Practice and patience are required to master anything, even
your Purpose.
So you find the thing you were meant to do. You find your
Purpose; your true vocation, your dharma – the work of your soul. You are
excited and motivated. But over time, you slack off, you procrastinate, you do
not do the thing you love and want to do.
This happens to most of us, because even our Purpose in life
requires discipline. We must practice our purpose. We must exercise and train
our minds and actions to create habits that are in alignment with what we know
we want in life. Just because we find our purpose, does not mean it will be
easy. We still must rise early, work hard and extend ourselves. But it is so
worth our effort.
Often what gets in our way is doubt and fear. Will this
work? Will it pay off? Will it help others? Am I good enough? Can I succeed?
What if I cannot?
Discipline comes in when our doubts and fears become too
loud in our minds. Discipline of mind, allows us to push the doubts on through
our minds and return to the feelings and thoughts of Purpose. “I must do my
souls work and do it like I mean it.”
Without discipline of mind, we spend too much time wrestling
with fear and doubt. With discipline of mind, we learn to let the doubts and
fears move through, not fighting them, but releasing them to leave our being.
If we fight them, we have invited them to stay for the struggle. Discipline is
required to release them and return to task at hand, the task of Living on
Purpose.
When doubts and fears come uninvited through the front door
of your mind, do not engage with them. Do not ask them why they have come. Do
not berate yourself for allowing them to enter, for not barring the door, for unexpectantly
finding them in your mind. Do not worry that they have come back again and
again. Just calmly and firmly walk them though to the back door and send them
on their way.
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