Imagine what your life could become if you got curious - about yourself, about your world-view and about your motivation for making the choices you make. Suddenly, life would be filled with astute observations and their corresponding, life-expanding insights. The next time you find yourself in that same old conversation, relationship, job, problem, etc., instead of looking around for someone to blame for keeping you there, get curious!
Let yourself notice you, for a change, and ask yourself the following questions: Isn't that interesting! Every time x happens, I respond with y. How come that seems like an intelligent response? How does it serve me to continue to do that? When was the last time that I actually chose my response instead of just acting out of habit? What is it that always doing x allows me to continue to not pay attention to y ? What would happen to the quality of my life if I did something else instead? How much more of my life do I want to live like this? What am I waiting for to be able to choose differently? Whose permission do I need to be able to begin to live my life in a way that leaves me feeling alive, dynamic and energetic?
Who do I need to become to allow myself to claim a joyful life?
The answers to these questions may not come easily, and you certainly won't find them in anyone else's mind. These questions may even lead to those dark moments of the soul, where uncertainty can sometimes feel like that great gasp for breath - the one that will expand you into a new level of expression. And as Ilya Prigogine - one of the finest minds in theoretical physics - once said: "The future is uncertain...but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."
Let yourself notice you, for a change, and ask yourself the following questions: Isn't that interesting! Every time x happens, I respond with y. How come that seems like an intelligent response? How does it serve me to continue to do that? When was the last time that I actually chose my response instead of just acting out of habit? What is it that always doing x allows me to continue to not pay attention to y ? What would happen to the quality of my life if I did something else instead? How much more of my life do I want to live like this? What am I waiting for to be able to choose differently? Whose permission do I need to be able to begin to live my life in a way that leaves me feeling alive, dynamic and energetic?
Who do I need to become to allow myself to claim a joyful life?
The answers to these questions may not come easily, and you certainly won't find them in anyone else's mind. These questions may even lead to those dark moments of the soul, where uncertainty can sometimes feel like that great gasp for breath - the one that will expand you into a new level of expression. And as Ilya Prigogine - one of the finest minds in theoretical physics - once said: "The future is uncertain...but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."
