The Pursuit

We are a week into the new year and some of us who have made new year's resolutions have already abandoned them, while others are carrying over the baggage from last year into this year.

Whether we have made resolutions or not, it is time to start anew.

There still may be old emotional sediment in our mind, heart, and consciousness from various situations that didn’t turn out in our favor.

Let’s burn those old feelings in effigy before they get etched into our Souls any deeper.

It’s time to do a few things we may have put off. I am not talking about resolutions, I am just referring to your ‘To Do’ list. That list that keeps getting longer, while our time is getting shorter.

There is a technique in the pursuit of happiness that makes it more palatable. If there is really something that we want to do, we can visualize it first.

We must see ourselves doing it. See ourselves experiencing it. Clock how we feel. Manifest the sensations. Imagine that we have already accomplished it.

The pursuit of the prize (anything that we want to accomplish), creates a space in our minds for receiving the prize. That is to say that it prepares us for the end result.

Do you know that before we accomplish anything, we have already accomplished it? It’s true. There’s a duality that exists between our mind and our Soul.

Our mind paints the picture provided by our Soul. These two entities are coworkers in our consciousness.

We tread the boards of our internal stage and dress rehearse in front of our conscious audience. We practice for hours until we make the goal, the shot, the home run, the touchdown, the finish line, match point - -we know the sensation of winning before we win. We don’t forget the feeling.

We have already had the moment of glory in our heads. When we accomplish it again in our waking life, it’s just the technicality of our Soul guiding us back to that moment.

We have already won. Knowing that IS the prize.

I want you all to win and accomplish what you want to do. There is even a little bonus that goes along with winning.

Sometimes when I wake up and think about all of the work that I have to do and whether I will be able to get through it all, I take a step back and say to myself,

'The only thing you have to do today is love.'

This simple mantra gives me more time to do everything with love. In doing so, I am not pressed for time in any way. In fact, I have more time to love the moment.

It is only through love that we will be able to accomplish anything.

From relationships, career, goals, to interacting with others; without love and without the purpose to give it away, our hearts would be left frozen over a lake of ice; in the cold, hard existence of life without any sun. Love guides the sun back into our hearts and breaks the ice.

There is no time to think about time. The time you take “thinking” about time is the time you could have spent "doing" something.

Adding love to your daily tasks will help them go a lot easier. Love should always be a natural pronouncement in your heart, spirit, action and pursuit of happiness.

When we close our eyes at night and they roll back into that time machine in the sky, we remember with tactile sensation, the roles we play in life are the reality of our consciousness.

We are only reflecting light that bounces off of the waves of God in a performance of a lifetime.

We are quick to criticize time for not warning us that it is going too fast and that we would miss it as soon as it passed, but time is a master artist that sketches our faces, shades and contours our lives in magnificent ways that illustrate amazing landscapes across the horizon of our Soul.

We can’t wait for time to do something. We have to do it now. Now IS the time.