I love to hear the trains rumbling over the tracks as it breaks through the still of the night. And then the horn blares loudly in warning as it approaches a crossing road. It comforts me. It reminds me, as a little girl, I could hear the sound of the railroad cars rolling through our town, less than a mile away
Being a child...how wonderful...how wonderful to have everything as a possibility, when your biggest challenge was, "which one," or better yet, "I want it all," having not yet been convinced of the world's "can't dos", starting out with a clean slate, no baggage. Baggage. That's the culprit. That's what trips us up as adults.
So here's the thing. Everyday truly is a clean slate. In fact, every moment of every day is a clean slate. That's your starting point. Right now. Forget about last week when you didn't live up to, not only your own expectations, but also the ones others placed on you. Forget about yesterday when you decided to do nothing constructive on a Sunday afternoon and now you feel guilty. Forget about ten minutes ago when you realized you hadn't made a plan for your day, much less your week. Let it go.
Frankly, the guilt of not living up to your expectations and those you "think" others have are holding you back. Focus on right now. What can you do right now? "Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction," Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich. Start there. When you screw up, and you will, let it go and move on. The worry over of what you didn't do or what you haven't done will only keep you down.
Focus on this moment and what you are doing right now. Decide what you want. Believe. Believe as a child that you can do it! You are going to get so many things right! Now get out there and do something!
Grace
