Received Oprah’s “Today’s Mission Calendar Inspiration” email today wherein in the first paragraph it states about the January issue, “Let the hot air out of the self-esteem balloon–and find a more stable basis for carrying yourself through the world.” What a great quote!
Wow! Isn’t that a formidable quest at times??? A more stable basis for carrying oneself through the world??? After all, our world as we might know it gets shaken up all the time — divorce, marriage, becoming pregnant, realizing you can’t have children, in a domestic violence situation (whether it be physically or emotionally OR even if it doesn’t directly involve you but involves someone that you love or have as a friend), illnesses, deaths, etc. We don’t plan on these events happening in our lives (directly or indirectly) but many are destined to be inevitable to happend, after all wherever there is life, there is also death around us.
For some, it can feel like a never ending cycle. “Let me off of this roller coaster ride, please!” some will say; others, will not feel the affects of the roller coaster rides of life in general because they live ever so protected lives whereas many of us will feel small in comparison. After all, how is it that they can have such even keel lives and others don’t? I certainly don’t see “Hurt me!” written on the foreheads of victims nor do I see “Immortal!” written on the foreheads of those seemingly completely escaping the vast majority of the effects of the rash, bumby roller coaster ride.
How does one truly set out to find oneself more stable for carrying oneself through the world?
* Having one job that can support yourself and your family?
* Advocating for the future of others?
* Having a job that allows you to afford to be able to spend more time with your family?
* Decluttering life’s “treasures” from one’s home?
* Having an income that will provide for a possibility that you actually have a savings for those emergencies and/or to set aside for retirement — so that one can truly enjoy retirement?
* Vowing to live healthier?
* Having opportunities for vacation time so that one can truly enjoy life?
* Restoring one’s faith in humanity?
* Having an opportunity to make time to enjoy doing things that one enjoys doing besides just working, sleeping, working, and sleeping?
What in the world is it going to take to make one more stable in order to carry themselves in the world? What would it be for you?
For me, it would be to find that perfect balance in life where I can work to have the bills paid and a bit left over for savings, while having enough time to continue doing the things I enjoy doing — ie, being with family and friends, blogging (go figure, huh?), artistic endeavors — as well as achieving the things that I want to do — ie, writing the book that is swarming in my head and waiting to be put into print, traveling to other countries that I haven’t been yet to (Belize, Equador, Scotland, Ireland, and Peru), building a modest home in the countryside, and finding a mate to share the rest of my life with one day (someone, that I can see us sitting in our rockers on our porch on our countryside home and just reminiscing about the good things in our lives when we become too old to move around like we had in the last 40-50 years of our lives). Obviously, though, not all of those things can be accomplished in 2008 — or, can it? We all must realize our limitations without letting our visions of our limitations stimy our growth.
I am not sure that one can ever truly find that “perfect balance in life”, but surely one can attempt to try, can’t they?
Goals are nice, but getting them put into action seems daunting at times; sometimes, appropropriately determining one goal in particular is more important that setting many that will merely set us up for failure of being able to accomplish anything. The purpose of having a New Year’s Resolution, after all, can be to light that fire of inspiration below ourselves to motivate ourselves to move forward from whatever level of instability that we have had in our lives in the past to empower us to move towards the level of stability that we all really truly desire.
Do you have a goal that you are going to put into action? What might that be???
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