Post-Election, Bail Outs and F.E.A.R.

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In these post-election times in our country, many are wondering what the future may hold. Is my job safe? What about the interest rates? How will all these bail-outs affect me? Will people still have the income to purchase my new internet program?

Over the past couple of months I've found myself going back and re-reading the following except from my book, The Power And Blessings Of A Sunrise, to remain focused that real success and freedom from F.E.A.R. is found in ongoing happiness and peace of mind.

At whatever age, gender, or circumstances, your future is before you, and not having a clear, concise vision of what your future will be can cause paralysis of your whole-life approach to your living experience.

If you can not shape a clear, concise vision of where you are going in your future, you may not take the first step, or the next one, or the one after that to get to where you'd really like to be. You may never start the journey to live dreams that have been safely tucked away while you think, "That'll never happen, but, it makes me feel good to dream and fantasize about it." You'll do nothing of substance and go nowhere out of fear that you may be taking the wrong step.

It is the fear of taking the wrong step that can propel you into being someone who sits around and waits for your unplanned tomorrows to accumulate and become a collection of wasted yesterdays, which can multiply into a life of wasted dreams.

Not having a vision of your future will lead you to follow someone else's idea for where you should go in your future, what you should do or who you should be.

Not having a clear, well-defined and concise vision for your future can cause you to stay clouded in confusion by events of your past, your current situation or your fear of the future.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, "Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat"

Doubt about the future is the antithesis of faith and, frankly, my faith in everything, 18 years ago - my belief and faith in God and faith in my fellow man - was shallow, at best.

In retrospect, I know I made mistake after mistake in my earlier years following what others said success was and is. Like a lap-dog, I followed what others had pre-ordained for what my life SHOULD be.

During my early business years, maybe I should have known not to look to others, or to try to compare myself to what others had accomplished or what they owned. Maybe I should not have allowed others to set and define my standards for living a successful life, but I did. And, I did it with unbridled passion. I allowed "the shouts and cheers" of others, media advertising, my work associates, and my desire for the "right" things calling out to me to define what success and happiness would be in my life.

In perfect alignment with acquiring all the "right" things, I caught the disease of what seems to be the microwave mindset of many in our culture, "I want what I want and WHEN I want it".

Unfortunately, for many, this mantra remains the guiding force for living their lives today. In our culture of excesses, misguided notions of entitlement and programs offered to seemingly make everyone equal, it seems to be easier to wait for, instead of work for, that faraway future held in dreams and fantasies.

Anyway, reflecting on my early years - all the days, months and years of chasing the "right" things - I realized I was not happy and had caught nothing of real meaning.

After leaving the big, always-on-the-go business world, earning the big paychecks and looking forward to my monthly fix of buying some new "thing", I found myself wanting for meaning, searching for my own identity, and longing to catch true happiness.

For three or four years, I wandered aimlessly through life, going through the motions of living, wondering why I wasn't happy, making mistake after mistake and feeling a terrible loneliness.

I had been so busy striving to achieve our culture's "right" standards that it wasn't until I finally understood that my personal definition of success and happiness should have been defined by a relationship with God and a spiritual peace of mind instead of things.

I simply did not have it, because happiness and peace of mind is a highly personal experience. It must be one we "catch" for, and by, ourselves. It's not the job, the paycheck, the houses, the cars, clothes, family, friends or any of the other "right" things that lead us to "catching" happiness and peace of mind.

What it is is forming a clear vision of your future as it is presented, daily, upon the horizon of God's sunrise of opportunity.
#bail #fear #outs #postelection
  • Profile picture of the author Kym Robinson
    Wow!
    how intense!

    I agree and say that - that is why everyone needs to set goals!
    and then know that a setback is just a setup for a comeback!

    being an absolute perfectionist will cripple you and learning that you dont have to be one is hard (I know!) but the benefits far outway any uncomfortable feelings when you race through life on a high, achieving everyday, because youre no longer scared to be anything less than perfect!
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