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Reservations Never Required
By Greg Hickman
“Happiness is essentially a state of going
somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without
regret or reservation."
W. H. Sheldon
Can there be a better feeling on earth
than when one is blissfully lost in the passionate
pursuit of his or her dreams, living an almost fairy
tale life literally overflowing with happiness and good
cheer? If you have ever been there, with the wind at
your back and seemingly on an unstoppable roll, you know
how great it feels to be fully energized and ready to
take on the world.
At these times, you know and I mean you
really know that you are going to make
your dreams come true right before your very eyes — not
even one if, and or but threatening
to rain on your parade. No doubts to cloud your vision,
no uncertainties to spoil your day. You know where you
are going and absolutely nothing is going to stand in
your way. Today is going to be a super sensational day,
you just know it.
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good
we might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
Then there are those other occasions
that we don’t like to think about, let alone live. These
not so fabulous moments occur when doubt and
uncertainty, a double trouble tandem if there ever was
one, creep in and gain a foothold, throwing a monkey
wrench into our game plans. Instead of cruising towards
the fulfillment of our hopes and dreams, living life in
the fast lane, we find ourselves knocked completely off
track, out of kilter and more likely than not, out of
bounds as well. Rather than feeling confident and self
assured, we feel like our whole world has been turned
upside down.
If you get knocked down often enough,
sooner or later it is only natural to lose a little of
your ‘edge,’ that spirited eagerness to take a risk that
separates the winners from everyone else. You begin
wondering how something that was going so good could all
of a sudden be going so bad. Then, instead of giving it
your all, you start holding something back. Before long,
you stop trying altogether. And that’s not a pretty
picture.
“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust
without reservation.”
Elton Trueblood
iving a life without reservations is
never as easy as we wish it could be. Letting go of the
doubts, uncertainties and fears that haunt us and hold
us back becomes doubly difficult whenever we hit those
inevitable bumps in the road that we all encounter from
time to time. At these very moments, when everything
outside of us tells us to give up or give in, we must
listen closely to what we hear from within. It’s that
invincible voice of inner courage and strength that
tells us to keep the faith — and keep working towards
the attainment of our goals.
Unlike those swanky five star
restaurants where having a reservation is an absolute
must if you are going to be seated at dinner time;
having any type of reservation in life can spell big
time trouble. In our most trying of times, when we begin
loosing our grip on faith, we need to hold on and keep
hanging in there until the skies clear once again. And
clear they will if you will just keep the faith — in
yourself and your God given abilities.
“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend
yourself on the work before you, well assured that the
right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said,
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be
our doubts of today.” And it is these doubts that we
need to purge from our systems once and for all. By
relentlessly focusing your time and talents on those
things you wish to accomplish and achieve, paying no
heed whatsoever to those nagging doubts that seek to
throttle your exuberance and enthusiasm for living, you
CAN make a world of difference in your
life and the lives of those around you as well.
Once you develop that sense of certainty
that comes with staunchly believing in yourself and your
immense potential, the sky becomes the limit. At that
precise moment when all those reservations that have
kept you ‘in your place’ for way too long are finally
tossed aside for good, anything and everything you have
ever imagined yourself doing, having or being are
suddenly well within your reach.
Why choose to live a life hampered by
worries, doubts and fears when your life can be so much
better; in fact, better than you have ever imagined it
could be? When you commit to doing the best you can each
and every day, you’ll discover that the rest will take
care of itself. Forget the reservations, your table is
waiting.
The Bottom Line: The only
reservation you will ever need is that spot at the top
set aside just for you.
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