Have you ever felt like life was just a crap shoot, a grab bag, a white elephant gift exchange? Have you envied the lives of other people and what they have and the ease with which they seem to get the things they have? Sure you have! That’s why you (and I) watch “Oprah’s Favorite Things” or “Lives of the Rich and Famous”. (Is that show still on?). That’s why we tap our toes and sing along with songs like Katy Perry’s FIREWORK.
Do you ever feel
Like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel
Feel so paper-thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in
Do you ever feel
Already buried deep
Six feet under
Screams but no one seems to hear
a thing…
Well, I for one have grown way past “sick and tired” of being “sick and tired” of my life. Instead of continuing to find fault with these PPP’s (perpetually “perky” people), I began listening to some of them in order to discover the source of their blissfully happy and successful lives. I finally decided that there MUST be something incredibly unique about the way they approach life; something I was sorely missing.
I certainly couldn’t set out to meet and greet all these people and interview them to find our their “secrets”. In fact, I would be hard pressed to find and interview one person. But the Internet is a vast virtual universe of information, and a great deal of that information is completely FREE, lucky for me (remember, I am not living that blissfully successful life yet).
I think my quest started with a simple piece of junk email; the stuff that fills my email box to the brim every…single…day! Only, something CAUGHT my attention, and instead of treated it as junk and trashing it, I click on it. Then when I was directed to the website, I clicked on the video, and of all things…(gasp) I watched and listened, not with skepticism, cynicism, or judgment (this is all hooey!) but totally enthralled with what was being communicated.
Before any thing was a THING, it was a THOUGHT! Everything around you–the chair you sit on, the clothes you are wearing, even the walls that surround you, existed as a thought in someone’s mind before it was ever manufactured, sewn, or built. In Genesis, it is recorded that God “said” and it (whatever “it” was) was. God said, “Let there be light” and LIGHT existed. He did the same for the heavens, the earth, the seas, the creatures in the heavens, the earth, and the seas.
God created man in His image, with the same capacity to create. The people who seem to live the lives we all wish we could live recognize the power that exists in KNOWING this truth: that every thing begins as a thought. The vast majority of us do not recognize that power exists let alone that the power exists in each of us. What we think about, we bring about.
Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you’re right!” He recognized that we have the power to create our own destiny. What we believe about our lives is what manifests in our lives. If you aren’t living the life you would LOVE to be living, consider what you are believing or what you are thinking about your life.
Do you know that there’s still a chance for you
Cause there’s a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July
Before you existed, you were a thought in the Divine Mind of God. He had a vision of your life before you even breathed your first breath in the same way new parents have for a new child. The DNA of all that you are to be and do in this world already exists in you. YOU get to decide how you will express the glory of your Creator in this world, and He delights to see what you are going to create.
If you are not living the life that you sometimes catch yourself imagining living, then it would be my guess that somebody (or somebodies) has told you “you can’t do that…that won’t work…you don’t have what it takes to do that” and you have believed it. You have accepted as reality some limitation that someone else has spoken about your life. And even now, the voice in your own head mimics that voice like a parrot…”you can’t do that…that won’t work..you don’t have what it takes to do that…”
These are lies. These are the affirmations of the ego-self, not the true self; that part of you that KNOWS its connection to the Divine Creative Mind of God of which you are a part. You can do whatever you put your hands to do. The limit is your own imagination, your own thoughts. You remember “Build it and they will come!” Well, believe it, dream it, think it…and then build it!
The people that live that life you wish you could live believed there were no limits to what they could do and be or live. That is the only difference between them and you. They were not constrained or restricted by the naysaying. They believed and they held to what they believed until they had it in hand.
We use maps to find unknown destinations. We use outlines to rough out reports. An architect always starts with a design idea. A construction engineer wouldn’t dream of starting a building project without blueprints. Having a design, a plan, keeps you on track, and let’s those who are assisting in the process know where the project is headed.
Use your own thought processes to create or design the life you desire. You HAVE a life by default. Now try building one by DESIGN.
Cause baby you’re a firework
Come on show ‘em what you’re worth
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you’re a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
You’re gunna leave ‘em fallin’ down-own-own
