Are You Wasting Your Time?

 

 

One of my favorite concepts is that nothing is ever wasted. Usually I’m referring to life experiences. It all adds up to something, always. What’s here now would be impossible
without what came before. That’s just the way it works in our particular system.

But yeah, things sure can look wasted. And sometimes it does have a real effect: it slows
things down. You think something’s been wasted (by you), and so your reality becomes
that place where the time actually was wasted. It’s all you. You know.

What’s wasted a lot is around opportunities for evolution. I mean, it (evolution) will
happen eventually, yo. But who wants to spend so much time looking with nothing
(apparently) happening? That sucks big huge doorknobs!

So you go to retreats, read a lot, take courses, consult with coaches and intuitives and
therapists… the whole schmear. Now your head’s full of stuff (at least the part where
you actually paid attention), but nothing has changed. Not even you, which is the whole
raison d’être here. Sure looks like wasted effort, even though it inevitably taught you
something… whether it was that the thing wasn’t for you, or that teacher got on your
nerves.

But why do we constantly take what we feel is inspired action, but never seem to see
results?

It’s because we’re lazy. Yeah, I know that’s sort of not politically correct now. Too bad,
that. But what else do you call it when you’re given the very best help available, but then
you don’t go with the program? You’re asked to meditate, to write out a list, to pray, to
make something a daily practice. But you never do most of those things, let alone
continuing to do them. It’s just human nature.

But we’re trying to be more than human. Our spiritual guts are pushing us toward more
Divinity. We are swimming (sometimes upstream) toward being more God-like, because
that’s what we are; little beams of light where Source poked holes in The Mystery and let
us out to play.

So that urge to be the Real Us is why we seek knowledge and wisdom from others. But
we want to be spoon-fed… we’re helpless children who just don’t know what to do next,
poor babies.

Ain’t gonna happen as long as we don’t use what we’re given.

I see it a lot (and have in the past done it myself more than once): someone takes a course
or a teleclass or a consultation, and listens eagerly, waiting for the magic bullet. The
teaching/healing/advice sounds great. Maybe this could work!

And then? All the ideas that were taught go by the wayside. The assignments go un-
done. The journal stays empty.

To justify it, most of us 1.) Decide that the teacher was full of sh*t and cheated us, and/or
that 2.) We’re so stupid or incapable of following through, that we’re the only one in the
world for whom who nothing will work,

1.) is the easy way, and it makes us bitter and forces out the last bit of trust that we had
left. If you have been cheated once, it can happen again, right?
2.) Two is a secret delight to our ego (the part of us that can tell us from everybody else).
It makes us special.

Why do it that way? Yeah, it’s fear of change and some degree of low self-esteem or
disempowerment. But let’s get real – you know you could do all that sh*t you’re
supposed to do. You just don’t do it. Old school, you’re being lazy. Nobody else is
going to do it for you, period.

I don’t like waste ( in the sense that the appearance of same slows us down). Put what
you’re given to work. It’s not enough to think about it; you absolutely have to have it in
your thoughts! It’s not enough to know. You have to be.

Do it right now. Don’t waste your valuable time and treasure, just because you don’t feel
like doing what you know in your heart needs to be done.