I love listening to Bob Proctor. He speaks so simply yet the principles he teaches are so profound! As I listened to “The Power To Have It All” on my morning walk, I fell in love with the following:
“Your future can be everything you have ever dreamed about and then some! You have the talent and the tools to experience one beautiful day after another. That is, in fact, what the architect of the world had in mind for you when you were created. If that were not so, you would never have been endowed with such awesome powers. You are above all other forms of creation, and your greatest asset is your power of choice.”
The whole idea that I create my life is so amazing to me! The more I understand how this happens, the more excited I become because I realize that I truly can live the life of my dreams.
I mean, of course there are “things that happen,” but even then, I am responsible for choosing how I will think/respond to those things. Every day I am faced with choices I must make that will determine the circumstances of the days to come. That is FREEDOM at its root.
One of the most p
owerful ways this idea of choosing my life has impacted me is my choice to expand my comfort zone. Since the day I met my friend David Wood on his island in Belize, I have looked for opportunities to lean into my fears instead of shying away from them. I have been so surprised at all the “fears” I have lived behind for so long!! Simple things–like wearing my hair up in public–seemed so insignificant, but as I chose to “DO IT ANYWAY,” I realized that THAT little fear had held me back from so many beautiful experiences in my life! At first I could only wear it up for part of the day at home, but eventually I dared to wear it up all day at school! I will never forget the day that I saw myself in the window as I walked into the Gardner Center at Dixie State. I saw an image of a fictional girl I imagined when I listened to old-fashioned, small-town paradigms about girls who play sports instead of dance or cheer. It was a creation of my own young mind and it represented something I didn’t want to be. I almost laughed out loud when I discovered the big monster hiding inside the closet of this fear. “Is that really all it is?!” From that point on that “small step for mankind” became a “giant step” for me. The fear was all but gone.
(I will admit–I still don’t choose to wear my hair up often, but the reason has changed. When you go 40 years without wearing it up, my head is tender, and it is not comfortable in the least!)
Another quote from my walk today is by Robert Russell:
“There is no secret to developing greatness at anything. You become great by doing little things in a great way every day.”
