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The
Feature Articles
New Article
"The
Best Ways to Develop a Lasting Relationship"
Conscious
Communication Series
Part 02
"Express
Yourself
with Purpose"
February
2007 Part 01
"Dress
to Express"
January 2007
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September 2006
It’s the spring time, and as it is the Time of New, it is the perfect time
to consolidate your life and relationships. When its tax time, everyone has
a chance to look at what their past year’s earnings and expenditures were
and take the time now to correct any issues so that this year can be better.
In the same way, the spring affords all, including nature, a chance to
consolidate itself, renew, and gain strength and direction, so that all can
bear fruit. When looking at your relationships, try to feel where you want
then to end up… What is the end result in mind? This is one of the most
potent questions you can ever ask yourself.
Why is this question so commanding? Simply because many people often find
themselves in relationships with people that ‘sort of just happened’, as
opposed to those who were aware of the compelling qualities their ‘person of
choice’ possess, aware as to Why they wanted to be together in the first
place.
With the perspective of a new year ahead of you, this is the time to
evaluate your relationships, and see where they are taking you, or where you
are taking them. If you are dating, look at your relationship objectively
and look for ways that you can make it better, how you can give more to your
boyfriend or girlfriend in the months ahead. Additionally, you need to take
notice if you are receiving what you need or want from the relationship and
the person that you are with, and their capacity to give them.
If you are in love, then perhaps the spring time is a good time for both of
you to decide whether or not anything is holding you back from realizing the
current growth and evolution of your relationship and symbolizing that by
marriage.
For others, it will be the time to end relationships that are surely headed
down a dead-end street, or ones that have become stagnant, where you stay
together more out of need than want, but now looking forward to renewal of
self, and the chance to change and start fresh.
Even so, now is the time to make a personal inventory of what your wants and
needs are for this year. What are the personal goals you have set for
yourself? What direction are you going? These are questions that will take
time to answer, but you need to start somewhere.
This month, take at least an hour of time all to yourself, sit down with
yourself and plan out, and structure what you want out of this year, your
main goals for mental growth, physical growth and spiritual growth, in your
life, work, relationships and all aspects of your life.
When December 31st arrives, what would you like to have accomplished, what
would you like the situation of your life to be, and how much of that can
you realistically achieve?
The things you mentioned are no doubt things that will help you evolve and
grow as a person, things that you’ve most likely thought about often, but
perhaps haven’t spent much time working on, because of other daily life
issues that arise, making a living, and so forth.
They are also most likely things that resonate with you deep to your core;
things that you would love to spend all your time doing, if you had no other
concerns in the world. These things are what will enrich living, if you plan
on adding them into your life.
There is no better time than the spring to work out what your personal
purpose is, and no better time to set the wheels of fate into motion to
carry you to your chosen destiny. When you know what your personal unique
purpose is, questions like: why you are waking up in the morning, why you go
to work, why you go shopping, why you have friends, why you date who you
date, are all answered from your deepest core, which is where you want your
unique purpose to originate from.
When you act from your core, you are able to find the strength to do what it
is you have chosen to do, and the reason behind them. You find an inner
strength from which your power of action flows into all that you do.
Even if you were a shy person, who had no experience with meeting members of
the opposite sex, when you’ve decided from your deepest self, that meeting
someone new, sharing in a new, fun, vibrant relationship is important to
you, then you will also have the power to act in accordance with what you
know is right and true for you, and no one can tell you or make you do
different, and you won’t look to anyone for approval, no matter who you
meet.
No matter who you are, or what your life situation is, you can benefit from
taking the time to yourself to look inward, and through self-awareness, take
a good inventory of self, and plan where you want to go. After all, we
should all value ourselves and our time as much.
Make it your resolve to make your future a priority, living by high
standards and principles of self, and you will give a level of meaning to
each day that will reap for you indescribable rewards for years to come!
David Vassell
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