Not only is there a sense of confusion as to what our true purpose is, but there is also a fear of showing others who you truly are. Like the legendary fictitious super hero’s Spiderman and Batman some of us fear showing the world who we really are deep down inside and wear masks for fear of prosecution or to help us obtain more of certain things that we want and deem important at the time. A mask for work, a mask at home, a mask when out and about around town, leaving only one question out standing. Does it ever end? In previous management positions that I held the entire foundation of hiring and driving people to what we called a persons full potential was built around finding people with a strong sense purpose and exploiting it to get what the company needed. Hire a person with a strong sense of purpose and you can get them to do a whole lot more by yanking on their puppet strings like some kind of mid evil side show freak. However, when it really came down to it, the puppet masters like the puppets were hiding behind their own masks never to fully realize or reveal their own true sense of purpose, let alone did the puppet masters really help their puppets fully uncover theirs. At the end of the day, it was about having your puppet make a buck for the company so that you can look good and have your mask look a lot better to other people higher up to help you with your own personal gain. So, here we are, mask wearing puppets in the midst of the so called game of life.

Who we are, how we are defined and having a sense of purpose is not defined by the fact that we know how much money we want to make over the course of a year, its not based on who we know, its not based on what puppet master has a hold of your strings at any point in time. It’s defined by who you are without the mask. It’s about everything that is under that mask that never gets a chance to show and shine. No matter who you meet, no matter what a person does, no matter who is pulling their puppet strings at that moment we all have a credible amount of uniqueness and power inside us. This uniqueness and the inner abilities that surround it is where true happiness, power and direction is. However, that is only realized if the mask is off and you are not only true to yourself, but you are true to the rest of the world with who you are. So many people are trying to be what they aren’t because they are trying to hard to fit in and meet up with other peoples expectations. Fear and external pressure is what brings out these masks and nails them on to your face with no hopes of getting them off. The true question is how many times a day do you have incredible thoughts, ideas, or feelings that could take you and the world to the next level that are never realized because they are filtered by the masks that you wear and the fear of taking that mask off and taking a chance at being you.

As I mentioned earlier, the greatest gift is suppose to be life. I believe the second greatest gift is being yourself and realizing your potential based on the forces within yourself and living every part of your day and life with no mask, the genuine you is where the power and your true direction is.

Live Life With Passion And Not Regret……

I really, truly believe that if we as a society are running on the guiding principal that a one week vacation is truly going to meet our needs for freedom, joy, play and relaxation then we are all  screwed and doomed to a dark lonely future. After all shouldn’t life’s foundation be built on these needs and not taken like some occasional vitamin supplements that we know are important but we forget to take more often then not. So the real question is, deep down do we all want a band aid or the miracle cure that comes from deep in the rainforest that will make all our mental ailments go away for ever and give you the feelings of freedom, joy, play and relaxation each and every day. Well I have some good news for you, and the good news is that it isn’t an elixir from deep in the rain forest, that cure was already burned in a segment of the rain forest that was already trashed. It’s not even contained in some package that you can get for three easy payments of $19.95 from some late night infomercial, even though that would be some sweet deal for something of this magnitude. After all we are talking about life changing daily happiness, a life change that would make vacations not even necessary unless you really just wanted to take in new sites or meet up with friends and family members.  We are not talking small potatoes here folks.

There was an old saying that said “A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations”. As you look inside yourself and then look around at the people around you and how they live day to day I would say we have a tremendously large number of losers as compared to winners in this game called life. Have you really taken the time to appreciate all of the things around you in the present without letting your mind wander off to the past or future? It’s sometimes very hard to do because all of the conditioning we had growing up as we were made to feel bad about that bad grade in school or to focus on those future A’s if you want to go to college and get a scholarship. Where was the focus on the beauty and excitement of the present. The things we were taking in, how it was making us feel, how we were progressively becoming a bigger and better person as result of opening all of our senses up to what was happening in the present. Have you ever read a book to your child, if you have one,  and found your mind wondering to the incident that happened earlier at work or the fact that you have a bill coming up that you don’t know how you are going to pay.  Was it focused on how you were connecting with your child, how it was making them feel, how it was becoming a memory in their mind that they would one day cherish more then anything when you are long gone? Are you focused on the beauty of your partner at dinner and the words they are saying, feeling them, connecting with them or is you mind drifting to more tormenting things in the past or future? It’s not controlling our mind and vacationing in the present that allows those Zombies to creep in our windows and suck our brains, hearts and spirits. DAM you Zombies. Do you control your thoughts or do they control you,  making you long for that week vacation that when you get there to relax your mind just continues to wander any way. Even though it may be wandering in a nicer more exotic place with some alcohol applied, needless to says its still cycling to those things that drain you the most.

It’s time for a change, its time for all of us to lead the charge as Zombie Busters. Crush those dam zombies by taking time to stay focused on the present. It’s not an easy task, are you ready? It only comes as a result of conscious effort initially. Spend more conscious time finding the beauty and the good in the present. Connecting your heart and mind 100% with what is going on in the NOW. Not only will you gain a better sense of peace within yourself but you will find that others will more easily start connecting with you and want to come along on your journey as well. It’s time to say no to the Zombies and yes to taking control of your happiness.

Live Life With Passion Not Regret.