“It won’t end here.  Your faith has got to be greater than your fear,” Julian Casablancas.  There are moments in life when it feels like time stops.  What we thought would destroy us happens, what we thought would break us happens, where we thought we couldn’t go any further happens—and we have to go further.  The truth is time is infinite and there is always something more.  There is always something else.  As long as we have air in our lungs and the ability to function, we can find something else, we can try again.  As long as we are gifted tomorrow, we can try again.  Don’t let fear be the thing that stops us.  Time is our greatest gift and what we do with our time speaks volumes.  How we spend our time tells the world who we are—and it’s how we find who we are.  We have the very real ability to create the life we want to live, we just need to be bold enough to take action on it.  The day we stop connecting with our creativity and stop doing the things we love is the day it is really over.  The day we stop feeling joy is the day it’s over.

One of my cards today was that joy is the ultimate creator and another was when I’m connected to my joyful presence I attract support from the universe.  Joy is the greatest creator and it can eliminate any type of doubt, and yes, it can eliminate fear as well.  Think of the thrill of a roller coaster—we may feel trepidation and fear while we are waiting in line, hearing the screams of people on the ride.  But once we get on the ride and get over that first drop, we feel the thrill of it and suddenly fear turns to laughter.  We can transmute the fear of anything if we stick with it long enough and focus on the good of it.  Fear in context of todays world means different things.  There are still people who face very real issues of discrimination and fear of harm to their person for being who they are.  But there are fears that have no basis in reality—like being afraid of making a mistake that makes us look silly.  Looking silly won’t kill us, that’s just ego we have to get past. 

We have moments we wish we could do over for whatever reason and we have moments when we know we need to just keep going. Those are past and present focused emotions.  The funny thing about life is we need to find that balance between past, present, and future in order to successfully navigate to where we want to be.  We have to integrate what we know from the past with what we have available to us now in order to get what we want in the future.  And so much of life is a guessing game—it’s a matter of trial and error to alchemize the life we are capable of creating.  Sometimes we are capable of so much more than we thought and we only learn that by knowing there is something else, picking up, learning from the experience and trying again.  We connect with the joy of it, the thrill of it, believe there is something greater and we keep going, knowing there is something more on the other side.  Believe that, feel that faith and trust every time—and keep going until we get to the other side.  Fear is temporary, regret is forever so do not let a temporary emotion ruin something greater.