Want to Eliminate Cluster and Confusion and Ignite Your Fire and Passion at Will?

I got many emails back from last week’s article about regaining control of your life by regaining control of your thoughts. Thank you. I love the feedback. Some of the emails stopped me in my tracks and were very humbling. Reading those I couldn’t help but wonder that there is something greater at work here.

Originally I was going to go off in a different direction this week and instead of that, I’m choosing to go with the ebb and flow. That by the way is something I am working on getting better at. Being very focused and determined I can tend to ignore that and drive through a situation when there is sometimes a better route to take.

I have to watch myself here. And one of the ways to do this is to book some alone time. Some time to just sit idle with my thoughts and roll an idea around in my mind for a while. I particularly like to go into the hills around the coast. I have a special spot in Crystal Cove that requires a strenuous 2 mile uphill run to get to.

The place is amazing. I sit on a rock high up in the hills and stare at the ocean for hours. I watch the white wash churn onto the beach. I can hear the sound of distant waves crashing. My mind settles down and I talk with myself and with God. I feel at peace.

Well, kinda…

At first I sit there and freak myself out whenever I hear rustling in the bushes thinking it is a mountain lion coming to get me.  :)

I chuckle to myself as I watch some puny little bird go hop, hop, hop out of the bushes. Some mountain lion eh?!!

After I freak myself out and laugh about it, I settle in. I like to go for several hours as sometimes it takes a while for my mind to be still. For the constant noise to go away. My mind is originally like a body of water churned by an unseen storm, where if I was in it I would be struggling for a life giving gasp of air.

Kinda like a lot of people’s lives.

Many people are going through this turbulent times just trying to gasp for air. To catch a life saving breath before another wave comes and beats them down. This becomes a question of how long can you hang on for? Not a good situation to be in.

So after a while of sitting still, my mind settles down to one of a peaceful calm body of water. There is a stillness in the air. Where the water’s surface is smooth as glass. Where it invites you to come and soak in it’s splendor. Picture lazily floating on your back, smiling as you take the occasional stroke. Feeling the cool water surrounding and holding your body while the warm sun gently caresses you. You feel at peace.

Ahhhhhhhhh

That is the state I like to get in. Where my mind is free to wander. Where I can hear God’s quiet still voice talking to me.

This is where things become clear. Where my inspiration comes from. Where my confidence is restored. Where wounds are healed. Where excitement and fervor begin to course through my veins in a raising crescendo that climaxes like warhorses thundering across a battlefield. This is where my course is set and my gaze is focused. This is where I get up and boldly and aggressively move forward.

This is where answers to the hard questions come from.

I hope you have a place like this.

I try to visit mine monthly, although I have been remiss and inconsistent the last several months. Believing the lie that “I’m too busy to get away”. Don’t ever believe that. In these turbulent times, carving out time to think is essential to your survival.

And when you carve out your moment to think, here are 2 powerful questions to ask yourself…

1. Do you like the life you have designed for yourself?
2. If your answer is no, then ask yourself… why don’t you ignore the crap and what you don’t have, and design a life you’d love to own?

Your greatness lies in the questions you ask.

Get alone and ask yourself great questions. Having a great life lay in the balance. You deserve to be wild and free, to charge after your God given purpose with all the vim and vigor you can muster.

Do it.

Do it now.

“He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers” ~ Cameroon Proverb

And yes, I’d love to hear your comments. Post them below.

Be Great eh!
Chris.