TAKIN’ A STEP BACK
Taking a step back doesn’t necessarily mean falling in—it just means slowing your pace—and taking a look at where you are, and where your direction is bound.
If you truly like where you are headed—and you feel ready for it—then do not be alarmed if the Past grabs you, for one last jolt of Are You Sure?
You can have many last chances to change your mind and abort your goals—to lay low and go the familiar way, the way that has fewer obstacles.
Each time you take a step back you are reminded of how boring and declining the old Familiar Way is.
Each time the hand of Yesterday pulls you out of Today—and regresses you back to the lazy ways of habits, resistance and saturation—you live a memory that is ragged, overused, non-productive, and out of sync with your dreams.
You have so much more purpose than what your Past displays.
Your dreams live in the Future, and to manifest them, you must look to them. You must stay focused on your dream and your future, while remaining cool and calm in your presence—because losing our cool trips us into takin' a step back.
However, if, at times, it becomes impossible to stay cool—if you think you could blow a gasket and hurt someone, (like your Self)—then take a step back into your Past. In a matter of hours, the repeating of troublesome habits should dissuade you of ever wanting to return to your old, stagnant routine.
Continue on your faithful path of making-it- happen goals, and watch your memories return to where they belong—in the Past, where your beginnings started too fast, and your fuel never lasted.
Each time you take a step back, you see where you are. You have more contrast to view—by facing the worn out behaviors of yesterday, and comparing them to the productive behaviors of today.
So embrace the old habits when they return, and treat them like an old friend that is dying. One day, their unexpected knock on the door that catches you lagging at home, will no longer be. The Past will no longer have the power to summon and detain you—and you will be seeing eternal freedom in the eyes of the future, never to turn back again.
In Section III, The Lessons,
you will learn to Focus—if you practice.
In the Mouth
Adversity