Sunday Story...Hotel California

Sunday Story…Hotel California


You can check out but you will never leave...

Ever wonder about why you are where you are?? I mean why are you living where you are living right now? Maybe you grew up here. Maybe your parents decided you should live here. Maybe your car broke down here and you never left. Maybe you came here to die. Maybe you came here to heal. Or maybe you are hiding out. I am not sure it matters why you are here…unless it is part of your master plan for your life. Maybe this is the paradise you have always dreamed of when you retire. Maybe you really like the climate and the people here. Who knows….you are here now.

Unless this is part of your master plan the next question is why are you staying? Are you still healing? What is it going to take to “get better”? How will you know when you get there? Is your car fixed yet? Your children grown? Maybe you are grown? Not dead yet? Maybe the heat is off and you can stop hiding out and go back into the world? Are you looking at any of that? Do you care? Or are you stuck?

Let’s make a plan to get unstuck…to get out of here…to get moving again. Silly you …did you think I was talking geography? Where you are in the world is relatively unimportant. It might not be you ideal place. It might be an uncomfortable place. The fact is …we live in one of the most mobile societies in history. If you really wanted to you could pack up and move almost anywhere in the world in a pretty short period of time. I read about a guy and his wife and their 14 month old baby who are backpacking around the world. I know of people who have left this country for another and another. It isn’t impossible and it’s really not all that hard. And if we are talking just a few hundred miles or so, it really isn’t that big a deal.

No, what I am talking about is changing the geography of your mind, the position of your attitude, or your spiritual landscape. This process may be a little more daunting. This is going to take effort. This is going to make you uncomfortable. You are going to have to practice some radical honesty and radical responsibility with yourself. You will need to look under some big and small rocks and uncover some dark little secret slimy things before you can move on.


You see we get comfortable with those nasty little creatures hiding under those rocks. In many ways they are reassuring and cozy. If we move we might have to take them with us, leave them behind or stamp them out. Any of these choices is harder than doing nothing. Maintaining the status quo is your way of staying stuck.

Step one is actually pretty easy…decide to start moving. Decide to start the process. Notice I did not say to start the process, but rather decide to start the process.
Step two is relatively easy…start some research into what the process might have to look like. Don’t DO anything. Just some reading and talking about what the process might look like if you wanted to shift or transform some of your stuck elements.
After you have decided to start moving and you have done a little research into what the moving process is going to look like you are ready to begin in earnest.

Step 3 Pick a date to jump off the cliff.

Step 4 Jump.

See…simple. Not easy, simple.

This is the process for so many things…decide to make a change, figure out what it is going to take to make that change, and get started. In this case the process for making the shift that will have you living the life you always wanted…one of abundance and strength, a life full of purpose and meaning, and a life that has you getting up in the morning with your hair on fire.

The gap between where we are and where we want to be is the one that needs to get filled. This is our route. This is the path we will be taking to get where it is we really want to be. There are many roads here. I am not here to tell you the one right true way to getting what you really want. It is going to require you to look hard at what you are doing. Jettison those things that will not serve you on your journey. Things like watching TV for hours every day. Things like eating unnatural foods and drinks. Things like not exercising. Many of these things will be difficult. You will want to turn back, like Columbus’ men on the way to the new world. Stay the course you set. Make the adjustments for the unknowns on the route but keep your eyes on the life you want to lead. Keep all eyes on the prize.

You can never leave but let’s get checked back in and get to work shall we?

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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