A Pen Means Nothing Until You Need One!

One sunshiny Monday morning; I was in a rush to get to a team meeting.  It was one I was particularly excited about, because I was the leading the discussion.  I even had a white board!  I thought I was super cool and totally going to impress.  Just as I was about to leave, I had the thought to grab a dry erase marker.  I immediately ignored it, there was going to be one where I was going.

When I arrived, I promptly asked if I could borrow a dry erase marker for the discussion.  YUP, you guessed it... there was no dry erase marker to be found.  Not having what seemed to be a meaningless object, changed the whole dynamic of the meeting.  It was not as productive as it could have been.

I was embarrassed...

The whole meeting I could not help but wish I just grabbed a marker.  It made me even more upset knowing that I had thought to grab one, and simply did not listen!  Why did I ignored it?  There was no reason to, and the thought was so clear in my mind.

From that day I realized I was not really wondering why I ignored the thought, I was wondering why the thought so distinct?  Sure, the marker would have been more helpful, but it honestly did not affect my life.

IT WAS JUST A DUMB PEN!

That is the answer, though, it is a dumb pen!

A pen is something my brain knows, understands, I can even touch it.  So, when the little voice inside my head was telling me to grab one I could hear it.  Without even thinking I could comprehend the idea of needing the pen.  I just chose to disregard grabbing one, not because I did not need one, because I truly thought there would be one available to me.

It is when the little voice inside your head is trying to tell you something more obscure, it becomes harder to hear.  Your other thoughts muffle it because the brain does not understand why it should do that, everything else seems more important, and more likely it is afraid... afraid of the unknown.

It is those thoughts, however, that will have an affect on your life... maybe even affect the life of someone else.  It is those thoughts that we are often afraid of that are the answers to questions we have been asking.  It is those thoughts that are so important that you really have to listen for them.  If you are not listening you will not hear anything, and the less you hear the less the little voice inside your head will try to tell you.

Take some time and listen!

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The Little Devil on Your Shoulder

Where there is good... there is always bad!  Where there is inspiration from the little angel on your shoulder you will find deceit from the little devil on the other shoulder.

You cannot have one without the other.

It is the angel that will guide you to reach your full potential, while the devil wants you to stay fearful and in your comfort zone.  It is not always easy to differentiate the two, because it is not easy to get out of your comfort zone!  It easy to mistake what is easy to be what is right.  It takes time and study to really understand which voice is what.  Quite honestly you will make mistakes, but it is how you learn from those mistakes that will really get you to the real inspirations.  To the stuff you are not currently ready to hear, or cannot hear because you are not listening.

In the beginning, when I was learning for myself which shoulder had the angel and which had the devil on it, I though I was fighting against myself.  That I was the one holding myself back, and quite often I thought I was making choices between two good things.  Even though it is myself standing in my own way, it is the little devil that is deceiving me to think that being "comfortable" was a good thing.  That it was good for me to stay where I was in life, nothing needed to change... I did not need to change.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both.
- Brené Brown

I have been comfortable for far too long.

How dare I let the devil continue to manipulate my own thoughts against me, and to keep me from my full potential.  It is time to be courageous and allow God to use me as an instrument for inspiring others.  My hope is that I may have inspired you to find your courage and ignore the little devil on your shoulder. 

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The Voice Inside My Head

I have been putting off starting this blog for about a year now.  Maybe it has something to do with sharing my thoughts and no one caring.  Honestly, I think it has to do more with my struggle in finding my voice.  My original blog was about anything and everything.  It was all over the place!

I did not have a voice.

I was only blogging because I want to be a writer, so I thought I had to.  This blog is going to more focused.  I have found my voice and I want to share it with others.

Someone needs to hear what I have to say!

I doubted that idea of that for a really long time.  I believe it in now, because... for the last year I have be working on my personal development and have learned more than I thought possible.  A major lesson was that I have become comfortable in my life, too comfortable.  Being comfortable is not a bad thing, however, I had stopped working toward my goals.  It was easier not to.  I was no longer willing to be uncomfortable to obtain what I wanted.

I even started ignoring inspiration.

The kind of inspiration where that little voice inside your head gives you guidance or suggests something to you that seems insignificant, but really can have a large impact.  We have all heard it at some point in our lives, and we have all ignored it one or twice

(okay-okay we all ignore it a lot).

The little voice inside my head has always been a huge part of my life and I have lost it.  I have become too afraid to act upon the promptings and the voice is becoming harder and harder to hear because I have ignored it for so long.

This blog will be the chronicles of my journey to not only listening to the little voice inside my head, but taking the necessary action.  It is my hope that sharing this adventure with you, will prove helpful to your personal life.  That you too will understand, the little voice inside your head is smarter than you and will teach you more than anyone else, and that taking action from inspiration will take you farther in life that you can take yourself.

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