The System of Now

Have you ever really experienced the abundance of NOW?

It is the one time we have total control. It is the way THE SYSTEM was designed - for us each to use NOW to use our free will and use our unique views on reality to create new realities.

What happens when we don't? We, by abdication, align ourselves to someone elses view - because it is easier. But we then create a homogenous world view - which isn't how THE SYSTEM is meant to work.

THE SYSTEM is built for diversity and robustness of difference.

If we don't exercise our right to choose - we pervert THE SYSTEM.

Choose - NOW.

 

Holiday Time

Feeling lost

Feeling tired

What do you do when you're feeling that way? Do you do it in time?

As we wind down the end of the year I think that one of the best things to change for next year is to have holidays more often - little breakaways.

Holidays "break the monotony of all that hard core days that have gotten to be a little bit out of control" (DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Summer Time). 

Their purpose is to rejuvenate and refresh, and we choose which holidays do the refreshing and rejuvenating.

So why do we wait until "holiday time"? Why wait for someone else to say its ok to have a holiday? 

An idea: take small breaks - a couple of times during the week/month. Find an activity that does the work of rejuvenation or refreshment. I have found that getting my hair cut at a salon (when I used to do it myself before) is a great rejuvenator. I get taken care of after spending my time taking care of others. 

That's mine - what's yours? And when last did you do it?

The Way of the Warrior

It is said that a warrior sees every thing that happens as a challenge - where an ordinary person see everything as either a blessing or a curse.

Do you follow the way of the warrior? Or are you a soldier in the trenches.

The difference between a soldier and a warrior is that a soldier is in defensive, reactive mode - and carries out orders. A warrior looks for adversity - for a challenge that needs conquering. A warrior does not wait to be told what to do. A warrior is constantly honing his/her skill in battle/adversity. He doesn't want his skills to be rusty when it is needed.

A warrior lives life by his rules - he creates the challenges that creates growth. A soldier is only deployed when instructed to do so - so he follows someone else's orders.

Be a warrior of the light. Fight the good fight - warriors don't always win every battle - but they come out of every battle a little stronger.

  

Blurred Vision

Some times smoke gets in your eyes - and sometimes it's your own smoke.

There will be times when you get way laid and you make mistakes. 

Make them AND then learn from them and move on quickly. Don't wallow - it's not attractive.

I have been learning over the last few months many things about me as an entrepreneur. How I still get scared about a new prospect I need to call - how I still make mistakes because the fear causes me to procrastinate or rush through the call. BUT now that I know and I am aware of where  the smoke comes from - I can avoid it.

The resistance you feel when trying something new is just the shadow of the thing you want to create - so what you want to create is real - it must be, it has a shadow. And we don't doubt that the resistance we feel is real - we even have names for it - Mom, Dad, Education, where I'm from etc. Those were real?

Nick Williams teaches that the resistance we feel has a place in our development. The understanding of the resistance by recognising it for what it is - the status quo on full alert - helps us overcome the resistance and claim and create a new status quo (that hopefully some time later we will come back and destroy when required).

It's temporary and lighter than it seems - an act of will will put you on the other side of the smoke screen.

Come on over - you can breath freely on the other side of the smoke.

Auto Pilot

Are you on auto pilot?

Do you do everyday as you did the day before and remember little, if anything, of what actually transpired? Now I don't mean this as a alien abduction or consipracy type approach that proports that we are brainwashed by media (that is a topic for a different post...) - but rather that our activities become so driven by unseen or unchecked motives that we continue on this path we forgot we chose at one stage in our lives.

Here is an experiment - when was the last time you were fully aware of taking a shower or a bath. I mean FULLY aware. Every stroke of your cloth on every inch of your body. Check every inch - in between your fingers and toes and that patch behind your ears that you haven"t thought about since your Mom reminded you to wash there. Try it - and you will realise why washing was such a sacred act in ancient times. It has a calming quality that has very little to do with aromatherapy.

Now think about how many other seemingly insignificant acts to you fulfill during your day - cooking a meal, taking out the dirt or a passing comment to one of your kids or colleagues or staff members - be aware of the act itself - only the doing. What are you thinking about the doing - are you thinking about the doing at all? Become an observer - see what you do and why. Do you know? Why that way?

Now think about what that creates and think about whether or not the actual result is equal to the desired one. This is where we can effect change - and this change relates to many things - the way we and and what we eat. The way we speak and what we say. The way we feel and how we make others feel. Doing relates to intent (why), content (what) and delivery (how).

We go through our day with many actions and reactions unchecked - and this is the space where we create our reality.

Today - take the wheel for a bit - and experience the sheer driving pleasure of your own life.

Highs and Lows

Life is a process - so there are inputs then a transformation and then the outputs - a managed movement.

It is a cycle too - so highs and lows are expected. The trick is to look through the cycle and not take snapshots of a point in time on the cycle and see it as the whole.

Lows are part of the process - and part of managing the movement or process is how you shorten the low cycle but create enough impetus to reach higher highs. The more you do this the more effective your process becomes.

Take a bigger picture approach - your success is a long term investment - so take a long term view!

Who told you to do that?

People who wait to be told what to do - end up doing what they are told.....

Do you do as you're told? Do you resent doing what you're told?

One way to avoid it - make sure you have a full diary - full of things YOU told yourself to do - and then you won't have time to do what others tell you to do.

Bottom line is this: if you don't set your own agenda - you will find yourself at the mercy of someone else's.

Start Something

The journey of a thousand miles can only start once you've gotten out of bed!

Get up! Get moving! Do something!

If you look back at your last week - and not one action performed in the last week relates to any of your visions,dream or goals then how do you expect them to come to you? The Law of Attraction only works if you activate it through the Law of Action or else the Law of Diminishing Intent kicks in - the longer you delay acting on a intention the more the ability of that intention to drive you diminishes.

So - close the gap between knowing what to do and doing it - enthusiastically act when you are inspired.

Be a miracle worker - cure self paralysis today by doing something in line with a goal.

If you don't have a goal - getting anything done will be a miracle!