Day 223: Doing something to the best of your ability

 

I'm going to share another perspective on the point of living your full potential. In a blog, which you can read here, I wrote a more general point on realizing and living your utmost potential. Today I am going to give some examples of practical application and how I applied this in my life.

Living your utmost potential is like doing something to the best of your ability. I have said this many times in blogs - that I was always a person who took the easy route in terms of work, did the least amount of effort required to complete a task. Since walking this process that all changed.

The first opportunity I had to change this about myself was working with my hands. What is cool about "getting down to earth" and getting your hands dirty with good old physical work is that when you are done with it you can actually see what you did. For example: The first time I worked with bricks, we had a bath put in by plumbers so we needed to brick it up and I decided ill give it a go. I remember it took me the whole day to do this, mostly because it was a new thing so as I built it layer by layer and a got to my 4th layer I noticed that the 3rd layer was out of line. So i could have left it as it was, but that 3rd layer would not be in line with the rest of the mini wall and the thing about a wall is that it would be there for many many years - every time I look at it I would see it was not built properly, in the end I dismantled the 4th and 3rd layer started again.

Working with bricks and cement and concrete - when you are done it is a permanent thing so I wanted to make sure that every time a look at the finished product I want to to be able to say that I did my best. And always the next time I worked on a similar task like throwing and leveling a concrete floor I looked for ways to improve and make it better than the last one I did.

It was a cool experience and opportunity for me to improve myself by always doing something to the best of my ability - my utmost potential. And I did this with many tasks ranging from roofing to fencing to tree planting - finding ways to it better and improve my skills.

Day 58 - Stop Complaining and start Doing!!!!

 

This includes bitching, whining, moaning, howling, grumbling and  being crabby about something. Because in all this useless breath wasting all you are doing is NOTHING. So stop a moment to see how YOU can solve the problem instead of complaining about it all the time and stop hoping somebody will sort it out for you. (here i am talking about points within your self and your world - not things like complaining to the road work agencies about fixing the craters in the holes)

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to create the complaining character also known as the bitching character

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to complain about the state of the world and keep on complaining about it - not realizing that to complain accomplishes nothing

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if i complain long enough about a some problem in my life it will sort it self out

I forgive myself that i have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the reason i created this character is so that I do not have to anything but complain because to complain is easier than to sort out my own problems

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to find things to complain about so that I can say that I am doing something  - not realizing that all I'm doing is making sure i do not run out of things to moan about, because then i will not have an excuse not to sort out my life

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not want to take self responsibility for my life by getting to the core of the problems in my life so that I can stop complaining about it and start doing something about it

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into the blame character so that i can make somebody else responsible for what is happening to me and then I can moan to them about it which then relieves me from any responsibility towards myself

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that I alone am responsible for what is happening in myself and that I am the one who has to t hen solve my own issues since i created them

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that when I complain about something within my life that i am responsible for is me complaining to myself and i would be much more effective if i instead deal with the issues and problems in my life .

I commit myself to stop the complaining character

I commit myself to stop complaining about the state of this world and to start finding ways to sort out the problems

I commit myself to stop the belief that complaining long enough the problem will go away by itself

I commit myself to realize that complaining accomplishes nothing and doesn't support anything in any way and that all im doing is nothing

I commit myself to realize that i complain because its easier than taking self responsibly and solving my own problems

I commit myself to take self responsibility and sort out the problems within my life that I have created  

I commit myself to stop blaming others and complaining to them about the things in my life and to realize that I cannot blame anybody for the things i created in myself because I allow it and I am responsible for it 

I commit myself to stop complaining to myself because that is simply stupid and a waste of time and to instead start doing and finding the source of the problems in my life so that i can deal with it and stop complaining about it

Day 45 - Frustration Character

 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to create the frustrated character to deal with certain situations  

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to become frustrated when i don't seem to get anywhere and when i believe that things are moving slowly

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to get frustrated when I cant understand something or don't ''get it''

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to become frustrated when something takes longer than i expected or didn't meet my expectations

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to become frustrated when i had a 'bad day' and somebody ask me to do something that i don't feel like doing

I forgive myself that i have accepted not and allowed myself to be patient in my life and want things to move faster

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to have a believe that everything in life should come easy and fast - not realizing that this is not so but a believe that i created

I forgive myself that i have  accepted and allowed myself to be directed by this character in giving up on what i was doing because i believe it doesn't work based on my believe on how it should work

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the frustration is not real but something i created and believed to be real and in that i let it go

I forgive myself that i have not accepted and allowed myself to stop the frustration and to believe that its the only way to deal with situations - not realizing that i am being directed and not being self directive by breathing through the resistance and letting go

I commit myself to delete the frustration character

I commit myself to see that things take time

I commit myself to realize that i created the expectations of how fast something should move contrarily to reality and thus stop expectations

I commit myself to be patience

I commit myself to breathe through the frustrations so that im not directed by it and influenced by it

I commit myself to from this moment on not become unnecessarily frustrated when something doesn't go my way - and to realize that things do take time

I commit myself to see that becoming frustrated is actually useless and that its much more effective to let go of it so that i can move on and not give up