IGNITING GREATNESS



Friday, January 21, 2011

Discovering you've grown

It's a very amazing experience when you actually feel, are completely aware of, and living the changes you have made in your life. Change of any kind is very difficult and something we usually avoid, many times actively avoid, but when you purposely choose to change, the results can be empowering and freeing.
Change that comes upon you can be more difficult since we quite often feel it's something happening TOO us versus when we actively choose to change and we are taking control. Yet in either case the consistent variable IS change.
So how do you re-frame your thinking when change is coming to you instead of you seeking it? You must be willing and aware that even if  you're feeling like the victim you always have a choice. In this case, your choice is how you treat yourself and allow your own mind to process the situation. As bad as this change may be, YOU choose the level of suffering, the level of resistance, the level of victim. Being able to choose how you will adjust to this change is within your power.
The sooner you take care of you and become proactive the faster you will see yourself through the change. As painful as it may be, being in and getting through the pain, it will happen faster when you face it head on and as soon as possible. Otherwise, it's like a nagging pain that lingers and follows you into every part of your life. Walking into and through the fire will create more opportunity for growth. Continuing to dance around the pain will only keep a cloud over you, never allowing the sun the shine through.
I speak to this as someone who was a great dancer allowing the fear of change to rule my life, but I discovered that by finally embracing it and facing it head on, even though it was deeply painful - it actually passed more quickly. So you DO have a choice, whether it's a physical or mental approach - either way you choose your actions and responses to every situation.
So go out and look for change, embrace it, seek it because if you're not growing you're dying.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Who do you want to be?

"Each moment describes who you are, and gives you the opportunity to decide if that's who you want to be" (IPEC Foundation Principle)
This one principle can changing  your life.
So much time gets spent and wasted on thinking about everything we didn't do, can't do, who we wish we were, wanting to change, but never knowing where to start.  All that gets to be so overwhelming, we stay stuck.
This principle above can be the answer to finally let you be all we want to be, without worrying about the past, the future, or all the other obstacles we place in our way. Who we are in any given moment is our choice and from that choice we decide our happiness, direction, and how we will live the next moment.
I know this sounds so simplistic, but it is possible because you are in control of your own attitude and effort. If you look in the mirror and do not like what you see, you can decide to change. The change actually must begin from within and how you see yourself. From this vision you will present yourself to the world as you want to be seen. How you see yourself is reflected back into the world - so in any given moment if you don't like what you see - it's ok because it doesn't define who you are or have to be. We are always evolving and changing and you decide you, each and every future moment.