Personal Meditation No. 146

“It may not be your fault but it is still your problem.”

Embrace the Within.

Living in a world filled with flawed people as a flawed person is a struggle. I am not going to say it is easy to work on being better when so many are not. Those decisions about trying to find what you want to become and setting out to achieve that goal is lonely work and long hours.

BUT I can’t focus on the struggle or I will get out of the winning mindset. Amor fati. Enjoy what life throws my way and be grateful for another chance, another hour, another day to keep building and moving forward. Visualize what I want and make it manifest through alignment of my body and mind. I have been cleaning up the routine and giving myself some time in the morning to meditate. Time to clear out the noise of my mind and focus on being present.

The past few days of doing this new routine are freeing and focusing. I feel as if I already won the day before I leave the house. I get my plan all together and get out there and take it one day at a time. And I think that is one of the best ways to look at life for me. Long term lists and plans that break down to a daily plan to accomplish in order to move myself further down the path.

So, be grateful for your continued chances to make choices today. Enjoy whatever opportunities the day brings you. Keep working on that journey to where you want to be.

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

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain

Personal Meditation No. 145

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

Embrace the Within

I am working on breaking free of labeling folks. Folks are a lot more complicated than simple labels. Folks have a lot going on in their lives that we know nothing about. Just like most folks do not know our life story, we surely do not know the total of the complications, tribulations,and struggles with which they deal daily.

So, I am going to focus on giving folks more slack for the way they deal with life. Life is really intense and filled with a lot of decisions. I think back on the way I lived my life for nearly three decades and remember that the person back then was just as much on cruise control in his rut as most folks are. And judging him for not being able to get it together would not get me closer to where I am today or where I am going in the future.

So, a little empathy and compassion rather than judgment are going to go a long way for me. That is a choice I need to make in order to get my life on the path I want.

I think it’s going to involve adopting a more action-based approach to everything rather than passively sitting back in life. I am going to have to have my mind and body working together to make this change in mindset. And I am going to have to also accept that I am not going to be totally successful at this all the time. This isn’t an all or nothing situation. It is going to be, as all life, a process that needs to move towards perfection a little bit, a little step at a time.

So, that is my new goal to work towards this week, this month, this coming year as I work on the better me. Giving folks room to make their own choices and not let those choices allow me to place them in a box and label them. I need to choose empathy and grace.

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

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain