In Now or Never, Part I: Today or Tomorrow, we explored 2 tough choices:
- Do you choose to live for today, or to build for tomorrow?
- Do you choose to focus on your detailed, daily problems, or do you focus on finding the root cause of your problems?
It’s dangerous to spend all your time thinking about the future. You get lost in a dream world, with your thoughts spinning around and around, while the imperfect present crashes and burns.
It’s just as dangerous to spend all your energy reacting to whatever happens to you today. When I just react to today’s challenges, I’m not that much different than an animal, unable to make any real choices about what my future should be.
When you’re stuck with a choice where both sides have issues, don’t choose one.
Choose both.
[Continue reading: Now or Never, Part II: Today and Tomorrow]
Tomorrow Never Comes
It’s a choice that I make all the time.
When an uncomfortable task circles around me, I choose “tomorrow”.
When a pleasure entices me, I choose today.
Today is real.
Tomorrow is not.
[Continue reading: Now or Never, Part I: Today or Tomorrow?]
I write a lot about passion.
And I’m not talking about romantic passion exactly.
I’m talking about powerful feelings that drive us to reach beyond ourselves and become more than we are.
It’s passionate dreams that drive us past our discomfort and our fears, and give us the courage to take chances, in order to change.
[Continue reading: Passion and the Journey]
We all get stuck.
We get stuck in our fears and other feelings, in our pain, and in our choices.
In Part 1, Fear on Ice, we explored feeling trapped in a situation that we want to escape from, where we’re afraid to remain, and afraid to change.
In Part 2, Too Many Choices, we looked at having too many choices, and not being able to choose between them.
We also get trapped when we look for solutions to the challenges that face us.
Solutions are great. The problem arises when we keep jumping from one solution to another, without taking real action with any of them.
[Continue reading: Getting Unstuck, Part III: Buying Your Way Out Of Trouble]
I’d like to be a wild man.
No, I don’t want to live in rags, grunt, and carry a club.
But I do want to let go of the over-civilized me who is always trying to please someone. You know, the one who doesn’t want to be different, because it might offend someone?
I’m so sick of him.
He’s so frightened of taking off his mask, of stepping out of his routine of getting along, and getting by.
[Continue reading: The Wild Man: Break Free of Civilized Fear]
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The Heart Fountain: Stories of the Energy Mind
The Heart Fountain is an ongoing collection of my stories. They speak about a magical world, but then again, I believe that all stories are full of magic.
The about page on The Heart Fountain site has more information on the stories, and the techniques used to free the unconscious and give it a powerful voice. Video Vision Statements and Credits |
