The Way It Is

I've decided to live my life on purpose. Not as if I haven't, but too often, I've let life lead where it will rather than deciding my own fate. I choose to live my life with integrity and purpose, determined to make choices that will create the life I desire, not the life I thought I was handed.

Here's where I'm going:

I want a life with meaningful relationships. I believe that every person I have any meaningful contact with is in my life for a reason. This includes the persons I work with, persons I choose to be friends with, and individual family members. If I truly believe this, I will make the choices that allow these relationships to flourish.

I believe that I have something to contribute to every individual I come in contact with. I can choose to contribute something positive, or I can choose to contribute something the will detract from their experience on this earth.

I want to become a "life coach." Knowing the steps this involves gives me a greater purpose than I currently had. There is a science to reprogramming and repatterning the brain, and I am going to learn and practice this science in order to become whole, as well as help others become whole.

"Whole" as in a complete human being, well rounded and growing in the areas of relationships, spirituality, intelligence, emotional maturity, and creativity.

I believe that the circumstances of my life are the results of choices I have made. Rather than staying in those circumstances, I can "course correct" and change my reality. Perception is reality, and so I make my own reality. If I can create my own reality, than I can create the life that I want by altering my perception of reality.

Sound a little simplistic? What is it that allows people to walk across a bed of hot ashes unharmed? The reality is that those red-hot ashes burn. However, if I alter my perception of that reality, I could walk across that same bed of ashes and not get burned. What's is more real then? That hot ashes burn, or that I am unharmed?

This then is the quandry, how much of reality is "real" and how much of reality is your perception of reality? How much of the "real" reality can you know if the only perception of reality you have is based on the filters of perception and experience, as well as any other internal filters?

So, reality is what we make it. I choose my reality. My choices create the reality of my life. Your choices create the reality of your life. Change your reality, change your life.