- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min read
“You are only as helpless as you want to believe.”
Be the Change.
A lot of folks are just victims. Life simply happens to them and they respond out of a place of weakness and inferiority. Folks feel like they don’t know enough to try something new. They don’t know enough to follow their dreams. They don’t know enough to be successful. They don’t know enough to really understand their purpose.
And the difference between those that are victims and those that are living an abundant life is not knowledge. What you know or do not know does not make you more successful. Being willing to make a change is what separates the two.
I didn’t become healthier by knowing what was healthy and unhealthy. I didn’t become a better writer by reading about writing. I didn’t become a better researcher by watching videos about research. I didn’t become a better philosopher by reading more philosophy. The action is what separates the knowledge of what is from the doing of what is.
You can sit around all day watching videos, reading blogs, analyzing books, and talking about ideas, however, you actually have to do the thing in order to change who you are. Over the past fourteen days I have repeatedly written about how your actions are what you believe and that what you say are only words. Words without deeds are worthless. Folks talk a lot about changing themselves in January BUT by Match those goals are cast aside. Folks talk about change when they encounter sickness and death BUT quickly forget those words when time passes.
What separates folks from living the life they want? The action of change. Folks spend a lot of time on excuses for why they aren’t ready to change. They don’t know enough. It’s not the right time. Just let me get this one thing handled. Once I get through the holidays . . . . There is never a right time when all you want are excuses BUT every time is the right time if you are looking to change.
Fourteen days ago I knew things had to change. I knew that change needed to happen fourteen days before that and fourteen days before that and fourteen days before that . . . . ad infinitum. BUT nothing changed until I accepted that it was time to change. Nothing changed until I took control of aligning myself with my purpose. Nothing changed until I made the decision that I was going to act like the person I wanted to be.
I struggle. I fight. I fail. BUT I am never going back. I could never live in a state of victimhood anymore. I could not go back to blaming folks and systems for my problems. I have taken ownership of my story and there is a lot of power in making that change. When you align yourself with what you want out of life those invisible hands start to make their presence felt in a positive light. Things start to line up. And you can call that the work of God, fate, destiny, the universe or anything else BUT you will find it true. When you align your self with your purpose, there is an order that appears in the chaos.
A lot of us are lost in the chaos. We get so bogged down with the mess of life that we fail to see the order. We fail to find the hope and joy in life. We get bogged down in the temporal and the transitory. We fail to live infinitely and abundantly. We get mired down in our humanity and fail to recognize our own divinity. Between God and me, there is no between.