Nov 06 - Is determination blinding you? Is there something that you are trying to achieve that is all consuming? Do you feel that you must stay entirely focused on this particular effort, otherwise you will not realize success in the endeavor? Are other areas of your life or work beginning to suffer because of this intense focus?
Being determined is a commendable quality to possess if it doesn't become an excuse for not doing other things that are important to your wellbeing. When your determination becomes obsessive, there is a sense of desperation that is very likely blinding you from seeing your way through a challenge or roadblock. Open your mind so your eyes can see.
Take an MM&I Moment to awaken to why you feel so determined to achieve this particular goal. What are your underlying reasons for accomplishing it? How will it nurture and help you achieve other goals and desires? What is missing in your life or work that is compelling you to focus so intensely on this particular aim? Is your determination partially driven by a feeling that you are stuck or not making the progress you thought you would have made by now in other areas? Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take a step back and focus your energy on a related goal when you are feeling so much pressure in relation to achieving another goal. By giving yourself permission to take a slight break, you may very well realize a breakthrough. What you believe to be the road to your success may be the very thing that is keeping you from getting there.
Wide Awake Quote of the Week
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller
Yours in dreaming WIDE awake,
