If you’ve wasted the whole day, or many days, or years, that’s unfortunate. But it is behind you and it doesn’t stop you from making the most of right now.
If you’re disappointed for any reason in what has happened up to this moment, choose to transform the energy of that disappointment into inspiration. Use the positive inspiration to immediately start making up for lost time. While you’re at it, add some gratitude for the chance you now have. See how enthusiastic you can be about the opportunity to make a difference. You don’t have to re-write history, yet you can now relate to it any way you choose. Choose to let all that has happened, whatever it may be, teach you and encourage you to live this moment in a meaningful and productive way. You’ve made your way to right now, and you’ve earned the chance to live it fully. With your actions, your priorities, your words, attitude and thoughts, give yourself what you’ve earned. This is the time that counts, and this is your moment to use. Much has happened to bring you here, and now you can make it all for the best.
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This is it. This is the moment when success happens. This is the moment when you can choose to either follow your dreams or to sabotage them. This is when you select and execute the specific actions that create the reality of your life. Achievement is not some far off, future concept. Achievement is built from what you do now. You will not ever get anything done if you keep scheduling it for someday. What you do with now is what truly makes a difference in your life. Remember now, and again and again, that this is where your consequences are determined. This is when you put real life and substance into your dreams. Enjoy this moment in all its fullness, and remember. You are creating your life right now. You become what you think and what you do. Your life is an empty canvas upon which you are continually painting your own special masterpiece. Though you will have much guidance and inspiration, what you do with that guidance and with that inspiration is ultimately up to you. It is at once an awesome responsibility and a blessing of the most profound and unlimited proportions. And today is when it happens. This is the place and the moment where it all comes together. Even as you ponder these words, the unique work of art that is your life is taking shape. What an immense opportunity it is to be you. The clothes you wear, the car you drive, the title on your business card are relatively minor factors compared to the real, genuine person you’re capable of becoming. See your life in all the fullness of its grand perspective, and spend each moment perfecting the special masterpiece that you were born to live. This moment is pure magic. Though it may seem completely ordinary and without distinction, this moment is surely a miracle.
For in this moment, every possibility exists. Right now, in this very moment, you can act to make a difference in your own life, and you can truly change the world. Though you see no mystical vapors and hear no mysterious voices, this moment is as intensely magical as they come. For the real magic of living is not in strange, unexplained visions, but in the beautiful essence of your being. You are here and you are now. You can think and feel, you can love and understand, you can experience and you can do. What could possibly be more magical than that? In this ordinary, everyday moment the profound and exquisite magic of living is yours. Choose wisely from the vast array of possibilities that have opened up to you in this moment. And live the magic that is here right now. There is a beautiful universe all around us, and yet we often fail to truly experience it because we’re too busy thinking about it and making judgments about it. Thought and judgment are certainly useful and valuable, yet it’s also useful to regularly give them a rest.
Stop the noise in your mind for a moment and simply experience what is. When a thought starts to pop up, just let it go. Enjoy how it feels to drink in the beauty of your existence for a while without thinking about it or making judgments about it. Clear you mind for a moment and know the depth of serenity that comes when you have the confidence and faith to just let yourself be. Each day you put forth an enormous amount of effort to build and maintain a life for yourself. So spend some time truly enjoying and experiencing that life. You work to make it good, so live the joy and beauty of it. Regularly take time to enjoy and appreciate the wonderful, beautiful, miraculous fact that you’re experiencing life, right here and now. The more fully you appreciate and enjoy what you have, the better it will become. The world in which you live depends on the perspective you decide to adopt at any given moment. If you look at a hammer, you can see an object made of wood and metal, or you can see an implement of destruction, or you can see a tool of creativity. It all depends upon your perspective, and your perspective depends upon you.
The world around you is what it is, and yet what it is to you depends upon how you choose to relate to it. Two people in the same identical situation can achieve incredibly different results based on how each one chooses to respond to that situation. A competitive business climate can be an excuse for poor performance or an opportunity for excellence, depending on the perspective you decide to adopt. A dark, cold day can be depressing or energizing, depending on your perspective. Think for a moment about your own perspective. It is taking you in the direction you wish to go? If so, keep it up! If not, you’re free to change it whenever you decide, and by so doing you’ll change for the better the world in which you live. Even though you have every right to be angry, you have every reason to let it go. For when you let go of your anger, you make more room for joy.
Even though your first impulse may be to retaliate, you’re likely to be better off when you reconcile and forgive. After all, when you’ve been hurt, it makes no sense for you to prolong the hurt with your own attitude and actions. Even though the world is often cruel and unfair, it does not have to get you down. The more fully and willingly you accept what is, the more power you have to improve upon it. Even though many things will come along that could be frustrating and annoying, you can always choose to respond with patience and with grace. By so doing, you’ll be building strength as well as focusing your energy in a more positive and productive direction. Even though events may not go your way, you can continue to move in the direction of your own choosing. Success depends very little on being given what you want, and much more on becoming the best you can be. Even though life has its setbacks, disappointments and tragedies, they pale in comparison to the new and positive possibilities that increase with each passing moment. Choose to fully live the immeasurable blessing that is your life, and every day will move you forward. As long as you need something, you will not have it. The energy of your need pushes away the reality of whatever you seek.
Instead of focusing on what you need, focus on what you have. Because somewhere in whatever you have is the pathway to whatever you desire. That’s why gratitude is so empowering. Gratitude shines a bright light on your resources and possibilities, and enables you to make good use of them. Focus on what you have, and on what you can do. No matter what you seek, no matter how far away it may seem, there is something you can do right now to move yourself closer. Need keeps you stuck. Gratitude, and the willingness to do whatever you can, gets you moving on the path to fulfillment. Let go of need, and feel the possibilities that are already with you. Step forward, move decisively away from need, and toward the reality of whatever you choose to create. Whatever you think is holding you back is not what is truly holding you back. What’s holding you back is your thought that something is holding you back.
Your limitations have precisely the power that you choose to give them. Ignore them and they become irrelevant. The obstacles do not limit you. Rather, they compel you to be creative and resourceful. The challenges you face do not limit you. They provide you with an arena in which to create meaningful value. Is there something you desire that seems impossible? Then you still have work to do in framing and clarifying and connecting with the truth of that desire. Nothing separates you from your authentic purpose other than your refusal to see it. See it, be it, and leave the limitations behind. To get where you wish to go, you must take an active role in the journey. Though many good and valuable things are constantly flowing into your life, it is up to you to make something meaningful out of them.
No one else can live your life for you. That is your biggest responsibility and your greatest opportunity. Your dreams and desires, passions, opinions, preferences and interests are yours for a reason. The more sincerely and completely you give life to them, the more genuine fulfillment you will know. Beauty is what you know it to be. Joy is what you experience it as being. The meaning of life is the meaning you give to it. Deep down, you know what to do. Dive into the pure joy of being you. For there is so very much you are able to be and to give. |
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