Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

One day I was walking out of a building and I held the door open for the woman behind me.  Something we should all be doing anyway!  (Holding the door for each other)

She thanked me for holding the door for her, then said “it’s going to pour down!

I said “it’s nice and sunny right now, so I’m going to take a walk”.

When we got outside it was sunny, warm and very inviting weather for a walk which is, in fact, what my intention was, and what I did.

When she walked outside, it was as if the sun did not exist and all she could see were some clouds way off in the distance.

Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Is your life sunny or cloudy?

Is your glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

How you see things and look at life is all about perception.

It is very likely with her Half-Empty view of the world around her, that she did run into some rain as she went on her way that day.  It did not literally have to physically rain on her wherever she was, or in whatever she was doing.  Since she only saw the worse, something not so pleasant probably happened to her.

Seeing the day, and time, and space, from a Half-Full view, I had a lovely walk enjoying myself, and the things I happened to see, and experience along the way.

In the attraction-based world in which we live, like certainly begets like.  It’s like that saying that “birds of a feather flock together”.  What you think about attracts people, situations and things that match your thoughts.

If you generally think the worse, the light will turn red as you approach it, and you are already late as it is.  You might have even left your wallet at home and couldn’t pay for the stuff you filled your cart with, after spending half an hour in the store shopping.  When your mind is filled with Half-Empty, non-productive thoughts, too many of your experiences reflect the less than ideal  things that show up for you.

When your thoughts are light-hearted, and more often than not, there is a song in your heart, all the lights are green for you.  You get the best parking spots.  Your experiences are usually joyful, and you appreciate all the things going on in your life.  Your life and your glass are Half-Full with plenty of room for more delightful experiences to show up.

I’m not saying the glass Half-Full crew does not have things to deal with. We all do.  What I am saying is, it is all a matter of perspective.  It’s all about how you feel about things.  It is about what you see through the lens you look through.

You do not have to be knocked down by what is going on in your life, or by the things you see.

One way to put the Half-Empty glass down is to stop and think about all the things you have already gotten through.  It might have seemed like whatever those things that seemed so hard to you at the time, were never going to work.  But now, you can look back at them from the other side, where you have already probably pretty much forgotten about them, and how worked up you were about it at the time.

Surely, you’ve heard the expression “This Too Shall Pass”.  All of the stuff does pass into into yesterday, last month and last year.

Life is so much better when your glass is Half-Full.

Every thing in life is a choice.

Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

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Do We Have To Solve The World’s Problems?

Well, yes we do.

There is something we each get to do in solving the world’s problems.

It is not by worrying about all the things we see happening all around us that we get to solve the world’s problems.

One key in the sentence above is the word “happening”.

“Happening” is a double-edge sword kind of word.

If we are not careful, happening becomes “happening to me”.

Do not allow that to happen.  Pun intended.

Happening to me is a place of victimhood, helplessness and disempowerment.

Happening to me is about giving up control.

Giving up control is never a good thing.

Do not allow what is happening in the world to cause you to forget the power you have in your own personal world.

This is not about not caring about others.

The only way you can impact others in a useful way is to maintain control over the things going on in your own personal world.

Often what you see going on in the world around you is a reflection, actually an expression, of what is really going on in your own personal world.

Do you see chaos, confusion, hard times, lack, scarcity and fear?

Do you see calm, balance, hope, enough and Blessings?

My 8th grade teacher wrote in my keepsake book.

When others around you are losing their head, keep yours.

I realized the wisdom of these words at the time but quickly dismissed the profundity as soon as I left that moment in my life.

Now is the first time this advice has come back into my consciousness.

This simply says, when all hell is breaking loose, don’t get caught up in the stuff you have no control over.

This is not about being insensitive.

This is also not about burying your head in the sand.

This is about reminding yourself of your personal power to navigate, get through, and actually prosper in what many consider to be trying times.

Trying times have the potential to be powerful times.

What are you made of?

Life is always changing in ways you often can’t even imagine.

If you get swept away in the currents of change, your foundation had to be shaky to begin with.

This indicates to me that you put more faith in things outside of yourself, which you cannot control, than you have in your own abilities.

When you spend more time looking everywhere outside of yourself for answers to what is going on in your life, you put all of your power in everyone else’s hands.

Who can know what you need, or are missing, or forgot you already have, better than you?

Who knows what you need to change in your life but you?

The only thing that comes from living your life from the outside in, depending on outside influences to make your life right, is uncertainty, doubt, worry and a whole lot of fear.

Who needeth any of that?

The more meaningful route is to sit with yourself and ask the questions that matter, and that make a difference.

If finances are an issue, know it is never too late to make some changes.

Now is always the time to make all the changes.

It may seem impossible to you that there are things you can, should, could and actually need to do that will make the difference in your life.

I’ve put this out here before, but,

What the fuck do you want in your life?

What are you willing to do about it?

Yes.

Even today.

Especially today!

When the world around you is topsy, turvy, upside down, all kind of crazy, it makes sense to look inside yourself and get to know what the shit is in your life that is making you feel, helpless, worried, doubtful and just plain scared.

You might want to sit down with someone you trust, and talk through what’s on your mind.

You may want to talk with a counselor, or someone who does not know you, if you are feeling like you will be judged for anything going on in your life.

Major upheavals happen for us.  Not to us.  

You may have heard the term wake up call.

It is time to wake the fuck up!

The big bang theory says the world was created out of an explosion.

Explode Into Your New Improved World!

Maybe.

Maybe not

But if we run with that, are these not explosive times in a sense?

Whatever is happening now seems to me to be an opportunity to create a whole new world.

Will you be challenged?

Yes.

Will it take effort?

Yes.

Will you want to give up?

You can never give up on yourself!

Will you not know what you are doing?

Yes.

So what!

Do it any way.

You can never get your life wrong.  Just do something!

Bottom line is you have to do some thing.

Upheavals are a wake up call.

The world is not ending today or tomorrow.

The world as you have known it, and how you have been living it, may very well be ending now.

This is a good thing if you have not been living any where near your best life.

This time is a gift to you to let go of the bullshit stories you have been telling yourself which have not served you.

It is time to come up with a new story about who you are, and how you are, and time to create a world you would rather have in your life.

There is a tomorrow.

What do you want your tomorrow to look like?

Regardless of anything happening in the world outside, tend to your own personal world.

Lift yourself up out of the ashes.

The thing is, when you feel like you have no options, is when you have the most options.

You’ve done all the things that got you here to no options, hopelessness, worry, doubt and fear.

Stop doing those things!

Stop doing what you may have thought was working for you.

Remember. What you have been doing up to this point brought you to no options, hopelessness, worry, doubt and fear.

Is this really where you want to be?

You are.  We all are, so much more than this.

It all really comes down to making a choice.

Do I continue doing what I have always done?

Or, do I now choose to do something else?

Or, do I now choose to do something else?

Make a choice.

Choose no options, hopelessness, worry, doubt and fear.

Or, choose knowing your have options.

Everything we do affects the world we live in.

Solve the world’s problems by solving your own.

Choose you!

Now!

Let’s have a conversation.

Ask me questions.

Tell me what is happening in the world today showing you?

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In The Zone

When the mind takes over how do you make it stop?

Why would you want to?

There is a place inside of each of us that brings us to where everything is. It is the place we hunger to find. It is the holy land within where there isn’t anything but replenishing and fulfilment. It is that quiet place where we are not having to figure all the stuff out.

It is true, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

But sometimes, we have to step outside of the mind because it lives in overdrive.

Gotta do this.

Gotta do that and it’s all got to be done now.

Going beyond the mind is like a vacation from everything we know.

It is beyond the words.

Beyond thought.

What is it like to find that peaceful, quiet, not frequently visited place? The place beyond.

The place where everythinng is.

The watering hole.

The quiet, sweet place.

Why is letting the message be the message so scary?

The mind says, what are you talking about?

The mind has too much control.

Its job is to keep you safe.

When you stretch beyond the every day, the norm, you run the risk of being seen as abnormal.

Why do we feel safety in being just like everyone else?

Being different is not an easy thing to do, or place to be.

Being guided is not an easy thing to submit to.

It is even more difficult to share. To try to explain.

What is the point?

Test the limits.

Dare to follow the call.

Dare To Take The Road Less Traveled! Dare To Be Different!

Dare to open yourself up to what can only be described as the unknown.

Dare to see where the yellow brick road leads you.

Are you brave enough?

Or, is there safety in being just like everyone else?

Ramblings.

Musings.

?

I have no idea where any of this is going.

Just let it flow.

Be in it.

Do I dare press the share button?

Some things cannot be explained.

Not everything has to be.

Let it flow.

Be in the flow.

Let go and let life.

Being in control at all times ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Do you answer to a higher power? To a call you can’t identify?

Do you dare show what can only be seen as the crazy unless you are in this dance too?

My mind was racing off the chart.

I had to find my way out of the non-stop, incessant rapid-fire push to the limit, never ending barrage of what?

More of the same.

How to keep up with the norm.

What the hell is normal?

This is just a test to see if I will follow the instructions, no matter the perceived consequences.

Dare to be different.

I see that is what this is all about.

Do I dare to be different?

Do you?

Living in conformity leaves no room for genius, for creativity, for what we came here to be.

Do this and do not worry about the fall-out. About the consequences.

Do I dare follow the call and let what it is be exactly what it is without explanation?

We will see!

This is just a test!

And so it is.

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