Burt finally rid himself of the attitude of confusion and defeat that would grip him almost every morning when he would go to work. He’d look at his cluttered desk and feel defeated before the day began. He’d mutter to himself, “the business world is just ‘too confusing’ for me to handle.”

What happened that changed Burt’s attitude? One day he was talking to a neighbor who not only owned a very successful business, but also spent a lot of extra time playing golf. He asked the neighbor, “Don’t you ever feel confused and defeated?” The neighbor advised, “Learning to feel confident and in control begins with clarity. Take a look around you and rid your life of everything that reminds you of clutter – clean it up immediately. Maybe it’s your garage space or a closet in the cellar; perhaps it’s your office desk – clean it up. You will be startled at how quickly your attitude will change.”

This was all that Burt had to hear. He immediately went to his office and took all day cleaning up his desk, organizing his files and neatly putting away all the things in his office that reminded him of clutter and confusion. By the end of the day, he could feel the difference.

Burt is now a firm believer that if you want your life to run smoothly (be it business or any other area of your life), you must clean up everything in your environment so it reminds you of clarity, not clutter … of control, not defeat.

1. What is your cluttered desk?

2. What makes you feel confused and defeated?

It can be something as simple as the cabinet space beneath the kitchen sink or even the trunk of your car. What will you clean up so that you may feel more in control of your life?

When I listen to the pendulum of the time clock in my living room, its constant tick tock reminds me that time marches on in spite of what I may try doing with it or neglecting to do with it. I then decided to look at what I love about the marching of time.

I came up with this list of why I appreciate marching time in order to help me see how wonderful life can be:

1. Marching time enabled me to trade in my foolish teenage bad habits for more insightful and productive action as I advanced toward maturity.

2. Marching time enabled me to let go of my ‘quick to anger’ ways for a more flexible point of view

3. Marching time allows me to reap what I’ve sown – if time did not march on, my thought-seeds would never mature into function and form

4. Marching time keeps me in a state of flux. Imagine being the way I was or the way I am forever. Boring!

Have you ever given thought to what marching time can do for you:

1. What hardened thought-habits you can dissolve over time?

2. What illness you can heal over time?

3. What aspiration and aim you can achieve over time?

4. What hurtful relationship you can resolve over time?

Time is a fabulous asset – budget it wisely, and it will support you with your wildest dreams and aspirations. When I make the most of this present moment, I find that I am using time to advance me toward the future I dream of living into.

What is the relationship that you have set up with time? This is a question worth pondering.
Tick Tock Tick Tock.

I find that with a little organized planning, I am able to defeat what is often trying to defeat me … and, I do not have to assume a frozen face and wear myself out to achieve my aspiration. These four steps keep me on track:

The first step to the process of triumphant living is to know what you want. Certainly, I cannot get what I want if I am not clear about what that is. I’ve learned over the years that I want to be sure it is what interests me, and not just something I think I want because the world will insist it knows what’s best for me.

The second step to the process is to step back and observe what is between you and the fulfillment of that desire. If there wasn’t anything between me and the desire, then I’d have it already. Is it a skill I need to hone? Perhaps some hard work needs doing; work that I have ten excuses trying to avoid? Maybe it’s taking a risk and believing in myself?

The third step of the process of triumphant living is the awakening: “Do you mean that if it is to be it is up to me?” When I grasp this, there is no disturbance that can permanently shake me. I am on my way to victory.

The fourth step of the process is saying ‘DO IT’ and then doing whatever it takes to get the job done. When your word to yourself is that powerful, you will never be the same again; you unleash yourself from the limitations that ‘YOU’ impose on you.

You are about to receive an entirely new way of looking at yourself. You experience yourself on many levels of ‘beingness’, depending upon how you feel about yourself at any given moment. These feelings come from opinions that you’ve collected over the years and declared true about you, which is entirely your decision. Can you agree?

There are always higher and lower levels of ‘beingness’ available to you, and in this world of polarity (where all pairs of opposites meet) to experience the wowsome levels requires first going through some woesomeness. How are you going to experience feeling high if you have no reference to low? How can there be triumphant victory without a few stumbling blocks to make the challenge worthwhile? There is no law that says you have to continually stumble and linger in low. This wisdom inspires you to power through the woes.

When you get caught up in strained ‘woesome thinking’, experiencing lower levels of ‘beingness’ become a habit. See the insanity of such inward howling, and you immediately create space for an ascending attitude to Wowsome Beingness. TO BE OR NOT TO BE – THAT IS ENTIRELY UP TO THEE!

Wowsome Beingness is in harmony with your spiritual reality. It’s the natural feeling that accompanied you at birth. Don’t timidly hold back. You’re not here to merely cope with the struggles life hands you. Put first things first – take the time to appreciate all there is in the world out there to say “wow” about – and remember, you’re part of all of it – did you remember to say ‘wow’ about you today?