TODAY ~ ask these questions to you and write your answers
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
I “borrowed” the words I used as my title for this post. About half way down you will find a number of questions and the reference website. I hope you will enjoy them and benefit from them as much as I have. I’ve answered four of them in this post.
What do you think (believe) about you?
I think I have awakened – finally – after a very long winters’ (many, many, multiple, multiple winter’s) nap to a new opportunity to learn “who I really am”. I believe I have been holding myself back and creating for myself, an experience many call the long dark night of the soul (or some such) by subverting myself to confusion over how I managed to get myself mixed up with “others” who did not see the world as I did, when what I was really doing was trying to get myself to see I did not see the world as I professed.
Why aren’t you getting what you want?
As I wrote above: I have been holding myself back, I have remained oblivious to how I really saw the world (changed from how I once did), my self denial has been allowed to run rampant.
What do you think about life?
I think my life, here on this planet Earth, in this body is transitory, limited by factors beyond my control. It is a life within a life. No matter the experiences of others; what I have experienced lets me know, just for me and anyone who might be willing to believe me, I have existed – lived prior to this life.
I lived in a way that allowed me to learn, to grow, to prepare, to make decisions and to progress and develop a hunger and motivation and determination to learn and progress more. When my body no longer supports the life I am I will move on and yet continue to have an interest in life here and especially regarding those I love and have temporarily left behind.
TODAY, ask these questions to you and write your answers:
What do you think (believe) about you?//Why aren’t you getting what you want?
What do you think about money?//Why aren’t you making more money?
What do you think about success?//Why aren’t you a successful person?
What do you think about rich people?//Why aren’t you a rich person?
What do you think about the economy?//Why is so hard to make money in this economy?
What do you think about relationships?//Why is so hard to have a lovely relationship?
What do you think about life?//Why is so difficult to be happy?
There will be much more to interest me and compel me to continue to learn and progress to be sure, but beware if you capture my interest before I leave you will still have my attention when you can no longer find me among my fellows. I say beware because I will be inclined to contribute to your knowing what I have declared in the sentence four previous to this one.
Why is so difficult to be happy?
I am emboldened to write this particular post because I believe I have discovered why it has been difficult for me to be happy and now that I understand I shall make the necessary changes it will take so that happiness will no longer be difficult for me.
Like many others I know, especially in my family, I have a desire to please others. I was aware of that desire when I was very young and whether or not it is true, as I look back at my life I seem to have unerringly drawn to me, people who encouraged me in my pleasing them, even at the expense of myself.
It seemed to me, from my earliest memories, that my maturing to the place where I could be believable in carrying the same beliefs that had made such a desired difference in my parents’ life held the most currency. In other words, I could not make a better choice than to hone myself to demonstrating the most understanding and receptiveness to those same beliefs.
I may or may not be able to finish the thread of this post tomorrow. However, I still wish to be great (at living my life), love sharing with you and will blog again soon. anacarin