But let’s not forget one important thing… sometimes our pursuit of what we want is complicated…not because we don’t desire it deep down…
It’s because we’ve allowed our HABITS to interfere with that pursuit.
Habits can mean a lot of things. Habits could be simply getting lazy and complacent in our current lifestyle. We’re so comfortable that we lose our sense of desire and adventure…at least temporarily.
Habit can also mean a habit of belief. We allow ourselves to be conditioned into the idea that we’re not SUPPOSED to get the thing we want. We’re not good enough, worthy enough, skilled enough, enough enough.
And we can also fall victim to the habit of fear. We’ve seen what happens to the other guy when he tried to break through his current circumstances. Or we’ve learned to fear losing the stuff we have if we try doing something different.
Or we have the fear of rejection…of the ridicule or disapproval of others when we chase our own dreams.
There are lots of habits, and the thing they all have in common is they are learned behaviors. They often have nothing to do with our inner life, or spiritual selves. They’re just things we picked up along the way.
But they have a way of making us think they ARE our true selves. A habit of laziness, or fear whispers in our ear. It tells us we aren’t supposed to go for our dreams.
And well meaning literature and well meaning people say to us… “Everything in its own time. We’re all doing exactly what we’re supposed to do in this moment.”
Well excuse me, but BULL—T.
People don’t become healthy, wealthy, happy, conquer diseases, conquer obesity, conquer poverty, conquer lonliness because they went with “the flow” of their lives every moment.
They conquered these things because they allowed themselves a clearer vision of their lives without the falsehood of their bad habits distorting their view.
Then they dug in, did some really hard work and broke the habits that held them back from the lives we are TRULY intended to lead.
Next time you find yourself justifying your own mediocrity…by saying things like, “I’m doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing at this moment in my life…”
Take a minute and get a clearer picture of who you’re capable of becoming, and what your life would look like if it weren’t covered in the mediocrity of your bad habits.
Your Friend,
Larry
P.S. For every bad habit, there is a corresponding good habit. For every moment of laziness, fear and self-loathing, there is the possiblity of intensity, courage and self-respect.
P.P.S. We can sit and listen to others justify our failure and misery as “the Universe acting out its Divine intent” or some other such nonsense. But who has the vision to see into our own lives and know what we’re SUPPOSED to do? No one I’ve ever met. I sure don’t! I only know what you’re capable of, which is limitless.
P.P.P.S. At any moment we can make a choice to live a life we control, rather than being on the autopilot of bad habits. But very often that involves putting ourselves in an environment where the good stuff is the rule, not the exception.