Personal Meditation No. 98

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within.

Rainy days don’t change a thing. I get less done outside but I am still outside putting in the work. The work needs to get done even when the skies are overcast and the rain is falling. The work needs to get done when the winds pick up and the thunder echoes around me. The work does not stop for the weather.

Sometimes we look for what’s going on around us to give an excuse for why we can’t put in the work. Situations arise that are difficult. Situations arise that make doing the work more uncomfortable than usual. And then a decision, a choice, is made about doing the work. Will I let it slide for a day? Will I wait for better situations, better weather, better circumstances?

The weather might influence how much and what I can accomplish but it will never stop me from working. I might not be able to run my fence today but I can still drive posts. Driving posts in the rain is a lot easier than driving posts on dry ground. So, I will use the weather to my advantage. I will do what I can and move forward in spite of and despite the weather.

We all have choices to make about what we let influence our day. We get to choose if we’re going to feel defeated by circumstance or if we’re going to win the day. No matter which we choose, we will have the day we wanted because we chose that day. We chose to think, to feel, to live the day that way. Our choices determine our reality. What reality are you choosing today?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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Personal Meditation No. 97

"Life is internal conflicts masquerading as external conflicts."

Embrace the Within.

There is a lot of programming to unlearn before you can really start moving into being a human. That’s my daily conflict. Looking for the humanity I possess in a world that has done everything to make me into a citizen, a member, a consumer, a fan, a groupie, a follower, a slave, something less than alive. I take full responsibility for my part in that process. I was more than complicit in becoming all sorts of things rather than finding my humanity. There are many diversions in this society to get you and I off course. And I found many ways to get off course in forty years and change.

But the great thing about those diversions is that they’re rather transparent. They don’t withstand scrutiny. And it gets easier to find those tactics being used to influence your actions the longer you live. Well, hopefully. If you’re learning from life and growing in your knowledge. If you’re working on being human, it gets easier to see when folks are trying to make you something else.

Every day I wake up to get better. I work on my physical and mental me every day. I get out there and put in the work on getting free. I am embracing what is within in a hope at getting to a better me. I know I won’t be perfect. That isn’t my goal. I just want to keep being a human every day.

I don’t want anything else. I want to eat like a human. I want to think like a human. I want to act like a human. What do you want? And what are you doing to get there?

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been making poor choices. I made plenty for decades. But all it takes is one good choice to fuel the next good choice. And then you’re starting a path. Have fun on your journey.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.