Often, we live our lives without making conscious choices for ourselves. We accept the circumstances of our life, taking whatever comes along. One day we wake up and realize we’ve been living a life that doesn’t feel authentic. We’re not happy. We keep doing what we think we should be doing to get by, yet feel lost, empty, and maybe even depressed. Then we convince ourselves we don’t have the ability to choose differently.
For example, you feel unhappy, but tell yourself, “I have spent so many years moving ahead in this job, I can’t possibly leave it now.” Or, “My family has such expectations for me, I should fulfill those expectations whether I like it or not.” Or, “I’m so overweight, it’s impossible to do anything about it now.” No matter how alien you feel in your situation, how trapped you feel, you believe that you don’t have a choice in the matter.
Will is about knowing that you always have a choice. It is about trusting your instincts and deciding where you want to go in life. Will involves the creative spark of independence and self-determination. Will is your determined purposefulness, conviction, and resolve to live a life beyond the confines of should’s, have-to’s, and feeling trapped.
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Great blog post! We are so powerful, more so than we can ever even imagine. Life is opening up to us at each moment, and it is simply a choice to live as one truly desires. We have the answer already, we simply have to ask ourselves and trust. Will is most definitely the will to choose! Well said!
Love,
Annette Hennekens
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Hi Annette,
Great name!! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your love with us.
There’s a quote from Star Trek that goes, “Sarek: [to Spock] You will always be a child of two worlds, and fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose?”
We also have the ability to choose from two worlds…the world of fear and survival or the world of heart. Our destiny unfolds differently depending upon which place we make our choices from.
Thanks again for stopping by!
Annette, beautiful site, great materials!
We see what we want to see when it comes to defining our perceptions with language; but within the depths of our thinking, we crave the sensation of knowing the fullness and source of our thoughts.
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Hello Doug,
Thanks for introducing us to you unique and beautiful gift of creative expression. I’m just now beginning to explore your blog at http://dougsnedden.blogspot.com/ Amazing images and even more amazing ideas!
Love,
Annette
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