When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Look Within

Today I did not get up but begrudgingly rolled out of the wrong side of the bed. My first thought, "How on earth can I possibly feel this way when I have done nothing but opened my eyes today?". My mind, being the dear comforting friend it is, immediately supplied me with a list of why. I will spare you all the reasons as I am sure my trivial list would bore even the most curious cat. However, I can assure you all of my reasons and excuses were ultimately material and exterior. I immediately began my constant, mundane thought train of everything wrong that is happening to me. It's not even until I stop and write this that I realize that I have been on this train all day long. I don't even know where it's heading. Sad but true. In fact up to the second I clicked on "new post" I believed I wanted to write but just had nothing to write about. Strike that, reverse it. I have everything in the world to write about but I just want to blame my situation for my actions. I think we all have a tendency towards this type of behavior. We blame family, friends, bosses, governments, lovers, money, cities and even time for whatever it is we feel lacking. And there is such a feeling of loss and lack in this abundant country, isn't there? The truth is you already have the capacity to create whatever you want in your life. That is the honest to goodness truth. Scary isn't it? This is the moral of the story and the hardest one to put in practice for the fable we are being told by everyone, everyday is quite to the contrary. We keep looking for the next thing to fix us. The real reality is when things are tough, this is when it is time to dig deep. You have the power to change the things you don't like and create a space of unconditional love for life, all it takes is looking inside for the answer. That is good stuff. Whew....... I don't know about you but I needed that.