Do You Want to Change? Part 3

You cannot change your life without a deep personal desire drawn from inside. I think back years ago to a college student that came to me for help. "I am a mess," she said. "Can you help me?" We spoke for a while and I began to identify things she could do to begin the change. After the session, I set a meeting for the following week. I also provided her a reading assignment to complete before our next meeting. She arrived early for her next appointment ready for our next talk. I walked into the outer office where she was waiting and asked if she had read the materials I gave her. "I just did not have time, I was so busy this week" she replied.

I sent her away. I also told her, "When you finished reading the material, call and make an appointment." She never called. Like so many people today, she did not want to change. She only wanted to talk about change. She actually enjoyed her problems because she gained a perverse sense of pleasure from the attention she was getting. I will not belabor this. I hope you get my point. Are you one of these people? If you are, then let's change that. Wouldn't you rather get all the attention you need from successes rather than failures? I hope so!

A young man once asked Socrates how he could get wisdom. "Come with me," Socrates said, and took the man to a river. He proceeded to shove the young man's head under water and held it there until he struggled for air. Then he let him go. Once the young man regained his composure, Socrates asked him, "What did you desire most when your head was under water?" "I wanted air," he replied. Socrates nodded slowly. "When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air when you were immersed in the water," he said, "you will receive it."

Are you getting the point? When you have an intense, sincere desire to overcome a certain block in your life you have taken the first step. Right this moment, confidently decide that you do want to change and failure is a thing of the past for you. From today forward, the course you wish to follow is that of victory and triumph.