Effort Guarantees Rewards

Having spoken with a few people of the past few days about various things related to life development topics there seemed to be a theme in the outcome of the conversations.

All these people seemed quite emphatic that they wanted different BUT… too ill, too busy, not dealt with let over childhood traumas.  However, if I were to do this, do that, then they would consider ‘trying’ whatever I set up for them.

We turn up here with everything we need.  Life, a body, an amazing mind that will trump the world’s largest and most sophisticated computers. 

So we now have all the ingredients needed for a great life and………nothing! 

It’s like throwing all the ingredients of a recipe together and then doing nothing with them, there’s no stirring, no whisking, no cooking time taking place.  It’s the same as standing around waiting for a miracle to take place before your eyes.

The miracle is in the stirring, the whisking and the cooking e.g. the work you put in to turning the ingredients that you’ve been given in to something, and the patience and tenacity in following through until you are sitting there with the end result in front of you. 

We allow for the fact that our food needs to be grown, prepared and cooked prior to eating.

We don’t question that babies require the initial physical exertion to get the process started, the 9 month cooking of, not to mention the removal from the oven (hey ladies) and that’s just the first phase. 

But we do it and we do un-questioningly, because that’s the way it is. 

People would probably think I was barking if I asked why they had to put effort in to preparing a meal or creating a child, and why they didn’t just sit back and hope for something amazing to happen without any effort on their part.

So here’s the question…… why do we do it with our lives?  We’re given all the tools we need to turn this life in to something.  That which we don’t know we have the ability and for the most part the facilities to learn.

So, carrying on with the cooking analogy as we ALL have to eat. 

1. Choose a recipe that makes your mouth water
   (Consider the life you truly want)
2. Know your reason for cooking that particular recipe, are you trying to impress another, you’re on a diet or your just plain hungry and need some grub.
   (Know why you want what you want)
3. Check that you have the relevant ingredients
   (Know your existing talents that you can capitalise on, then decide what you may need to set about enhancing and how e.g. attain any qualifications that may be needed)
4. Start adding the ingredients together following the cooking instructions as you go
   (plan your strategy for creating whatever you’re going after in life and follow it)
5. Start stirring/blending/whisking
   (You start doing something, you take action)
6. Taste and tweak ingredients as you go.
   (You need to check in to see whether you are still on course)
7. Cook for specified time
   (Set dates where you expect to have accomplished certain projects to give you measured time when you know the fruits of labour will be realised)
8. And then serve
   (Relax and enjoy your efforts)

My point is that in order to create something out of this life the KEY ingredient to any recipe is the effort you put in to the creation of it, without that it just sits there unrecognisable of what it was intended to be and without ever realising it’s full potential.

So now you know…..you can get cooking

Have a good one

Dxxx