Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced. – Swami Vivekananda
Hello everyone,
I hope that your week and weekend was filled with peace and relaxation.
This morning I went out to do a little bit of shopping and put myself in the midst of the “holiday rush”. I met everyone I saw with a hello and smile. I was amazed at the people who were stunned by a stranger saying hello and actually smiling at them. While it warmed my heart to connect with strangers, I noticed that most of the people running around were on a mission and not taking the time to stop and enjoy the moment they were in. It was almost like I could see their wheels spinning doing what they needed to get done to get onto the next thing.
When I got home I thought of how often I find myself thinking about the future and what my dreams and goals are for the coming year. I thought about everything that I wanted to accomplish and ended up having to take some deep breaths to bring me back to the NOW moment. In that now moment, I began to make a list of not only what I accomplished during the year but also what I considered an incompletion. After celebrating my completions, I took a list at my incompletions and was reminded of a conversation I had with a friend of mine a few weeks ago.
We were on the phone talking about our goals for the future and how when we get excited about creating more opportunities that will move us forward in pursuing our dreams we tend to jump in with both feet and find that our energies get scattered across other areas of our lives. That one new thing that inspired us can end up being “just one more thing to do”. He used a beautiful analogy that went like this, “it is like I have all these glasses on the counter to fill and only have a cup of water to fill them all’. If you had 5, 6 or even 10 glasses on that counter, some would contain a few drops, some would have a little more and some would have none. Now, imagine that you could only drink from one of those glasses. Would your thirst be quenched? Would you feel nourished?
In life coaching, I ask my clients to fill out a “life wheel” where they rate certain areas of their lives including spirituality, relationships, career, finances, health, leisure time and home and surroundings. The areas are rated from 1-10 with 1 being the lowest vibration that they are living from to 10 being the highest. Just like the glass analogy used above, if a client chooses to work on more than one area at a time, they might end up feeling incomplete and undernourished from not paying enough attention and focus to just one area. Learning to focus their attention and energy on just one area will bring them to their goal that much sooner. One of their glasses on the counter is now full and overflowing into the next glass.
Your challenge and opportunity for the week is to see how many glasses you have on the counter and ask yourself “what do I need to do or let go of to allow this glass to runneth over”? If you need to put a few glasses in the cupboard, that’s ok. They will be there when you are ready to fill them up!
Here’s to a week of extra nourishment and hydration.
Blessings to all,
Mary Laughlin Cunningham
Life Coach/Author/Workshop Leader
http://www.life4ce.net/
Where the difference is YOU
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