Do you follow your Gut or listen to fear?

As I watched this video I could not help but think that there are times in life we feel trapped.  It doesn't matter if we are trapped in an unhealthy relationship, unhealthy lifestyle or financially trapped.  Then someone comes into our life that we see could help us find the solution.  When we finally break free of our trap we celebrate like this whale.

What I love about animals is that they rely on instinct, we call it our Gut.  The only difference between humans and the whale is that the whale instinctively knew he had found help and stayed for hours until it was done.  There are times in our lives that we see the possibility for a solution, but we don't take it.  Why?  because we are afraid.  There is no "guarantee" that it will be what we think it is.

For the Whale in this story, it was humans that caused his pain.  His solution????  Once again humans.  The whale didn't decide that it was humans that hurt me so to hell with those humans.  Forget them.  They won't help me.  Instead he went with his "Gut"  and spent hours getting help.  He swam away a few times believing that he was ok.  But as soon as he realized he was not completley free he came back.  He did not think "They didn't even do it right.  I thought they were going to help, but they didn't do a good job".  He came back over and over until he was completely free!!!!  What decisions are you making in your life based on fear of failure, fear of being hurt, fear that it will just happen again, fear that life will never change?  "One Decision Can Change Everything".  The whale celebrated because his life had been saved.  The people celebrated because they had saved a life.  How many times do we either not accept help or not provide help out of fear of being hurt?

Past or Future

It has been an interesting month plus.  The past working its way into my present, and, as always, the future being the unknown (for me the unknown can be scary).

The past is such a crazy thing.  Events happen that form who you are.  Some of them good some of them bad.  For me, when I hear people say "I wish I could be a kid again" I think to myself "I would never go back to being a kid".  Things happened there that I would not want to re-live nor would I want my kids to go through them.  However, I am who I am, because of everything that has happened.   Those events created determination, survival and the ability to move forward in life no matter what happens.  So I am learning to embrace the past.  To keep the good and throw out the bad.

The bad ugh!!!! That train wreak inside me lol.  The one that says "I can do it" then next "You will never succeed".  The voice that goes "You deserve good" then says "who do you think you are!!!".  Many of you reading this are nodding your head.  You have the same voices inside.  Your voice is the one telling you the good.  It is telling you that you can do whatever you dream.  That you are a good person, that you are worth so much more.  Those other voices are the people from the past.  The ones that decided the only way they could be bigger is to make those around them small.  Chances are someone did the same thing to them.  They just never had the ability to move beyond it.  The problem with all those voices is .... ours is the quite one.  It's the soft voice saying you can do this..... there is more..... keep moving forward.

If you have been listening to the voice telling you that you are no good you have probably surrounded yourself with people who are also doing the same to you.  As we move through life, experiencing the good and the bad, the decision then becomes, what voice do you listen to.  That small voice inside you that is telling you the good or the one yelling at you telling you all the bad.

I choose the small quite voice.  I choose the people who see, in me, the good and tell me.  The more I choose those two options the quieter the negative gets and the more positive people come into my life.  If you are making that decision today remember, this is a road you need to travel.  Every few feet there you will need to choose again what direction you will travel.  You will either travel towards the positive or the negative.  What will your decision be.  If you fail don't let it stop you.  Get up, brush yourself off and say "I made a mistake, but I choose to keep my heart open and move towards the positive".  I am thankful for that small quite voice.  The one that has lead me down a path.  A path I stumbled along, fell and got up multiple times.  I am thankful for the people, who slowly, began to enter my life.  The ones who partnered with me and saw the good.

Don't ever give up!!!! One Decision at a time