Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Life Path and The Miracle of You

Today let's touch on dreams, desires, success and failure as it relates to our individual life path.

We all have hopes, dreams and desires we aspire to create and experience in life. All of us without exception.

Regardless of who we are, where we live, the level of our success or how many times we experience "perceived" failure, we all desire more of something. The more that we want individually varies, but there's no denying the fact that we each want more of something.

Some want more love...others more money...others greater or more vibrant health, a greater spiritual connection or some variation of all of these.

Some get and make what they want real and tangible with ease it seems, while others seem to struggle and fight and grind and do, do, do. And although there are times that "doing things that way" may eventually enable to get whatever it might be that they want, it was hard.

Some never go for it at all simply because they don't think they can and so they never receive what they want.

Why is that?

What differentiates between these 3 seemingly different groups? That's the 37 gazillion dollar question isn't it...Why? What determines the difference in getting with ease, getting through struggle and not getting at all? What determines the difficulty or the ease the possibility or the impossibility?

The answer is quite simple actually. Profoundly simple. Yet it doesn't always "seem" that way. But the only reason it doesn't is because we haven't ventured outside of what we know to be true to discover, apply and experience the simplicity for ourselves.

Those who get what they want with ease don't need to. Whether they're aware of how and why things come easily to them or not is immaterial. They're doing something right whether consciously or unconsciously. They are harmonized with what they desire at some level and it comes.

But what about those who struggle and work really hard to get what they want and those that don't get it simply because they don't think they can so they refuse to even try?

What if something could be done to make the outcomes easier to acquire or to assist those who "perceive" it's no use to move toward what they want rather than away from it?

Well there is something that can be done and it's quite "simple" really.

Like everything there are some layers that have to be removed to get to the core of the answer. Not because it's difficult or complex but only because we have to make our way through all the "perceived" difficulty and complexity that we believe is so necessary.

The difficulty and complexity based on the "perceptions" that we have and choose to hold individually about the getting or not getting and the having or not having of this thing or things that we want more of.

Although even that sounds and is often "perceived" as being difficult and complex it's quite "simple." Profoundly simple.

In fact, once you do that...once you choose to get through all the perceived complexity, the simplicity becomes blatantly obvious. The answer reveals itself. The "floodlights" start coming on, making what you want...whatever you want quite simple to get.

The amount of complexity and the "perceived" difficulty we have to sort through to get to the "simplicity" varies as well. That's unique to each of us. There are various factors in play that determine that level of complexity and "perceived" difficulty that we experience individually.

But really...at it's core it's nothing more or less than a choice. An individual choice. And that choice is only dependent on and determines the "paths" that we choose to walk down.

That's all life is really. Choices and Paths. We choose paths, walk down them and the scenery we "perceive" as we do determines our future choices which keeps us headed down whatever path those choices create.

So in essence we are observer/choosers.

That opens the door to many paths. An infinite number of paths and the ones we choose to walk down determine the amount of complexity, difficulty or simplicity that we'll experience individually.

And the number of paths are literally infinite in nature. There are hard paths, easy paths and paths that fall in between. There are varying career paths, family paths, relationship paths, financial paths, etc. etc.

For the sake of simplicity let's narrow this infinite number of paths down to the long and short paths.

Whatever our more might be individually, we can choose to take the long path or the short path. They both exist and which we choose determines the level of simplicity or difficulty that we encounter as we make whatever our "more" might be real as we travel from desire to desire throughout our life.

Let's start on the surface. The place where most stay focused and give all their time and attention to. Let's call it the logical and the practical path.

Those that do...those that get and fulfill their heartfelt dreams and desires do what it takes until they reach wherever it is they desire to go. They don't know what quit means. They don't know or at least refuse to acknowledge that "It's Not Possible." Not possible isn't an option for them. It's not in their vocabulary. They "keep on keepin on" until they achieve whatever it might be.

And those that don't get want they want simply quit prior to seeing whatever their more might be take form.

Does that mean that achieving our individually held goals is meant to be for some and not others? Does it mean that some get to have and others don't? Is it just the luck of the draw?

Absolutely not, although that's what many "believe." And for those who "choose" to "believe" that, it becomes true for them. They eliminate any hope or possibility of getting whatever it is or the attainment of that thing becomes possible or not possible.

But it goes beyond that. We also get to choose whether it will be easy or hard. Granted most don't see things that way. But that's based on beliefs and perceptions as well. It is hard for some...for most in fact.

Does that mean that the fulfillment of a desire, regardless of what it is has to be hard? No. They simply choose to remain blind to the fact that hard or easy becomes real based on their individually chosen "beliefs and perceptions" and whatever those are, they get to be right. It only depends on the path they choose.

Those who choose to "perceive" it as being "hard" never see or acknowledge the simplicity and as a result never discover how "simple" and "seemingly effortless" it can be. So they stay on the do, do, do path that makes it hard.

But it's a choice. An individual choice that we each have the right to make or not.

There are also people who just kind of exist in limbo. They never exercise their ability to make whatever it is they want "real" simply because they "believe and perceive" that getting it or not getting it is based on some "chance occurrence."

They "believe and perceive" that life is determined by a "roll of the dice"...that life just delivers what it will and whatever that is, we might just as well accept it. That is after all, how it is right? I mean this is reality we're talking about here!!

These are the hopers and wishers and maybe somedayers. Those are the ones that bank their success or failure on the 1 in 800,000,000 odds that they'll hit the lottery...someday..."maybe." These are the ones that are waiting for their "ship to come in."

And so they settle. They hope and wish and pray and wait and wait and wait for "someday." But someday never comes.

Regardless of what the situation and unique beliefs and perceptions that we hold as individuals are...we get to be right. Always without exception.

Depending on who you talk to...depending on the various "perceptions and beliefs" we each have as individuals and what we "think" is the reason for achieving or not achieving our individually chosen desires is what sets those who do apart from those who don't do. It's what determines whether it's hard or easy.

That's layer 1.

What underlies that?

Personal will. The level of personal will is the fuel that drives or stalls. The individual amount of personal will we each possess is what differentiates between those who have and those who don't have...those who get and those who don't get.

Personal will goes beyond "want." We all want but not everybody has a strong enough personal will to see their desires through to fruition. Getting what we want requires more than wanting. We all want yet it's no secret that we don't always get what we want.

We CAN...we just don't.

But the reason we don't is simply based on what we "believe and perceive" as being possible or not possible and our individually chosen beliefs and perceptions about the possibility or improbability of that thing or things happening for us determines the outcome.

Breaking through the "perceived" obstacles is what's necessary. Breaking down the limiting perceptions and beliefs is what reveals and enables us to discover and walk down the "short path."

In most cases that requires personal will, the amount of which depends on the individual. The personal will necessary to tie my shoe varies from that of wanting to make a million dollars this year or get that dream job or start a business or whatever it might be.

Based on what most believe and perceive, any of those can "seem" really difficult. Equally as difficult actually.

If I don't "know" how to tie my shoe it can "seem" really hard. Impossible even...that is unless I choose to learn how simple it is. But to do that I have to make a choice. A simple choice granted, but a choice nonetheless. Until I make that choice it can "seem" and will remain impossible for me to tie my shoe.

It's no different with a million dollars. If I don't know how to make a million dollars it can "seem" really hard or impossible even. That is unless and until I learn how "simple" it can be.

So want is really nothing more than desire. How badly do we "desire" to see our more, whatever it might be, become real and tangible? How much "personal will" is it going to take to get whatever it is?

That's a question that only you can determine for yourself.

How hard or easy is getting that thing? That's a choice as well. We can attempt to do it the way most do which is in essence choosing the "long path" or we can step outside the box a bit and discover the "short path." They both exist. They're both easily accessible. Whichever we choose is the one we get to walk.

The long path is crowded I can assure you. I've walked it. It's the long, hard, populated path.

It's not difficult. It's not complex. It's not impossible. It just is whatever we choose. We can make our more real or we can believe and perceive that we can't. We can make it hard or we can make it simple. We can take the long path or we can take the short path.

There is no "wrong" path in the bigger scheme of things. Just paths.

The short path requires nothing more or less than making a choice to understand how simple it can be. When we discover that and can clearly see just how "simple" it is, the path reveals itself. The "tangible outcome" reveals itself in far more "simple" ways than we previously imagined it could.

I've personally walked the long and the short path. I went down the long path believing that it was the only path that existed. And as long as I believed it, that's the "path" I walked until I chose to step outside of my own self limiting "beliefs and perceptions" to discover there was a different path.

But until I believed it I couldn't find it. I was blinded to it although it was there all along. I just couldn't see it because I chose not to. I refused to accept the fact that it existed and so it didn't. Not for me that is...until I chose something different.

It was there, I just didn't "choose" it.

I recently wrote and released a book that shows how "simple" it can be. It reveals the "short path." It's quite logical and practical. It's extremely simple.

What's even better is it's free.

It's called 'The Miracle of You and Your Cells.' It clearly shows why things can "seem" to be so complex as well as what makes them simple.

Should you choose to read it, I'm quite confident you'll discover how simple getting what you want is.

It will assist you in eliminating the "perceived" difficulty and complexity, introduce you to the short path and enable you to get whatever your more might be.

Should you "choose" to, you can get it here.