Born to Lead

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far; than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
                             ~Patanjali

We are all leaders.  How we lead is the question.  As I write this something from A Course in Miracles comes to mind.  We teach what we need to learn.  That is where I’m at in anything I write.  I’m attempting to learn.  We are all leaders.  We are all teachers.  We are all always learning.

We are the force or energy that makes up our world, whether our force is positive or negative.  We often look to someone else to lead such as politicians.  Sometimes we think of it as hopeless.  Or we think of ourselves as powerless.  This in itself is negative.  We are all one.  It’s not them or us.  We can all win.  We can all individually make a difference for the whole by focusing, taking a stand or acting on the positive.  It begins with the simplest of acts – how we act in traffic, in line before we get to the counter, reusing a bag instead of taking plastic, paying a compliment, being a solution rather than a problem.

Have you ever noticed how a thought expands?  Even resistance to the thought gives it momentum.  Once Mother Teresa was asked to participate in an anti-war rally.  She replied she would be glad to participate in a peace rally.  What we focus on expands.  As one who has had cancer, myself, as well as experienced my mother’s death from it, I choose to be aware of good health and not aware of breast cancer or colon cancer or whatever the case may be.  I choose to focus on exercise for the sake of feeling good or accomplishment.  I choose to focus on food in a positive manner.  If I’m always thinking it’s going to make me fat, or always focusing on my weight or resisting the idea of being fat…well you get the picture. 
 
I’m dreaming about the kind of world I want to live in.  As Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see.”  Be a positive force.  It’s about achieving inner peace to create outer peace.  It all starts from within. 

Are we spending our time with people who inspire?  Are we radiating energy or sucking energy?  Birds of a feather flock together.  When we start raising our own vibration we will meet people of our own vibration – law of attraction in action.  We are all practicing this law.  The question is are we practicing it consciously or unconsciously.    The same rule applies to what we are reading, what we are viewing on television, or listening to on the radio.  Does it enrich us or depress us? Are we letting life lead us around in circles or are we leading our life on a path towards our objectives.

Now I raise the question, “What are our objectives?”  For many it’s materialistic.  In my own mind using the law of attraction for this can be self-defeating.  Thinking back to a happier time usually involves a feeling.  What type of feeling do we want to possess?  We can live joyfully as we wish for others to live joyfully.  I believe one facet of the law of attraction is to bless the joy we see in others.  Possibly it’s their abundance or their laughter.  Or maybe it’s what you deem to be the absurdity in their life that brings humor to yours.  I often think God’s chosen profession is that of a comedian.  What goes around comes around. 

We all have our own sphere of influence.  This has a way of expanding as well.  I personally believe that a positive force is much more expansive than a negative force.  So, be the positive force you want to see. 

This is my inspirational speech to myself today and anyone else it may inspire.