Making a mistake, and living with consequences

Unless you make some big mistakes you are never going to grow. 

You've going to make mistakes at some point in your life. 

I've made one, like maybe once a month. 

And if you don't make them then you won't become a self-invented man. 

I've got to learn to make mistakes to understand the character that I am clawing the air for. 

People like watching people who make mistakes, but they prefer watching a man who survives his mistakes. 

To make a mistake in life and survive it, is the biggest kick of all.

Live your own Life

"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."
-- Julia Cameron

We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. 

If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction. 

We might regularly ask ourselves:

• "What do I really want to do?"
• "What brings me greatest happiness?"
• "How can I bring more of these into my life?"

Life wants us to go for what brings us most joy and meaning.

Just decide

Make a decision and then make the decision right.
In most cases, it doesn't really matter what you decide.
Just decide.
There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision.
Make more decisions in every day. 
Because a decision is a summoning of life. 
That's why a little chaos is good for you, because often you don't make a decision until you get yourself in a jam. 
And then, in the middle of the jam, you make a decision, but that decision summons Life Force. 
Have you ever been a place where you couldn't quite make up your mind and you just felt sort of limp? 

"Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." 

And then you decided, and you felt alive again.  

So, make a decision. 

Let it flow

---Abraham Hicks

Excerpted from the workshop: Orlando, FL on February 21, 1998

Expectation

Expectation indicates the juncture between where you are and where you want to be. 

Where you want to be is your desire, and where you are is your Set-point or habit of thought. 

And, somewhere in there, is what we would call expectation. 

Expectation, whether it is wanted or unwanted, is a powerful point of attraction. 

Your expectation is always what you believe. 

But the word expectation does imply more what you are wanting than what you are not wanting. 

It is a more positive word than it is a negative word. 

But of course, you could expect negatively—and whatever you expect, you will get!

--- Abraham Hicks

Excerpted from the workshop: Orlando, FL on December 20, 2003