Inspiraelevation

One of the deadliest things about achievement is the outspoken opinions of the people you know.

The Life of a Creator

We are creators; we have within us the capacity to make something out of nothing. So Unbelievably, we have the power to make the impossible possible. That is an AWEsome thing.

To think long before anything exists it is formulated in the mind.

Some of the most imaginable things we see and use today were once only thoughts.

Thoughts put things into motion. Pronouncement greases the wheels. Work brings about manifestation (gives material substance to your ideas)

The Poisoned Apple/Creator’s Bane

The period between the inception of an idea or dream and its realization is critical.

What is that point?

It is where the creator stands at the point of decision, deciding with whom to share their vision.

Biting the Poisoned Apple/The Creator’s Fall

One of an individual’s biggest mistakes is sharing an idea with the wrong person.

Not all people want what’s best.

London Mond said, “Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.”

So, whether out of malicious intent or not is beyond the point. Words have sticking power. Their words and sentiments can cripple if not countered.

The Poison in the Apple

Negative sentiments are like poison because they infect the mind. Every time someone makes a negative pronouncement concerning your dream, they plant seeds of doubt.

Doubt is the Achilles heel of achievement. Doubt translates to fear. Fear always reminds you what you cannot do or will not do. So, internalizing negativity slows down the momentum.

Venomous Words

While energy is transferrable and there is a definite power in energy exchange, verbal exchange is even more potent. Words have the power of death in them.

The Dalai Lama once said

Let go of negative people; they only show up to share complaints, problems, disastrous stories, fear, and judgment on others. If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not your mind.

As much time it takes you to settle on creating and engaging in the business of making the impossible possible, it takes less time to deconstruct that.

Snakes Don’t Make Good Bedfellows.

So always be careful of the company kept.

From the heart, people speak. If the words are negative, rotten, demotivating, and uninspiring, there is likely darkness in the heart. The water source is infected.

One can’t drink fresh water from a poisoned well.

“Snow White” and the Poisoned Apple

To take an example from a beloved Disney novel, Snow White.

Perhaps Snow White would have avoided the long sleep if she simply stayed away from the kindly stranger offering her strangely delicious fruit.

As a lesson, Avoid the poisoned apple by staying far away from the witches cloaked as friends and family

Words can seem sweet and loving but have deadly intent.

I can count countless times when I bit the poisoned apple, which put my dreams into a coma.

A Word to You the Creators

So, I implore you to remember this one thing,

“Don’t put out your fire because someone doesn’t understand your flame.”

Be observant; remember who you are and why you are doing what you are doing. If anyone doesn’t buy into your dream, they are not worth your time.

I woke up one day, and I wondered?

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

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

My belief On the Present

I had stood firm in my commitment over the past couple of months.

I had made the changes that should have revealed themselves through a transformational experience.

That is what I thought.

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

Things, instead, seemed to be going in the opposite direction.

Doubt is Sneaky

When seeds of doubt take root, they grow like weeds threatening to choke out the growing bloom. 

And I began to doubt change was possible.

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

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

2. Why was I experiencing this?

After some contemplation, inquiry, and seeking, I had a revelation.

When You Open the Present What you get is what you get?

There was no mistake or mix-up.

I had created the present I was seeing.

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

Whether I wanted to acknowledge it or not, my habits, over the last few years, brought me to this place.

Your life is not a FedEx Delivery Service.

Nothing I was doing to change in the present would bring a change overnight.

I was shocked by the lack of change, but it was undeniably a result of what I had invested in my life up until that point. 

And without a doubt, it would take me the same amount of time to reconstruct that it took me to get to where I was currently.

Accepting the Present

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

NO matter what I saw in the present, it would not define who I would be if I continued to work.

No Fixadent and Forget It

I recently listened to a straight talk conducted by Peter Sage, who gives an excellent art exhibit metaphor related to this account. 

Suppose you planned to visit an art gallery and did not like what you saw. Could you demand the paintings be removed?

Absolutely not!

In fact, if you were to go into a museum and rage about the artwork, you would get thrown out and nothing would change.

You would still be angry now sitting outside the gallery. Unfortunately the art will still be on the wall. 

The Metaphor

Our lives are like a gallery. All the paintings are our experiences. We can’t change those; they have already occurred; they are, as one would say, history. So to fly into a rage because you do not like what you have created in your life is fruitless. Anger and frustration are not going to erase the artwork. 

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
― Golda Meir, My Life

Here is the lesson of the metaphor.

In life, one must recognize the artwork on the wall is made with indelible ink and it is fixed. However, one does not have to stay in the room. No one is holding an individual prisoner to that room. Likewise we are not chained to our past.

Wonderfully, we are perfectly capable of walking into a new room, a new future.

From that point, we can paint the type of paintings we want. 

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.

The life you live today is a reflection of your past.

You want to change your reality start today and define your future. 

You must be realistic and accept this truth.

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

If you stick to it, you will wake up one day, and you will be pleasantly surprised at what you see.

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

So, if you stick to it, you will wake up one day, and you will be pleasantly surprised at what you see.

You may even miss the exact time 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 Changes.”