Is Not A Journey But Rather A Fight!
Antoinette Steyn • May 18, 2020
Sometimes you may need to travel through madness in order to find yourself. You need to break the chains of your past in order to be set free and make mindful conscious decisions. Allow yourself to grow – for one of the most important ingredients for success is growth. Often times we lose what we have in the present, because we fear so much of what lies in our past. Some of life’s most valuable lessons can only be learnt when you have to endure a storm.
We tend to react to these circumstances with intense emotion in order to protect ourselves or to seek the approval of others. We struggle to just sit back and relax while remembering that not every situation requires our reaction. When Jesus was on the boat with His disciples on the Sea of Galilee, he slept during the storm. His disciples were awakened by their fear. If only they took the time to remind themselves of who was in their boat with them, they would have been able to rely on their truth rather than their assumptions.
Be aware of the thoughts you think which can be directly linked to past experiences. When you are aware of something, you can change it but when you proceed blindly and continue to believe these negative thoughts without consciously evaluating their value and bringing them into your scope of awareness, you will not be able to change them and accordingly relive negative elements dictated by your past, in your future.
Many people tend to use the excuse of uncertainty as a reason for struggling to let go of particular things. In many cases in life the person you will become - the best version of yourself - will cause you to lose certain people and certain things in your life but it is important to choose the best version of yourself above these things. Spend your energy focused on building the new and let go of the old.
Choose to be strong because you have been weak, to be wise because you have been foolish and to be fearless because you have been afraid. Choose to be wiser by learning from mistakes and past hurts instead of allowing it to determine what your future will look like. Your goal should never be to try and be better than someone else; it should be to be better than the person you were, to keep on growing and to create the best possible version of yourself. This sometimes requires us to start chasing the person we wish to be 5 years from now.
Never point a finger and never blame others, for this contributes only to your joy being taken from you. Work on yourself every single day and remember that the day you plant the seed of a tree in the ground, is not the same day you will sit under the shade of that tree.
Be wary of the things you tolerate. This include how other people treat you, how you allow yourself to be used or abused. The things you tolerate give a clear indication to others of how you expect to be treated.
Your ability to display self-control should become your strength. It is important that you get to a point where your reactions are not determined by the insignificant opinions, actions or behaviour of others. When you do this, you allow others to determine the course of your life and you allow the things you feel to overpower the things you know to be true.
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