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By Casey Grey
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What is one action you can take today that will have the most impact on your future?
Do that. Think long term. In the dictionary, regret is defined as “ a feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over something that has happened or been done.”
If you have a regret, that means that you believe things would have been different if you had not done “x”. But how do you know that’s true? How can you be certain that things would not be worse than what they currently are? The reality is that it’s been done and there’s nothing you can do about it. Dwelling about it will not make it go away or make you feel better. Remove “regret” from your vocabulary. It’s not serving you. That being said, if you feel bad about something you did or something that happened, there may be a learning opportunity. Don’t ignore it. That may be a sign. Learn from it and be better tomorrow. Hustle and grind are words I hear often these days.
"In order to be successful you need to hustle and grind." But why? What does "hustle and grind" mean to the person who is saying this? Perhaps more importantly, what does "success" mean to the person who is saying this? Does a tree need to hustle and grind in order to accomplish what it's here for? No. As long as it has everything it needs it accomplishes everything with ease. Hustle and grind are words that feed our egos. It feels good when we tell somebody that we work from 5:00am to 11:00pm seven days a week. We're important because we're busy. What if hustling and grinding is actually slowing us down? If you could accomplish more by doing less, would you? I'm not saying not to go after your dreams. What I'm saying is that life should not feel like a struggle. Nature flows and life should be the same. Are there ups and downs? Yes. Just like seasons throughout a year, your life will have seasons. But you can make the most of all the seasons. Do you feel like you are being pulled towards something or does it feel like you are pushing a boulder up a hill? I challenge you (and myself) to replace the hustle and grind with flow and ease. P.S. If you are in Ottawa this evening, join us at Younion Meditation Studio for our One Year Celebration from 6-8pm. Come experience what flow and ease can feel like. Accept it. Whatever "it" is.
There's no point in fighting it. It happened. You can't change it. Be with it. Learn from it. Grow into it. Become it. Do anything other than fight it. The more your fight it, the stronger it will become. Use "it's" power to fuel your greatness! Did you notice that feeling you have?
Sit with it. Be with it. Accept it. That's it... Last month at the M1 event in Montreal, I went with the intention to find clarity.
At the event, Segev, a fellow M1 member, ran some amazing exercises which I touched on in the podcast episode Finding Your Tribe with Rock Thomas. If you listened to the episode, I make reference to writing "clarity" on a piece of paper for one of the exercises that Segev ran. That piece of paper was later handed to my partner, Corin, and she gave me hers. What I forgot to come back to in that episode was what we did with those pieces of paper. At the time we received the papers, we were told not to open them and, instead, just put them in our pockets. Towards the very end of the day, Segev spoke up and informed us that the way we would find the thing we were looking for (the word we wrote on the piece of paper) would be through the word that was given to us by our partner. When I went back to my room, I opened up the piece of paper and on it was the word connection. That means I would find clarity through connection. Up until tonight, I thought I was going to find clarity through creating deeper connections with other people. Although I still think that is true, absolute clarity will come through connection with the higher powers. Interestingly enough, that epiphany came through connecting with my beautiful and all-knowing wife. Thank you, sweetie. I recently made a decision to remove somebody from my life and people who are closest to me have been celebrating the decision. They are basically saying "I told you so" without actually saying it.
What was it that they saw that I did not? If I'm honest with myself, I saw it as well. Unfortunately I let my head lead the way and tried to rationalize my decision. It's almost like I needed yet another example of how the gut is wiser than the brain. It's more connected to the energy around us than the brain will ever be. The brain is like the leader. It decides how to act, when to act and what to act on. Like any good leader though, it should get as much input as possible from the entire team before making any decisions. The gut and heart are important team members that should not be ignored. My brain did not lead this one well but now it's a stronger leader for learning yet another lesson. For the last few weeks I have had this feeling in my stomach and I'm not really sure what it is.
Perhaps it was there before but I have only recently become conscious of it. To some it may be anxiety. To others it may be excitement. To another group it may be fear. To me it's the unknown. I can label it anything I want and if I were to choose one of the above options, I would choose excitement for obvious reasons. I've been asking myself "What is my body trying to tell me?" But the issue is I've been letting my mind try and find the answer and the mind is here to protect me, to play it safe. The real answers go beyond what the mind can explain. The universe works in mysterious ways if you are open to receiving. The meditation session with Israa at Younion last night reminded me of this. The higher power brought exactly what I needed to hear and Israa delivered it. I believe that this is a sign that I'm on the right path. Something big and exciting is coming. I'm being pulled towards something powerful. Is it scary? Hell yes! But that will not stop me. Courage is being afraid and acting anyways. The pictures below are the cards that Israa pulled before the meditation and the details of each: |
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