MaXIMIze - More Questions to Consider

Certainly you didn't think the questions posted last week were the be all and end all, did you? Of course not! There are a lot of things to dig into when you are working to discover what matters, what gives your life meaning, and what you need to let go of.

Here are some more questions to ponder in this vein:

How would you describe your perfect job? What would a day in this job look like?

What kind of people would you be working with and/or for?

How would your work benefit you beyond earning a paycheck?

How would your work and you specifically doing your work benefit others?

How would you feel after a good day at work?

These questions just cover one aspect of your life, you know. The other aspects we will explore in 2014 include financial health, relationships, spirituality, physical well being, emotional well being, and your life as a whole. 

The remaining blog posts for 2013 to be on the look out for will deal with how to cope with holiday stress - managing expectations comes to mind, the reason(s) for the season beyond the materiality and consumerism, and a year-end wrap-up of the various topics covered in this blog during 2013.

In January, we will reset - 2012 was focused on letting go. 2013 added becoming. 2014 will add growing, particularly in the areas noted above.

I look forward to continued sharing in this blog - namaste!

MaXIMIze - Hope vs. Faith

As I was reading the May 21st entry in 365 Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, it struck me that while hope and faith may be related, they are not the same thing.

When you have hope, you are waiting for something to happen - being passive instead of being active. You sit at the crossroads and wait for direction. With hope, you wish upon the star and wait for fate to happen. Most often, because no action was taken to ensure success, what you hoped for does not come to pass. And then you wonder why, never learning the lessons in order to grow and ensure success in the future.

When you have faith, you may rest at the side of the crossroads for a while to recover before choosing a path and walking firmly upon it. With faith, you have a goal in mind, and put in motion the actions required to gain that goal. Even if that goal is not attained, you will have at least made the effort to do so, and you will have learned what works and what doesn't to better ensure success for future endeavors.

And as the song says, "there are two paths, but in the long run, there is still time to change the road you're on."

So which do you choose - hope or faith? Passive or active?

It is one thing to be walking the labyrinth and finding your way out of the maze. It is another simply to be walking in circles.This is what happens when one continues to follow the same path and expecting different results.