Many have said that 2016 has been a ...difficult... year, to put it mildly. Some of our favorite actors, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, George Michael, Gene Wilder, and many others died this year of various causes. We had to choose between two less-than-ideal presidential candidates. So much difficulty, so much “cultural trauma”. It’s no wonder people are either ready for the new year to start or worry that 2017 will be even worse. We have no control over events in the next year. The new president will take his seat in the White House. More beloved public figures will pass. Life will happen. But there’s hope. 2016 hasn’t exactly been easy here at the Guerra household, either. My past struggle with anxiety and feeling completely useless to society and my family took its toll on my husband and children as well as myself. I was too afraid I’d married too young to see the wonderful, selfless, and intelligent man who’d promised to stand by my side in life. I was too afraid we’d had children too soon to see the beautiful, kind, and loving children we were raising. I was too wrapped up in myself to see the core of my desire: to lift, to serve, and to inspire. No matter your circumstance, life gets tough. It’s specifically designed that way to build you into the greatest being of light and power you can be." The metal that’s shod into your horse’s shoe has to be completely melted and refined before taking its final shape. That mustang you rescued has to completely relearn everything about life before becoming the reining champion she turns out to be. You have to be broken down before you are rebuilt into the influential person you were meant to be. You don’t have control over that process. It’s going to happen whether you want it or not. What you DO have control over is choosing whether you’re going to stop fighting it and start listening to your inner self telling you what you’re being molded into or if you’re going to pull and tug and complain and whine and destroy yourself battling against happiness. I wish I could say it’s an easy decision. It’s more challenging than it sounds. But guess what? You have everything it takes. You have everything you need to work with life. To let go. To let you be you. It’s built in. You don’t even have to add water." Let 2017 be YOUR year. Not because of what happened, but because of what you did in spite of it. Make the decision now to discover yourself this year. Find out what makes you tick. Then go out and get everyone else’s gears whirring. Have a debilitating fear? Go crush it. Don’t have a job? Go make one. Feel like a past trouble is holding you back? Go resolve it. Who knows? Maybe taking one of these paths will lead you to your purpose, the highest version of you you were meant to be. Inconveniences become opportunities. Obstacles become pathways. Yourself becomes Your Self and the Universe nods to you as an equal. You lost control to gain it. You died to be reborn. You walked through fire and passed to the other side, singed but purified. Yeah, 2017 is going to be YOUR year.
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AuthorRegan Guerra is a Personality Geek. As an ENFJ 4w3, she dreams big, wanting to build a ranch where others can rediscover themselves and learn to reimagine life the way it's supposed to be. Archives
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