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Is The Brass Ring Always Out Of Your Reach?

7/10/2015

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Do you feel that no matter how hard you try, you will never succeed? That someone else is always one step ahead of you, and there’s nothing left for you? These sentiments are more prevalent than you might imagine. They echo in the minds of men, women, and children of all races, all cultures. The vulnerability of the human spirit is impervious to skin color or social mores.

Are these sentiments actually true? If you feel this way right now, no one will be able to convince you otherwise unless ... you don’t want to feel this way. Then it’s possible for the door of your mind to ease open slightly—just enough to check out some new ideas. If you are willing, let’s try a different approach to your life: past, present, and future.

Is There A Reason You Fail?
  • Why do you think you have failed to achieve a certain goal?
  • Did you set your goal higher than the level for which you were trained?
  • Perhaps you were expecting to be awarded a title or position simply because you desired it.
  • Is it possible that you don’t believe you’re good enough?

Any of these attitudes could stand in the way of your success. Shooting for a level higher than you can accept for yourself is a setup for failure. Not being willing to invest the emotional energy necessary to manifest your desire can block your desire because your thoughts alone will not produce results. Not believing in yourself is absolutely a deal breaker when it comes to manifesting what you want.

Does the idea that you are the one responsible for the abundance or lack of it in your life offend you? When reading the reasons you might have failed, did you immediately find yourself internally defending your expertise and denying that you would expect to receive something you had not earned? If this describes you, then you are playing games with yourself. You are making excuses. Instead of believing in yourself, your ego is defending itself. It’s a lot easier to feel sorry for yourself than it is to invest the energy necessary to clear out erroneous ways of thinking. Nothing is going to change unless you do, however.

Perhaps, instead,  you found yourself readily agreeing with the declaration that you are probably not good enough. In that case, you are even better at playing the game. The buffers that blind you to your true self are stronger. It may take a little more work to clear out all the dark, muggy recesses of your mind!

So, now that you know that you are responsible for your success, are you going to start feeling sorry for yourself? I hope not. That’s a step in the wrong direction. What you should focus on now is setting a goal with which you can harmonize. In other words, on an intellectual and emotional level, it feels good!

Having Faith In Your Desires

Grabbing the brass ring, reaching a higher level of life, only comes when you have faith in your desires, being willing to invest yourself wholeheartedly in them. You must work to rid yourself of blinders so that your work rises to a level of excellence that cannot be attained through ego alone.

In addition, you must recognize that living organisms  improve with use, unlike non-living organisms. Failure to push forward, in other words, succumbing to frustration, disappointment, resentment, or other negative emotions, weakens you, and, unlike machines, your next initial efforts will not be as efficient as your last. The predominant tendency in living organisms is the principle of syntropy, which is a propensity to achieve higher and higher levels of order and harmony. However, failure to use your creative ability to create the life you want brings you under the influence of entropy or the tendency for your life to disintegrate into expressions that don’t feel so good. 

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Tired Of Surviving

7/8/2015

 
I don't want to be thought of as a survivor
because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations
to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

 ~ Carrie Fisher

I have to say that Carrie Fisher's words resonate with me, and I'm sure they do with many others. If you've spent a lifetime "surviving," you feel that you can meet any challenge. Of course, this means that your mindset, your field of attraction, is about difficult situations—situations where you get to once again test your mettle. True, it can feel satisfying if you do survive, but what is the cumulative effect of all this struggling to survive?

Eventually, you start to wonder if your expectations of life have drifted off course. You start to crave the peace of mind that comes from not expecting everything to be a challenge to overcome. You try to demonstrate a new mindset, but it's difficult because the average of your thoughts is still stuck in being a survivor, and a survivor needs something to survive. Is that a kick in the head, or what?

So, how do you let this mindset go? One possibility is to accept that it is not necessary for you to "give" in every situation. Yes, survivors often get caught up in convincing themselves that they have to give everything they have or they're being exploitative of situations or people. Plus, the push to survive conjures up a tremendous amount of energy, and it has to go somewhere! It is not unusual for a survivor to burn themselves out in certain circumstances because they cannot find a place of harmony among those who feel no great responsibility to give and are perfectly happy to be on the receiving end of life.

Carrie Fisher's advice is good. Make the decision that you're not interested in being the one who is charged with reconciling difficult situations. Don't be the one who steps forward when no one else will. Be the one who chooses to live your life from the wisdom of your heart and to live an authentic life, and look for places where you can give without strings attached. 
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive;
and to do so with some passion, some compassion,
some humor, and some style.
  ~   Maya Angelou

Who Are You?

7/2/2015

 
“The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions.”  – Henry David Thoreau

The question arises – just what are you asking for? Are you asking for things or are you asking for understanding?

Do you accept that as your understanding grows, so does your consciousness, and that the nature of what you see as possibilities for your life experiences expands?

Do you believe that there are possibilities for you that you can’t see at this moment? Do you believe that it is only through examining the knowledge you have acquired about yourself and life that Your Truth emerges for you? Are you willing to access the love, courage, and wisdom that resides within you so that you can see who you really are and all that you are capable of expressing?

Doing this will change your conception of who you are and what you desire, as well as how you approach bringing it into expression.


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