Recently, I was going to an event and I was participating in car audio university learning. I had my most recent learning audio in the CD player and as I was listening, I became aware that the drive was seemingly much shorter than the two hours of torment that it usually takes. We've all experienced this, we get wrapped up in our thoughts or listening to music and we are what appears to be where we are going and we don't remember the drive. We were not asleep we were somewhere else in our thoughts, mostly due to the fact that we have traveled this road so many times it's routine.
Many of us live life this way, as if we are just sleepwalking through it. We have become so accustom to using our default (or our sleepwalking) behavior in our decision making that our brain is turned off. It's as if we no longer want to even take on the enormous thought of processing the information and making a conscientious choice any more because it is just too much trouble. We have to exhort too much energy and frankly we just don't think that this small decision will impact us; in fact we just want to get it over with and move on.
This is the majority mindset of most people today. It's Sunday, what do you normally do? I know you have an immediate answer, because you are sleepwalking through your life. It's Monday night, what do you normally do? That's right and how long have you been doing that same thing? TGIF, and what do you normally do? How long? Where do you get your morning coffee or what do you do for lunch? How often to you look at your social media sites during a day. Sleepwalking.
One day you are going to wake up and find yourself bored, fat, dissatisfied with your life and not where you want to be and wonder what happened.
It all happened while you were sleepwalking the years away in your life. It was every one of those very small decisions made with no thought to just get it done and to get on with your life. Well, now you've gotten on and where are you?
What would happen if you changed just one of those sleepwalking habits? I can guarantee you, if you do it for 21 days, you will feel and be different, in 18 months you will be an entirely different person and in a decade you won't recognize yourself. If you do nothing to more even on degree in a new direction you will feel bad about yourself in 21 day, in 18 months you will be an entirely different person and in a decade you will not know who is looking at you in the mirror.
Wake Up!
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Each of us has a motivation. You know the thing that you wake up to do everyday of your life. What is driving you today?
Perhaps it is a J-O-B, or maybe it is a paycheck, is it power, immorality, constant pleasure, immediate gratification, rebellion, materialism, the next hot trend, excitement, the newest electronic wireless thing, a hot philosophy, the newest book with the answers you seek, or gossip, you need to know what is going on with everyone. All of these things are a distraction from the things in our lives which cause us pain, and disappointment.
What would happen if you did not try to "escape" but turn around and mentally punched the idea of what is bothering you square on?
It's like looking in the mirror and challenging the person starring back at you.
Ask yourself these questions based on what resonated with you in the second paragraph above.
If I do not like my J-O-B, what would I really rather be doing or enjoying in order to live the way I want to?
I know I have to have a paycheck to live, how would I like to earn that paycheck?
Where in my life am I feeling the least powerful?
What is missing in my being that I fill with unclean images and actions?
What is it that I am trying to run away from that I now fill with constant pleasure, and immediate gratification ?
What am I rebelling against? Is it something that I am thinking I must do? Is that really true?
What will having another thing that I purchase do to fill the need I do not want to look at?
How do I not see myself as trendy or hot or popular in some aspect of my life?
How does having the next thing make me inclusive into a group that I want to be part of?
How have past books and philosophies filled the need in me which I can't seek to put my finger on?
What is it about talking about someone behind their back about their flaws and troubles that distracts me from my own flaws and troubles?
None of these actually lifts up and moves one of us forward.
Take a new perspective and look in the mirror and it's just you starring back at you so it's very private. Ask yourself these questions and give a truthful answer. If what is driving you isn't getting you anywhere but miserable, it's time for a new driver with a new attitude.
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I will begin today with an awareness that you already know what these two words in the title mean: Compromising and Convictions.
Just for the sake of being really, really fast; write down as fast as you can all of your "Convictions" – GO!
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How many did you write?
Put a check mark next to all of those where you have "Discernment".
How many did you check?
If you have none checked or maybe you came up blank on the "Convictions", you my friend are falling down a continuous waterfall with no bottom or splash down.
It's also like a whirlpool continuously moving and whirling around and more and more water is coming in and you have no hope of breaking free to swim out. Once you begin to compromise your convictions you are sucked in and around and down in every aspect of your life.
Your behavior, your affections, your priorities are all compromised.
It is subtle at first and slowly ticks in the direction of the thing that draws you in…and soon you are drowning and you don't know how you got there. With every minute tick away from your core convictions, your mind, heart and soul get sucked further in and more vulnerable so it takes less and less to lead you further away.
When your wake-up call first comes – your first re-actions will be: denial, resistance, hesitation, complete confusion because of the competing messages. You will be asking yourself – "…who do I believe?…"
Fill yourself with truth. Ask God to put a godly person in your path to be a buddy or a girlfriend to help you click back, one tick at a time back to wholeness and conviction. Stay in the truth. There will be a light on the road in front of you, walk right there, do not stray over into the dark area where it is hard to see and discern. That darkness is the edge of the whirl pool and it will suck you back in and down.
None of us is perfect all the time.
What are your convictions?
What in your life is just to valuable to compromise?
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