Don't stagnate on your path

If we sit upon the path of life, doing the same thing the same way every day, day after day after day, are we growing?

Or are we stagnating?

There is a lovely ease with which we can settle ourselves into a ‘rut’ into a repetitive pattern where we know what we are doing, know the outcomes, know the procedures and responses, know how to get the results we desire. Compare this to knowing how to make a batch of scones and getting a perfect result every time, but never daring to try anything new, never daring a batch of cheese scones, or bacon, or herb, or saltana, least the results are not good. We know what we are doing with a mix for plain scones, we can predict the result, so we spend the rest of our life making only plain scones, and taking no risks. We hear about other people making savoury scones containing ham, feta cheese, and sundried tomato, and we envy them, but we dare not try.

Though scone making may seem a bizarre comparison to life itself, the concept does apply. It equates to the saying: if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Nothing will change, or grow, or evolve. Everything remains the same. Think about going into any café in the world and the only food is a plain scone, and the only drink is a coffee with milk no sugar. You would not expect that in a café, so why would you even consider accepting that in your own life?

Change is movement, between one level and another, and the journey between these levels can be uncomfortable, confusing, and sometimes even painful. But, the higher level brings with it a greater level of peace, of love, or understanding, and of joy. It is worth it on a very personal level.

Do what you can in this lifetime. Grow as much as you can in this lifetime. Be as magnificent as you can be in this lifetime. Love as much as you possibly can in this lifetime. There is no guarantee what the next lifetime you live will be, so make the most of the understanding that you have in this lifetime, and push yourself!

Don’t settle for plain scones when you can have something magnificent!!!

Making the changes

I have noticed that a lot of people are being pushed to make changes in their life.

This is not a new thing, it is simply that the intensity has kicked up a few notches.

Why?

Because many people were pushed years ago to start making these changes, and they didn’t. They continued with the same way of living, the same negative patterns and behaviours. They saw no need to change, and so they didn’t.

The drawback of this is: if they have started paying more attention to those little nudges to change, they would have completed the process of change by now. But they didn’t, and so it is crunch time. What could have been easy of the could of years, not has to be completed in months. Why? Because that is what the Universe is pushing!

And that is why people are having such a rough time. Life seems harder, things are more ‘unfair’…but the fact is, it they/we had listened, it would not be this tough.

Pay attention to what needs to change in your life. Start the process. It will be a lost easier in the long run.

And if life is tough…just take it one step at a time, and keep going, keep pushing yourself to make the changes. It is all for a reason, even if we cannot see what that reason is yet.

The world is changing...and it's not something we can stop.