Fake it until you make it???

Have you ever had that feeling in your life when nothing is working? You’re feeling down, people you thought were on your side are suddenly not at all who you thought they were? You feel the whole world is against you and nothing is going right.

Unless you are a manic depressive, hopefully this only happens once in a blue moon. What do you do when this happens? Fake it until you make it...right?

There is a difference between fake and real energy. It all starts with desire. Desire - to wish or long for, crave, want. Maybe it's more like a vision....or purpose. Whatever you want to call it, it's the energy that comes from an internal drive or desire. What do you do when the days are too long and there is nothing left in your well to re-fuel yourself? When it feels like you are sleep walking through your own life. What if your desire for your own life has left you? How do you re-capture that core energy or desire and re-fuel your soul?

Ben Franklin said "a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." Being self absorbed wastes a lot of energy. It always helps to clear your head and to focus on something outside yourself. Change your focus, change your struggle. Life is about struggle. We have these assumptions that struggle is not suppose to happen. It should be easy...right? Struggle is part of the game. Without it, we would not have growth. Wasted energy comes from just sitting still and not learning or moving on. As the Dali Lama says "When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

Mostly when things aren't going our way we want to stop, to quit or hide. Really those moments are what make us re-evaluate where we are where we need to go. Are these messages we aren't hearing or seeing?

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway" John Wayne