Courage to Change
I wrote and posted this back in 2012 after reading Wayne Dyer’s book “Change Your Thoughts Change Your Mind, a layman’s explanation of the Tao Ching. Still relevant today:
When you make peace with yourself you take a hard look at everything you have ever done and you remind yourself that you needed all those experiences in order to provide you with the energy to propel yourself to a higher spiritual frequency. Eventually you acknowledge that virtually every spiritual advance is preceded by a disaster of some kind, and that all of the unwanted events of your life were necessary. Why? Because they occurred, and there are no accidents in this intelligent system we call our universe. If you are better than you used to be that is a reason enough to make peace with yourself.
Let go of EGO, connect and maintain connection with (God, Divine, Universe… or whatever you choose to call your Higher Power), and be like the water of the Tao: adaptable, and strong… in the flow and able to face adversity in life with Grace
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Aubrey Grace is a childhood friend, and my webmaster host. He wrote this passage in 2013. Well said!! Change is the only constant. Stagnation is the real enemy.
Aubrey Grace
September 17 2013
Living life on purpose…
We have all heard, “some people just don’t like change”. Maybe, you are someone that does not like change?
When you stop to think about your life; where you have been, where you are now and where you are heading, you will realize your entire life has been about “change”. Some changes lead you to good times and other changes, to times you never want to remember.
As long as you are living, you cannot escape change as it is everywhere and in everything. It is how our world was designed, created and continues to evolve. Nothing in this world is stagnant.
For better or worse, you live in a constant state of becoming and you have the choice, to either allow your life to grow and blossom or shrink and wither away.
Do not fear change, fear stagnation, for it is the true enemy that holds you back from living a fulfilling life.
Embrace those changes you deeply desire and live your life on purpose.
~ Aubrey
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Found in my course notes from several years ago. Good concept to revisit now.
I have the book in digital and hard copy form. Good info and fitting here:
“What is non-linear time management?
Non-linear time management is a commitment to action
in the present moment. It’s looking at a task and choosing NOW or
“not now.” If it’s not now, it’s got to be NEVER or placed in a time capsule
that has a spot on the calendar and therefore out of the mind.
The mind must remain clear and empty of all future considerations.
In non-linear time management there is no line extending from
my mind into the future. No tapeworm of unfinished business coming out of my body.
Non-linear time management is best expressed by Elvis Presley when he sings, “It’s now or never, come hold me tight.”
The old fashioned time management programs had a huge, burdensome focus on the future. The line of tasks stretched out forever into the future. It was fear-based and it was overwhelming to have so much of a future to carry around with you.
It resulted in massive, pathological procrastination. Everything got put off in the name of perfectionism. Nothing was bold or reckless anymore. Therefore there wasn’t much astonishing success happening for the world-weary practitioner.
But when I teach people to go non-linear, a strange thing happens. New life and energy come in. When they open their emails they don’t get to save them for later. They have to deal with them if they open them. Like little attackers in a computer game, there is no longer anywhere to hide. Life becomes a great game and everything is handled right now on the spot.
All fear comes from picturing the future. Putting things off increases that fear.
Soon we are nothing but heavy minds weighing down on weary brains. Too much future will do that.
Only a warrior’s approach will solve this.
A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don’t allow him to fully focus.
I am a coach by profession, and when I work with a client who is “overwhelmed” with too much to do and not enough time to do it I will often ask them to give me an example of one of the things they are burdened by every time they think about it. The client will give me an example and we will do that thing right now. The client is amazed. The only thing missing in this client’s life was a bias for action.
Most people think too much. Then they compound that problem by studying the feelings that come up for them as a result of that thinking.
All this time that they spend thinking and feeling they could have been taking action. In a non-linear way.
Linear time starts with your birth and ends (at the end of the line) with your death. Along that long linear line it’s just one damn thing after another. Then the lights go out. What was the point?
Non-linear time management stops all that weary nonsensical treading on the road to one’s destiny.
Rather than inching along horizontally you must simply rise up. Your life can now become vertical. Now you don’t postpone challenges, you rise to them. You become a warrior. And it works.
How, exactly, does it work? This book will show you exactly how it works”.
Steve Chandler
Phoenix, Arizona, January 2011