Fear of change,  Fear of Failure, Self Destructive or Just Plain Lazy?

Last Friday I spoke to a new friend of mine about some of her health challenges.  She has diabetes and it has gotten to be pretty serious.  Her blood sugar levels are consistently over 300….I had no idea if that was bad or good, but apparently that is very high.  She said that her doctor has told her on numerous occasions that she is going to die if she does not make drastic changes to her life and lifestyle.

She looked at me while were talking and she told me that she needed help – someone to work out with her so that she can get motivated and get consistent.  As she looked at me with her eyes welled up with tears and she told me in a clear loud voice, “If I don’t make these changes, I’m going to die“.

This whole conversation struck me deeply on a number of levels.  One because she is such an amazing and beautiful person and of course I am concerned about her health, but I was also quite fascinated about the fact that she had been told repeatedly that she needed to do something about her weight and eating habits but yet she was sipping on a Mountain Dew soda right before I walked up.

Why is it that we as people know we need to something, know that we should do something, know that our life hangs in the balance – but yet WE STILL DON’T DO IT!

People tend to get complacent about their lives and forget that they are the person who holds the key to the results that they get in life.  People tend to fail, because they believe that there is something else outside of them that is causing them to be a certain way.

“I’m overweight because it is hereditary in my family” – No you are overweight because you overeat and don’t work out.

“I am too busy to go back to school” – Well you are not too busy to watch television for a few hours a night and go to the club every weekend.

“I am late because traffic was so terrible getting down here”. – No, you were late because you woke up late and didn’t get out of the house on time.

You and only you have the ability to change your life.  If you have a situation in life and you don’t like what you see, you are the only person who can make the changes to revitalize your life. The first step to this is taking responsibility for what you do and don’t do.  Nothing just happens in life.  Everything is the result of some type of action – either conscious action or passive action  If you take conscious action, you control the results in your life.  If you take passive action you allow circumstances to happen and you choose to live by default.

My thought for the week is to take action!  Remember, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”- Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher.

I have recently re-dedicated myself to physically going to church on Sundays.  Don’t get me wrong…I am an avid church goer, but I happen to attend one of the ‘mega churches’ that has the live online stream of Sunday morning service.  For years I had made a conscientious effort not to become a member of  Bedside Baptist…but over the past several months I have unwittingly become a member of  Pajama Presbyterian.

But either way…for the past 2 weeks, I have been back on point.

Yesterday, my pastor gave an awesome message that I thought would be apropos for the Meditative Thought 4 The Week, and that was about Checking Your Attitude.  So many people wonder why things are not working in their life.  After all, they do all of the right things.  They work hard.  They show up early and leave late.  They take on projects that other people won’t….and they wonder why they have not progressed in their career.  They figure it must be sexism, racism, communism, any type of ‘ism’ to explain the reason why they are not getting the results that they want in their life.

But its not that. Not that at all.

What it boils down to is YOUR ATTITUDE.

How do you treat people?  Do you take on tasks enthusiastically?  Do you do things begrudgingly or because you truly want to make a difference?  Ever heard the saying that your ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR ALTITUDE?  Well, nothing could be more accurate.

We live in a world where things manifest at the level of their vibratory frequency and for those who thought that was too deep; let’s just say- you get what you give.  You reap what you sow.

If you are not getting what you want to out of life, before you do anything else, check your own attitude.  Make sure that you are doing whatever you do from a place of genuine joy and gratitude and you will open up the flood gates to manifest those blessings in your life.

-Aristotle

So many of us think that there is some magic potion that successful people drink that the rest of us aren’t have privy to.  We think that some how along the line, successful people had more advantage than us, are smarter than us, got lucky, or just magically appeared at the level that they are at.

Success is not magical.  It is the culmination of doing little things every day that bring you closer to your goal. That’s it.

If you truly want success in your life, look at the things that you are doing on a daily basis and analyze if they are leading you closer to your goals.

What are  your daily habits?