Everything starts with a thought.
You wake up today and you thought about going back again to bed. A thought.
Maybe you thought of checking your phone first to see what's the latest on TikTok. A thought.
Maybe your cat jumps on your bed asking for food and so you thought of feeding it. A thought.
OR maybe you've read a book the other night that says the first thing you need to do tomorrow is to visualize the dream you have, feel the emotions as if you already achieved that dream, sit with it for a few good minutes, and now you are ready to start your day by creating what is actually needed. So you thought of doing just that. A thought (maybe, thoughts).
I am currently in the in between and I have been learning and relearning A LOT of things not taught in school. I have always enjoyed sitting in the classroom, listening to my teacher discuss new things I never knew. I am always left in awe when I get up from my chair, especially during my days in the university. Taking tests excites me the most. The rushed feeling when I have to memorize our two-month long topics overnight and somehow passing the them, and sometimes, when I get lucky, joining the high scorers in class. If you would ask me before if I have a choice to be just a student sitting in class for the rest of my life, I might actually go for that.
Now that I am in the real life, I have to face a lot of adversities to realize life is never about doing things only when you get a high burst of energy, or just sitting in a chair, studying. True life skills are learned through consistent daily application of habits that would bring us closer to our dreams. Life is about getting up from bed and choosing to create what is actually needed. Yep, ironically, I just learned about all of this just a few days back. It is doing wonders with my life AND everything all started with just a thought.
Now, we just have to reframe our minds into believing in ourselves, in our capabilities, and in the dreams we have.
If you want to live a life with purpose, you must first become a dreamer. The dreamers are always the ones who achieved, achieves, and will achieve the greatest things in this world. A way to get stuck in life is to believe that you are bounded by something that is impossible to get through, and so you avoid it, you hide from it, thinking you're choosing to be practical, until ultimately, you give up your dreams.
This is one of the great disservices one can do to themselves. A great disservice I did to myself. However, since I have already experienced them, I want the life challenges I had to become a survival guide to others who is currently experiencing the same things.
First advice, do not hide yourself. Open the doors to people who are willing to help you. You might feel scared at first, worrying they would not understand BUT there are a lot of people who would feel grateful that you asked for their help. Imagine someone asked you for directions, you helped them get there, and they gave you the warmest thanks. You would feel this light joy in your heart, right? That's what most people would feel when their help was useful to others.
Second, take time to know yourself. This is quite tricky because the idea of "you" is constantly changing and evolving but a tip is to envision yourself as your most successful version, and I am not just talking about riches- successful in relationships, career, in being a service to the society, and others. Maybe it is more specific for you. Define the kind of success you want to achieve and while doing it, DO NOT limit yourself. You are already what you want to be. After waking up in the morning, everyday, consistently envision the life you want to have and feel all the emotions as if you already have it. Next, and this is important, think of what you need to create today that would bring you closer to the life you have envisioned for yourself.
Now, the third and the last is, believe in yourself. Believe in what God created. You are God's finest creation, His miracle. Do you believe that God created a mediocre person? No, it is only one of your self-limiting beliefs that you tied yourself to. God created your mind so powerful, it could create and destroy things, but as always, we must choose to create and not destroy. Believe in your rarity. There are eight billion people in this planet but no one, not even the people who came before you, was ever like you. You are the only one. You are rare. God's creations are always perfectly made in His image. Always remember this.
Read all of these, how many times as you like, until all the words seep in your mind and in your soul. A longer version would be reading Og Mandino's The Greatest Miracle in the World. It has changed my life and I hope it would change millions more. I am praying for you.
