Get out of the way to see the way.  Over the last few weeks we’ve talked a lot about perception, setting the tone, clarifying goals, and honoring purpose.  Today I want to talk about how we block ourselves because there are so many ways we stop ourselves from achieving greatness, many of them unconscious or subconscious to us.  Sometimes when we feel stuck, we need to understand that we have to go back to the start in order to figure it out.  I’m not saying rehash every moment in our lives until we resolve every issue—we can’t redo time but we can learn to reconcile how we feel about it.  Much of what we deal with, much of what we carry stems from the time we formed our opinion of ourselves, our abilities, and what we saw around us during our formative years.  In order to progress, we have to move that junk out of the way because we know with a clear path we can move forward.

The subconscious blocks are things we have like the automatic habits or thoughts as we move throughout our day.  The thought, “I don’t have enough money,” or, “I wish he/she would stop doing this,” or even, “I hate my job/car/house/situation/bank balance etc. etc. etc.” are things that stop us from achieving what we want to because we are blocking the potential for what can be with negative thoughts around what already exists.  If we aren’t grateful for what we have and if we don’t appreciate what it took to get there, then what makes us think that we would be able to handle more or an elevated circumstance?  We have to resolve our mindset in order to progress.  We have to manage the thoughts and control our pattern of thought if we are going to work from a new paradigm.  It’s about shifting the energy. 

There are times we don’t want to admit that we are responsible for our own blocks.  It seems counterintuitive.  Why would we ever stop ourselves from achieving what we want?  Why would se stop ourselves from feeling good and being successful?  Because we aren’t used to that.  Because it doesn’t feel familiar.  Because it doesn’t feel good at the start.  Waking up and getting out of our own way can feel like waking up with a bad hangover or a terrible dream.  It’s heavy, it can be painful, and it’s exhausting at times.  Learning an entirely new way of life and a new way of functioning takes practice and time and it is work—it’s just more rewarding work.  If we seek to get to the other side, that is the work we must do.  We must learn to take responsibility for what is blocking us and work toward the other side.  It isn’t like flipping a light switch.  It’s like changing one bulb at a time until the entire path is illuminated.  And once it is lit, it is glorious.  Choose to see where we aren’t stuck.  Choose to move forward.  Do the work and step out of the way.