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Set Your Own Standard (Blog Article)

Your Best is Good Enough

So many times we have a standard in our mind of how we are to be, or what we are to do, and when we don’t measure up, we sabotage ourselves through guilt, condemnation, and bitterness. We create our own standards of how to live, and succeed, but everybody has their own standards. The question remains which is the right path? We all have our own journey, and obstacles, so the standard should be following authenticity and our destiny.

The most important element is being the best we can be through thought, word, and deed. That’s the only control we’ll ever have, and the only control we’re given in this reality through the divinity we are.  

Our intentions and motives are stuck on the image we’ve projected through domestication. It’s what we learned throughout the years of how we are to be. Some works for our benefit, and some hinders us. If it’s empowering, inspiring, or it gives us joy, that’s the right standard for us. If we feel guilt, condemnation and bitterness, we are not operating under the right motives. If you’re full of negative emotion, what good can you do? Can you uplift? Can you inspire? Can you motivate? These negative emotions only zaps our energy and strength. 

All wisdom comes from a state of peace, love, joy, and whatever emotion contradicts this, is not of God. Everyone on this planet is struggling with something, and often it’s these challenges which stretch our boundaries and limitations. If life is perfect, we are perfect, and we fulfilled our every dream, there’s nothing else to work towards, and achieve. Sometimes the thorn is what stretches our faith unto uncharted territory into the unknown. It’s what allows us to keep seeking growth, and success. 

If the thorn aggravates you to a point where you sink into a pit where escape seems impossible, then you’re allowing the thorn to hold you back. If you feel at peace despite the thorn, while no longer allowing it to cause aggravation, you allow it to make you stronger, and full of faith. 

Let the thorn do what’s it’s supposed to do if you cannot find a means of letting it go yet. In time when the work is fulfilled, you’ll begin to ignore it, then it loses its power, and strength. You’ll set a new standard for yourself with new dreams where the thorn loses its hold on you. 

That’s when you realize what true freedom is and that’s when you realize you are the master of the ship destined to create your own mission and happiness. 

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Manifesting Your Desires

What blocks your desires other than your beliefs and expectations they cannot be achieved? Many will focus on all the worst case scenarios and create the essence of their thoughts and emotions. The more negative emotion you give, the more power you give to a negative outcome. 

On the contrary, what happens when someone really wants to achieve a dream? He focuses on it, and if he’s wise he’ll take action steps to his dreams. He’ll speak as if it’s already happened and he’ll take whatever steps he needs to get there, because he believes in the dream. 

If someone doesn’t believe in the dream or doesn’t make an effort to believe, will he plan for it and take action steps to achieve it? At one point there has to be a belief, or else he won’t pursue it or he’ll just give up. 

Sometimes you have to fake it until you make it, and convince yourself it’s attainable. Convince yourself that the divine dwells inside you, that you’re worthy, and God only wants the very best for you. Convince yourself of all the great minds that ever existed and what they accomplished. What do they have that you don’t? They all originated from the divine. They have a body, mind and soul like you. The only difference is they mastered their mind, they mastered their emotions, and they had unwavering faith it could be done. They persisted and persevered to their vision. 

However, keep in mind, there’s a fine line between wanting, believing and desperation. Desperation says if I don’t get this thing I want, I will be unhappy. With this frame of mind, you will be tossed around every time a desire isn’t fulfilled and sooner or later you’ll give up, stop believing, or become bitter. 

The best means of achieving your desires is to be at peace with the moment, to be satisfied with what you currently have, and to be grateful where you currently stand. Be at peace regardless of the outcome, but also focus on your desires as if they were already achieved. When you focus on your desires as if they’re already achieved, there is no separation between the fulfillment of your desire and how you feel. That’s when you become a match to whatever it is you want. 

Would it make sense to think negative all day and get the best that life has to offer? Would it make sense to not care about life and make no effort and get everything you desire? We can say the law works in your favor because regardless of the outcome, you’ll remain happy and at peace with life. In essence life is fair, and exactly the way it’s supposed to be. Repeat that and let it become the essence of your beliefs and expectations. 

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Speak to Your Adversity (Blog Article)

Often when challenges arise, we focus on it so much, we give it all our attention, thereby creating more of the same reality or worse. The more we focus on it, believe it, and expect it, we attract it into our life. By the perpetuation of our negative thinking, we cannot find a means of escape, and we dwell only on other’s perspectives. We give someone our power, and give up all together.

Whatever man thought was impossible, at one point man surprised us and achieved the impossible. So why dwell on can’t dos when we have the evidence in front of us that it can be done? Because we get tired, we become immersed in our challenges and pain, thinking about it so much it creates more of the same reality. We start to accept others’ opinions that’s it’s too difficult or impossible, and we lose our power. 

The only power we have is from within through our thoughts, words, and actions. By our reaction we change everything, including the events and circumstances in our life. We can choose to react in faith or pessimism which is an act of fear. Pessimism says it cannot be done. Pessimism says there’s no hope. There’s only two choices, one says I can do it, the other voice of pessimism focuses on all the worst outcomes in life. 

The more we focus on can dos, the more we focus on possibility and faith. The more we focus on possibility and faith the more we act on our beliefs and speak about our beliefs. The more we change our beliefs over time, the more we grow and don’t remain stagnant. 

Changing our beliefs starts by going beyond what others say and seeking within. Seeking within says I have my own intuition and I don’t need others to tell me what I can or cannot do. I can set the course and choose my destiny.