Easier said than done

Why shouldn't a goal be easy? What's the harm in a thing being easy? Who said you should think its bad? People tend to be conditioned that the only things worth doing need to be earned with blood, sweat and tears. 

You may be the sort of person who believes a desirable goal is required to feel motivated.  How many people have you met who feel a sense of accomplishment has to be linked with exerted effort?  What if most desirable goals are more feasible than you thought? 

"Don't wish it were easier, wish it were better." -Jim Rohn

"Let yourself be open and your life will be easier." -Buddha

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do."

-Ralph Waldow Emerson

Just don't get caught

Many people dream of success. This can translate into knowing certain rules and determining how to break them without getting caught. Would success for you imply devising strategies to outsmart a particular system and gain a level of satisfaction?

Consider driving. How often do you add pressure on the accelerator when you assume the police aren't watching or speed cameras aren't around? Why does the little voice inside egg you on? If you don't get a ticket, you might sense a feeling of success. If you're caught, you may have a sense of failure, but that wouldn't necessarily discourage you from trying to get away with it again.

Far more people than you might imagine know the commandments and other religious mores. Why is it that confession was invented and some people actually look forward to it regularly? Why is it that retribution is associated with certain behaviors and people avert their gaze or avoid revealing deviance at all costs?  If Higher Forces see everything, should your view of success really matter?

Consider the behavior that characterizes many modern teenagers. Why is it that teens widely seek to rebel against rules that have been set for them? Why do youth come to think its okay to drink, do drugs, have sex or engage in any other behavior which wouldn't be condoned by parents, guardians or law enforcement? The psychology of crime teaches us, do what you can, do what you will, teach yourself what you can, but just don't get caught.

In another sense of success, consider the tables are turned. Why is it honest people may feel they must take 'the long way' around to catch and reprimand a dishonest person? Why should it be cheaper to hire a hit man to knock off an enemy than to pay for legal and other professional costs to bring the person to justice? Society would seem to set itself up to discourage honesty. It makes it seem as if morals are separate from 'getting a job done.' Whether or not success is honorable is not what matters to everyone. A sense of success could be a separate thing from ethics.

Consider another example: why have social assistance programs in some countries evolved to offer more incentive to stay home and do nothing than minimum wage offers people to work? Is success in such a case only a question of money? Some people think success relates to getting as much as they can for as little effort as possible. When they don't wish to be caught taking advantage of the system, would getting caught necessarily undermine a level of success?

The more guilty a person feels about past behavior, the more anxious the person may be to reveal the truth and unlead the burden.  We each have the ability to attract the circumstances that reflect how we feel, even if that happens to be cynical indifference.  

If you wish to arrange the universe to your manner of thinking, then success could mean many different things. When it comes to dreams, it makes sense to reflect a great deal. Whatever you do, just don't get caught. Yet, if and when you're caught, choose to learn from it.  You may get another chance.  Whether you see it as punishment isn't clear.  This may worry you more than you care to express.

Magical tools at our fingertips

If magic is a tool we can dream, learn and draw from, then we have the power to create a truly  magical life.  We each possess abilities that we seldom, if ever admit, discover and often never develop because of how we think and influence of the status quo.  Who says you can't do something?  You can accomplish anything you set your mind to do. 

Consider why is it that "You've Got Talent" shows are suddenly becoming so popular in various nations. Why does an unassuming, shy guy who works in a mobile phone warehouse turn out to be a gifted opera singer for a UK Talent search? Why does a mousy pharmacist come out of the woodwork to win the Australian Idol contest as a talented singer with a unique falsetto?  Why do you sense 'unlikey' people discovering incredible abilities?  Contrast this with your idea of who is likely to be talented.  How would you know such a person to look at them? 

How you nurture your own misconceptions about others reflects back on your misconceptions about yourself.  It is really magic that ordinary people reveal extraordinary abilities? Could it depend on ritual and practice as much as faith?  What about trust and self-confidence that experiences don't always promote before talent searches? Would you take the risk to unveil your hidden talent to the world?  It would be desirable to at least admit it to yourself.  People desire to believe they have talent.  Why must self-acceptance be legitimized by society?  We all benefit from self-reflection.

Positive thinking is an ability that encourages you to explore possible hidden talents.  What kind of labels or superstitions do you associate with your skills? Who caused you to feel that way?  Those things that enable you to connect with an intimate part of your being are signs.  What messages are they conveying?

You may be frightened by the prospect of success.  Yet, the truth is that you may be impressionable about negative things and find it hard to realize you can win at what you truly desire.  The first step is to realize you have talent.  Tap into it your way.  Magic is found in believing in yourself for real.  This goes beyond positive thinking itself.  Magic lies in the doing.  Connect with your core and feel the electric vibes.

Lost then found

How often do you find yourself lost somewhere when you have a destination in mind and you don't seem to know exactly how to get there? How often do people appear in your life as if from nowhere to make themselves available to offer you directions?

It never ceases to amaze me how a sense of feeling lost can trigger fear and pending despair.  Yet, each time I have been in a new place and temporarily disoriented, it never fails that a stranger will appear with perfect timing. I take steps to approach people I've never met as part of a kind of pilgrimage to ask for directions, to strengthen my sense of being in the right place at the right time.  Its a question of accepting personal responsibility I wouldn't give to others.

You may arrive at a point in your life where you're prepared to believe almost anything people tell you.  It doesn't  have to be a stranger standing at an unfamiliar crossroad.  Your instincts evolve to think 'innocent until proven guilty.'  You let a sense your conscience guide your steps.  All at once, you realise, what matters in your life is how you understand and connect with mystery and uncertainty.  A spark or curiosity can easily lead to a fountain of enthusiasm.  Normal people can believe in magic and wonderful things that can unfold in the unknown.

Whomever you meet in passing can be a catalyst for your own transformation.  A person who speaks a few words may be all that is necessary for you to see the light of things that had escaped you for too long.  Its connected to experiences of faith.  This isn't the same as religion.  To believe in something defines your spiritual side.  Your obedience to religious rules which are imposed could be completely different, if you choose to believe in collective religion at all.

Believing in angels is like confronting your understanding of life and death and what you're in the process of doing in between.  All roads lead to a place the living often have yet to experience  or at least remember, if for some reason you believe you have been there before.  Angels are friendly reminders of what we're supposed to know or remember.  In the event you forget your way, they'll nudge you if you remain open to the qualities they seek to highlight. 

As you evolve to recognize you travel an endless path, you also come to value changes that take place in yourself.  Angels can be your companions who don't change you themselves, but they recognize the benefits in beginning to grasp your truth because you realize you're never alone.  You can always sense an indescribable presence.  To hear a voice inside you that helps you recognize who you are is like being found.  It is people who shape your life, and you decide whether it will be for better or for worse.  You also decide whether some may be supernatural, and whether you believe even the unexplained have your best interest at heart.

The struggle & its omens

Some people will say they dream of writing books yet, struggle much of their lives to achieve what they set out to do.  Why is that? Writers like to immerse themselves in their lives and the lives of their fictional characters.  They like to evolve to peer out and decipher the world.  Self-acceptance and courage can grow over time.

The time comes when you manage to see conditions differently than before.  What causes you to open your eyes wider or observe subtle nuances you had missed before?  More often than not, its people you encounter who draw your attention to things in passing that have far more significance than you initially thought.  Do you believe in omens? Signs of things to come?

As I was leaving restaurants, while still a child and later, adolescent, I would take great pleasure in signing guest books .  The thing was, I very seldom signed my real name.  More often than not, I signed, 'Hercule Poirot.'  Its as if some voice inside was telling me that I was on a path that led somewhere and that now I was on my way, I would have to see it through. 

Are we all not playing the role of detective when it comes to uncovering the truth about our lives?  We need not devour Agatha Christie Mysteries to figure that out, but reading can inspire opening our eyes.  To feel certain of the direction you follow means you recognize where you are and what you're meant to do.  Not everyone's life path is so clear, at least in the beginning.

If you believe in a life struggle and its omens, then you decide making mistakes and learning about them is worthwhile.  If you are unsure of yourself, feeling like you wander blindly at times, you may be unclear about the meaning you sense in words.  Join the club.  To my way of thinking, you can choose to believe in the power of words and the treasures they can help you discover inside yourself. 

You need not be a best-selling author to transcribe thoughts in a journal and learn to make more sense of your life.  The clarity of words on paper enables you to intuit what course of action would enrich you at a particular time.  You may not believe in omens, or may find it hard to know whether an omen is a positive or a negative sign.  When a person begins writing, that person may not have faith in very much.  Yet, as the soul speaks, the struggle that led up to it all becomes worth it.