Have you ever found yourself contemplating what it would be like if you only made the necessary changes in your life? Changes of health and wellness, changes in how you process info, changes in a job? We are all guilty of “making sacrifices” while putting off what matters most to us. “I will get back to the gym, after the holidays” or “I will look for a new job, as soon as the kids our out of school.” or “I will learn to meditate, finding inner peace, as soon as my schedule clears up.”

“Waiting For The Great Leap Forward”

~Billy Bragg

If you are waiting to take the leap forward, the time is now. This is opportunity knocking on your door. Will you answer the call? Do no hesitate…make the change. If there is not enough time in the day, make it. We all have something special we have yearned to do, but fail to make the time. The secret to happiness is taking the time for what we desire most, a necessary step for finding balance within. The sad truth is our ego will do everything it can to keep us from achieving our goals.

When meditating on this concept, I am quickly reminded of the scene in Peaceful Warrior…John is on the rings and just before he is about to do a triple flip, he returns to a conversation with Socrates…

Socrates: “Where are you John?”

John: “Here.”

Socrates: “What time is it?”

John: “Now.”

Whatever is holding you back, take the first step towards your happiness. Whatever it is you ‘want’ to do, is probably the very thing you need to lead you towards happiness. Make the change now.

Ani Po knows this human trait all to well. When she was a Pilgrim on the path to Warrior, she often tripped herself into thinking she wasn’t good enough to have something or she wasn’t worthy of applying for a given career. She is still afraid of certain days and events, but she confidently goes where most will not. Now an advocate for other Pilgrims, she assists those into the Light.

Recently Ani Po received a call from a Pilgrim.

Pilgrim: “Ani Po? I did it! I have taken the leap! I have accepted the path of Warrior!”

Ani Po knows what this means, as she been there herself. The Pilgrim has wiped the slate of reality clean and has begun the process of rewriting her reality. Our realities change with a mere thought. If we have a thought of change, we must listen to the inner voice calling us to be what we are meant to be…free. Free to do whatever we want to do and be the best_____ as we can (left blank deliberately for your addition).

Ani Po smiling by the recent phone call, she replies: “Welcome Home.You have taken the first step towards happiness. The road promises to be bumpy at first..stay the course. We all go through this process of re-conditioning and must go through the valley of death first to reach our own paradise. We all die, literally and metaphorically. Metaphorically we die and are reborn. Many traditions speak of this process, but sadly the followers do not hear the message. When we are reborn into truth, we stand firmly on a path, many other Warriors have stood. A path of Truth and Love. Literally we all will die, but those who are reborn will never die. Again Brother, I say to you…Welcome Home.”

We can sit and contemplate what it would be like if we made the changes or we can take action. Whether the actions are correct, it is important to take the steps. We may fail or we may succeed. Failure only comes to those who do not take the first steps. Success comes to those who take actions.

“It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low.

And we have set our sights very high… so high, in fact,

that even failure will have in it an echo of glory!”
― Bill Nicholson OBE

Stepping into the Canvas as it was the first time, noting the air lighter, skies bluer, sun brighter than ever before. It is time to take a leap of faith, changing your own reality. Wait not for the right time, for that time is now. Standing firmly in what you want, declare…I AM here and it is time.