Choose the Light

We all have our demons.  Sure.  Whatever you want to call them.  Either way, you either face them or you don't.  It don't matter really.  Why?  Because it is your life.  You decide you want to be miserable or happy.  There's no other way around.

Sure, chronic pain, some other things going that make you question existence, sure, there is all kinds.  However, here you are.  So, either keep moving forward or not.  That's your decision.

Everyday I choose the light.  A ritual of sorts.  My demons are always ready to go.  So, I make a commitment to choose the light.  Everyday.  That helps me focus on what and how I'm going to operate during the day.  A mission statement on the go.

The idea that a person is just going to one day stop fucking up and start having some discipline well, that takes quite a bit of effort.  So, better to start with baby steps.

Some people make their beds, some get up and take a cold shower and others like me, make a commitment to serve.  We choose the light.

Build on it.  Once you start seeing yourself as an agent of the light then, you start asking yourself what are you doing with your life?  Does it reflect what you're committing to being?

Other questions that a mind seeking discipline and growth might ask:

Who am I?

What's my purpose?

Am I living to my purpose, honor, values?

That should wake up the brain to think about ... what the hell is honor?  Do I have a purpose?  Have I ever thought about having a purpose besides getting up, going to work, complaining about the commute, the work and whatever else.

In other words, one small seed growing in a good brain can become a mighty tree of thought, purpose, feelings and emotions.  In time.  Patience. Breathe.

You are here for a reason no matter what some say.  You are.  You matter.  Your choices matter.  

Yesterday choices well, you get to live with the consequences of those past choices.  

Today is a brand new day to stop to think, to slow the steam roller, to calculate, to choose differently.

How many good choices can you make in a day?  I don't know.  Why not challenge yourself to think first.