Find Your Bliss and Follow It

Listening to a Jack Canfield Seminar one day I heard something that changed my entire understanding of life in an instant. Now they say that truths, especially the life changing variety, come in two forms. One is the small piece, the flash that is brilliant one moment and gone the next that gives you just enough inspiration to keep going. The other is a revelation that comes fully formed, needing no further explanation, it may be something you've heard a million times before and then this time you just "get" it. My experience falls into that second group.

In this seminar Mr. Canfield said simply that you must, "follow your bliss", that you have to stop worrying about being selfish because the best you can do for yourself and the rest of the world is to be and do exactly what will make you happiest in life. Now it would be easy to read over that and not let it sink in but it's incredibly important so go back and read it again. We live in a world today where our decisions are run by shoulds and shouldn'ts instead of wants. The word want has even gotten a bad rep to the point where when you say you "want" something it feels like you're relegating it into a lesser category, something less than important. When we're children the difference between a want and a need is constantly explained and we eventually put wants into a category labeled as selfish and bad.

In reality, however, there is no such thing as a need. Believe me if you get this it is a wonderfully freeing concept. Heck you don't even need to breathe, you can hold your breath till you pass out, with enough practice it's even possible to control biological processes that we thought were involuntary like body temperature and blood pressure. We all have to come to terms with the fact that whatever we do we want to do. Even the things that we don't like to do, like maybe making cold calls for a salesman or practicing hours on end for an athlete, are things we want to do because we WANT to be better, we WANT to sell more, and we WANT more abundance in our lives.

Just by changing your perspective on that simple word "want" you can take your life into your own hands. Following your bliss is your highest calling, it's the calling for you to be your best self. If your dream is to be a motorcycle mechanic but you've been pressured all your life to be a lawyer what good will it do the world for you to cave into that pressure? You'll be less happy, chances are you'll resent the people that pressured you, you may even treat your family and/or friends badly because you're unhappy and in reality, we need motorcycle mechanics just as much as we need lawyers. The world will not be worse if you chose to follow the things that made you joyous, it will be better!

The one caution I want to add is to be careful not to start defining what you don't want by your feelings. If your dream and joy lies in being an athlete then no matter how much you don't "like" practicing you "want" to practice because it leads to your bliss. Nobody can do your pushups for you and though some of the less enjoyable tasks can be delegated once you've achieved a certain level of success there is some grunt work that you'll do because it's the price you pay to follow your dreams.

The road to your bliss is in front of you, filled with just as many obstacles and hardships as the road towards what you think you "should" or are "capable" of doing, the only difference is that one road has you doing something you love to do, not working a day in your life, and the other is full of toil and struggle against nobody but yourself. Decide today to be a happier, better, more fulfilled person and start taking steps in that direction. In this case being selfish just might be the most selfless thing you'll ever do.

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