If I Were A Hammer
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." -Patanjali (author and yogi)
I've heard it said that if you go around life as a hammer, all the challenges you come up against become nails. This, to me, is one of those beliefs that limits us and prevents growth on conscious and unconscious levels, preventing ust from becoming all that we can be.
There is good news if you've been going through life as a hammer, especially if you're not accomplishing what you want to be accomplishing -- all that needs to take place is an internal shift in attitude and this shift need not be difficult.
What am I going on about now? Well, it's simple. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over in the same way, and expecting different results. I'm talking about a shit in the way you've viewed challenges.
As a child, you have to but once touch a hot iron and you don't make the same mistake again. On all levels , conscious and sub conscious, when we see the iron plugged in we have a deep knowing that we should not touch it.
In relationships of all kinds, when we make decisions, what is it that keeps us thinking we have to be a hammer banging away the the world which we view as nails. It's habit. Maybe there's a little apathy mixed in there. Laziness, perhaps. All the usual suspects that keep us stuck in our small models of the world. On the up side, now that you're aware of it, you can change it.
My approach in life is that I am a magician and everything in my life is a opportunity to create what I want, what will be best for me, for my family, for my students, what will bring the most good to what I do in life.
I didn't always know I had this ability to create what surrounds me. Because of this, I wasn't always happy in life. There was a lot of trial and error and stumbling because I always believed, as I had been taught, that work is hard, good things come through struggle. Once I gave up on that notion and decided that all good things come easy to me, I realized I was able to receive good things easily. I began to create my universe full of pleasure, joy, and success, none of which are 'hard work'. I realized almost in the blink of an eye, that the one thing I was struggling against was myself and the limitations I imposed upon myself.
So are you ready to give up your attachment to being a hammer? There's something else, something more expansive and empowering waiting for you instead.
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.
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