As I understand it, each spirit is blessed with two gifts: the good mind and free will. The very epitome of free will suggests that we each have choice, it is our choices which then determine the quality of our lives and in turn our destinies. As I look around the world today I am amazed at how lightly many of us take these gifts. Choices many of us make seem to be repetitive, almost like an old familiar drive home from the office, where the route is known so well that no matter where our thoughts may be, we make it home anyway. Many of us seem to be moving through life making choices on autopilot. Choosing options that are familiar or make us feel comfortable. For example, an abused woman who chooses to stay with her abuser may be comfortable with her choice, to stay, because she knows how to handle her partner’s moods or how to nurse her wounds back to health. She stays probably because it is more “uncomfortable” figuring out where to live, what to do with the kids or how to survive on her own.
Every day, we choose to stay in jobs that are no longer fulfilling, we choose relationships that no longer require us to live with self-respect, we choose to ignore the voice within us that tells us to tap into the best that resides within us. It seems many of us these days are making the same choices over and over again, then we are wondering why the same circumstances are showing up again and again and then wondering why nothing is changing. The universe if very clear, do the same thing the same way and you will get the same result!
Every day we can choose to live a life that is familiar and comfortable or a life that is bodacious and out of this world magnificent, where our feet are flying just a little bit above ground.
I am learning that magnificent lives come from exploring what is uncomfortable and that discomfort is actually fear. Fear of being left alone or not feeling loved, causes so many to live with relationships which destroy their self-respect. Fear of being frowned upon keeps us from approaching bosses with ideas we know will help make our jobs easier. Fear of rejection keeps us from approaching an investor with a new business idea. Fear does not allow us to lead magnificent lives. Instead choose Faith! Believe you deserve the best partner, believe your idea is exactly what the company needs, believe in the best, the voice within you tells you, about yourself.
Release with grace all the people who don’t see the best in you, with love in your heart part company with people who do not honor your self-respect and patiently release all thoughts that hold the words can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t or any variation of them.
Fall in love with yourself! Believe you deserve the best and then make the choices that support that belief! Trust your inner voice and be at peace with the consequences of your brilliantly, well-thought out choices.
I wish for you big, beautiful, bodacious choices which force you to risk everything you know and feel so that you may live your most magnificent life ever!
