Sunday, 10 March 2013

Are you on your right path? Stuck in a rut ? Glass half empty?


Sometimes we can linger in the past events of our lives and make them the reason for our choices in the now and future, but we have to step out of the pattern at some point and find our way as adults.

We have to recognise why we do this too. Is it our personality that looks for something to blame and then finds it’s an easy way out every time. The trouble is, those around us get tired of the excuse.

Is it an excuse or is it truly effecting our way of being, regardless of our personality.
Why do some look at their past experiences and then despite them, move on to create better for themselves, vowing to never repeat it and others go round again and again and again and wonder why life keeps giving them the same result.

Life sends in different people and experiences, opportunities for change, yet the same result occurs and it reaffirms the belief. Why? - because the reaction each time is the same.

We tried it once, it didn't work – let’s do it the same way again – we know then what the result will be and I have a strategy for that route because I have done it so many times.

Well how about the opposite, do it different, you’ll need a different strategy as the result will be different – in fact you might not need a strategy at all as the result will be one of success and we can all cope with that or can we?

Life will always go bad, love will turn to hate, I can never be what I want to be, it is too late to make a change…all self-fulfilling prophecies.

Well life is a mixture of events, but mostly they are good. We live a privileged existence here and the things that our minds race ahead and fear, hardly ever happen in reality.

So if we know that we are very often likely to attract what we think of, why put your thoughts to problems….put them to success and give yourself a better chance of a happier outcome.

Those that do the positive thinking, at least haven’t drained their energy with negativity and if something’s go wrong, so what? It happens and we try again. We look at what it was and learn from it, we don’t throw in the towel at the first hurdle and run, we try it again but having learnt what not to do this time.

Love will turn to hate? Well yes if that is where you put your thoughts and can’t be bothered to put the time and nurturing into it, that is what happens.

Love is a garden and when 2 people come together and recognise each other’s goodness, nature tosses them a packet of seeds.

Now these two new gardeners can be lazy and just cast the seeds about and do nothing – the seeds so lovingly given by nature will die – so yes, love has the potential of dying.

But what if the gardeners are not lazy and they prep the ground for the seeds and then cast them carefully so that they have a better chance of growing – that’s a better start!  Then they water them and feed them and nurture them. Eventually the garden will produce a beautiful array of flowers and will be a delightful sanctuary for the 2 gardeners to reside in. It took some effort, but the rewards are more than worth it, when you see a well-cared for garden. It didn't happen by accident!

Now all gardens need a little work and as time goes on, the rewards get better and better. The more mature the garden, the more comfortable and abundant it becomes.

Like anything in life – it needs a little effort! If one plant wilts or dies, you don’t abandon the whole project, you look to see if where you need to make a change and the two gardeners look to see why and change the conditions and the plants flourish again.

Each gardener knows that they need each other too, if one is sick the other needs to tend to the tree and nurture it and keep it well and it needs to be reciprocated when the other falls sick.
A garden is a big job!
The less effort you put in, the less you reap – ask anyone that grows flowers of veg!

So what about never being able to be what you want to be…its too late….oh my! So you know your end date do you? Is too late the day just before you leave this earth or is too late 3 years before you leave this earth….when is too late to start being what you want to be?

The process of becoming what you want to be is as important as the end result if not more so – that is the exciting bit – nothing worth doing is worth doing badly. The longer we do nothing to make a change, then again we fulfil that self-fulfilling prophecy.

If we don’t like what we have, do something different – don’t do nothing – do something. Who knows what it may lead to. Work can take us in many directions. For some it is the main focus of life for others it is a means to an end. For most of us, it is a balance between the two – which at least makes more things possible.

The same applies though, the more you put into it, the better it gets and the greater the rewards and the more the self-esteem grows and we attract better things. Like is always attracted to like!
Bad stuff happens in life, of course it does. It happens for us all. We can be its victim or we can be its demise and not let the bad stuff win.

If we have a fit and able body – we win!  We have the capability to work and earn our money
If we have the power of intelligence – we win! We can use that to our good and for the good of others.  We all have it, we have to be prepared to utilise it and nurture it in a way that suits us best to live the life we want – but we all have it.

We all by definition have the power to become the person we should be – if we are just prepared to put the effort in

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