Prepare Yourself

We can never be sure what life has in store for us, but what we can do is prepare ourselves to the best of our ability to meet life's gifts and distractions head-on.

We get what we desire most when we least expect it, but almost always when we need it the most.  It's because of this beautiful anomaly that we have to properly prepare ourselves to receive the ups and downs of life that will inevitably get thrown our way.

When we look inside of ourselves and see the beauty that we each possess it becomes easier to accept the good things that come our way. On the flip side, if we choose to look at life as a curse or as a burden, it will be harder to accept the blessings that present themselves to us, for they will appear as ghosts to us.   

This past weekend a new friend of mine said, "I can't believe all of the cool things we've got to do over the last hand full of years."  I thought about what she said for a minute then retorted with "It's because you were open to doing fun and exciting things, it's because you weren't closed off to them."  After I said that I realized just how true those words really are for anyone who's looking for answers.

So many times in life we fail to be prepared for a blessing. So many times in life we look for a ship to sail out of the rain on, when that ship could have been there the whole time only slightly past our desire to reach. We have to be open to good things coming our way and we have to jump on those opportunities when they present themselves.  

The other point here to understand is you need to be ready for the bad things that come our way as well.  If you don't know who you are as a person or who it is you're striving to be, the bad times will always seem worse than they really are. However, if you are confident in yourself and in your abilities, when the rain comes you will see it only as a brief shower, one that only serves the purpose of cleansing.

Nothing happens to us that isn't supposed to happen, everything happens to us to make us better and stronger people, if you but only choose see it that way. Life is only as we choose it to be.  Every blessing can turn into a curse and any curse can turn into a blessing; the only thing that separates the two is how prepared someone is to seize the moment for what they want it to be.

Choose not to have the word "never" in your vocabulary or the idea of 'if only." Instead think and say, "it will," and "I will." Or for the more advanced among us, "it has."

If you're ready for a change of tides in your life then by God, prepare your ship for the new waves that will bring you where you desire to go.

When you feel like the bad is outweighing the good, you have to look at yourself for any change to take place because not anyone but yourself can save your own soul... for the soul is never truly lost but merely forgotten about for a time until we choose to see it again.

We draw near to us that which we desire most, and by desire I mean "what we think about most." You must ask yourself what it is you truly desire in life and why. This is a very important step and I would highly advise thinking about. Why waste time on thoughts not conducive to what you desire most? Emotions work the saw way too: Negativity breeds more negativity, where as positivity gives life to more positivity. The same model works for fear and love, rich and poor, the happy and sad, with endless examples being inhibited only by my desire to move on.

Be ready to take the good in life with the bad because if you're ready for both, the bad will never be enough to crush you. When you start to comprehend that in every negative there is also a positive, you will begin to understand mans' true nature.

By understanding your true nature and how that relates to your deepest desires, you will begin to attract remarkable blessings your way that seem almost impossible to believe.  Be open to life and you will never be filled, be closed to life and you will never know how close your dreams actually are to what reality could be.