It is an Act of Courage to Live the Plan for Your Life
What path are you on in your life, work and relationships?When you are on the path intended for you and provided to you by your unique life plan, certain experiences become inherent along that path. Knowing these experiences helps you to know how to navigate them and to maximize their possibilities. In The Guide: Knowing the Plan for Your Life, the first experiences of following your plan and living on the path it directs will be “an act of courage.” This is especially important in a world that wants you to be who the world says you and everyone else should be. It is an egoic world that is easy to get sucked into and make your reality.
Knowing your life plan and following it creates a “new reality;” the reality of the true you and who you were intended to be. To stay in your “new reality” when the “egoic reality” tugs and pushes takes a focused courage and a continuing courage.
This is not the traditional type of courage defined as bravely confronting difficulty or danger and making sacrifices in the face of opposition. Rather, this is the “courage of your convictions,” where your convictions are grounded in love and joy. This is the courage to be the real you, not the egoic you.
The real you knows the meaning of living your purpose in the service of the world. You have the courage of knowing your gifts and how to use them to share your vision in your work and interactions. The courage to be you is all you can be, no matter how many people question, doubt, or dismiss the real you.
Whether alone or in a group, your choices and behavior are congruent with who you are, even when it may seem to disadvantage you. In the long run you know that the best and right choices are the only ones you can make, and the results of those choices confirm your courage.
This act of courage, of being true to yourself and your purpose, in time ceases being an act and becomes a part of who you are and how others know your vision and purpose through your courage. They will wonder and even ask how you remain so true, especially in light of the push and pull to be what the world wants you to be. It will be easy and you will tell them it is easy when you know the truth about yourself and how you were intended to be. You will become courage itself and being the courage will give you confidence and a powerful knowing reassurance to handle everything with ease and love.
Is it time to know and follow your plan? Is it time to experience and become the courage your plan provides?
The process for exploring and discovering your personal life plan is provided in The Guide: Knowing the Plan for Your Life. To purchase your copy please e-mail me at jane@janeminer.com. ©2009 Dr. Jane Miner - PERSONAL Solutions. For more information or support for your personal solutions contact me at jane@janeminer.com. May be reprinted with this attribution fully intact.
Two Strategies for Wisdom
Recently, this message was sent to the subscribers to my private newsletter Personal Wisdom. It is of benefit to anyone who feels overwhelmed, lost, and afraid, along with anyone who wants an anchor to steady them as they make a choice or decision.
I know that each of us has to make our life personal to be successful, without taking everything personally that happens around us. To make life personal without making taking it personally is to hear, listen and heed your personal wisdom. For me that happens when I follow two principles and strategies.
Know and choose your truth while being aware of the distractions that can keep you from it.
As you know, the desert is my favorite place for a couple of reasons. First, I live blissfully and warmly in the middle of the high desert of Southern Utah or paradise, as I like to call it. It is paradise because of its stark, open and inviting serenity. Not much is hidden in the desert, except underground and sometimes under a rock. Other than that the desert presents itself as it is: open, quiet, and balanced. This desert is also very red providing a unmistakable contrast with the bright blue sky that meets it in a 360 degree horizon, no matter where you are standing. Now that’s clarity.
Second, the desert reminds me constantly of the desert inside of each of us. In The Four Agreements, Don Miquel Ruiz is speaking of transformation and how we must “break the limiting agreements” that we have made with our fears. Such agreements keep us from who we really are, love. He says, “Going into the core of those agreements is what I call going into the desert. When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels.” Lately, I have been spending a lot of time in both deserts and I highly recommend the experience. In the outside and inside desert can be found peace, serenity, and our wisdom or angels.
Know your potential and focus on experiencing it daily.
Now the most important wisdom I know and have experienced. Each of us, you and me, have a magnificent potential that is the foundation for success in every aspect of life. If you are not experiencing your potential each day, you don’t know and trust your potential or you are distracted and giving your precious energy, space and time to what and who doesn’t support your potential.
Knowing your potential is an inside job. That means no one can tell you what it is or give you permission to experience it. You must explore and discover it for yourself. This happens when you focus on what you can do, have done, and have the capabilities and experience to do now. When you choose to focus and trust your potential, everything changes easily and elegantly.
That’s it, two strategies that have guided me and when I remember them have always opened up my personal wisdom. May your days be personal, your potential unlimited and your wisdom abundant!
©2009 Dr. Jane Miner - PERSONAL Solutions. For more information or support for your personal solutions contact me at jane@janeminer.com. May be reprinted with this attribution fully intact.
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