Challenge How You've Always Thought

Have you been clinging to certain systems of belief for no other reason than it hasn't occurred to you to question your own way of thinking? I have and I believe it is high time we all looked inside of ourselves and took a look at our preconceived notions, evaluate them, and adjust them if necessary.

What brings me to this you ask? I am able to share with you a portion of what has brought me to this spot in life. I often will attempt to handle a situation the same way I've handled it time
after time and I always get the same result. This result is usually a temporary fix, enough to make me think my way is the correct answer in how to handle certain situations. However, this very small band-aid-of-a-fix is actually a direct miss. Oh, it hit for a minute, long enough to appear a fix, but indeed, it diverted the minute I wasn't looking, and the problem surfaces soon after.

I believe this principle can be applied to many of our issues and problems in life. We develop a system of beliefs or a mechanism for a fast fix. We live busy lives and we rather not have to delve into actually fixing issues, so we settle and settle and settle for a minute-fix...a day-fix....a month-fix. We don't realize at the time that it is this. We feel fixed. So we assume we are. However, because we haven't fully questioned our ways or our judgments, we end up back at square one. Interestingly, we are willing to be back at square one over and over and over. We'll do anything to avoid actually facing our issue and REALLY applying what it takes to fix it. We take the easy way out.

The only problem is, adding all attempts together, this is never the easy way. It ends up the long, hard, painful way. We don't take the time to truly take care of things once and for all. If we did, we'd face it no longer and be on our way to a happier, freer life.  I believe this is because we lack knowledge and know-how.  If we were equipped with these, we might make better decisions.  However, we can't do that unless we question our ways.

I wish I were not a 50 year-old-woman telling you this. I wish this occurred to me in my 20's. However, if it did, it did not stick. Help yourself today and heed my experienced words. You know you have an issue that needs a real fix and not a temporary, fake one. Take the time to learn what needs to be learned. Don't 'easy way out' of it. You'll be glad you did the work.


Take Good Care Today.