Yesterday I spoke about how our energy has a ripple effect into the world, both personal and literally on a global level—perhaps universal—but today I want to focus on the personal implications of it.  We are responsible for our own actions, monitoring our emotions, our progress toward a goal, for deciding on a goal, and what we want the trajectory of our lives to be.  We can decide to do a million things but none of them will happen if we don’t take action toward them.  A team member of mine shared a super simple but potent piece of advice that ties right into this concept of action and energy: Daily effort toward goals is what moves you forward.  It doesn’t have to be huge leaping strides every day, it is the consistency and drive and heart we put into whatever it is we decide to do that moves us.  I’ve chosen at least a dozen different paths in this lifetime, each time thinking I was doing the right thing, that I had found “it” only for it to crumble away and leave me confused, wanting, and empty.  I can fully admit that in some cases they were merely bad choices—they were things that weren’t for me.  In others I know it was a matter of lack of clarity.  And still in others, it was fear to do what needed to be done.  In all cases, it was about not doing what needed to be done.

When we make the choice to not take action on our goals or do the necessary result producing actions then we have set in motion the lack of an outcome on whatever it was we decided.  As a society I think we set ourselves up for failure with the belief that we have to do it all RIGHT NOW or we have to do a million things in order to somehow be deemed worthy.  We take on too much and we self-sabotage to the point where the level of what we are trying to accomplish or the amount we are trying to accomplish is unattainable.  That isn’t the case for everything.  There are those things we want and we can see them and we know what we have to do to get them and we don’t do it—so the question becomes what did we miss in our own lives as well as what did we deprive the world of?  Energy is key and I am learning and continue to be humbled at how much we actually (perhaps just me) need to let go of, how much work is necessary to really channel our energy—or even understand it.  The universe has a funny way of really testing that resolve when we think we have it under control, testing if we really want it, testing if we are really where we think we are on our journey.  Those with the gumption to stick it through to the end are rare to a degree, and the long term effects of sticking it out are evident in their lives and in society.    

The last component to this talk is that we must remember to never get too big for the little things—they matter.  The results really are in the details, but the key is really that we must be willing to do all the things that need to be done in order to succeed in our goal. No, that isn’t about driving ourselves crazy and making sure every detail is perfect—perfect isn’t the goal.  It IS about making sure we have all the pieces in place to make things function smoothly and to full capacity. I heard it said that the little things are the big things and the big things are the little things.  It’s all a matter of perspective—understanding that we need to have a big picture and be firm on the destination but flexible on the details and the how all while knowing we have to be willing to handle the small details.  Life is this balance of clarity, consistency, and knowing how NOT to get hung up on something while also NOT ignoring what needs to be done.  No one said this was easy and in reality it is the greater lesson to life itself—Balance and clarity.  Somehow we have to find that sweet spot of knowing what we want and how to get it while knowing that our goals may or may not be part of the bigger universal plan.  We have to stick with what we know while expanding what we want to know.  Keep ourselves in check and be really clear on the destination, and above all, be willing to adapt and flow so we do the work it takes and let go of the rest.