Broken Halos and Life

Have you ever chased a dream, something you genuinely believed in? The loftier the idea the faster you seem to run towards captivating the things that belong in your dream; like the angels above you are seemingly flying towards a successful conclusion. About this time is when you run into people, sometimes those with really strong beliefs that are intent on clipping your wings and knocking your halo to the ground... just when you were flying so high. Why does this happen? Are the people around you intentionally trying to detour you or cause you to fail? It sure can feel like it!

There are rules to being a successful dream chaser. Rule number one is to never share your dream with anyone who does not support it. No matter how tempting it may be, never share the dream or the progress you are making towards achieving it. If you break this rule you invite a landslide of comments about how foolish and unreachable your ideas are, about how no one has done it because it's impossible. Soon, not only have your wings been clipped, your beautiful halo of dreams is sitting askew like a child's toy on your head. You may or may not ever regain your momentum. It's even more unlikely that you will forget all those reasons why you can't make it. It's good to understand that these people imagine they are helping you; they want you to be realistic and deal with reality. What they cannot understand is what they believe is their reality, not yours. Everyone has a reality, don't adopt anyone else's.

Rule number two is more fun; you will never be given a dream that cannot be achieved, if you stay the course and press on regardless of appearances. This sounds easy but presents most of the challenges encompassed in achieving your dreams. It is the 'press on' part that is fraught with peril. It may be easy to say 'I'm trying,' but to press on means to ignore the images of everyone else's reality that will be presented to you in graphic detail. It means you must exert as much or more pressure to press through things that may seem impossible to penetrate barriers or alter you course around the obstacles. Both require a miracle from the human mind. You must be willing to change your mind to find the solution. For a human to really change their mind requires a miracle. Once our mind is set we are very nearly immovable from that position. We typically stop right about here and decide the naysayers were right and we were foolish. That means you decided not to press on.

The champions' in life share a few odd characteristics; they have tunnel vision with eyes that remain fixed on the goal, ignoring the pitfalls as they run right past them. They refuse to give up no matter how hopeless things appear. Champions find pleasure in the pursuit; they laugh at obstacles never imagining them to be a stop sign but rather see them as something in the path to make them stronger. There is no spilled milk in the mind of a champion but rather a host of stories about things that were put in their path to make them strong enough to stay the course and win. Champions are keenly aware that a strong and powerful hand is guiding the wind beneath their wings; they find great comfort in this and hear the words of encouragement, 'just press on.' And one more thing, they all arrive at the finish line with their halo in place having never taken the time to allow anyone to knock it off!

Be a champion, press on and wear your halo with pride.

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How To Be Lucky, In My Reality (Opportunity Knocks)

Opportunity comes in work clothes and looks like lots of work, and ends up a genuine opportunity, right? Most of the time. When I thought of the premise of this article, I thought of all of the opportunities to grow and genuinely win that have come to me in life that sort of looked like set backs at first. In my life I have had much to be thankful for, and not lament about ultimately. Sure, I admit, that sometimes I do complain sometimes, indeed. The way I generally look at things though, the smarter I work, the harder I work, the luckier I genuinely am. It is in the order I just mentioned, too.

Smart work includes self-observation and honest and unbiased self-analysis. So, I do my best to look at the bitter as well as the sweet with objective and honestly realistic eyes, including letting myself feel the complaints and stuff, letting them go through me without getting attached to them.

For example, I told the story about my sister who passed on a few years ago without fear, attachment or genuine bitterness like I usually do to so many who ask about her to me. That is a prime example of what I am writing about. A person should not let bitterness or fear fester within you and become a "beast", it should be handled correctly and with class, honesty and realistic patience, understanding and tolerance.

The other day, I was reading an anecdote in "The Law Of Success" by Napoleon Hill about tolerance with the picture of intolerance in the form of two male deer with horns interlocking trying to impress a female deer, and ending up dying with horns locked while that female deer moved on. That is how life really is, if you do not have tolerance for reality, you really do have nothing but bitterness and the sweet, good things can never enter or grow to enter the heart of the person wanting to end the bitterness.

So, opportunity comes in work clothes and looks like work most of the time, and to grasp it, we need expert knowledge like the diamond miner who recognized the rough state of diamonds in the Russell Conwell essay "Acres of Diamonds" when he went to the Kimberley Farms where the diamond mine was and recognized the stone where the farmer there just thought it was just a "pretty rock".

So, reality works like this, you (and anyone) needs patience, understanding and tolerance to recognize "luckily" any genuine opportunities life has to offer or miss them. Myself, not being one to mince words of play games with them, I can only end with, I have patience with me, I understand me, and I have tolerance with myself and all of my "stuff". That is most fortunate of all for me in my reality.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.

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