We’ve all had a vision or a great idea and had someone who knows
better squash it.
We’ve all decided to clear our debts, but been tempted by the
next great offer.
We’ve all been determined to save up for a holiday or some other
thing that will enhance our lives and then been clobbered by a
bill that sets us back a month or few.
We’ve all affirmed a diet in one moment and been offered
chocolate in the next.
We’ve all ran a mile from heartache and nightmare, as well as
from our dreams or love affairs and we’ve all laughed when we
should have cried, cried when we could have laughed and ran
ourselves into a downward spiralling place.
We’ve all judged ourselves too harshly: beaten ourselves up for
what we’re not, what we don’t have and what we believe we can
never be. But let’s not do that.
Let’s resolve not to define ourselves by our weakest moments.
Let’s resolve not to make harsh judgments on ourselves for our
failings.
Should we really give ourselves a hard time – slaughter
ourselves for trying, but not achieving?
The answer to this my friend is no.
Some moments in life are all about just showing up, or taking
part. Some moments are about just hanging on, gripping onto what
you have and hoping the pain passes. Its moments like these that
humble us – make us realise that maybe something else in our
life had greater importance than our work, or the gadgets we
crave or the TV soap operas that hook us.
But pause a moment, right here, right now and just mull over
your last action today – not the result: the winning or the
losing - but the action itself, of taking part or not – and if
you did define yourself by your last action, what have you just
been? Who have you just been?
And if you did define yourself by all of the actions you took
today – not the results: the winning or losing – but the action
itself, of taking part or not - what have you become this day?
I tell you this though...
It’s not all about right now, or even today. It’s not even about
looking at what you have done and understanding it better. But a
life full of purpose is a life full of making better choices –
choices from your highest place: your highest standards, your
highest beliefs and your highest dreams.
Have you and I really come to this day in our life as all we can
be?
Have we come to this point in our lives - through all our
toils, troubles and experiences – to be without a vision and be
financially broke? Have we come to this day to be fat or sick
or too feeble minded to stand up for our beliefs, our dreams
and our hopes? Have we come to this day to not show the people
around us we love them?
Here my friend is what defines us:
In every thought we make a statement. In that statement we define
our current belief. In every belief about our current situation
we build our history and ultimately that history comes to this
point...
To do or to die.
Take a look at nature. It is either growing or dying: every
tree, every blade of grass, every insect, every animal and
every human being is the same – growing or dying.
If you find yourself habitually saying:
* I don’t have the confidence instead of saying, I’ll try,
* I can’t afford that, instead of saying, I’ll find a way,
* I don’t have the time, instead of turning off the telly, or
* Diets don’t work instead of finding one that does
Where are you heading?
Life without purpose is just misery and muddle.
Promise yourself to make your life purposeful!
Don’t just live it. Mean it!
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