MATTERING BE-CAUSE

Have you ever caught yourself saying quietly to yourself “I can't do this now because.....”? Followed by a list of reasons.

Of course, you have. And you've heard others say it to you. And you didn't believe their list either, did you – really? That's because, after the word “because” came a list of self-justifications, reasons-why, vindications, excuses, extenuations, defences, cover-ups, apologies, pretensions and snow jobs.

How come you can see this so clearly when others do it to you, and to an extent when you do it to others, but you fail to see it when you do it to yourself?

Perhaps because you let yourself get away with it. You do not require of yourself the self-honesty to put aside for the time being your list of justifications and progress to the next question –

“What would it take to get this done?"

Write a list.

When that list is complete, go to each step you've noted and sit with the thought –

“I could do this if I caused.......” and write down whatever thoughts occur to you of events you could bring about that might contribute to getting that done.

In doing this simple exercise you are beginning to draw creatively upon the two necessary abilities you have that will get you off whatever thorn you're sitting on – Awareness and Choice.

You matter.

That is a given, whether you “like” it or not. The only questionables are what you matter and how you materialise it.

If you want to change your life, change your mattering. When you change what matters to you, you change what materialises in your world.