Dear Friend,
I am a driven person. I don’t know about you, but once I see a direction that I know I need to go it can drive me for decades without waver. This surprises me sometimes. I imagine myself as less steadfast, more wishy-washy than that. Yet when I look back over time, and particularly when I look at some of my older writings, I am surprised at just how consistent they are with what I write today.
Being driven to achieve what you want is a good thing. But it can also make you unconsciously resistant to the state of how things are. I mean, you aren’t “there”yet, so don’t relax, keep going – that kind of resistance to the moment, to the way things are right now.
This is a hard concept for most people to grasp and it’s easy to forget about it in your everyday life. But you will never get “there.” There is no “there.” Yes you may be driven like me to achieve your goals. But achieving them won’t fully satisfy you if you are not already satisfied with the right now. Huh?
Yes, that’s right. Achieving your stated goals will not fully satisfy you. However, resolving to achieve those goals while taking real and tangible steps towards that achievement, will help to satisfy you. As long as you surrender to this moment fully, to the way it is right now, regardless of your recent degree of success or failure.
There is no tomorrow folks. And yesterday is only a memory. To be fully satisfied with your life it is the state of your mind and body at this very moment that matters. To resist acceptance of this moment because you have not yet achieved your life’s goals is the biggest mistake that otherwise talented warriors in the game of life make.
Surrender to what is. Accept your lot in life, and then resolve to make it better. Accept that it is how you approach your life that brings the most satisfaction, not what you just achieved.
Achievement is fantastic, as long as you already felt that achievement long before it occurred. Visualize being where you desire to be, all the while you pursue it, and surrendering to this moment will be all the more blissful.
You will also discover how much of the beauty of your life you have been missing when you surrender to this moment. We are unaware of so much that exists simply because we don’t take time to see it. Look. You will be amazed!
Enjoy your new moments, right now. Know that it is OK to let go – to surrender – to the now. You are not giving up on your drive to succeed. You are simply letting that drive do its work while you relax and enjoy life as it happens, and as you create it, right in front of your eyes.
Happy now!
All the best,
Hugh
