What do you want in your life?
What does it take to get what you want?
Are you willing to do whatever it takes?
If you said “Yes” openly and willingly to the last question, you are definitely ready to Be the Change. If you hesitated somewhat and tried to consider all the parameters that change might mean for you, you’ll need to work on becoming more willing.
Let’s look at willingness from another perspective. You exercise willingness frequently throughout your day. You are willing to crawl out from under warm blankets, get a bit cold, so you can begin your day. You don’t know what the day will bring, but you are willing to begin it. You are willing to go into a restaurant without knowing what the offerings are on the menu, or without knowing what the quality of the food preparation is. You are willing to get into a car or bus to go to work, not knowing precisely what the traffic situation is.
Your life brings you many challenges throughout the day. It is especially challenging the first time you are required to perform: the first time you crawled out from those warm blankets; the first time you went into a new restaurant; the first time you drove to work. It always goes easier once the “first time” is behind you as an experience, isn’t it? You get accustomed to the doing. You get so comfortable, the doing becomes habitual.
What has happened on the invisible or more spiritual side of your life is that you have been bringing your virtue of courage to the forefront every time you exercise willingness. And it’s that virtue of courage that allows you to say “Yes, I’m willing.”
From the perspective that you’ve got a habit of willingness, I’d like you to examine our three questions again.
What do you want in your life?
What does it take to get what you want?
Are you willing to do whatever it takes?
It’s my strong hope that you might feel somewhat more willing now, knowing how you’ve done this in the past.
~ Maria
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