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Friday
Jun292007

At a crossroads

You may have arrived at a crossroads.  You may sense unresolved issues inside.  They will invite reasons to forgive.  Search your heart.  Unloading emotional burden will trigger positive change.

Losses you experience may leave emotional scars.  You may have been cheated in a business deal and lost huge sums of money.  Perhaps you were lied to, abandoned in a relationship, or prevented from being promoted because of deception around you.  Maybe a friend betrayed you. You may be mistreated, criticized or harmed.  You may wonder what happens next? As hard as it may be to believe, you're going to emerge better off than before.  You're passing another test.  This is a learning process.

The thing to do is not to stoop to the level of people who have wronged you.  Nonetheless, keep doing the right thing.  Respond to your situation with love.  To improve yourself is to learn to control your emotions.  Don't give into temptation to avenge offenders.  Regardless of whether people say nasty things about you, believe your have purpose.  It pays to retain self-control.

In order to understand, realize you need not have to fix or even react to everything.  You have no reason to pay someone back for whatever wrong might've been done.  Rather than try to manipulate the situation in your favor, learn to step back and refocus your energies productively.  You can renew and strengthen parts of yourself.  You have the choice to transform your life.   The crossroads is an opportunity.  

Thursday
Jun282007

Shake it off & rise above it

A story has been passed down among generations about a farmer who owned an old mule.  After a long day's work in the field, this mule headed to his paddock and accidentally fell into the deep farmer's well.

Not long after that, the farmer heard the mule braying in a way the man hadn't heard before. After discovering what had happened and reviewing his options, the farmer felt guilty about the mule's suffering. He decide the best thing would be to put the animal out of his misery. So, he recruited a neighbor and explained things.  They sympathized with the farmer and the mule. Together, they hauled dirt toward the well and decided it would make a good grave marker.

Initially, as the old mule felt dirt landing on its back, he became frantic. But the farmer and his neighbor continued shoveling and the dirt.  It came in greater amounts.  Then, the mule had a revelation. Every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back, he could shake it off and step on the pile.   He did exactly that, as if to resist blow after blow.

He silently encouraged himself.  He didn't desire to die. No matter how discouraging it seemed that his beloved owner was trying to bury him alive, he decide to reframe his toughts.  AS the result, each pile of dirt went from being seen as very distressing to being seen as a blessing in disguise.  They knew where he was and they were helping him! He reframed his situation.  The mule fought  his impulse to panic and just kept right on shaking off the dirt and stepping up.

Low and behold, it wasn't long before the old mule, albeit exhausted, reached the top and stepped victorious over the opening og the well. Imagine the looks of amazement on the farmer and his neighbour.  They realized they could learn a few things from that old mule as the result of how he had handled his adversity.

Throughout life, just like the old mule, each of us is confronted with difficulties.  All-the-while, we always have choices.  We can refuse to give into the temptation to fear, doubt or, be consumed by negative thinking. There is hidden value in every situation which we can use to transform ourselves.  You can always devise a strategy to get out of the wells of despair.  How will you reframe aspects of your life to find good in every condition, every event, and every moment?  Learn how to shake your head and refuse to give into hardship, self-pity or defeat.  Shake off any thoughts that you aren't capable.  Realize that you are.  Go and rise above self-defeating thinking.

Thursday
Jun282007

A tale of three trees & then some

The Tale of Three Trees has been retold and highlights familiar human traits.  This ficticious moral tale for children describes the ambitions of an olive tree, an oak tree and a pine tree.  Each of these trees had individual dreams, like a life plan people so often formulate and hope to realize. 

The olive tree imagined itself being carved into a magnificent treasure chest which would hold gold, silver and very precious jewels.  When a woodcutter distinguished this particular tree among all the tress around, the tree obviously felt extra sprecial. It was sold to a craftsman who began to shape it into something the tree soon understood wasn't to be a treasure chest.  Instead, the olive tree was carved into a trough for stinky animal food. You can surmise this tree was devastated at its apparent fate.  It believed it would never realize its dream to be appreciated at a higher level.  This tree felt degraded, almost compared with the gutter.

The oak tree also had a dream.  This tree envisaged becoming integrated into a glorious ship that would ferry important people like royalty across great bodies of water.  As this tree was cut down, you might speculate it was excited, feeling that much closer to realizing its dreams.  But alas, as time passed, this oak tree realized he wasn't destined to be part of a great vessel.  Instead, the woodworkers shaped the oak tree into a puny, non-descript fishing boat for one person.  Of course, the oak tree was deeply saddened by fate. The other dream wasn't realized.

Now the pine tree grew on a distant mountain and was pleased to act as a beacon for travellers on their journeys.  Its ultimate dream was to remain where it stood tall so that it could continue to guide people who felt lost.  Yet, unbeknownst to this tree, Mother Nature had other plans.  A huge storm led to a lightning bolt splitting the pine tree.  The future looked like a complete disaster.  A lumberjack eventually came by and took the dead tree to a wood scrap pile. It seemed as if its dreams were long since forgotten.

And yet, just when we feel the most discouraged, this is when we can realize that our idea of destiny may not have been what was planned for us at all.

As it happened, if you know any Christian history, you will recall how Mary and Joseph had baby Jesus in a stable, for the inns were all full.  They used a particular animal trough as a manger in which they put clean straw.  The olive tree had desired to hold precious jewles, but it turned out to be destined to hold a thing far more precious, a rather unique and cherished human life.

As Jesus grew up, there came a time when he desired to cross a river.  He didn't choose the most elegant or the largest ship for his journey.  He was a man of simplicty and chose the small fishing boat.  This enabled the oak tree to carry the king of kings, when it had originally had a far mroe limited vision for its destiny.

Years passed, and a group of Roman soldiers were rummaging around in scrap wood piled.  They chose the character of the severed pine tree to carve the cross on which Jesus was eventually crucified.  That tree was shaped into a symbol that continues to guide and assist people.

This tale reminds us all of our own inner value.  We're also drawn to realize that each of us has rather limited ideas of our abilities and potential.  The plan and purpose you think you're meant for in this lifetime may not turn out to be the real reason why you're alive.  You may in fact, be present for things you couldn't ever hope to anticipate.  Thus, it makes sense to learn to rethink disappointments.  After all, you're being prepared for even more fulfilling roles and experiences. 

Thursday
Jun282007

Authentic or watered down

To be unwelcome in one's own country, to find a lack of work opportunities, leads some writers to become expatriates.  Their sensibility and perception may remain distinctly national, cultural, localized, and soulful.  Writing can design its own rules as words move along.  They may gain more power in orality, the living voice, in live performance.  Perhaps a recording can't replace a real life experience? Why even try to translate it into words?

More often than not, people turn their books as a way to find solace in solitude.  These people aren't seeking inter-connectedness with people around them, but to be engrossed in fictional people and places.  What is it about exoticism its seductions?  Interpreting a culture at its deepest level is typically done by nationals for their own nationals.  This gives perspective authenticity.  When a writer writes about a culture for foreigners, would such an interpretation be as authentic?  

You may imagine that people do not adjust their language to the expectations of the foreigners who would judge you.  Yet, writing and publishing a book in multiple countries implies it must be translated into language and and at times, jacket and title slightly changed. Would this imply that the original written work be as valid or would it be watered down when marketed as a package?

Thursday
Jun282007

Open the fire

You may know someone who has managed to overcome different kinds of suffering, to transform it into something positive and meaningful.  Would success come in the form of intense living and learning? Open the fire.

How can you hope to understand success until you know what it is really like? What form will it take?  When will you experience it? Do you share in a frenzy?  Would you accept challenges and learn from them? What makes your view of success so vital now that it deserves your attention?

For some people, success takes the form of discovering a thing they didn't know before.  The idea of giving something of your own, something meaningful, represents sharing a piece of your own sense of success.  You may structure success in your hopes and expectations.  What is miraculous about your life is that you do not wish to miss an opportunity to transform your fate.

As you explore the power of your present, you can create a more desirable future.  Whether your view of success would be more or less desirable than the life you leave, you have to decide.