TRY or CRY? What to do when life throws you a curveball!
We are the only thing in the way of achieving our own dream! We have a choice to try or cry!
Life throws everyone curve balls. How we catch the curve ball is what determines our ability to obtain a steady flow of progress. Sometimes we have to run and chase it, dive after it, jump high, or roll in the mud for a while. What happens if we don't even try? Well, I suppose we could stand there idol. Or maybe we could fall face down and cry. Perhaps we could walk off the field of life and quit the game. One choice leads to insight about the game and continued successes and the other leads to nothing.
I know what it feels like to want lay down and cry and then walk off the field when no one is watching. When faced with a crisis myself, I had a choice to make. I could wallow in self pity forever or learn from it, use the experience to better myself, help others and keep moving!
This inspirational story from Mandy Harvey says it all. She lost her hearing at the age of 18. She had a choice to make. Just try or just cry. While life threw her a serious curveball, she didn't let that stop her. God is using her to help us all see the potential and access within all of us. This story isn't just about her. It is a message. It's a message that allows us all to see what is possible, achievable if we just try. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO! Her motto that led her to success is "Just Try Harder!"
Marianne Williamson talks about our access to the power within us. She challenges us to think differently. In a nut shell, she is telling us that we don't have a right not to be great, not to let our light shine and that by doing so, we give others permission to do the same! Listen to her powerful message here. Click here for video!
"How though?" That's what I always think when I see inspirational stories from others. I sometimes observe the story as if they somehow got lucky. I have viewed them as separate from myself. As if they have luck or access in which I do not, but that is simply false. Some people just try harder and rise to the challenge that Mandy Harvey models and Marianne Williamson challenges us to do.
Here are some tips to give you laser focus for just trying. You don't need to wait until after the curve ball comes. You can start today knowing that the future curve ball will not stop your access to your full potential.
1. Identify what you want without limits (no dream is achieved unless it is created). Create a vision board. In the center write your wildest, limitless dream. In other words, If you are writing the end of of your own story, what is it? (This is for all dreams, big, small and everything in between) If you can't vision it, it won't happen! Then map out smaller steps that will lead you in the direction of your dream/goal.
2. Invite in the presence and openness to allow you to recognize the things in your path that might be leading you towards it. Ask for openness to see those opportunities. Don't limit what they are. Ask for and look for signs that are pointing you towards that dream and be prepared and ready to receive it!
3. Take action. Don't wait for the signs and dreams to knock on your door (but sometimes they will on your journey.) Keep adding small steps that will lead you toward that ending you have in your vision.
4. Start living it (act as if this will be a reality.) Talk to people about it. People connect people and they become the pointers and connectors that lead you towards your helpers. Read everything you can to gain knowledge. Take a class. Save a dollar towards your goal. Sign up for emails related to your dream. Immerse yourself in that world. Just start. Take a baby step everyday.
5. Words are POWERFUL! Change what you are saying to yourself. Below are some inspiring quotes. If one or more resonate with you, hang it up until it is engrained in your mind! Be sure it is something that expands your thinking to invite in possibilities!
A short time later you will find signs in your route. You will not even recognize how you started down the path but the summit will seem closer and closer everyday. Keep watch, stay open and prepare to adjust the outcome as opportunities arise. Dive for the curve balls, communicate with your life teammates, jump towards the sky for the big catch. If you land in the dust sometimes, just brush off and take your stance once again!
Don't wait! Start today. Just TRY! Do it!
LIKE and SHARE to help someone (who may be quitting or crying) to have some inspiration and hope today. You may save a life! Be brave, post your dream in the comments below.
Dreams never realized are the ones not imagined and walked towards!
If you just made an excuse for why yours isn't possible, YOU just ended your dream! No one else.
Consider yourself charged up for dreams and action with no excuses!
Cindy
