Have you ever woken up feeling like everything in life is “just short of working?”
Like some crucial piece of your life’s puzzle is missing and until it’s discovered, all the work you’ve so relentlessly poured your heart and soul into the last several years never will see itself into full manifestation?
This missing piece, or obstruction, stands between you and your path, preventing you in ever fully feeling confident, content and balanced in life.
I never could quite place my finger on exactly what this missing piece was in my life the last several years, until today…
Now visualize a massive jigsaw puzzle containing hundreds of thousands of pieces donning your favorite celebrity’s face. This puzzle covers over half your coffee table and you’ve painstakingly worked on completing this sucker for years. This thing has taken you through quite the wild roller coaster ride of emotions, and tested your patience like no other, but you remained committed. In fact, you took an oath swearing you’d live to see the day of its completion. You nearly gave up many times, but your inner confidence reigned supreme and finally you have reached the day of reckoning…
Only one final piece remains.
Victory’s in sight.
You are nearly finished, but there’s a MAJOR holdup…
The final piece of the puzzle has gone missing!
Making matters worse, the space where the missing piece would go is smack dab right in the middle of your favorite celebrity’s nose turning this puzzle into a pretty awkward looking nose-less portrait. The puzzle will now remain forever incomplete unless somehow this missing piece turns up, otherwise the years you’ve spent toiling tirelessly away at this thing would be for nothing.
Frustration as the term used to describe this emotional predicament would be an understatement.
Anyways, the point I’m trying to make here besides my utter disdain for puzzles, is whenever everything in life feels aligned and revved up for success, but repeatedly falls “Just short of working,” something is definitely blocking your progress from moving forward.
You could get all philosophically ‘Socrates’ in your search for the root cause of your ailment, but I don’t recommend it, because the reason what’s missing will continue to evade you, and you can spend years frustratingly chasing your own tail trying to figure it out.
Now I may be taking a wild shot in the dark here, but I’m willing to bet a good chunk of people would seek out external causes to blame the reason why their lives continue to remain in a “just short of working” state, never once dawning on them how drastically more productive their time would be spent searching for the solution as to why their life is this way within themselves.
The past several months, I experienced reoccurring feelings arise involving anger and frustration. I was sick of chasing my own tail and whatever this missing piece was leaving my life “just short of working” had reached its emotional peak, literally driving me bat-shit crazy.
Whatever this missing piece was, it continually evaded me because I kept searching for the answer outside myself, and didn’t make any sense because on paper my life looked great: I live in Bali, successfully launched the biggest project of my life to date, and started this new writing gig that feels pretty sweet too. So why on earth does it feel like there’s something missing?
Today I discovered what this missing piece was and why my life felt like everything is “Just short of working,” and the answer was as clear as rain.
Everything in my life was “Just short of working” because of the outdated belief system my ego stubbornly insisted I grasp onto, and unless I completely release these limiting belief structures blocking my progress toward success, I never will be able to fully manifest everything I’ve worked so hard creating in my life into tangible reality.
My limiting beliefs were the obstacle and I was blocking my own path. I was preventing myself from ever fully realizing the confidence, contentment and balance lacking in my life…and in fact the truth is more oftentimes than not, we ALWAYS are.
I don’t know about you, but I was exhausted fighting with life.
When you go to war with life, life ALWAYS wins.
You can’t fight with fate. Life is going to flow the way it wants to, continuously giving you more and more of the same experiences wearing slightly different masks whether pleasant or unpleasant, until you fully surrender and roll with the current.
If it feels like everything is “Just short of working,” it is, and it’s up to you to start trusting life can and WILL work out, because it ALWAYS DOES.
So today, I’ve changed my beliefs. I’m allowing life to run its course. I know life always can support and holds me, but I won’t ever feel that way unless I fully surrender to it and trust what is happening as it unfolds.
Life doesn’t have to be about constant struggle, or enduring never ending battles of suffering as we try to force life into a direction that coddles our ego.
Today I am officially giving life a chance to flow its own way. The time has come for me to turn in my resignation as “DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSE.”
I have made a pact to BELIEVE ALL IS WELL and EVERYTHING IS WORKING IN PERFECT, DIVINE ORDER.
I will do my work happily, joyously, and believe everything I am doing now is what is required to meet the Universe halfway. After all, it is a fifty-fifty partnership baby.
The way of the Universe is one of smooth and calm seas, free of all error. The way of the ego is full of unpleasant rocky surprises, loose ends and unexpected error, usually resulting from our impatience and the need to barge ahead too quickly before it’s time.
I let go.
I let go.
I LET GO.
I trust.
I trust.
I TRUST,
and…
I do BELIEVE.
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