Transitory glory

How might you overlook hidden gems within difficult and trying situations? You define these situations much like you unconsciously select your adversaries. They appear in your path as a test which you choose as part of a longer quest to experience success. The decisions you make will shape your future in the form of consequences and affect the past in the form of redemption.

As you accept your passions, you're supposed to become more enthusiastic about your conquests. Your courage is supposed to develop to clear the fog and help you to see directions of your path. When you're ready to accept what used to appear unacceptable, this is an example of how you evolve to redefine success. Remaining flexible encourages you to accept not knowing things and still feel a sense of accomplishment where you are.  A sense of success now is transitory anyway.

Have you ever met anyone whose goal in life appears to be to disrupt the lives of others and prolong their misery? Forgive the apparent troublemaker. Is your mind not the real troublemaker in how it exaggerates the nature of your obstacles? Conside the impact of your imagination...

Rather than visualize obstacles to success, see perceived troublemakers as a godsend. After all, they symbolize what you could become if you don't find your way out of the confines of your judgment, conditioning and hard feelings. The people who get lost in their own world of problems, and attempt to draw you in, can't separate their ego or raise their awareness of another way. It is who they are.

As you learn to surrender to nature, you shift your impulse to judge and fight for retribution. You choose instead to sense the energy around you and how you can tap into that for other purposes. Whenever you rethink your view of success at a given moment, you are calling into question your previous judgment and conditioning.

Whenever you choose not to judge yourself or someone else, a view of success emerges based on how you free the mind and soul from conditioning. Your ego is seen as separate from success. You free yourself from identification with whatever you were taught and come up with unique ideas from inside you. Uncovering yourself at the core may be the ultimate success. Even that is constantly changing which implies some success will only ever seem like it is transitory glory.

Wake up call

'Why do you live the life you lead?' asked the angel during a dream.

'Well, to learn, to help others, to feel I do meaningful things,' you reply.

'When will it be possible for you to slow down and truly experience life?'

'If I did, I wouldn't have enough time left to do what is urgently required.'

'Nonesense! To live in a vicious circle is to give into fear of idleness and hide courage.'

'How would I know how to survive where I was? Who would tell me when things must happen?'

'Be grateful for situations where you're expected to resolve your own issues. If you're coddled and helped through every problem, then you won't realize your confidence or potential.'

'I have so many unfinished things from yesterday and things awaiting me tomorrow...'

'If you aren't careful, death may be staring you in the face before you explore meaning in life.'

'Reflecting on such issues gets me no closer to meeting deadlines.'

'Watch out. You may discover you sail through life and do not really live.'

'I live so much to the fullest, I have a real chance of realizing my worldly goals.'

'Pity. You focus on absurdities and put things off, overlooking priceless moments.

Blessing in disguise

Losing your job may be one of the best things that ever happened to you.  Are you stuck on the myth that you must work hard for money? Do what you've always done? Maybe you wonder if your mind is telling you the right thing or the best thing.  Every event contains hidden meaning and every reaction has its consequences.  When some undesirable idea emerges, do you cut it away or ignore it? 

A forced change in your circumstances is telling you something.  Do you see it? Do you get the message?  Do you notice anything at all? Would trying to get your old job back or a similar position be considered interfering with nature or destiny? Some people might say that individuals take steps to control and shape their lives out of arrogance.  Could intervention also be positive?

The time has arrived again to discern your intention and put it into action.  You have done all that you have asked of yourself.  If you failed to hit one target, you will no doubt hit others.  Opportunities arise when you don't give into the fear that other opportunities don't exist for you.  How often do you pay attention to what's happening inside yourself?  You're on the road to climb new mountains. 

Its not unusual for a person to struggle toward dreams.  At the same time,  when a person realizes certain paths are unsuitable or no longer serve a meaningful purpose, it reveals humility and deep understanding.  There's nothing reproachable about channelling your energies in new directions.  Despite any series of events that may discourage you, never lose a sense of hope and meaning concerning your future.  Great things are in the works!

Gift of Wealth

According to business woman Loral Langemeier, who regularly builds millionaires, many people are convinced having a lot of money is beyond their reach.  Does this sound a lot like you?  In her best-selling book Millionaire Maker (2006), she explains how you can develop the kinds of financial insights that wealthy people use to maintain and/or build their fortunes.  She developed a wealth cycle process to teach anyone that living without financial concerns is possible.  Her life experience evolved after growing up herself on a traditional Nebraskan farm.  Consider this:

1) Believe you have to give in order to get.  In this life, nothing comes from nothing.  People who are financially well-off typically work hard to earn what they have or, must at least work hard to keep or grow their asset base.  If you simply aim to hoard and don't desire to share what you get, then you'll close yourself off from opportunities to develop yourself and your fortune.  To understand the universal balance is to grasp giving resonates outward and reflects back at you.

2) Accept you already possess key tools.  Reading can introduce you to new strategies yet, the fundamental belief that reaching your goal is possible will initially make or break you.  Thinking like wealthy people can be useful, but modeling yourself after them, showing initiative and being willing to learn, is more far-reaching.  To move ahead with hope and optimism is essential.    

3) Recognize wealth concerns information access.  Lessons learned send powerful messages.  To know where and how to access the experiences that will help you is exactly what you need.  Loral has strategies that can be applied by anyone in debt, on low income or, even people living a great lifestyle on very little.  Learn more about why you are where you are and what it will take to get your money-building ventures in forward motion.  This goes beyond building your net worth to develop your know-how about consistent cash flow. What do you really want?

4) Grasp wealth is generated by a team not an individual.  Mentoring is used to develop sucessful investors.  Her team-made millionaire community involves, for instance, a construction manager with a 12 million dollar goal within 2 years, a telecom tech who became a millionaire within 9 months through 'bread-and-butter' real estate, and a law firm receptionist on entry level salary who began a dog walking venture and became a millionaire in a few years.  People come from all walks of life and financial backgrounds. Tap into leadership, teamwork and gain new insight into new financial ways of thinking. 

5) Take the mystery out of wealth-building.  Many ways exist to earn money.  Learn more why money generating assets will build your cashflow and create more wealth.  Learn ways to create passive income streams so your money is working for you as you're living.  Assets can be used to create more assets.  This isn't realistic if you don't grasp your money situation.  Empower yourself to learn details. Reach out for clearer financial decisions. Make new plans.   

Bedrock of the soul

Each time you attribute blame, you do not see bad people are illusions, and less-than-desirable choices you made lead to where you are and the insight you now have. All of this is a clue to how you are gradually reconnecting with the bedrock of soul, or your true self that never leaves you.

Absolute rights or wrongs may not exist. Decisions are made out of love and in response to fear. The latter often leads to trouble. Yet, to make choices in response to love raises awareness about yourself. Why would you choose to believe other people are responsible for choices that don't work out for you? What reasons would you have to take action if you will only ever feel a victim of circumstance and of nasty people? You would likely sense no reason to feel motivated at all.

The bedrock of your soul is the free will to interpret life as you choose. You create and perceive the reality and determine whether it feels good or bad for you. Each situation offers clues to potential benefits, to potential ways you could sharpen your understanding or otherwise gain. This is a new phase in your self-growth.

What if you suddenly became so solution-oriented that you no longer recognized situations as problematic? What if you began to understand that you have all the tools at your disposal to satisfy your needs? Although challenges can promote growth, peace of mind about your identity and motivation would further increase and expand on your growth.

As times passes, you will sense which steps or course of action will satisfy you. What energizes you now? Why might you begin to feel empowered? All that matters is what you experience and what you retain from each experience. At times, your beliefs and desires may be at odds. In efforts to reconcile them, you'll get-to-know parts of yourself and realize what is truly necessary to build on what you know or understand.