Train Station 2

Comfort zone.

When we stay on a certain place or situation that it doesn't stimulate us to think or trigger a burst of energy, when we sit comfortably for too long and liking it, when an activity it becomes a routine and still liking it then you are in a zone of complacency. A place where growth is slow but you won't notice it by yourself. Is it wrong? Yes and no. If it is your final destination and maybe it is then go ahead and enjoy the fruits of your labor BUT if it is just one of the stations of your life. Wake up! Slap your face to see the reality. This is where your purpose, your vision will help you. That's why you should write your vision statement down. This will help you gauge where you are. What station you are currently staying, how much you have accomplished. It is like a map where it can pinpoint where you are.

If by chance you linger in a certain station, just check if you are already satisfied with your accomplishment. Evaluate yourself. If you want to stay there go ahead and if the end isn't that important to you as much as where you are currently standing then you don't have to move a foot. Most probably, you won't. Don't undersell and cheat yourself . You might be destined to greater heights. Your original vision statement will help you.

Train station

What if we have five (5) rest days and just two (2) working days? Lazy thought, unmotivated, nothing to do, uninterested, burnt out or plainly non sense.

Motivation starts in ones mind. Is it something that can be done instantaneously? Yeah, maybe but in this case how long will it last? It could disappear as fast as Siberian Tigers are disappearing. I don’t think a pure thought of being motivated could sustain it. Shallow. Then how could I make myself go back on track. Like any railroad track it ends somewhere. It may have several stations along the way but it will end eventually. If you ride a train just for the thrill of it, your interest and excitement will carry you through. The first station will be amazing… there is a wow experience but as hours pass by you might decide to disembark and quit. It is ok to stop there of course especially that’s all you want. After the emotions have dwindled and left you, there is nothing more to do but change and look for something interesting again. To do this every year of your life I am sure your inner being will be like longing for something, searching for a higher purpose than being driven by temporary satisfaction. What is it then?

Let’s go back to the train station and see it as your life and the journey would be like a train ride. Wow, a train ride of your life. A journey. Do you just want to have a journey? Or would you prefer a destination? Hmmmm.. you can’t choose only one. I think it has to be both but the destination for me destination is more important. Before you go on a journey, see your end destination. See it. Imagine it. Every detail, smell it right under your nose though it is still far. Visualize being there and imagine carefully how you would feel if you have reached the end. Close your eyes and imagine what is happening when you are there in your destination. Feel the excitement even before you reach it. Then as the door of the train opens, focus on your feelings (again). Are you about to cry out of joy? Make your first step as you go out. Then look around you and picture every detail of you want to see. Happy people around, clean surrounding, beautiful colors, sense the aura. Imagine if there will be people who will welcome you, see the happiness in their eyes, and feel the warmth of their embraces. That’s your destiny. Bottom line, visualize it up to the last detail.

What am I driving at? First, know where you want to go. This is always a personal decision. No one can make this for you. Write them down. Everything. Then to add flavor, make sure to include all the feelings. Im sure through the visualization exercise there would be different emotions so write them as well. Of course, you can do this to any of your goal or project. Along the way, there will be some distractions and lot of challenges. Part of the game. This thing that you have written will help you out.

Ok. Now I know what I should do. I have to clear the webs in my mind, cut the tall grasses and see once again the track I have prepared for my self and renew my commitment.

Next….. What to do while in the station?

When I am exhausted, I feel loose and disoriented.I know it. I drop things, my room becomes untidy, I have no time to not clean my car, I am so disorganized and yet I do not seem to care. AND, I don't like it. I hate it when things turn out this way. Because of this my mood is also affected. The more I am hating it now. I wish I can do something. Yeah, I know I must rest and stop for a while. maybe I will do that on Sunday. Wait, on top of these my spiritual life is on a downhill. Im losing myself. BUSY- Being Under Satan's Yoke. That's what my HS teacher used to say.

Bottom line, I have to act and address this unlikely scenario. Where should I start? That would be the first struggle. I have gather enough strength from within to overcome this. The Lord will help me and I will start with the Lord. Go to confession! Always start from within and it will fuel enough heat to propel to be above water again. Nevermind, if after few days I might fall again. That does not matter. I will focus on what I have to do now.

Yesterday, we watched Eternal Sunshine...blah blah. That was a different Jim Carrey. Not that deep but enough to stir some emotions especially for those who can relate to the story. Those whose relationship has ended, about to end or being tested. Memory of love was being erased through a computer....but at the end (like in any love story) love prevailed. I was with my Honey (Josephine) then with our Happy People friends Carla, Gayle Rochelle and Eric. After the movie, we ate at Italliani's. The food was good but the bill wasn't.. : ). Ok, it was all worth it, to spend time with good friends from time to time.

They got the 6:40pm schedule and instead of being excited we all got tensed and pressured. Because none of was really sure if we would be free by that time. Funny how we tried to squeeze the schedule. We decided to laugh at it. Yes, we missed the first few minutes of the movie.

Chapter 31 verse 2

Everyday, Im getting old. I already reached the 31st chapter of my life. All of us make his or her own story. Every story is unique and interesting and it would really depend on how you read it. But no one should judge others stories.