Personal Growth | You Have A Calling

How to Become the Best-Version-of-Yourself in Just 15 Minutes Per Day

At the end of your life wouldn’t you like to say that you did your best, contributed what you could, and became the best person you could be? I know I do! There are some truly amazing people in the world who live at high levels of consciousness. These people didn’t get this way overnight. It took them a lifetime of building habits and seeking growth.

“To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting.” – E.E. Cummings

“And I’ll find strength in pain And I will change my ways I’ll know my name as it’s called again.” – The Cave by Mumford and Sons

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” Khalil Gibran

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson

“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” – Erica Jong

“LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.” – Vanna Bonta

There was a scorpion stuck on the bank of a stream who needed to get across. There was a frog near by, so the scorpion asked if he could ride across on its back. Before the frog made any hasty decision, he asked the scorpion, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion replied, “Because if I do, I will die too.” The frog was satisfied, and so they set out across the stream. They were half way across when the scorpion stuck his stinger into the frogs back. The frog was in disbelief as he felt the onset of paralysis and slowly started sinking. Knowing they both will drown, he has just enough time to gasp “Why!?” The scorpion replies: “Its my nature to sting. That’s who am I and it’s what I do.”

Think of all the people in the world who settle for less because they don’t believe it’s possible to have a better life. Or all the people who assume they have reached their limit because further growth seems too difficult. Frankly, it’s hard to clearly see our potential, because it’s always ahead of our present consciousness and development.

When life doesn’t go your way, how do you respond? Do you develop a negative attitude and cynical outlook? Do you become absorbed in all the problems and misfortune you are experiencing? This is a default way of dealing with obstacles for many people. I have my fair share of bouts with negativity and pessimism and always have to remind myself that I have a choice in the way I respond.