Failure is Wow!

Weight training is a simple art of growing your strength and muscles by bidding yourself against weights. Quite simply, you push against the resistance offered by the weights and in the process of overcoming the resistance your strength and muscles grow and develop. Every time you push against the resistance, you grow stronger.

Everyday life too works like that. Every time we take something new up, resistance is inevitable. Often however, we misinterpret the resistance/ failure as a threat and get dis-empowered by it. However, the resistance viewed from a perspective of opportunity seeking is just the door to the next level of performance in the aspect that you seek to conquer. So I suggest, be empowered now that you are at the door, for what is left is to push and push hard till the door gives way.

That is why an enlightened soul once proclaimed to me, 'failure is wow'. It just means that you have made it through the old path and now stand at the feet of something undiscovered, if only you leave our dis-empowering context, and seek a clearing for performance to grow. Contrary to conventional wisdom which says that failure means that you haven't made it, I now believe that failure is just a messenger that is telling you that you have almost made it!

Energy

I have had a constant struggle to stay energized. Give more to what I am doing. Expend more to every moment. I understand the results we produce on any task is a direct proportion of how much we give ourselves to it. I am currently working on a few ways to stay energized.

• Being a clearing- I have come to observe that my mind is constantly overflowing with thoughts. Judgments, comments, evaluations, reactions. They consume me. While I know that they mean nothing. They are passing thought, most with no end, just random neurons firing. But they create a puzzling space, full of litter. It’s not workable. So I am working on keeping my mind clear. No waste of thoughts. No judgment, only acceptance.
• This point is driven by a deeper insight. I realized that our rackets, stories and internal conversations about people and things around us, just come back to dis empower us. If we catch an in authenticity of someone, and are bothered by it, want to make the other aware of it, or even end up using it as a means to fixing the other, it however dis empowers the other, who exits in our space. Our space is then dis empowered and being in that space, so are we. So, drop all meanings and dialogues about the other. It means nothing anyways, and recreate the other in all his potential and possibility and you will live in a world with a powerful clearing for extraordinary life to happen.
• I believe, we suck in the energies around us. These energies may be positive or negative and will then be reflected back into the universe through our positivity or negativity. At any time and moment, both these energy forms are present. But our context of life and how it occurs to us will define what energy we absorb. So, my context is to see positivity, hope, potential and beauty in everything. I am out to create a powerful context for myself, and a beautiful surrounding, and that will start from where I stand, from where I see things.

Being present

They say there are more grains of sand on a single beach, than the stars in the observable universe. Our world is an infinite mix of space and time, and as far as we know, earth is the only object in the universe with life on it. Time as we know has existed for billions of years and will exists for billions of year in the future as well. And in this large expanse of this universe and time, here on this earth, away from everything dead and frozen, is you. This spec of life, which exists in this unique form that is you. Never before in the billions of year has this form existed, and never again will it for the billions of years to come. That’s what makes you so precious. And more importantly, that’s what makes this present moment so precious. Because in reality, there is no past and no future. It exists only in the human mind’s imagination. What really does exist is this present moment. The universe has travelled billions of years, gone through zillions of transformations, collisions, creations and destructions to the eventuality that you exist. You are the epitome of a billion years of struggle called life. You are truly special and you are the one. So, don’t dissipate being in the future or the past. Don’t waste away being in your mind. Experience life, be present and flourish, for there is nowhere to go to and nothing to achieve. You have already made it. You are already here. Now be present, for this moment is all there is, was, or will be.