Show Your True Colors

What are your true colors? Most people are only vibrating at a pastel hue when they could be a vibrant orange, red or blue.

Come alive. It takes not only knowing but acting on what makes you come alive that makes your true colors shine. Unfortunately what holds people up is the belief that what they want to do or be won’t be liked, accepted, respected or acknowledged. That is a shame because then it’s fear that is holding you back from being who you are and thereby letting your true colors come shining through.

The song True Colors sums it up quite nicely.

“You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It’s hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
When I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow”

So what colors will your rainbow be?

The Truth Shall Set You Free

Love that sentence. Imagine a world where you always knew what the truth is.  You’d know the true intention behind the guy who just asked you out, the politics at work and which of your politicians is telling the truth or selling you a lie. Okay, now I’m just dreaming.

How free would that make you?  You would then be able to make wise choices in your life instead of learning the hard way. Of course, sometimes you have to learn what you don’t want to find out what you do want but that’s another subject.

If you went into something with the truth fully exposed then you’d have no one else to blame or celebrate for the outcome but you.  That is freedom

Freedom is about having choices and being able to act on them, to take the good with the bad for those choices.  There is no bail out.  It’s taking responsibility for the choices you’ve made, some good and some not so good.

Truth and freedom go hand in hand.  The truth frees you.  It’s like a release button.  You get to release on all the tension, frustration and anxiety that builds up inside when you tell the truth.  That’s why confessions are good, and why convicts have to tell someone about what they did.  It could be to boost their ego but then again it could be to set their conscious free.

Hmm. Did you ever think of it that way?

It’s More Important to be Right

Is it?  Think about how many arguments and disagreements, whether personally, professionally or even by governments have escalated and continued on simply because one or more individuals made it more important to be right? Even after the agreement is long over sometimes and individual wants to have the last word by either out right saying or it or by implying that they were right.  Take it for what it is, insecurity.

Instead of looking at the disagreement from a broader perspective and being diplomatic the person is focused on his own viewpoint and insists his way is correct. Of course, if he’s right than you must be wrong and must be smarter than you, none of which is true.  It just makes him better. Instead of taking his emotions out of it and doing what is best for all concerned he’s made his emotions and viewpoint more important.

It takes a wise person to rise above the chaos of disagreements and tactfully convey to those involved to see the broader perspective.  It can’t be achieved in a lecture, shouting, telling tone of voice but in a confident, calm rational and objective voice.  Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa are examples of people who calmly state with conviction their point of view and still got results.

When you find yourself in and argumentative tone, ask yourself what you’re making more important.  Ask yourself, “If I took out my emotions so that I had no involvement in the content of the discussion, would I react the same way?”

It’s something to think about.  However, it’s far more likely that you won’t think to ask yourself that question in the heat of a discussion but likely later when you have time to reflect on it.  That’s okay. That’s how you learn.

Have you found yourself making your viewpoint more important than the broader perspective? If so, please share your experience.

We’ll Never Run Out of Oil

It’s impossible. The Law of Attraction won’t allow it. We think about oil all the time.  Every time there’s a news report to scare us about the shortage of oil there’s an even greater conscious collective ensuring that it still exists in one form or another.

That’s the power of the Law of Attraction.  It continues to create that which it’s fed.  There are just a far greater number of people who wish to continue to use oil as we know it versus those who are forcing the issue of alternative fuel.  To force the issue isn’t allowing the natural order of the universe to work its magic.  The economic theory of supply and demand is using the natural order to create the oil too.  Thoughts become things and right now the majority of the thoughts are on producing more oil.

Now that’s not to say that alternate fuel should be banished, it just hasn’t reached its natural order of evolution.  It’s time will come.  

History has proven that when something is needed, all thoughts tend to go in that direction and suddenly, if by magic, what has taken years to research and develop suddenly becomes a reality. It’s the Law of Attraction at work.

We could take a clue from nature.  It’s always in perfect harmony.  Through the millions of years that our planet has existed it’s always contained the same ingredients of water, dirt and plant life. Sure some plants and animals have come and gone but those that have remained have adapted to their surroundings and branched out to form new species.  The ones that died out served their purpose for that time period.  Nature continues to evolve but remains in harmony with itself. 

Why wouldn’t our situation be the same? Do we force alternative fuel or do we let the natural order of evolution run its course?

Supply and demand really does work.  It should be applied to our economic environment as well. Therefore bailing out institutions and companies because they got themselves into a bind is messing with the natural order of the Law of Attraction. Don’t be surprised if those same companies fail again.  Maybe they were meant to fail in order for something else to be created.  Remember nature is always in perfect harmony.  When a species dies out it’s because it hasn’t learned to adapt. Why wouldn’t companies be the same? The ones that do remain for years are those that have learned to adapt.  Did the bail outs just prolong the evitable, your thoughts?