THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

His success wasn’t merely luck, good fortune, or a surprise. Joshua had mastered the Law of Process and demonstrated that by building a stable foundation based on careful preparation and following a patient process, we can reach any goal. We can achieve anything if we break it down into manageable parts.

Whenever we cut corners for expediency, or whenever the ends seem to justify the means, we may not always reap obvious external consequences, but we create inner turbulence that we can’t escape no matter where we go. Others of us who tend toward tunnel

appreciate the perfection of imperfection.

Observe how houses and skyscrapers are built from the ground up, a little at a time. Consider how much energy and planning it takes. What does this say about how to accomplish anything in life?

Those of us who like to skip steps can learn to rest in the present moment. Those of us who tend to take shortcuts to get where we’re going can rest easy, take a deep breath, and remember, in the well-known words of Ram Dass, to “be here now.” Those of us who get confused or impatient, who think a lot about future plans, can begin to recognize that

Consider the energy required to change an accustomed pattern. Could failure to break old patterns result from underestimating the force and the time required to shift to a new one?

The universal Spirit doesn’t judge us; judgments are human inventions, a means to compare, contrast, and control as we judge ourselves against artificial, and often idealistic, standards of perfection, morality, or truth. As youth fades and time brings changes, we may change many of our present opinions. So let us refrain from setting ourselves up

We also need to trust the intuitive messages from our subconscious, which may choose experiences or attract people into our life with results that we don’t consciously want but may need for our highest good and learning.

saw what was happening! So I put on those damned running shoes and said to myself, ‘I’ll walk those two miles because I made a promise to myself. But I’m ending up right here, at this cake!’ “I walked my two miles — maybe two and a half miles. And when I got back, I picked up the cake and was about to toss it in the garbage when I shook my

Marianne shrugged. “Patterns are often stronger than resolutions,