The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

Ever find yourself going along with life and suddenly, one day you just lose your sense of certainty?

You literally stop dead in your tracks and wonder if everything you thought you were supposed to be doing is what you should be doing?

A momentary lapse?

It’s not so much a crisis your experiencing as it is a strange realization. You really don’t know for sure if the direction your life is taking you is the right direction. In fact, you have this feeling like the rope to the anchor that’s been holding you in place, in the great ocean of life, has just been cut. You’re drifting slowly without power and you have no paddle…The current is now taking you and the boat you’re in, somewhere you’ve never been before.

Do you jump out of the boat and swim back to shore?
Or do you “go with the flow”?

Maybe, just maybe you’re being pulled in the direction you’re supposed to be going. Maybe the pathway you were on was supposed to bring you to some kind of critical mass… and now you’re here. It wasn’t supposed to be some great dramatic awakening, maybe it’s just a little nudge.

At this point do you trust everything is going to work out or do you scramble to regain control? Can you accept the possibility that what you think is “drifting” really isn’t.

Is it possible that you’ve just been given the greatest opportunity of your life to take a leap of faith?

Do you trust yourself enough?

-Bob Baran

No matter how crazy our world gets, there is hope. Everything always works out for the best. Even if it doesn’t look exactly the way we thought it should turn out.

I know, tell that to the people who were in the two towers. Tell it to the one’s who were left behind. I don’t have a pollyanna response to that. It was a horrific event. I know people who were there. I know people who should have been in the towers that day, but they weren’t. There is hope.

Sure, September 11th, 2001 seems like a long time ago, however, it defines our world. There is USA pre 9-11 and post 9-11. The fear, terror and unbelievable horror occupied our minds for weeks, months and for some even longer. Lives were shattered in a way that hadn’t happened before in our history.

As a country, we have moved on. We had to. Hope is what keeps us going. Hope that we can rebuild our lives… And most of us can and do.

Right now another country is facing horror on an even greater scale. One created by nature. The earthquake in China has taken many lives and shattered homes and villages. When you hear the reports coming out of the area, they still contain hope. A man rescued 139 hours after the quake, 2 women pulled out alive after being buried for almost 7 days.

There is always hope. It is part of our human nature.

Wherever this post finds you, I wish you hope.

- Gwen Baran

Here’s a reality check for you:

Over 6 billion people live on the planet. Each one has their own unique reality. Each one has the ability to rationalize the best or the worst possible into a belief. No one understands anything the same way… The lowest common denominator possible is what we agree to as our shared physical reality.

Any possible human relationship is taking place right now somewhere in the world
and no matter what that relationship entails it is fully justified by both the willing and unwilling participants.

The human mind possesses no mechanism for determining what is true. Everything we believe is based upon an arbitrary assumption, which is then rationalized into attitudes, opinions and beliefs.

A human is born with a blank mind. It’s human nature to believe whatever is first imprinted upon the blank mind, as truth. People will die and kill to perpetuate what they believe is truth.

The ego is the god of an individual’s reality. It’s never wrong and will not tolerate any threat to its sovereignty. The strongest egos become the leaders of other humans. They set the rules of the “shared physical reality.

Every human is born with two innate abilities: Imagination and the power to decide how to use it. Most are unaware of or outright deny this reality. Humans will engage in activities even when they are fully aware that it is self destructive and will result in pain and suffering.

Every human knows they will one day die. Yet, few question the purpose of their life.

Hell: A place where anything is possible, every version of reality is true to the perceiver and, no matter what you do, the only escape is death.

The anything is possible part turns me on!

-Bob Baran

Or were you born already burdened with baggage that determines how your life is going to turn out?

There is no escaping the fact that the family you were born into has baggage. That baggage becomes your baggage… Attitudes, opinions and beliefs were “put into you”. You became the perfect clone of the best and worst of your family… Then something started to happen:

You began to think for yourself… at least some did.

Looking around at the state of things in the world today, it’s obvious that the vast majority of humans fail to achieve the critical mass, in their lives, which causes them to question what they believe and why they believe it.

You see, if you are one of the few who have taken the best of what your upbringing gave you and worked to unload the baggage, you’re in a surprising minority. You actually questioned the reality of your conditioning and then took action to bring your attitudes, opinions and beliefs into balance with what you consciously choose to accept as your reality. Not what was given to you (as a child) when you had no possibility to know or understand the “truth” of it… if there was any truth to it.

To you who have struggled to grow beyond your childhood conditioning and the effects of your environment… I say two things:

1. You are the true light giver! You have, without realizing it, given inspiration to those around you that so much more is possible. Rather than wallowing in the excuse of victimization, you have proven you have the power to determine the outcome of your life.

2. Never give up! As you expand the self imposed barriers of your imagination into new areas of what is possible, you move all of mankind along with you. Your personal spiritual journey benefits us all. Never let the momentary feelings of being overwhelmed or discouraged become the dead-end of your journey.

There are billions who are a few steps behind you.

One day some of them will take the same steps you have taken and find themselves in the same place you now find yourself. The good your life has created will benefit those who, like you, have found the courage to step into a life they choose to create… not a life that was chosen for them.

In the end, your life’s journey will be a gift to mankind.

“Anything is possible. Your life is a Master Class on deciding how you prove it”.

-Bob Baran

Feeling a growing emptiness inside yourself?

How many years have you been sensing that something is missing in your life? As we progress through the various phases of our lives, it’s not unusual to recognize that what we thought was going to be satisfying and fulfilling, really isn’t.

All those things you’ve done (through the years) to occupy yourself has done little more than temporarily distracted you from the feeling that something is missing. Every day that passes you are reminded that another opportunity has slipped through your fingers.

You see, deep inside you there is a hunger that you haven’t fed.

There’s a part of yourself you still don’t know or maybe you forgot. That part of you still believes in you. It has never lost faith that one day you would remember.

When you sleep and dream you still have memories, vivid and immersive. In the theatre of your mind somewhere just beyond the day-to-day limitations of your imagination that missing something is waiting for you.

It’s time for you to come home again.

Your heart misses you… There are still dreams waiting to be dreamed.

-Bob Baran