Hello Again!
Many times, my life has seemed to be little more than an opportunity to master discouragement, failure and disillusionment. Clearly these have been important life lessons for me and I would say that I seem to have been a a slow learner. Perhaps
that is associated with me needing to master impatience as well:-)
So often, I hear people speak about their desire to live good and worthwhile lives, constantly seeking to better
themselves and their circumstances. I hear them speak about seeking to be more positive and to do their best to do
the right things in life.
I can thank my mother that I am no longer one of those people. No longer am I focused on seeking a good, positive and better life. No longer am I focused on seeking the
life that people may consider to be the right life for me.
I was fortunate to have been able to spend some time in Anguilla with my mother about 8 months before she passed away in
2002. At the time, she was working on a challenging project and asked me to coach her. She was known to be the standard bearer for many causes where others considered success to be improbable, if not impossible. Her victories in that respect are countless, although there were also times when she had been unsuccessful.
As I listened to my mother, while coaching her, it became clear to me that when she was inspired she was effective and
the results were miraculous, but when she was uninspired, that was not the case. When she was authentic, she was effective,
but when she was inauthentic, she was not. No matter how good, and positive she tried to be, if she was uninspired and
inauthentic, she had relatively limited effectiveness.
That may seem like a small and relatively insignificant insight to some people, but it transformed my whole perspective
on my life.
I could focus on being inspired, authentic and fulfilling my purpose and potential as the life I was born to live.
I didn't need to worry about judging myself, others and everything endlessly as either good or bad, right or wrong, better
or worse , or even positive or negative. That was quite a simplification and quite a revelation. My life has never been
the same. All the work that I do with people has been predicated on that simple distinction.
To me, the great victory or triumph for a human being is to live an inspired and inspiring life fulfilling their
purpose and potential--to live with a compelling sense of purpose and destiny. Imagine if this was not only possible,
but it was the birthright of every human being. Imagine if everyone was born to be victorious and merely needed
to be themselves to do so.
The poem of the month is, "I Was Born To Be Victorious." The theme of the month is "Living Life As An Inspired Calling."
