If Money wasn’t an Issue…

There is a question that has really gripped my attention and raised my awareness of late. I would like to share it with you as I believe it could help you negotiate some of those sticky, sensitive, scary areas in your mind that keep you from doing what you really, really want to be doing.

Here’s the question:

If money wasn’t an issue, and if status/image, confidence, obligation/duty, physical/mental/emotional ability were not issues either, how would you want to spend your time, use your life?

I encourage you to really give this question some deep thought. Actually, allow it some deep feeling.

Too many of us spend the best part of our adult lives doing things we would rather not be doing while decrying the fact that we were denied the freedom to do as we liked as children!

One of the major occupants of our adult lives is our JOB, something that many of us begrudgingly allow into our lives and then find a justification for its continuing occupancy! In academic research, this is referred to as ‘post-event justification/rationalization’.

The mind is quite capable of coming up with reasons that support our professional/work and personal choices…and it does, to the extent that we are not only able to convince others but, sadly, ourselves too!

And so we continue for years, trying to ignore, suppress or placate with distractions that persistent restlessness that we just cannot seem to shrug off once and for all! Until maybe, one day, when we finally give an ear to its relentless calling, we find to our great dismay, that it may be ‘too late’ for change. Or so we believe.

Well, today, right here and right now, could be just such a moment to give an ear to that calling. A moment for change. It is never ‘too late’. The belief that it is ‘too late’ is a belief that we have been socialized into. There is no reason why that belief cannot be questioned. In fact, there is every reason why it should be! After all, it is your happiness that such a belief can either allow or prevent, depending on whether you accept it or reject it.

I once saw a bumper sticker that made this point quite succintly:

Don’t believe everything you think.

Time, or ‘psychological time‘ is something that we can take charge of using the power of thought, which is a power that we have and use (for better or for worse) every moment of our lives. Now is where all change ever happens. And you can be the orchestrator of the change you deeply desire! But first, you must be the one who imagines that change. No one else can do that for you. You have to allow yourself to step into the paradise of desire, a place that you so joyously and willingly spent much of your earliest childhood in!

So, why not give it a go? Ask yourself the question,

If money wasn’t an issue, and if status/image, confidence, obligation/duty, physical/mental/emotional ability were not issues either, how would you want to spend your time, your life?

Give yourself all the time and space to feel the answer. You don’t have to do anything about your answer if you don’t wish to, but, gee, wouldn’t you just like to explore the possibilities..??? In your mind, of course… :-)

Have fun!

Love always, Lucy

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