Fear, the final frontier

We dream of a better world for ourselves, one where we know that the smile on our faces is a direct reflection of our heart and soul’s true feelings.  But we face an obstacle when trying to get to this better world, ourselves.  We are our own obstacle, because we fear change. To get to this better world, means we will have to change something, and many times we choose to avoid the change because of the fear of the unknown.

I needed to change things in my world, drastically and quickly.  Everything that was happening, was happening to me over and over, different events, but same outcomes.  I knew what I had to change to have a different outcome, but I was not brave enough to take that step, because I was in a comfort zone, a zone that was actually a death trap for me.  How ironic.  I made many excuses as to why I could not take that step to make the change, but that’s all they were, excuses, because I feared the unknown, not knowing if taking the step would end up being the right one to take?

I knew that I was actually the biggest obstacle that I had to overcome, to have a happily ever after.  I doubted my self-worth, thinking I was not capable of being successful in any other environment, other than the one I was now in, and I confirmed this thought with recollections of previous experiences, where I failed in something I was trying to achieve.  This thought made me more depressed.

This was one of the catalysts for my ‘Awakening’. I needed to feel more confident and believe in myself.  A few things that helped me in this, were meditating, calming the mind, using my intuition, and ‘removing’ myself from the world around me, to enjoy quiet time, where I could reflect.  The hive of activity and the ‘noise’ from the world around me deafened me, so-to-speak.  I could not hear my own thoughts and focus on what I needed to because I was distracting my mind, from the real matters at hand which frightened me.  The frightening thoughts of what I really needed to do to ‘activate’ change.

Free yourself of memory and you’ll be capable of greatness. – Paulo Coelho

And this is exactly what I did.  I chose to forget the times where I failed and remembered the times where I succeeded.  I filled my mind with positive thoughts and after a bit of time I started believing in myself.  Yes, I’m human, of course a doubt came into my mind now and then, but I counter-acted this thought with a positive one as soon as possible, so as not to ruin everything I had worked on to make me feel good about myself.

I started to then notice that there were ‘signs’ that kept ‘popping’ up around me, confirming that I needed to action this change in my life.  So I started with an action plan to make sure that the change was going to go smoothly.  I wrote down every goal, every doubt, every positive outcome, every little thing that I was questioning.  I needed to visualise this and make sure I felt confident in what I was setting out to achieve with this change.   I was focused and I knew after much deliberation, this was the right move and I knew when I had to make my move.

So I resigned from my job.  I had nothing as a back-up, no other job to go to, but I knew that this was what I needed in my life right at that moment.  I felt good.  I felt confident.  I felt motivated.  Then I felt Fear!  The fear took over and I felt like I was going to fail.  Everything I had worked so hard on to make sure that this was what I needed to do, I doubted.  I started to doubt myself and my self-worth all over again.  I went into hibernation and didn’t want to let the world know of this fear, in case it confirmed my own suspicions.  I didn’t know what to do?  Who to turn to?  I started to get irritated and snap at people and I wanted to just run away or beg for my job back.  What was I going to do?  I was panicking.

But slowly, slowly, I started to come to my senses.  I started writing down everything I was good at and I revisited my action plan.  I started to feel the fear leave me and was starting to feel confident and positive again.  And then it happened….

The law of attraction 

The law of attraction is the attractive, magnetic power of the Universe that draws similar energies together. It manifests through the power of creation, everywhere and in multiple ways. Even the law of gravity is part of the law of attraction. This law attracts thoughts, ideas, people, situations and circumstances.

The law of attraction manifests through your thoughts, by drawing to you thoughts and ideas of a similar kind, people who think like you, and corresponding situations and circumstances. It is the law and power that brings together people of similar interests, who unite into various groups, such as political groups, sports teams, sports fans, fraternities, etc.

Can you take advantage of this law? Yes, you can!

You do so, through creative visualization and affirmations. By visualizing a mental image of what you want to achieve or by repeating positive statements, called affirmations, you create and bring into your life what you visualize or repeat in your mind. In other words, you use the power of your mind, thoughts, imagination and words.

There have always been people, from ancient times till now, who knew about this law and how to use it. They knew that repeating the same thought day after day, with interest and feeling, causes it to materialize and manifest in their lives.

The moment I left work, I started getting job offers, ones I never dreamed I would get, but I declined them.  Even though I knew these would solve a few of the problems I had, I did not want to veer from my action plan.  I knew that the timing was not right and that I needed to stay positive. I trusted and acted on my intuition. And I was right.  The job that I needed for me to feel whole again, and to make the right things happen for me to achieve my goals, arrived.

I am now on track with my action plan.  I start my new job in a week, and even though I do not know where it will take me, I know that it is a good step in the right direction.  I have taken myself out of my comfort zone and moved away from the snowball effect of feeling like a failure, because I feared change.  I know that there will be a few fears that I will need to overcome in the coming months, but this one small step has given me a courage to take a leap of faith and achieve a better world for myself and my daughter.

Fear was my final frontier.  Fear is no longer a factor.

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A healthy serving of wisdom

A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a $20 note. In the room of 200  he asked, “Who would like this $20 note?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this. ” He proceeded to crumple up the $20 note. He then asked, “Who still wants it…?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” & he dropped it on the ground & started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled & dirty. “Now, who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled & ground into the dirt by the decisions we make & the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special. Don’t EVER forget it. “

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Whatsa matter you, itsa not so bad

My life is full of fun

People are all different
So obvious yet hard to accept
A plethora of individuals opinions
To which society can lack respect

Tempers can flare
Patience goes numb
Difficult as it seems
Reaction is a competition for some

To stay as you are
And stand out, be unique
You don’t need to change
You must master your life’s technique

You’ve grounded your roots firmly
To withstand society’s cloning effect
Use your one life given opportunity
To excel at all you do, remember to have fun

Feel the good feeling
Create a list of pivotal memories
And keep on the road to revealing
Your suppressed expressive atonement

Glory oozing from your soul’s emotion
Singing a song of your life’s proud achievements
A history you lived through with passion
No stone unturned you loved every moment

Your memories are yours to keep

My Personal New Testament recorder

We are in the 20th century and technology allows for a paperless, clutter-free environment, because everything that is necessary to help you survive and develop mentally or psychologically can be stored in a device ranging in dimensions from 13cm x 13cm to 72 inch.  And when you tell a fellow earth-walker  that you still read books or listen to or collect CD‘s, you are ridiculed and immediately given a sales pitch to try and convince you to become a drone in the Technology army.

There is nothing like feeling paper between your fingertips when you turn a page of a novel that has your zombie-state-like attention, or listening to old classic musical prodigies sing to you over the sound of a little authentic crackling sound which symbolises history, the vinyl.  Or even putting an HB pencil to paper to write your thoughts on paper, like poetry, or a to do list or even a mind-map or brainstorming.

Well today, I decided to go back to the old ways because I found that I was more inspired to produce thoughts in my grey matter that inspired me if I wrote in a book that I related to.  Not just any book.  This has to be a book that I have carefully chosen out of many mass produced books that felt like an extension of my soul.

My New Testament Recorder

And like a child with a new toy, the second I got home, I sharpened my HB pencil and christened my book.

I named this book “My New Testament Recorder”.  Aptly called this because I have consciously decided to change my future.  I am in charge and control of my life.  Only positive thoughts shall be written in My New Testament.  All my goals, ideas and thoughts will be recorded in this book so as to never lose my way when days may seem to be dark and life seems to make me face in a direction I had no intention to face.

My New Testament is my map with clear directions and a compass to get me there, to where I am intended to cross a finish line in one of my life’s many scenic hiking trails.

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LIVE YOUR LIFE OUT LOUD: 30 WAYS TO GET STARTED

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by Sonya Derian

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you, I came to live out LOUD.” ~Émile Zola

1. Live your life on purpose. Not on “default.” Be Proactive. Make conscious and deliberate choices. When you don’t choose, circumstances choose for you and you are never leading: you are following or catching up—or worse, living in “default” mode.

2. Utilize your full potential. Give what you’re doing your best and fullest attention. Be here now. Even if you’re not where you want to be, giving it half your effort doesn’t move you forward. Master what you have at hand, for the sake of mastering it and something will shift.

3. Overcome your fear. Get out of your comfort zone. Find out you have a pulse. Let something give you butterflies in your stomach. This is how you know you’re alive—how you grow into something new. Every fear overcome is a freedom gained. Don’t know how to overcome fear? Do the thing you’re afraid of. Cross them off the list. Make it a game. Pretty soon, you will be invincible.

4. Discover a new talent. One of my favorite quotes by Martha Grimes is, “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.” But we don’t find this out until we try something new. Learn a new instrument, take an art class, play with a digital camera, sign up for a salsa class, take up cooking, plant a garden, join toastmasters, pick up a needle and thread, try mountain climbing, go scuba diving, camping or kayaking. Find something that interests you and explore it. You never know what will come out of it.

5. Honor your word. When you strip everything else away, your word is all you’ve got. Do what you say you’re going to do. By honoring your word, you honor yourself. And it doesn’t feel good when you don’t. So, make it a habit. Value your integrity and keep your promises. It’s a good life practice. It’s a good business practice.

6. Create a new habit or break an old one. Who has dominion over your life—you or your habits? Make it a game. How many things can you get under your control? How many bad habits can you convert? There is a great sense of empowerment when you feel you are in charge of your life. This helps you get there.

7. Pay a stranger a compliment. Not only does it make someone else feel good, but it makes you feel good to compliment someone else. All of the sudden the world is small and the stranger next to us becomes our friend and we recognize that we’re all in this together.

8. Take yourself out on a date. Treat yourself. Bring a book. Bring something you’re working on. Bring a journal and use it to write up all the amazing qualities that you want in a partner or a friendship when it comes your way. Find somewhere that has music or wireless and plant yourself there. Have a meal, enjoy it. Treat yourself. You deserve it. Living out loud is playing out loud whether you have someone to join you or not. And you never know who you might meet or strike up a conversation with.

9. Take 100% responsibility for your life. If things aren’t working out in your favor, take note and ask yourself what your part in it is. Being a victim is passé, boring. There is no power in blaming other people. Don’t wait for other people to change. When you change, your world will follow suit.

10. Live in the question. There is nothing you cannot be, do or have. So do not impose limitations on yourself. Instead of saying you can’t get there, ask “How can I get there?” Live in the affirmation of possibility rather than the declaration of negativity. There is always a way, and it is being presented consistently, but you have to live in the question to be on the lookout for the answer.

11. Make more decisions for yourself. There is great power in making a decision. It’s a declaration. You don’t know what you want? Then look at what you don’t want and work backwards. I bet you do know what you want; you just haven’t been in the habit of asking yourself. Hey. That’s a new habit to change! (See #6)

12. Learn to say “No.” To live your best possible life, you need to learn how to say no to the things that aren’t serving you. The best barometer to measure this by is: if it isn’t a “hell yeah” (yippee, so fun, can’t wait), then it is most probably a no. If you have to talk yourself into it, it’s a no. Once you get comfortable saying no, everything becomes a matter of choice. Living a life of choice is a living a life of freedom.

13. Know your own value. Others may be more educated, skilled or talented in one or another area, but there is something magnificent and valuable about what you have to offer this world that, in comparison, is equal. Do not allow yourself or anyone else to diminish it. You have a learning disability? So did Dr. John Demartini and that’s what makes him the most powerful speaker today. Joe Vitale came from homelessness. Look at him now. Stop idolizing anyone else’s gifts and dismissing your own.

14. Give yourself permission. For everything. Permission to make mistakes. Permission to shine. Permission to look beautiful. Permission to accept (instead of correct or dismiss) praise. Permission to have bad days. Permission to get angry. Permission to cry, to laugh, to scream. Permission to take the day off. Permission to take a nap, go to sleep early. Permission to get a massage. Permission to do nothing. Permission to succeed. Life is about being here now, in all your full range of emotions, mood swings, wins and losses. Give yourself permission to live out loud today.

15. Own your own opinion. No one has to agree with you in order for your opinion to matter. Stop waiting for consensus. YOU matter. Your opinion matters. The nature of Living Out Loud is that some people will agree with you and some people won’t. You will NEVER get consensus. So, stop looking for it. The only question you have to ask is, does your opinion matter to you? Claim it. Own it. And know that with new information, it could change tomorrow. Life is transitory. Live in the evolution.

16. Do not punish yourself for past actions. Your past behavior was what you’ve done, but it is not who you are. Who you are is still unfolding. Mistakes, errors in judgments, and failures all add to our character and value. They make us human and compassionate and wise. To berate yourself for acquiring these valuable qualities is wrong, so stop it. A new beginning starts today.

17. Live in the realm of “possibility” rather than “probability.” Stay open at the top. You don’t know what the outcome can be. Statistics are made up of groups. You are an Individual. Be the individual that charts your own course. You don’t know what is possible for you until you find out.

18. Do not argue for your limitations, but instead focus on your strengths. We all have weaknesses, but we also have our strengths. What do you do well? Practice that. When you lead with your strengths, the rest follows suit. And miraculously, your limitations sort of disappear. What you focus on grows.

19. Practice gratitude. In a world of imperfections, it’s amazing how perfect things actually are. But sometimes we have to look for them. When your life’s circumstances aren’t working in your favor, the one thing you do have control over is your attitude. If you lead with gratitude, and create a habit of it, in short order, your life will change.

20. Be authentic. Thoreau said, “If I am not I, who will be?” Did you ever notice that the ones who are most successful are not the ones that follow the masses and trends, but the ones who stand in their own authentic expression and declare who they are? Regardless of who agrees with them? There is an expression that is uniquely yours and to dismiss it, is to dismiss the divine.

21. Own your own power. The answers are not outside of you. Own what you know. The more you practice this, the more you hone the powerful magnetic field that surrounds you and the more power you emit in your convictions, knowing and in your life. Your results will confirm this.

22. Stop Complaining. Complaining is a form of passive victimhood. Ask yourself instead, why is this happening to me and what part do I play in this picture? Then work on your part of the solution. Have you ever found yourself not setting a boundary and allowing someone to take advantage of you? Or not taking care of yourself in a situation and getting burned by the outcome? We are always the single common denominators in our lives and we are the only ones we have control over. Use what you are complaining about as your inner clues as to where you need to start taking better care of yourself.

23. Practice “being” and have nothing to prove. Know your own value with or without results. Your value is in your human being-ness not your human doing-ness. In a society that is wrapped up in image, this is sometimes difficult to practice. People ask what you do, not who you are. But a person who knows their own value, does not have to prove it.

24. Be of service. Offer your help where you can and do your part in making the world a friendly place. We are all in this together. As Gandhi preached: be the change that you wish to see happen. You would be surprised by the impact you have.

25. Love generously. Spread random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Hatred is already rampant. We need to tip the scales the other way. Love is a far more powerful emotion and has far reaching consequences. Living out loud means loving Out loud. And ironically, the more you love, the more love you have to give.

26. Find your bliss and live your passion. Again, don’t know what that is? Then it’s time to find out! Your emotions give away clues. When your life has spun out of control and you are finding yourself in a tizzy, go back to what makes you happiest and do that. The more you follow this thread, the more you are leading with the heart. There are always ways to monetize your passion, to find ways to make a living at what you love, but first you have to discover it. Your emotions don’t lie. Follow their lead.

27. Stop waiting. Life is happening right now. Don’t wait for the right career, the perfect relationship, the landfill of money. Make the best of what you have right now and be creative with it. Don’t put your life on pause. Live with the possibility that what you are waiting for can arrive tomorrow, and live your best life today.

28. Let other people off the hook. They didn’t mean harm, and even if they did, it hurt them more than it hurt you. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and rise even taller. Don’t use anyone as your excuse to shirk your responsibility to live a bigger life. Victimhood is not a badge of honor. Overcoming adversity is. Use success and joy as your barometer. And march on.

29. Use co-creation to help you. We are always working in conjunction with invisible forces. They want to create on your behalf, but they are waiting for your leadership to direct them. Living out loud means acknowledging that we are a big presence with a big force of nature at our disposal. We don’t underestimate our power. We utilize it.

30. March to the beat of your own drum and stay the course. Do you hear your own music, but find yourself dancing to the tune of someone else’s beat? Stop it. Were you told at any point in your life that your own music was the wrong kind? Re-Consider. The symphony of the world’s vibration, the hum of its tune, is the sound OM (aum). Your task is to find your own Om—your life force vibration, life pattern or purpose, your song or melody . Find it, claim it, express it, and live it. Never give up on yourself. You are who you are. It’s time to honor that and make use of it. Stay the course.

For many of us, this is already a way of life. But to others, some of these practices may feel daunting. To you, I say this: just start. You may not succeed 100% of the time, but like a friend once said, “Life is a hard hat zone, we’re always under construction.”

Bloom where you are planted. Work from the inside out. Make the commitment to yourself and get started.

Find your “OM”. Claim It. Own it. Express It. Live it. You are divinely supported.

Original article: http://tinybuddha.com/blog/live-your-life-out-loud-30-ways-to-get-started/

Have you had your extra bowl of memories today?

We get so caught up in life that we forget to live it.  We tend to repeat the motto of life, parrot fashion: “Live each day as if it were your last”.  But have we actually lived these words or have we drowned in that bowl of Polly-wants-a-cracker.

Recently I started noticing that I had all the symptoms of “getting caught up in life”.  Check to see how many of the symptoms you relate to:

√ Dreaming about work
√ Work in an imaginary box in your office (not being aware or interacting with your work colleagues)
√ Not making time to speak to your friends during the week
√ Not spending quality time with your family or loved ones
√ Eating food at your computer
√ Working as late as your eyelids will allow you to
√ Only come up for air when you need a toilet break/smoke break
√ Having conversations but your hearing frequency is tuned to “Blah blah blah mumble” (not listening properly because your mind has drifted into your work happy place)

Shall I stop now?  How many symptoms did you relate to?

Then one day you feel like you’ve been hit by a bus!!  Isolating yourself from the world has resulted in you feeling all alone, that the whole world is against you, nobody understands what you are going through, nobody has as much stress as you have, you feel like you don’t have any friends (even though they’ve left 20 voice messages on your phone) and drama drama drama!  *Here’s your Oscar for outstanding performance in a leading role in a drama*

Suddenly we decide right there and then, that things are going to change! YES! Change! Well, ok, after you finish this project, no next Monday… and then one of your better qualities makes an appearance, procrastination.  Procrastination is a descendant of fear, fear of leaving the comfort-zone-cocoon that you have spun yourself into.

Fast forward to the part where you eventually change your mind-shift and consciously decide to “Live each day as if it were your last”.  Sometimes you over-compensate this change for the better and instead of going back to the person you were before you got caught up in your isolated hemisphere, you end up launching yourself over a small hurdle with a Pole vault sending you time travelling into a world where you feel like your daily vitamins are laced with happy gas.  You are on a high, and when people ask you why you are so happy, you reply, “I’m high on life”

But this is good.  You are happy and that is what really matters.  You start making every moment a memory worth capturing on your mental digital camera for future happy references.

“High on life”.  This happy-gas-life that you are living in is where you should have been in the first place.  This is the “Alpha state” of life that you should always remind yourself to be in.  When you feel that the suck-happiness-out-of-life webs are starting to spin a cocoon around you, try this cocoon exorcism remedy:

§  Take out your picture album containing some of your best memories, that on a scale of 1 to “grin stupidly”, you are guaranteed to grin stupidly, whisking you back in time allowing you to relive those moments.

This should do the trick because you have distracted your mind from its cocoon-possessed state, and you are more than likely going to pick up the phone and call one of your friends that was a part of these moments with you and end up having a good laugh.

Life’s memories and moments are too precious to not experience.  There is no rewind button or PVR in life, so make sure that your memory button is always on record and that you are the camera man, the director and the lead actor in your home-made movie. Remind yourself to edit the script when the story doesn’t work well with a scene in your life.  Do all of this with passion as your co-star and you are guaranteed to have an award-winning movie of memories that will leave you breathless, proud and fulfilled when the final curtain falls.  Who knows, you might even get a star on the walk of fame, leaving a legacy behind that will be replayed in your admirer’s minds for a long time after you have said “And that’s a wrap!”

And roll Dezy’s memory credits:

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I’m Posting every week in 2011!

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The Daily Post, and the community of other bloggers with similar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

Dez

An emotion’s affair with experience

For every action there is a reaction.  Happiness, elation, joy and all other emotions that make you smile, are positive reactions, and everything that is the opposite to these emotions, is thus the negative. A negative reaction is the one that always tends to get more focus and attention because we tend to take the positive for granted, not paying as much attention to it, as it is natural to want to be happy. We zone in on the negative, consuming our entire mind and body, sinking into a hollow, dark abyss. 

Have we ever tried to change our reaction to a situation?  Instead of reacting negatively, try to react positively and realise that the universe might have put us in a negative situation to challenge our ability to recognise and learn from an experience?

The negative reaction could be our mind feeling defeated, making us succumb to a phantom reality of being a failure. We all have a built-in mechanism, like an animal instinct, a survival mechanism, to succeed in all that we set out to achieve, be it goals, wealth, love, life or anything else we are passionate about. This is why failure is a hard pill to swallow.

We’ve heard of the saying, “No Risk, No Reward”. It’s a saying we use to motivate ourselves, to achieve a challenge, usually we use this saying in business, but we wouldn’t for personal matters, such as, say, love? Shouldn’t we actually adopt this attitude with every situation in our lives, be it business-related or personal?  ”No risk, No Reward” bottom line means we are taking a gamble, so aren’t we taking a gamble in the personal aspects of our lives? We are very protective of our emotions or matters of the heart, because we fear the feeling of pain, rejection and insecurity. If we failed, our confidence would be stripped, and we would feel naked, vulnerable…..

We all have the power to change this, just like we would a business strategy, if we noticed that our business needed a boost. We’d go back to the drawing board, analyse, reassess, identify the strengths and weaknesses, using past experiences (both good and bad) as a tool to come up with a strategy which has a winning formula. Why can’t we apply the same strategy, or concept on our emotionally attached situations in life.

The situation is put in our life for a reason.  The reason could be that the universe wants us to learn and grow from this situation, making it an experience.  A personal experience (both positive and negative) which we conquer, results in us feeling victorious and more confident in ourselves.

Once we counter a negative reaction with a positive one, the world is our oyster and no negative situation, in any form or shape, can leave us vulnerable and insecure, because we know who we are and we are true to ourselves, because our experience taught us this lesson in life.

NO REGRETS  

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My prayer lantern

We are so quick to mask our emotions.  We put them to one side.  A fear to feel.  A fear to show you are human.  The most beautiful thing that the Thai tradition has taught me is to send prayers to the gods above.  I lit a fire lantern to make a wish, a wish and prayer for happiness.  As the fir was lit and the flame floated skywards, a tap of emotions opened.  Waterworks, the opposite of fireworks, unleashed themselves from my inner soul.  A tap that was screwed tightly, shut for what felt like an eternity and this is where I realised that my feelings were entrapped in a bamboo like tube.  I was in the vortex of the bamboo tube.  Masked with layers protecting a feeling that I have been avoiding for only a short time, yet felt like an eternity.  Time for another epic chapter, thanx to the help of the Thai prayer lantern.

Rome was built brick by brick

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The common cliche to use when there’s a challenge or a struggle to achieve, is “Rome wasn’t built in a day”.

Good point! But another point to consider is that Rome was constructed over many centuries and never truly remained the same over the centuries, what with revolutions, wars, fires, Greco influence, and history etceteras.

So with this in mind, this is in fact the “wrong” cliche to use. But one thing that we can take from this is the thought that no matter the challenge, this Empire withstood and adapted to all elements that mankind’s lust for power, knowledge and self destructive tendencies could throw at it.

So rethinking the cliche “Rome wasn’t built in a day” I realise that all I strive to achieve in life will be ever changing. I sometimes feel I’m finally on the right track to conquer all the goals I set for myself and then some walls come crashing down. They always seem to be the same walls and I feel that I’m spending more time rebuilding the same walls instead of progressing. This leaves the bitter taste of despondent and demotivated in my mouth. But it’s realising that I should get better cement to rebuild these walls because the foundations are already set with the goals I have planted. The walls are only crashing down because I’m not evolving as fast as my surroundings due to complacency, procrastination, lack of reassessing and analysing my progress.

Now that this light bulb of knowledge has switched on, I will use this realisation as my cement to rebuild my Empire’s mental army to combat and conquer my life’s goals.

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