Creation and Evolution: create your new normal
Posted on October 07, 2013 by Bill Mayes, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
An article discussing to begin to create the way you would like you life to be, but recognizing that the process continully grows and evolves.
Every now and again we wake up. We become aware that the circumstance, the lifestyle the living that we are in is simply not what we want. We aren’t where we want to be. And at that time we have a choice. Choose to do different or choose to do the same. Neither is a good or bad choice. They simply are. Often times the problem lies in not making any choice and simply allowing things to remain.
But when you do choose to go a different way how do you proceed? Read a self-help book, model after a personal hero, pull a George Costanza and do the complete opposite of what you would normally choose? Exactly. You. Do. Different. The key to creating that journey to change, is to get your momentum. Simply do something. Move.
Life is not a static experience. It is ever dynamic, flowing, changing, adapting. EVOLVING. The choice in that, for us, is to stay active and engaged with it. It doesn’t mean going with the flow or choosing the path of least resistance. It doesn’t mean swimming up current or leaning into the wind. It simply requires that you be a participant in the experience. And in the end, by choice or by abstaining, you are a piece of that experience. And by acknowledging your place in life’s movement you begin the process of creating your experience in that living and begin to grow and evolve into the sense of self your desire and choose.
CREATION is the act of bringing something, anything, into existence. It is as profound as the deliberate creation of the world, the birth of a child, the penning of a science fiction novel or the cardboard box rocket ship a child ends up making over the winter school break. The thought is there and someone works, toils and strives to bring it into being. And in knowing that, you can create, become and bring into existence the you that you dream of being.
Along with this concept of creation and self-creation comes the concept of evolution. Evolution, in this instance, is the growth and change of who you are over successive periods of your own life. You are not who you where when you were 3 or 5 or 22 or 45 or 50 or 72 or…. In fact, we are not the same person from moment to moment. And our experience in each of those moments colors, determines and creates who we are in the next. Evolution is a culmination of successive points of creation.
So knowing this, how do I become the person that I want to be? How do I put together the life that I want to have? Can I have the experience of life that I want? Something filled with peace, confidence, excitement, joy, love and any other wonderment I desire. Sure.
The first acknowledgement that you have to make is that this experience is going to be you will have to work. Sometimes it will be hard and others, a breeze, but it will be work. You will need to put in effort. You’ll have to choose to work.
The next acknowledgement is that nothing is written in stone. Whatever choice you make is not your last and final choice. If you decide something and it does not work for you, then simply choose differently. If you find that you have made a succession of bad choices, reevaluate and then begin to make other, different choices.
The last thing is this. It is most important that you take the time to make deliberate, proactive choices. But also know that you cannot do that all the time. So don’t try to. What we are talking about here is a way to empower you to proactively choose your living. This is your life. Be the one in charge of YOUR life. Shape it, make it and mold it into the creation you want your life to be.
