Note to Self

You may be reading this because you have lost some faith. Maybe you are feeling a loss of power or you just like to be reminded of who you are and what is possible for you.

Remember that anxiety is a lack of faith. You have forgotten that everything will turn out well in the future.

Remember that anxiety does not create a heightened state of readiness for future inevitabilities. This is a story that you have sold yourself to give reason to what is nothing more or less than a lack of faith in yourself and the people around you.

Remember that when you remind yourself of imagined pain and suffering in the past that you are selling yourself a story. There is only one version of this story and that version of the story is yours. You have chosen this version of the story. You continue to choose it. You use it to justify playing smaller than you are.

The story you sell yourself does not exist in any time or place in the physical world except in the neural pathways that you have chosen to create. You have created them as a choice. It may have been the best choice available to you at the time but you are still selling yourself this old newspaper. You pay an unacceptable price when you choose to review this story.

Remember that you live in a world that nurtures the innate lethargy that your body wants you to sink to. It is your ego that drags you to the couch to watch banal dramas on the TV. TV has the capacity to move, transfix and entrance you in an instant. Its effects are as strong as any narcotic – almost impossible to escape. For the most part there is nothing on television to elevate you to a higher state. There are only drama’s that allow you a vicarious sample of what an exciting life might be like. You enjoy this simulated experience without having to put yourself on the line to receive it.

Remember that news programs incapacitate you with feelings of overwhelming hopelessness at the tragedies in the world. You have chosen to dwell in these feelings of uselessness to justify your own inertia. This feeling of impotence that you choose is your justification for not fulfilling on your moral imperative to make a positive contribution to the world in any way you can.

Remember that if you don’t master your body it will master you.

Remember that you have a voice in your head that tells you that you aren’t important. You wrap it up in a story that you sell yourself in which you are a modest individual. This imagined humility is false and inauthentic. Nobody believes it. Nobody benefits when you play smaller than you are. You cannot stand for the possibility of great things for yourself and others with this racket playing our in your head.

Remember that there is nothing external to yourself that you need in order to create a magnificent life. You are whole and perfect. The idea that you are in some way defective is imagined.

Remember your past exists entirely in your imagination. You have other recollections that can support an entirely new view of your past. These recollections can support and give evidence to any new future possibility that you create.

Remember that you can choose at any moment in your life the direction of the rest of your life. Remember that how you perform and live in life is entirely a product of how the world occurs to you. There are few things that cannot be changed in an instant by choosing the way that the situation occurs to you. You have this power, you always have had.

Remember that there is no past and no future there is only now. The future is a figment of your imagination; invent a future worth living into. Invent a future that draws you toward it. Life will bring this future into the now.

Remember that the access to what you have committed to achieving is in removing the delusions of self-imposed limitation. It is just a choice. Make your choice.