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“Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.” ~Unknown

Until about ten years ago, when I was well into my twenties, I never really challenged my belief system.  Truth to be told, even after I began challenging my belief system, I didn’t realize that I had done so!  All I knew is that I had made a conscious choice to stop living a life of suffering and struggling, and I made the choice to point my life into a new direction.

By March of 2002, life had become a struggle for me.  I was unhealthy and largely unhappy.  I was struggling in school, struggling to find meaning in life, struggling to figure out if the current career path I was undertaking was the right one, and struggling to be successful at anything.

The funny thing about it was that I didn’t know any different; I didn’t know that there could be another way to live or exist beyond the life that I was living, and the existence that was mine.  My belief system was already laid out for me.  My parents made conscious choices for me before I was old enough to make my own, and by the time I reached adulthood, I just continued to live out that same belief system, generating thought after thought that fulfilled that belief system.  The main problem with this was that it wasn’t helping me feel good about myself or where my life was headed.  Even worse, I didn’t know it was happening, and it’s hard to change something that you can’t identify as the culprit.  Why did I feel so miserable and lost, and why was I so unaware of alternative ways of living?  More importantly, how did I shake loose and set out on a new path?

It happened because I became inspired, then desired, and then believed.

I don’t know what struck me on that March day in 2002…I don’t know if it was my unconscious mind, reaching across the mental fog as I stared mindlessly into the television as I sat on the couch — my intuition showing me the path to my authentic self.  I don’t know what it was, but I am glad it got through to me.  I was immediately inspired to make a physical change.  I wanted to lose weight and become healthy again.  I got up, went to the phone book, found a local gym’s phone number, and called them up.  Once I knew the details about membership, I was in my car and on my way to signing up for one year.

After I signed my membership agreement, I knew I committed financially, and that was enough to make sure I saw it through, at least at the beginning.  As I started exercising, I visualized how good I would feel and look after reaching my goals.  I had the burning desire within me.  I had the developed the will to succeed, and I was not going to give up.

As I started to lose weight and gain physical fitness, I began to believe in myself.  The conscious choices I had made to get up, call the gym, sign up, work hard, watch what I eat, and fully commit to physical fitness had made their way to my subconscious mind.  I had no choice but to become the manifestation of my conscious choices.

Within a year, I had reached my goal and then some.  Instead of losing forty pounds, as I had originally decided would be adequate, I had lost seventy — in one year.  I had become who I wanted to be physically, and to no surprise, I had become alive again.  I felt motivated, excited, energetic, and full of hope and enthusiasm.  I haven’t looked back!

I encourage you to take time to be quiet — be still — and listen to that inner voice within you.  What is is nudging you to do?  What is it encouraging you to try?  Do you feel inspired to try something, or to make a change?

If so, see how you feel about it.  Do you have the desire — the will — to begin the journey?  Do you want to see it through?  If so, what conscious choices can you make, right now, to make it happen?  What will you choose to do to bring you one step closer to making it real?

Commit to your desires — your deepest dreams.  Your conscious endorsement of the pursuit of your dreams will pave the way toward the subconscious manifestation of them.  You can make it happen.  Find the inspiration, feel the desire, and believe that you can make it happen.

The transition from believing to being is very real and very possible.  It’s all before you.  You just have to choose to make it happen.

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