Keeping Your Eye On The Prize?

 

KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE?

How’s that working out for you?

Seriously…

I am curious!

As a very interesting conversation last week started this train of thought

If you think about it

Everything we’ve ever wanted

Is a state of BEING

Not a state of DOING

And not a state of HAVING

Doing and having comes as a result of being first

It is a FEELING that we’re after

Not an object or an action of getting it

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Think about it…

You’d have heard me quote Eckhart Tolle before and his war mindset understanding

That when you focus on fighting

You have to have a reason to fight

Otherwise the point of your life becomes nonsensical

And nonsensical is the biggest threat to our identity

It’s the death of it

The death of you

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So now, think about this for a moment

Or rather FEEL IT

Let’s put thinking aside for a minute

If you feel to get something

Or somewhere

You have to KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE

What are you really telling yourself?

That your purpose is not the state of BEING

And the FEELING that you are after

But

The thing you are AIMING for

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Can you see how nothing can ever be enough

And it wont be

Nothing will ever be to your satisfaction

You’ll keep craving, aiming and yearning

As if your purpose is KEEPING AN EYE ON IT and going for it

You can’t ever fully have it

As you lose the purpose of your being

Yet again it becomes nonsensical

The biggest threat

The death of you and your being

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Let me draw a picture for you

You keep an eye on the prize

Let’s say a promotion

You keep going for it

Working your ass off

You get it

You’re happy for a moment

Yet very quickly you aim for something else

The next step on the ladder

An even better job

And even more powerful position

OR

Let’s say you keep an eye on the prize

The car of your dreams for example

You work your ass of again

You keep aiming

You keep working towards it

And then eventually you get it

The prize is there

You feel like you’ve won

How long does the feeling last usually?

A day?

A week?

A month maybe…?

And then what?

You feel incomplete again

You feel like you need another prize to keep your eye on

A house?

Another car?

A holiday to a certain dream destination?

You name it

The prizes you set yourself to win are endless

YET

Nothing deep down is ever enough

Nothing fulfils you

Nothing satisfies that compulsive need for yearning

For aiming

For keeping that eye of yours on another prize

As you told yourself that is your purpose

And if it’s done

Your life becomes nonsensical

To the very fact that you’re no longer aiming

No longer yearning to get that prize

You don’t need to keep your eye on it

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Fuck!

So what do you do with that now you’ve realised

Why up until now you’ve felt miserable so very often

Even tho

Deep down

If you were to look at your life

You’d say there’s nothing really to be miserable about

Well…

TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE FUCKING PRIZE

Will you?

And stop aiming!

I dare you…

It is a decision

It happens in one moment

Yet the ease of comfort

And satisfaction in your own skin

Just because you are

Just because you are here

That comes with practice

And you know what?

ALL the things that you have previously

Thought that you needed to aim for

And to keep your eye on

Happen with effortless ease

They’re just there for you

And sometimes

Some of them

Become far far less enticing

As you see through the smoke and mirrors…

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Remember though

We still live in a 3D material world where possessions

Where status

Where identities

Are here for us to play with

Some of the most in PAIN humans I’ve witnessed

Were those desperately trying to neglect and give up all the above

And claim that they don’t need or don’t want it

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It’s all here for us to play with

I freaking LOOOOVE nice things and experiences

If anyone, you’ll all know this…

It’s how we go about them that matters

And changes everything

It is what it is

It’s there or it’s not

Your essence

Who you are at the core

Does not change with or without it

M x

❤️