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.
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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. Don't let a relatively small setback ruin an otherwise beautiful day. Choose instead to take it in stride and quickly get back to being positive, productive and effective. Don’t waste your time being outraged or offended by someone else’s careless, inconsiderate remark or gesture. Use the opportunity to strengthen your valuable sense of patience, and move on ahead to something that truly matters. Life’s little annoyances can quickly add up to have a big negative and destructive impact if you let them. Fortunately, you don’t have to let them. Instead, you can choose to let them go. You can decide to see the small, relatively meaningless annoyances for what they are, and move quickly beyond them. Do you really want your attitude to be held hostage by rude, careless, inconsiderate people or random events beyond your control? Of course not, because within you is a positive purpose that is big and beautiful and filled with real meaning. Each time one of life’s little annoyances comes along, let it just keep on going right past you until it fades away into its own insignificance. You have plenty of much more positive and valuable things upon which to focus your attention. That interruption, setback or disappointment is not the end of the world. So do yourself a favor and stop treating it as such. Don’t make the negative things muchworse than they are by getting all upset about them. Seek to let them go as quickly as possible, and to move on in a positive, meaningful way. Taking everything too seriously weighs you down. Lighten up and let the power of joy into your life. Problems will arise and disruptions will happen. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, remind yourself how fortunate you are that you’re able to successfully deal with those problems. A negative development is not the end of the world. It can be the beginning of new skills, capabilities, wisdom and experience. Let go of the tension and let yourself see the positive possibilities. Lighten up, and allow joy and gratitude to point the way forward. As soon as anxiety gets your attention, its job is done. From that point on, there is no good reason to maintain that anxiety. Anxiety can be useful in making youaware of actions that need to be taken. As soon as you have that awareness, anxiety has served its purpose. After that, give your energy to the positive action and not to the anxiety. Undertake to correct the problem and not to helplessly obsess over it. It is good and useful that anxiety can get your attention. Yet it serves no positive purpose for anxiety to overwhelm your thinking. The moment you feel anxiety, look for, and begin to execute, a positive course of action. Quickly choose to let go of that anxiety, for it is of no use to you now. Anxiety never needs to weigh you down. Let it come, let it have its say, and quickly let it go as you take action to move forward. Fear is the enemy of creativity. If you are anxious and worried about what you are creating, then what you are creating will not be worth very much. Let go of your attachment to getting it right. Allow yourself to enjoy theexperience of simply letting it flow. When you are truly having fun you can create magnificent things. When you stop worrying about whether people will like it, people will love it. The way to be great is to be authentic. The way to be authentic is to enjoy who you truly are and what you truly love. Don’t waste a lot of time trying to guess what might matter to someone else. Put your love and effort and energy into what matters to you, and many others will benefit. In order to give of yourself you must fully be yourself. Enjoy being the real you, and bring great value to life. Are there things in your life which hold you back, things you could easily let go of, and yet you cling to them because they are so familiar? If things are to be better, they must be different. You cannot simultaneously stay the same and improve your life.
Moving forward means moving into unfamiliar territory. Yes, there will be new and unexpected challenges. There will also be new and valuable opportunities. Yes, it will be a bit uncomfortable, and maybe even a little sad to leave behind those familiar old burdens. It will also be filled with many positive possibilities. You’ll soon get used to it and will be thankful you decided to move on ahead. Summon the courage to step out of your familiar, comfortable rut and suddenly the world will become a different place. Many of those things which held you back will no longer have the power to do so. Hold tight to those things of true and lasting value, and learn to let go of the rest. Lighten your load and move yourself to where you’ll find the most promising possibilities. If you're always chasing happiness, it will never be able to find you. Relax, simply give happiness a place to live in you, and it will be in great abundance.
When you put conditions on enjoyment, it turns into just another chore. Let go, and sincerely enjoy the miracle that is your life as it comes to you in each moment. If you become overly attached to specific results, you set yourself up for disappointment and disillusionment. Be ambitious, yet do not be your ambition. Sometimes, when things fail to go the way you planned, they turn out better than you could have possibly expected. Welcome life’s surprises and choose to see the positive value that is in each one of them. Don’t be too quick to place judgments on the people, situations and events in your life. In everything that comes along, there is an opportunity for you to more fully discover and express your true purpose. Be open to whatever life brings your way. There is real treasure to be found in yourself. Look for it nowhere else. When you blame others for your problems, you give up your ability to solve them. Do you really want to do that?
No matter who may have done what, your best strategy is to take responsibility for it. Though it may be their fault, it’s your life. Don’t depend on those who have hurt you in the past to help you in the future. Forget about who is to blame. Focus on what is to be done. If you’re not satisfied with your circumstances, it’s up to you to change them for the better. Certainly there are many things outside your control. Accept them, adjust for them, and put your efforts into moving forward as a result of your own thoughts, your own actions. The energy it would take to blame and hold a grudge can be used instead to make a positive difference. Rather than perpetuating something unpleasant in your past, choose to leave it behind. Create your future the way you would like it to be. |
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