Experience The Best Year Of Your Life

By Saleem Rana 

You can have anything you want. To experience the best year of your life, you have to take back your life, find spiritual healing, and design a life purpose.  You really can.  You can achieve any dream.  If somebody somewhere at sometime has achieved it, you can, too.  And even if nobody has achieved it, you can still achieve it.

If everything is possible, why does it seem so little actually gets accomplished?  If imagination, intelligence, will, and effort are available to everyone why do so few people achieve much of anything at all?

What keeps people shackled to mediocrity, struggling for petty goals, rarely making their lives stand for anything significant?

If anything is possible, why do so few champions arise?

Here's a clue from George Bernard Shaw:  "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Squandered time, energy, and resources spent in doing things other than your hearts desire is also time lost from moving in the direction that you really want to go.

You can have anything you want; but you do have to pay a price for it.  The price is to stop spending time, energy, and resources on other things.

As Kin Hubbard put it:  "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Your life has four major areas that call for your attention: family, career, social, and spiritual.  When you focus on any one, you are not focusing on the other three.  Yet because of the limitations of time, energy, and resources, you have to be very clear on where you want to spend your time and what you want to do with it.

Clarity of intention is the beginning of real personal power.

Once you know what you want, then you begin the journey to spiritual awareness, managing the other elements of your life in relation to it, and balancing out the available time, energy, and resources that you need.

This is not an easy thing to do.  In the most well planned out lives, all sorts of interferences arise.  And because this juggling of areas of your life with your main purpose is difficult, and because juggling the available time, energy, and resources is difficult, most people prefer not to bother.

Yet, while not doing much of anything while appearing to be very busy may seem like a solution, it isn't because something inside you longs for a life of adventure and fulfillment. 

The power to do what you love and be successful at it is what people really mean by freedom.  Yet, as Jules Renard, once said, "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

For you to live your life according to your own terms, you first have to come to terms with yourself.

It is not easy.  But nothing else is more worthwhile.