I use to sit in mediocre out of fear – I resigned myself to the idea of it because it’s the way I perceived my experiences and how I thought I was supposed to fit into the world. My desires for something extraordinary were often met with ‘why can’t you be happy with what you’ve got?” and “why do you always want more”, and that always led me to feel ungrateful and selfish. The Mindfulness craze just made me feel worse. Mindfulness is about appreciating the moment, appreciating what you have, just being here now, not wishing to be somewhere else, having something else or having more. To be honest I’ve really struggled with the concept and practice and how to integrate that with being a big visionary. Because I’ve always wanted to be somewhere else. I’ve always wanted to create something different for my life. I’ve always tried to achieve outside of my family and social experience. I’ve definitely become more satisfied with where I am at a point in time, even though when I am not at my end goal, because I am happy with what I am creating and I can see that I am chipping away at my goal and truly appreciating the journey. But even when you pick that apart, what I am appreciating is that I am in a constant changing state and I am happy with the fact that things are always changing and I have the ability to make those changes. And if “progress equals happiness” like Tony Robbins says, then it makes perfect sense that I appreciate the point I am on the journey but that I am not set, stuck or stagnant in that place.
Everything about where we are and what we are doing reeks of potential and extraordinary.  The life and the story you leave behind is not a rehersal, this isnt you having a chance to look over the script before choosing to take the part. You don’t need to subscribe to the ordinary life if you have a feeling within you to be more – you just need to change the filters through which you are seeing the world. Lenses of opportunity or lenses of restritction.
So why do I always want more than I have? Because I have a belief that the universe is abundant, that I am the creator of my life, that the world is full of potential and that through dreams, thought, intention, perseverance and hard work I can sculpt a masterpiece out of my life, not indifferent to the vision of David Michaelangelo had when he looked at a slap of stone. Do you see the slab of stone and think that it is enough as it is, or do you appreciate the potential that can be created from it? I really don’t think we are supposed to be ordinary. I think the definition of normal needs to change for it to be normal for people to create something out of nothing, create more than is given, and be more then someone else’s limitations on them, because what if you considered that being ordinary is really your gifts being suppressed, that you are being limited in your abilities, that it is living a life based on fear and limitation. If you lived a life with abundance as your foundation and being grateful for all that this wonderful magical world has to offer and all that you have – how different would you live your life?
Let me know your thoughts? Are you a big visionary and struggle with having to be happy with what you have?