How can you tell if your wick is wet?
What are the signs?
And what exactly do I mean by that?
And what are the consequences?
Do you even know?
When is the last time you took a moment to pause, sit back and reflect on your life?
Are you tired of living a mediocre life and want to have confidence in venturing out of your comfort zone , aka the cage you have constructed for your self?
When is the last time you took a moment to consider all of the things that you are doing and why?
When is the last time you took a moment to reflect upon those activities which are beneficial to you…
or NOT?
Have you done any self-work?
If you answered ‘No’ to that last question then there is probably a good chance your wick is wet.
Society has a lot of bear traps around it that can get us suckered into activities that are not in our best interest.
Do you want to know how to be a better leader so that you can better lead your own life?
Strong people, and those who want to be, have the courage to go and speak to strangers.
* They don’t want their lives to be governed by crippling insecurity.
* They are not scared of speaking up.
* They are not terrified of talking in front of large groups of people.
* They have high self-esteem and feel empowered.
* They have confidence, they know how to build rapport.
* They exemplify patience, and they take time to strategize their life.
* They are realistic about what exists in the present moment.
Lack of these things can have a dampening effect on our life force and without a doubt will have long lasting consequences.
If your wick is wet, what I mean by that is that you feel defeated.
You are sick.
You are tired.
You are sick and tired of being sick, and sick and tired of being tired…
But you don’t know what to do…
Every time you try to get something new started, it fizzles and fails.
Every time you try to dig yourself out of the hole, it just doesn’t work.
Every time you try to think yourself free, you just get stifled with responsibilities and other things that hold your attention.
I get it.
Coz that was me too, my friend.
I was trying to hold down a marriage and a full-time job while so sick myself I was barely able to function.
I was impotent, and episodes with Crohn’s symptoms had me at my worst.
Grover’s disease had me itching all over my torso, and my skin was full if folluculitis and Grover’s Disease.
My mind, body and spirit were failing me.
There was a point where I felt suicidal.
It just all seemed hopeless.
There just didn’t seem to be a way to find balance, to bounce back up.
I had landed with a thud.
I had no way in the foreseeable future of launching myself off that rock bottom.
It was my new resting place.
There came a point when the pity party ended.
There came a point where the pain of sitting still finally became greater than the pain of moving.
That’s when I made a decision.
That’s when things begin to change for me.
From that moment on, it was as if the universe had begun tilting in my favor, and things started to get easier.
Things started to look a little bit less bleak.
I started to have hope, but I knew Hope was not a Strategy.
I knew that hope could not be a campground.
I knew that hope was not real, just as it was merely the obverse of fear.
People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.
So I began using the tools I had available to me such as the Law of the Pen by taking affirmative action. I wrote things down.
PROTIP: The Law of Expectation states that if you write it down you expect it to happen.
I started becoming a law unto myself. I didn’t worry about those around me, I merely focused on myself, my avatar, and who I needed to be in order to have what I wanted to have.
I realized that my subconscious was really in charge, and that the only way to get through to it was through this process.
I started forcing myself into that person much like you would take a square peg and force it through the round hole.
I forged myself, my “I AM” through personally directed adversity.
I white knuckled it physically through the pain as I healed.
I also white knuckled it mentally as I wended my way through life.
Although I was aware at the time of a level of spirituality, it had never really set in with me like it has now.
I was honestly pretty clueless where to start or what to do with it at this time. An essential aspect of my existence was largely neglected and/or ignored.
I was so very sick and defeated but I didn’t want people to worry about me, plus everybody was giving me incorrect and inaccurate advice, so I stopped telling people about my illness.
Also, bear in mind the Law of the Jungle says the Jungle will cleanse itself of the sick and dying.
Gulp! Noooooo!!!
i did not want to be cleansed.
Yet I had exhausted the doctors efforts.
I had exhausted even the dietitian. She refused to set any further appointents (after 20?) because she couldn’t help me. Nothing helped.
So I started experimenting on myself. I turned myself into a lab rat, my own personal guinea pig if you will and I began finding things that would give me relief holistically and naturally.
I had no plan, I went willy-nilly with no form, focus or direction.
It was more like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick.
I tried everything that alternative medicine offers that sounded reasonable in regards to my symptoms.
I saw a holistic doctor several times with a lot of relief but we still couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my body.
I went to a website that told me what each supplement did and played with any and all that seemed reasonable, with a LOT of success!
I also tried Chinese traditional herbs, acupuncture…
I quit smoking and drinking all together…
I thought I started eating healthier although in retrospect I know I was not…
I started hiking and getting sunshine and air and exercise outdoors…
Even that was not enough; however, it WAS a start!
It did not take long for me to realize that I had elevated myself out of the pits of despair and transitioned myself from rock bottom into survival mode.
Once again that gave me hope but I realized that I could not stay there. I had to find a strategy to get out.
That’s where the rub came, because I had to start from scratch.
My spiral and accelerating path downward had depleted me of all of my resources.
The point came where I hit rock bottom again. I had no choice.
I did not have enough remaining elasticity to bounce.
I thudded.
At the age of 53, I had to swallow my pride and go ask my parents for help.
A lot of people struggle with maintaining a true self-concept coupled with a sense of purpose.
They don’t really have a firm understanding of who they are and what they are doing.
Ergo, they flounder.
They become REACTIVE instead of proactive.
They don’t plan, nor do they feel they have time to plan, because they are too busy running around putting out all the little fires.
This becomes the cycle that repeats itself ad nauseam.
Every morning they get up with no true sense of direction and just GO.
They just wander about answering the call of the alarm that’s screaming the loudest.
Nothing really gets fixed, the hustle and bustle never fully settles down.
It never gets quiet.
There’s NEVER any time to rest.
There’s barely even time to draw a breath.
The end result is ten more years go by and you realize you have still barely even left the starting gate.
You are still sitting in the same position you were in the last time you said things were going to change.
But… things really have not changed, have they?
Are you caught in an endless loop a la Groundhog Day?
What happened to all the hopes and dreams?
Where did the time go?
People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Broken focus is the number one reason people fail in their endeavors.
Not the number two reason.
So what did I do?
How did I maintain focus, how did I continue my journey from desperation to hope to success?
I followed the same basic principles that anyone can use to be a success.
This eventually led me to an introduction to the Eight Angels Of Natural Balance.
But that’s a story for another day.
Click the link below and turn the page for a more in-depth discussion of what I did to move myself from suicidal to super confident…
Along the way please take a moment to ask yourself:
* Do I see the beauty in the mirror staring back at me in the morning each day? Or do I see regret?
* Does my inner critic scream and yell or has he been taught to keep quiet out of awe?
* Have I identified my passions and my dreams?
* Do I know how to bring my dreams to life?
* Have I mastered my time management?
* Have I ever, and would I even know how to improve my relations with food?
* Would I like to become a person with more follow-through?
* Do I keep my promises to myself?
* Do I know what it means to be a law unto my lips and how that can benefit me?
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All my love,
Barry Groover