I woke up one day and I wondered.

 

I wondered how I arrived where I was at that very exact moment in time.

For, what I was seeing manifested in my life was alien to me.

After all, I had been firm in my commitment over the past couple of months.

I had made the changes needed to realize the transformation I was seeking, I thought.

Yet, I was seeing nothing in the present to reflect those efforts.

Things seemed to be going very opposite to what I was targeting.

I began to doubt the possibility of change.

The questions that rang incessantly in my mind were “how, and why”.

How was I doing all the things necessary to create change but there were no results to reflect my efforts?

Why was I experiencing this?

After some contemplation, inquiry, and seeking, I was brought to a revelation.

There was no mistake or mixup.

I had created all that I was seeing.

Everything I was, and that I was experiencing in the present; I had built it.

My habits over the last few years brought me to this place.

Nothing I was doing to change it would bring about a change overnight.

Admittedly, what I was seeing was shocking, but it was undeniably a result of what I had invested in my life.

It would take me the same amount of time to reconstruct, that it took me to get to where I was currently.

I began to realize that I needed to accept what I saw as a harvest and understand my role in the cultivation. From there I needed to redefine my vision of who I wanted to be, what I wanted, and why I wanted it. Above all, I had to believe that the investment I was now making would manifest those desires, but not instantaneously.

NO matter what I was seeing right now in the present it would not define who I will be if I continued to put in the work.

It’s not an overnight fix.

I want to motivate you.

Believe that whatever the present looks like and how impossible it may seem your present does not have to define your future.

However, you must first be realistic and accept this truth.

1. what you are experiencing now is a result of what you have invested in the past.
2. If you are unhappy with where you are, you must change what you have done up to this point. (However, reconstruction will take time. reprogramming is a timely process.)
3. If you have made changes but don’t see results yet, don’t be discouraged you must keep going.

*lasting and effective change will take more than 30 or 90 days.

If you stick to it, one day you will wake up and you will be pleasantly surprised at what you see. You may even miss the exact time when you start becoming and transforming into what you have been building.

Be assured that what you will see did not occur overnight.

Today I reaped what I sowed yesterday. Tomorrow I will reap the harvest that I am sowing today, good or bad.

Recommended Read:

Meadows, Martin. This Time Will Be Different: Short Book on Making Permanent 

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