chineserestaurant #hawaiirestaurant #hawaiifood #hawaiieats #yelphawaii #hawaiibestkitchens #hawaiigrinds #oahueats #honolulueats #travelhawaii #gohawaii #lunch #hawaiifoodfinds #alamoancenter #honolulu #oahu #hawaii #ono #delicious #foodphotography #foodart #foodpic #foodphoto #restaurant #restaurants #marketing #branding #consultant #attorney #governmentaffairs #businessdevelopment #writing #creativewriting #dining #meetings #events #lunch #dinner
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Fly away with me.
Break these walls of society.
Blast away to our stars
where we can be who we want to be.
We’ll create for those who believe.
The haters can’t judge what they can’t see.
One thousand true fans are all we need.
We’ll plant our love, seed by seed.
With patience and time, we will succeed.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 4/7/2019 –
I dedicate this poem to all you working on your dreams. Like many of you, I’m going through the process. Despite the tears, anxiety, and stress, keep working at it day by day! By doing so, we will improve ourselves by 1% or more everyday. No matter what, we will gain knowledge, skills, and relationships! Getting our dream is the bonus.
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
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When it’s real, you just feel.
It’s neither here nor there.
It’s everywhere.
Close your eyes and you’ll see.
I’ll focus on you. You focus on me.
Feel the energy as the two of us becomes “we.”
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 4/6/19 –
#poem #poems #poetry #creativewriting #writing #writings #writer #quote #quotes #lovenotes #lovepoems #lovepoem #lovestory #lovestories #romance #romantic #iloveyou #novel #novels #fiction #book #books #reader #readers #poetrycommunity
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Thank you so much to Hawaiian Electric @hawaiianelectric and Drive Electric Hawaii @driveelectrichi for the power bank, which I’ve been wanting for about 5 months!!! I’m super grateful!!! I’m making really good use of them in my daily grind on my #work !!! I got them at First Hawaiian Bank’s @fhbhawaii 2019 First Hawaiian International Auto Show at the Hawaii Convention Center @hawaiiconvention on Sunday March 31, 2019. Now, more than ever, since I don’t drive, and instead, catch the bus to all my meetings and events, I’ve been needing one of these to recharge my @samsungmobile Galaxy S7 Edge, which I use for business and personal use. A couple of times my smartphone ran out of power while in transit. My friend Brandon Mitsuda @brandon_mitsuda gave me his since he already has his own.
#thankful #gratitude #powerbank #hawaiianelectric #driveelectrichawaii #firsthawaiianautoshow #bepresent #livenow #mindfulness #mindful #dailywork #stepbystep #dailypractices #dailyhabits #smallwins #career #personallife #mentalhealth #positivemindset
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