Today has been a stellar day, but it didn’t start out that way! I was wide awake half of the night, finally falling asleep around 3am, and up again before 7am with the 3 little clones. I gave Arlo a bottle, made the big kids oatmeal, and finished making enough snacks for 33 kids since I had double snack day duty, and somehow managed to get the big guys to school on time for the first time in awhile!
Since I’ve been battling insomnia for a couple of weeks I came home and laid down to take a well deserved nap. An hour and no sandman later, I got up and drove to the forest for some well needed clarity. I walked for 2 hours while listening to an audiobook, while walking amongst the raining leaves. Why sit at home and read when you can enjoy this?:
My fitness goal is set. I’m just as persistent now as when I initially set the intention. I take daily action, eat well, and my success is written in the stars. However, I have yet to set a concrete goal with respect to my career. I’ve found myself floating in an ocean of possibilities, slowly moving along. So I started narrowing down my goals today while walking in the fresh misty air. I’m already getting really excited about working toward them each and every day. I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and start learning, writing, and plugging away at a book that I’ve officially taken out of the “someday” pile and placed on the top of my goal list. The audiobook I listened to was called “How to completely change your life in 30 seconds” by Earl Nightingale, and it was the perfect walking companion. I had heard it all before, but this time it really got my attention.
One of my favourite lessons is this: as long as you keep working toward your goals, you cannot fail. You may fall – that’s ok. Falling isn’t failing. As long as you get up, you’re still in the game. You’re successful. Momentary setbacks cannot harm you. Even if you’re in the lowest possible place you have ever been, a year from now, it will be just a distant memory, and you will be one year closer to your goals! If you set a clear goal and work toward its fruition every single day, the universe has no choice but to grow the seeds into future success. Our minds are extremely fertile, and whatever we plant in our minds will grow. Positive or negative the mind cannot discern the difference. It’s up to you to plant the seeds you want to cultivate. It’s easier to be negative. But know that your returns will be in direct proportion to what you focus on. Replace any fearful thoughts with a positive goal worthy of your time.
There is no need to worry about how something will come about. Worry is one of the lowest vibrations that we can find ourselves in. There is no sense worrying about something you cannot control, nor is there any sense in worrying about something that happened in the past, or things that most likely won’t come to pass. There is very little that we need to really worry about. Most worries are situations that we create in our own minds. It’s been said that 92% of things we worry about are in the aforementioned categories. Only 8% of our worries are legitimate.
I know I was always afraid of failing. What I really should have been worried about was my inaction. My fears that held me back. You cannot fail if you don’t give up, but you certainly can fail if you never do anything to shape the life you want. Most people are caught in a stage of quiet mediocrity. They want success, but they don’t want to work for it. They get distracted by 1000s of things and never really get anywhere. What do you want?
Don’t let events hold you back. Don’t give away your power by making excuses. It’s not what happens in life, but how you react to events that determine the result. A famous psychiatrist interviewed the sons of an alcoholic man, and when asked how they came to be on their current paths, they both answered something like this: “What would you expect having had an alcoholic father?” One of the men was what you would call a success. The other, an alcoholic like his father.
Amy Coates 