Your Community Your Everything!

"On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious."   - Edgar Mitchell

Taken from Mastin at The Daily Love.com

Community is everything. If you want to see a preview of your future, look to who you are hanging out with. This isn't some moral statement about your peer group, it's more of a vibrational or elevational statement.

You see, we live in a literal Uni-verse. That means that we become what we think and what we think is greatly determined by who we spend the most amount of time with.

Do you spend time with people who are constantly trashing your dreams? If so, then after time, you begin to believe their doubt and their fear; not because their doubt and fear are true, but because we are creatures of habit and our subconscious mind begins to absorb what we hear, especially the feedback from people we love and spend a lot of time with.

And if you start to believe their doubt, then soon you will begin to take action from that belief in doubt and BAM - the manifestation of the belief of doubt becomes real. Not because it's true, but because the belief of doubt became your dominate thought pattern and that thought pattern influenced your actions and your actions produced the outcome.

The outcome of our lives begins within us. If we water our dreams with doubt, then we think doubtful thoughts; take doubtful action and our lives become a living testament and proof of our belief. Then, what many people do is take this "proof" and use it to further justify their initial belief. But you see, what they're missing this whole time is the fact that their initial thoughts of doubt is what created the outcome of doubt. They unknowingly participate in their own demise.

But, this can be prevented by hanging with the proper community of people. Let us hang with people who uplift us, who encourage us towards our dreams and who challenge our thought patterns. Let us not surround ourselves with people who always agree with us, but rather people who support our growth by challenging our beliefs and helping us break through to new mental and spiritual ground so that our lives may be enriched as a by-product.

Look around. Who are you spending time with? And more importantly, who are you believing? If you have a dream, do you believe people who are living their dreams and thus know the TRUTH about what's possible, or do you take advice from people who aren't living their dreams and thus will tell you it's not possible.

Who you spend time with and who you believe is a major factor that will determine whether you are successful or not. Our aim should be to hang with people who are loving, who believe in us, who challenge us to go to the next level and who inspire us. Life is far too short to hang with people who are always negative and who want you to stay bitter and pissed off like them. It takes a lot of humility to admit when we're wrong and to grow past our limiting beliefs. Let's surround ourselves with people who support our growth, not necessarily the way we want, but most certainly the way we need.

Have a great Monday. Lots of love my friend,

Mastin

 

Make Your Dreams a Reality!

Taken from The Daily Love.com

"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want."

-Esther Hicks

One of the greatest skills we as dreamers can acquire is the ability to ground and make manifest our dreams. Dreams without action are just delusion.

As TDL is growing and I am taking steps to move it closer to the vision that I have for it, I am seeing the BIG contrast between where I see it going and where it is now. As I am expressing my vision to potential investors, programmers and partners, I have been amazed as how hard it is for many of them to grasp the vision.

So my new motto for myself is "SHOW don't tell."

It's so easy for me to see it. It's obvious to me. But to many on the outside world it may as well not exists. And that is very frustrating to me because I feel that it's obvious. So the lesson I have been learning lately isn't one of trusting my intuition or believing in my dreams, it's been a very earthy and grounded lesson of "it's time to take your vision to the next level and actually create it".

It's very hard as a dreamer to see something so clearly and not have the world see it, too. In this gap between what we see in our minds and what actually is lays the journey we must take. This is where work and persistence come into play. Once we have the visions for what we must create, we must start building it, taking it down from up above and grounding it down below.

As we go through this process, it can be scary because we risk the outcome of our dreams and visions not working or coming true. But we cannot let that fear stop us. If we wish to live our lives as fulfilled people, we must take as much action as we do seeing our visions. We must put ourselves out there and risk rejection, but not take it personally. Instead we see "rejection", "failure" and "naysayers" just as part of us gathering more information about what we want to create. Think of it as reality testing our ideas.

As we reality-test, it's key to let our faith in our ideas and vision stay stronger than the doubt of the outside world. It's so easy to let the opinions of others be stronger than our own, but let's not go there. Let's just keep plowing ahead, grounding and reality-testing our dreams, one day at a time.

Let's just take ALL the responses we get, POSITIVE and NEGATIVE, as feedback rather than a final pronouncement of our ideas worth or validity. And finally, let's not talk about it. Let's step into action, not just vision. Not just talking about it, let's start creating something that other people can see, feel, touch and hear. This is the magic. The moment we start writing down our ideas and taking action we make the invisible, visible. This is our job as dreamers. Not just to have big ideas, but to take small persistent actions towards making them come true.

It's also important as a dreamer who is taking action to be able to change course and adapt. As we reality-test we will see that some of our ideas and assumptions weren't true; this doesn't mean our dreams can't happen, it just means we gotta take a different course.  So be firm in the outcome, but flexible in your approach. You are reality testing - don't give up when you don't get the results you want, keep working the problem until you do.

Today we dreamers are taking real and grounded steps towards our dreams. Let's let our motto be "ideas grounded" today.

Much love,

Mastin