Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
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Personal Development for Smart People
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There's only o n e true authority in your life, and it's y o u . You make the decisions. You take the actions. If you're looking to some external authority figure, leader, or guru to tell y o u h o w to live your life, you're looking in the w r o n g place. That leader is y o u . W h e t h e r y o u feel ready or not, y o u ' r e in c o m m a n d . Despite w h a t y o u may have been conditioned to believe, there's no higher authority in this life than y o u — n o t your parents, your boss, or your favorite supreme being. If y o u think anyone else has authority over y o u , it's only because y o u yield your authority by choice. S o m e - times the consequences of not doing so are so severe that y o u may feel as if y o u have no choice, but in truth y o u always d o . Even w h e n threatened with suffering or death, y o u remain the c o m m a n d e r of your o w n life. S o m e of your choices may be extremely limited, but they're always yours to make. True c o m m a n d doesn't imply the unbridled exercise of power. An intelligent c o m m a n d e r does not bark random orders and expect t h e m to be blindly o b e y e d . C o m m a n d must be rooted in truth and based on an accurate assessment of the situation. You're the one w h o per- ceives your reality, and y o u must decide h o w to act (or not act) based on your perceptions. H o w y o u deal with that information is up to y o u , and life awaits your orders. You may feel well prepared, or y o u may feel unready, but the burden of c o m m a n d is yours no matter w h a t . I w a s raised to believe that God—specifically, the Catholic version of G o d — w a s the ultimate authority in my life. My entire existence was 86 Authority a blessing bestowed by G o d , and my assigned role w a s to satisfy His expectations for h o w I should live. I was told I had free will; however, I'd eventually be rewarded by G o d if I exercised my will o n e w a y and punished if I exercised it a different way. It wasn't lost on me that the favored path w a s to yield my authority to those w h o taught this, even though their specific teachings w e r e incongruent a n d often ran afoul of my c o m m o n sense. I w a s also encouraged to give t h e m my time and money so they could continue expanding their o w n power base. At age 17, I finally recognized I was being coerced to participate instead of being offered a truly free choice, so I left. I concluded that it was best for me to make my o w n decisions instead of having them dic- tated by those w h o claimed to have a direct connection to the source of ultimate authority. I w a s willing to live with the consequences if I was incorrect. Let me clarify that there's absolutely nothing w r o n g with living in a w a y that y o u feel honors your Divine Creator, but this choice must be m a d e freely and consciously. No honor is found in blind obedi- e n c e . For better or worse, y o u ' v e been granted free will, so y o u must always bear the burden of decision. If y o u fall prey to the belief that some authoritarian G o d might punish y o u for exercising your free will, recognize that such a belief cannot possibly serve y o u , and resolve to let it g o . It makes no sense for someone to give y o u a gift and then punish y o u for opening it. Learn to make your o w n conscious choices, independent of w h a t y o u think G o d or a n y o n e else expects from y o u . If y o u w e r e n ' t ready for your o w n c o m m a n d , y o u w o u l d never have been granted free will. If y o u fail to claim authority over your o w n life, someone else will surely claim it for y o u . M a n y people allow their spouse, parents, or boss to practically run their lives. This practice pulls y o u out of align- ment with truth and power and drops y o u into a lower state of c o n - sciousness. You b e c o m e increasingly helpless as y o u distance yourself from your true nature. You are meant to be free. Look around y o u and notice the results y o u ' r e currently getting. Life is simply obeying your c o m m a n d s . If y o u w a n t different results, y o u must issue different orders. You're the only o n e qualified to make these decisions. N o one else can fill the role of c o m m a n d e r of your life but y o u . 87 |
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