Your Life – Committed or Involved?
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.” – Napoleon Hill
Are you just ‘involved’ in creating your life? What I mean by that is are you letting something or someone else create your life for you, and then once in a while you say “ooh, I like that! that’s nice!” or “oh, no, not this again!”.
If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. Or maybe just stuck in a rut. Or paralysed from moving forward for some reason. It’s time to make the decision to be committed, not just involved.
Here’s 5 quick tips to help take you down the aisle again.
1. Build on your foundation of faith.
Whatever that faith may be for you. Because if you don’t believe that the forces out there are for you, then why even bother. You can only dream and live your best life if you have absolute faith that God loves you and wants the best for you more than you want it for yourself.
You just need absolute faith, not perfect faith. To me, perfect faith means you need to have it turned on all the time (‘it’ being this heightened sense of a faith-emotion and that’s not always possible and sustainable) but absolute faith means that the God that I believe in is absolutely good and loves me unconditionally regardless of how I feel or what I’m facing.
Build on your faith by reading inspirational scripture (and only inspiration scripture). Read inspirational stories, listen to inspirational preachers and teachers. Basically, do anything that will remind you that God is good and he is for you not against you. Always.
2. Take full responsibility for your life.
This is the next step, because if God is for you then the only one who is in the way of your success is you. Don’t play the blame game, stop reliving your past, quit dwelling on your mistakes. Assess and evaluate where you are right now, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and live again. You, and you alone, are driving your life no matter how many bumps and potholes and obstacles you encounter.
3. Envision your vision.
So you’ve accepted you’re the creator of your life. Go start creating, first in your mind. You’ve got to be able to imagine it somehow before it can even show up in your life. This means you have to turn off your physical eyes for the moment and turn on your spiritual ones.
So you’re broke, or overweight, or unhealthy, or loveless, or surrounded by losers. In other words, all of your senses say this is not your best life, and there’s no way to turn this around. Don’t believe it. And especially, learn to turn off the scoffers and the naysayers — and believe me, they can be as loud on the inside as they are on the outside.
Set aside time everyday to focus and sharpen your vision of what you want your life to be.
4. Act. Do something or stop doing something.
God is Spirit. God loves you, but will not do anything for you in the physical. On this earth, you have the power. You have a body. You have a mind. Use them. Work them.
If you’re unhealthy and need to lose weight, start exercising, clean out your pantry (cupboards) and get rid of the junk, and buy, cook and serve healthy food in your house.
If you need money or a career, start where you need to start whether it’s getting an education, finding a job, or setting up a business.
If you’re in deep debt doo-doo, then cut up your credit cards, or sell some of your stuff, or get wise about your spending.
If your house is a mess and it’s stressing you out, then get organized , or hire a cleaner and get them to do it, or pick up the clutter and throw it away.
If yours is not a peaceful happy family life, then stop yelling, or start caring, or get professional help to sort it all out.
5. Re-commit when you need to.
We’re all human, and we will falter simply because. Whenever that happens, pray, regroup, and say “I DO!” all over again.
