The Winds of Change Sometimes Get Stuck

Life is about different things at different times. It is retaining and developing what you learn in each experience that gets you to the next step of your jou
ey, the next rung on the ladder. If you don't retain the lesson you don't move forward, or up. You remain stuck on the same rung or sometimes move up then get pushed back down. You may have noticed the lesson, but you chose to forget it and, thus, quit developing it and need to learn it again.

Take the lesson of asking for help, for example. I learned to ask for help when I was a child. Then I forgot the lesson, and how easy answers can be attained with the development of it, when I grew into young adulthood. I, like many others, wanted to do it all my way. I wanted to prove myself, and do great things on my own.

I lost a lot of opportunities with the neglect of that learned life experience. Some might call it stubbornness, others stupidity or blindness. It doesn't matter what you call it. Not learning my lesson in experience cost me several rungs on my ladder of life, several years of feeling like the world was beating me down. Then, I finally listened to what the world, and my life, was telling me, trying to teach me (again).

I was beating my Self; pushing and holding my Self down. I was learning the same lesson a different way. It was the same lesson through a different experience. And it would have been much simpler, easier, and less painful if I had retained the first lesson I'd been given and developed it. But I didn't. I chose to relea
it from scratch, and it's done me a lot of good along the way, too.

That lesson is now quite prominent in my mind, my heart, and my every day awareness. I share it generously with others.

What exactly did I learn? Simple. I learned to ask for help when I need it. I learned to ask for help from those who are able to help me. I learned to not ask for help from those who are not able to help me. I learned that just because someone loves you doesn't mean they can help you. And just because someone is an "expert" doesn't mean they are the right expert for you. I learned that just because someone couldn't help you, that doesn't mean you should stop asking or looking for help. And sometimes, quite frequently actually, the only one who can help you is staring at you in the mirror.

It is completely and totally up to you to make the winds of change work for you, and not get your Self stuck. I am choosing to learn from my experience, develop my skills from those learned lessons, and make a difference for my Self. Believe in your Self. You can do it, too.

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