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“Step Into Your Greatness”
It’s easy to believe all of your critical voices and never attempt anything risky or scary in your life. It’s easy to play small. It’s easy to abandon your dreams when you hear “Who do you think you are?” It takes more effort to step beyond your comfort zone and attempt to fulfill the whispers of greatness. I believe that those whispers are glimpses of what is possible. They are your Soul or your Inner Wisdom or the Universe showing you what can be, if you really want it. You always have a choice. This is your life. You must choose the life you want. And even if you decide not to choose, you are actually making a choice.
Your entire life is made up of choices – to react or not, to make a stand or shrink back, to follow a path of be still. These everyday choices add up to your life. Sometimes something big crashes in and causes your life to take a different turn; other times it feels like life is just rolling by on schedule, nothing important happening. Here is the lesson I’ve learned from journaling: the everyday things, the seemingly mundane and ordinary, are the moments that make up your life. You can ignore them, or you can appreciate and celebrate them. Your journal is the perfect place to begin celebrating every moment of your life.
When I began my journal, I barely knew who I was. I wanted to heal from being abandoned by my father. I wanted to find a passion and purpose for my life – something that would fulfill me. I wanted to contribute to something larger than myself. Finally, I wanted to pass something along to my family – my children and children’s children. I heard a whisper of possibility.
Slowly, magically, my life unfolded with dreams and desired beyond my wildest imagination. If the twenty-one-year-old girl who poured her heart out in that first black-and-white composition book – looking for some deeper meaning in her life – could see me today, she would hardly believe it.
My intention is to inspire you to uncover your deepest dreams and desires. I hope you will trust your intuition and allow your higher wisdom to lead you to all the wonderful things you deserve. I know for sure that every one of us has an inner wisdom that is available to guide us. I know for sure that the glimpses we catch out of the corners of our busy lives are put there for a reason, and that anything we glimpse we can achieve, if we truly desire it. And I know for sure that a journal and a pen are some of the best tools for creating a map for the life of your dreams and calling out to the universe to bring all of those dreams to life.
It’s up to you to give your life meaning and purpose. You can use up your moments worrying and wondering “what if?” or you can strike out on your own to find your answers. The answers are all there, possibly buried by worries or lists of things to do, but they can be excavated within your journal. As you pay closer attention, the whispers will get louder. All you have to do is ask, be still, and listen for the answers.
Oh yeah, and then write them down in your journal.
(excerpted from JOURNALUTION: Journaling to Awaken Your Inner Voice, Heal Your Life and Manifest Your Dreams by Sandy Grason. New World Library, 2005, pgs 175-177.)
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