Apr23

Freedom or Approval?

80% of what we do in our life is motivated by the need for approval.

Approval: An affirmation of the self via your relationship with others based on external notions.

“. . . well I just thought this ‘certain thing’ was what I was supposed to do/be by this ‘certain time’ . . . “.

We think we should be making a certain amount of money, we think we should be treated a certain kind of way, we think we need a certain kind of spouse, or have a certain kind of relationship with our community and and family members.

All these things we ‘think’ are from an inherited belief system and we do them more than anything else out of our need for approval from someone else or to support our cultural superstitions that we operate by as if they are truths.

How will we ever know on a ‘higher’ level what it is we are to do or be when we are not operating out of our ‘knowing that we know that we know’  but instead coming from what we “think”.

The answer is that we will not know and will be left with living a life that is not truly ours.

It is the 1960′s and a young White Christian female from Kansas falls in love and marries an older Black Muslim from Africa while off in college. They have a baby together. The child  grows up to become the 44th president of the United States of America.

If you think about it, that was not culturally approved-of behavior by both parents, but the fact that it happened was quite extraordinary and now people all over the world have benefited and been inspired by  that union.

 

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Apr20

Stop Doubting Yourself

Self-doubt is the “Devil” masquerading as you.

Seeking to kill, steal, and destroy your vision, and purpose for being.

There is something you have been called to do. Something that only you can do . Something you long to be. But the doing of these things or the being of  that best version of you is the death for everything opposite of it.

There are many diverse  illusions that are strategically designed to keep us  and anyone who will be affected by our vision from transcending from our current place in life that is no longer serving who we are – both spiritual and material.

Just to know that these illusions are fake doesn’t make them less real.  How many times have we known that the shadow in the dark is only a shadow but yet the fear the shadows invokes in our hearts and mind is real.

Its not until we get up and face the fear and walk through the illusion that it collapses and we can continue as we were before.

When you do this you will regain the confidence that was lost and bye and bye you will lose all self-doubt and lack of faith in yourself to do what ever it was in your heart to do or be.

 

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Apr14

Overcoming Self-Doubt

Starts with a renewed commitment to your vision. Upgrade it or expand it but do whatever you have to do to believe in it.

Then you act on it without a  fear failure. That is another trick of “Satan”. Remember the word “f.a.i.l.” is “First-Aid-In-Learning”.

Every time you act on faith in your vision and purpose you destroy the illusions that resist it.

On the contrary every time you fail to act or move because of self-doubt and fear you reinforce the illusions and give power to “Satan”. That is why “anything done without faith is sin.” (Romans 14:23).

Find reaffirming people and words and a lifestyle that supports and is in harmony with your personal vision and purpose. For what you read and study and entertain is either supporting you and your vision or aiding in your self doubt and lack of faith.

Therefore choose carefully how you spend your time and with whom. Either something is for you or against you. Surround yourself with things and folks who are for you, moving and growing in ways that serve you and them.

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