Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Our priorities are based on our preferences. Yet not all our preferences are crucial. We may, for example, slightly prefer one flavour of ice cream to another. That surely wouldn't be a reason to build a lifestyle that involves avoiding the slightly less appealing ice cream as a matter of priority. If you think this sounds to you like an obvious point, I apologise. But it is amazing how sometimes, we go to great lengths to 'protect ourselves' from things that are hardly true threats. It may be time for you to review an apparent priority now.
We don't always appreciate surprises. They throw our carefully laid plans into disarray and oblige us to think on our feet. But nor are we invariably grateful for predictability. Life can get very dull when nothing turns up from out of the blue. Where is the scope in your life now for just enough adventure to keep life interesting but not so much as to render it nerve-racking? Look more carefully at a decision that was made some while ago, under a degree of duress. 
There is room within that for a brighter new idea.At the risk of contradicting something, I should remind you of the old saying, 'The best things in life are free.' Some of them undoubtedly are! Air, for example, nobody has yet managed to establish a satisfactory mechanism by which they can charge for this commodity. (No large corporations have departments working on the problem as we speak). Yet what would we all do without it? Sunlight isn't expensive, either. Nor are other sources of abundance like inspiration - or love. Just trust that.

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