Day 7 of 30 Day Challenges
The blog series in which I am completing my challenge from 30dayblogchallenge.com!
As well as a self-made challenge inspired by Abraham Hicks in which I self-soothe myself through negative emotion.
At the end of this 30 day journey I intend to be more fully on my life’s path, “all systems go.”
Hello again
Something new.
I was going to talk about abundance. Yesterday I began writing about my quest for abundance. For wealth. For money.
To be sure this is both a new thing and an old thing for me. Let me explain.
When I was young I thought it would be great to be a successful, wealthy writer. Even in my adult years I have entertained the idea of making a lot of money from the songs I’ve written.
But this quest for wealth is also new in this sense: I am actually beginning to believe it now.
Mostly this is due to my studying of some new mentors and teachings that have convinced me that affluence is possible, is feasible, that it can be achieved, and that it is not bad to want it.
So how will I achieve it? I don’t know, still working on it. I’ll tell you when I get there.
Come to find out this is done mostly by unprogramming my mind of the endless clutter of ideas given to me that money is bad, hard to come by, and unevenly distributed, etc.
I am reconditioning myself to ask for wealth, believe in my ability to create avenues for it, to receive it, and to expect it. And to take the steps to get there.
I mean, as a dream when I was young the affluence could be felt, could be appreciated. But it also felt distant or unattainable. I attribute this to the messages of so many in the world around me. The message people perpetuate that dreams are not easily, if ever, realized. That it’s best to settle for a comfortable life.
How awful is that?
To tell someone to let their dreams die.
You know who tells you that?
People who have let their own dreams die.
Why would they tell you?
Because if your dreams die, maybe it won’t feel so bad that their own dreams died, too.
Only people who have given up on dreams, or never had dreams, will tell you to settle for less than your dreams.
So yes, when I was young, the wealth of being a successful writer felt real. And when you are young people may even support that with a smile and a nod, “Yes, little one, follow your dreams.” After all, dreams are amazing and awe-inspiring and fill us with joy when we think about them.
No parent wants to shoot that feeling of joy and wonder in the foot. Well, maybe some do. But I’d say most parents don’t. At least when their kids are young. Eventually they will suggest a more reasonable choice for “real work” that will provide for a happy, comfortable, reasonable life.
Happy enough, but not my dream
Others will tell you the same message. Teachers and peers in school, bosses and coworkers at your job, people in media and politics and other areas of life will all tell you that dreams are a nice fancy but rarely happen. They want you to settle for reality. They want you to be mediocre. Just happy enough. Just getting by.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not always so blatant. People aren’t telling themselves or telling others: “be mediocre.” But by telling themselves, by telling others that dreams are hard or impossible to realize, that you should focus on getting a job and a real life… they are basically saying settle for less than your dreams, which basically is mediocrity.
Is it wrong to be mediocre?
No, I am not saying that. It’s just not for me. It’s not what I wanted when I was young. It’s not what I want now. I want the dream. I want to keep striving for more.
To be fair, I am almost certain that if you ask most people about their dream, and they were being honest, most people have a dream and don’t want to be mediocre. Most have a vision of their dream life, their dream job, their dream relationship. Dreams of all kinds.
So why have they given up on their dreams?
Again, because somebody told them to. People want approval from others, to fit in. So people follow others and attend to otherss teachings and advice, whether it be for good or ill. People give away their power to let others tell them who to be and how to act.
When someone is giving you good advice, you can take it, sure. But it is best to take advice from an expert on the subject, not a novice.
If someone tells you, yes, you are great and you can do great things, by all means agree.
But when someone tells you that you are less than and will never amount to anything, why do you agree with them? Why do you give your power away? To be accepted? To fit in?
Believe me, those are not the type of people you should aspire to fit in with or be accepted by. Move on. But-bye. Sayonara, suckers. Leave that negative thinking, those negative people behind.
Leave the negative to head towards your dreams
See most people are taught that it’s best to “be reasonable.” This means basically to settle for less. Don’t ask for too much. Don’t expect the moon and the stars. Just be happy with food and a place to live. Be comfortable.
That’s the issue at heart, I believe. Comfortability. Sure, having millions of dollars sounds comfortable.
But what people don’t realize is that it’s not. Anyways, it’s not comfort that gets you there. Comfort keeps you still and safe. Comfort keeps you at the 9-5 job that pays the bills, helps pay the rent on time, buys groceries and nights out at the movies. Comfort lets you stop striving for more.
Comfort keeps you safe and still
So people who are successful, who really make it, who become affluent and keep it, who attain great heights in whatever field they are in are not people who remain in comfort. They are people are always push the envelope and work constantly towards expanding on everything that makes them great.
They do not sit on the sofa watching their shows every night. They don’t go to the bar every weekend and get hangovers. I mean, maybe some do, but I doubt it. And I am told it’s not that way.
Sure I am not at that place of succcess in this area of life yet so I can’t speak from my own perspective. I am simply inspired to speak from the perspective of those who are inspiring me to do better, be bigger, to continue to strive for my dream.
So I set out to leave my comfort zone and push beyond the boundaries of medicority for the success and wealth and everything else that I put into my dream when I was young.
And this writing is part of it. Pushing beyond and letting it all out. And self-soothing my way so I don’t freak out at leaving my comfortability.
Because if my soul chose this life and my young mind envisioned the dream and I don’t follow it with all gusto and actually achieve it… well then I have just wasted my time here.
Sure, I might have a meaningful life in other ways and people might still benefit from my being here. But how much more will those people benefit if I am at my best? If I offer my best? The whole world can potentially reap the benefits of my dream, if I will dream that big. And I will. Don’t try to stop me. Don’t try to talk me out of it.
I will always dream the bigger dream than ever I dreamt before
I told myself when I was a teenager, after reading a life-changing book, that I wanted to change the world. Actually, the feeling was more of wanting to save the world. But now I know the world doesn’t really need saving. But I can still change it.
By doing my best and achieving my dreams and realizing my full potential, not only can my work and my example change the world, but my money can too. I can sit around all I want and complain about politics and the economy and how greedy billionaires are supposedly making a mess of things. Or I can actually make my own money and use it for good.
Money is NOT the root of all evil. A man or woman’s choice to BE evil is the only root of evil. Money is just energy. It’s transferable just like air or electricity or water. Money doesn’t do good or bad. The people who use it do.
And by the way, money DOES grow on trees. More or less. It’s just paper after all. There’s plenty of it. And only the bankers determine the value. It could still be shells and rocks we used to value things.
Who paid for Earth after all? Who put the money down on that massive construction project?
The Earth, by the way, doesn’t need saving, as I said before. What!? Many would disagree. Including myself a year ago. But I have come to see it differently.
The Earth is being taken care of the same way the sun, the moon, all the stars and all of us, you and me. It is being tended by Source.
Think of it this way. The sun does not need mankind to rise and set or to heat our atmosphere. Humans don’t move the moon or the tides or the oceans. We don’t create air and soil, we don’t make flowers open and animals evolve. All this stuff is taken care of.
So the Earth will take care of itself, that much is certain. It does not need saving.
The only thing that I believe needs saving, in a way, is our own human perception of reality.
And that way I believe is to reconnect with spirit, with God, in a true way. And I do not mean in some dogmatic way that forces strict adherence to rules built in fear and control, or forces one God or another on you. I will not create a religion of my ideas. Nor should you.
This is a real issue. And a touchy topic. I do not condemn anyone for their faith or any practice they have. Let me be clear on that. I do not condemn. And I simply hope, ask, and plead that you do the same, that anyone do the same. Condemnation is so done. It’s yesterdays news. It serves no one but the ones who wish to live in control of others.
Condemnation controls…
Do you want to adhere to God’s love or to mankind’s need to control you?
Would you rather be in control by some fearful dogmatic institution and their rules, or be aligned to the love and wisdom and clarity of God?
God does not condemn
God does not condemn. If your God condemns, your God is actually a man who made rules and dogma and shoved it down your throat, calling it God. It’s easy to scare someone into submission when you have a burning hell to send them to.
It’s time to regurgitate it, kick it out, get rid of it. Ipecac anyone?
You do not need to adhere to the limitations, the controls, the fears, the shame, the condemnation other humans put on you.
Because you know what? At the end of the day, at the end of every single second of every single day, God has nothing but eternal and unconditional love for you. No matter what you did, or think you did.
God is not a judge. God is love. God is more like a loving parent.
Think of a parent who loves his children, loves her children, regardless of what mistakes they have made, what wrongs they have done, what lessons they must learn through the challenges they face.
This kind of parenting accepts the child as is, warts and all.
This kind of acceptance allows the child to grow and to prosper in meaningful ways.
This kind of love is needed now, everywhere.
God is this parent. God is infinite love. Pure love. Love does not condemn. Please stop condemning.
I believe that is all for now.
I told you I’d take you somewhere new.
Blessings to you all.
Matthew