Intense Burning Desire for Growth is the Input for Difficulty and Struggle

We see those who cut-over to greatness having walked a path of difficulty and struggle. Therefore, we assume difficulty and struggle is an input for us to progress from good to great and realize our highest potential.

That has most of us lie comfortably in the hammock of mediocrity, lulled to unconsciousness by the familiar swing of life.

Actually, intense burning desire for growth is the input for difficulty and struggle.

Nature is smart and put Growth as an access to Happiness and Fulfilment because of which we consciously or unconsciously seek growth. Otherwise, nobody would want growth as that demands that we step outside our comfort zone of mediocrity into the zone of difficulty and struggle, only where is there any need for our undeniable greatness.

Growth is moving from Fear towards Love, from the Darkness of Fear to Light of Love within.

How do we dissolve Fear to move towards Love, if we can't see our fears? How do we dissolve the darkness within if we can't see the darkness within?

Difficulty and struggle push out the darkness of our fears into our awareness so that we can do the work to dissolve it with the shine of our inner light of love.

Therefore, embrace difficulty and struggle with grace and gratitude because they came along in response to our commitment and deep intense burning desire to progress on our good to great journey and realize our highest potential to have it all.

Difficulty and struggle will lead us to low energy emotions.

Rejoice when you experience low energy emotions because they are the way-showers to our Darkness, our shadow self, our fears. 

Celebrate when you uncover some part of your Darkness within, following the cues of your low energy emotions because now you have the opportunity to dissolve some bit of the Darkness of your fears which came to the surface and became visible.

We can dissolve Darkness of our fears with the light of our awareness and loving acceptance of what is.

In the loving acceptance of what is, we get the courage, grit and energy to take action to fulfil our reality-defying intentions and realize our impossible, unimaginable, crazy-big dreams.

Words and Actions are concretisers and maximisers. Words spoken and Actions taken from fear concretise, maximise and strengthen our fears. 

Words spoken and Actions taken from Love concretise, maximise and strengthen Love within. Love is the highest expression of what it means to be a human being.

Love doesn't come alone. Love has 4 doting friends. When Love grows and strengthens in us, these 4 friends grow and strengthen in us to the same degree:
1. Joy
2. Loving Kindness
3. Equanimity
​4. Abundance

The way to embrace difficulty and struggle with grace and gratitude is to respond to them, to our own self and to people around us during difficulty and struggle with loving acceptance; and take actions with equanimity in alignment with our reality-defying intentions and our impossible, unimaginable, crazy-big dreams from our whole soul and big mind. Doing this enables us to transform every difficulty and struggle to joyously fulfilling growth in our journey from good to great to realize our dreams and have it all.

Our conscious, subconscious and unconscious desire for growth creates difficulty and struggle for us to become aware of our fears so that we can dissolve them to step more and more into Love. Therefore, our difficulty and struggle are self-created because of our intense burning desire for growth.

Why is there an intense burning desire for growth? Because that is the design of life. 

We access Happiness and Fulfilment every time we experience growth in any area of our wheel of Life. That is Nature's way of incentivising us to play for maximising our growth and realising our highest potential to Have It All.

How do we know we are growing and realising our potential - by the quantum of positive impact we create through our work and through every other area of our wheel of life.

Difficulty and Struggle are our best friends because they are our structure of success to maximise our growth, realise our highest potential and progress on our good to great journey. 

It is when we respond to Difficulty and Struggle as a Helpless Victim, Distracted Disengaged Disconnected Avoider, Super Hero Martyr or a High Performing Fighter, we miss the opportunity of Growth and miss the opportunity to realise our highest potential, and be happy and fulfilled.

The darkness within is wicked smart like a naughty child and will give us infallible, irrefutable logic that will have us avoid taking the path of growth to dissolve it.

That is why it is important to have a Safe Space - a coach, a mentor, a guide - in whose non-judgmental, nurturing space we feel safe and whose wisdom we trust for us to investigate, explore and uncover our Darkness with authenticity, vulnerability and raw honesty to shine the light of our loving awareness for the darkness to dissolve for us to grow and progress on our good to great journey.

Talking to oneself through journaling is a good practise to develop awareness but it is not a replacement for talking one's thoughts in the committed, nurturing, non-judgmental listening of another. As a species, we could speak 70,000 years ago but we learnt to write only 5000 years ago. Therefore, our brain processes better and is able to see within deeper through spoken language in the committed listening of another because it has had more experience with speech.

Our body is even more ancient. The first humans walked earth 20,00,000 years ago. Therefore, processing through our body (somatic work like psychodrama) takes us deeper even further to darkness within that we feel but have no access to consciously understand or get to the root of it.

Keep going within like a peaceful warrior in search of Darkness to place it in the Operation Theatre of Deep Awareness, use the surgical tool of Raw Honesty to dissect it, use the healing power of Loving Acceptance to dissolve it and take action from your whole soul and big mind to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜

Loving you,
j.