You are here because of a need.
Everything around you that you see is here because there is a need for it, and you are no exception. Everything is in service to the life around it, in many various ways, and also receives from its environment.
The apple tree receives nourishment from the earth, light and heat from the sun, care from the farmer, water from rain (or the garden hose!) and gives apples to humans and worms, gives pollen to bees, shade to animals.
We are all necessary to some part of life, and provide many different services, depending on talents and abilities. It doesn’t much matter what we provide, so long as it’s necessary and appreciated; what matters most, is how we do it. The consciousness with which we do it.
There may come a time in our life when the work we have been doing for many years is no longer needed, or we have become unable to continue it for some reason, physical or otherwise, or it’s a matter of retirement and we feel lost, unwanted, not knowing what to do.
That’s the time to look around to see where there is a need that’s not being fulfilled, or there is a lack where our expertise can help. Or even a lack where we have no seeming competence, but can learn something new, so as to fulfill a need.
You are never too old or too “out of it” to learn, if you want to; you are never too old, too broken, or too handicapped to start something new, regardless of what your boss, your friends or the statistics tell you. They don’t know you, or the Spirit that animates you, and if you’re still here, Spirit is striving to express more of Itself through you, deliver something that so far, you have not yet expressed.
All you need is a firm decision to do something that will be of benefit not only to you, but to others and to choose what you most enjoy, and want to do. In other words, have a vision for your life. Describe that vision to yourself as best you can, write it out to get it really clear; work on it until you feel “Yes! that is the life that would really fulfill me”.
Read it over every day and sit with the feelings of joy, happiness, confidence and success – whatever they are for you – write them down and every day, do something to anchor one or more of those feelings in yourself. So that you become the embodiment of those aspects which are the real substance of the new person you will become when you are living your vision.
And then, every day, do one thing that would be helpful in making that dream a reality. More if you want, but commit to at least one thing. Whether it’s a phone call, some research on the Internet, a conversation with a friend or colleague, whatever it is, do it with the consciousness, “I am doing this to further my vision!”
Commit to that for the next 40 days and you will be amazed at how much your life has changed, and what you have achieved.
