It's not to say that this is something that is not expected or not to be planned for in life. In fact, it's pretty much a fact of life once we're able and old enough to know that Life doesn't have to be going the way we think in our small minds that it should be going.

You see, the efforts that we use to try to hold the shaky foundation together, the 'glue' of life that we use to stop it from forever cracking and crumbling underneath the soles/souls of our feet, is when we should realize that Life doesn't have to go this way and be disintegrating before our eyes.

But, like most, we find ourselves screaming for 'More glue! More glue please, I need more glue!!' In other words we are thinking 'Life is beginning to unravel at the edges and I don't know how to stop it!'

Well, fortunately for us it's not a matter of stopping the threads of our life from loosening and destroying the fabric of our existence altogether. No. Rather, it's a matter of knowing when to let go of the struggle that we think we need to have with Life, and because of Life, and instead to just let Life BE.

Period.

It's not up to each of us to ensure that our unsteady foundation we've built our life on doesn't continue to crumble. In fact, we're the cause of the crumbling, but that's the last thing that we want to become aware of and know about with regards to actually what's happening to us.

We want to ensure that whatever is happening is occurring through the fault of something outside of us and that is what is causing the crumbling. Why? Because we only know how to do what we can to have the cracking at the edges of our day not continue into complete disrepair of our life.

I find it kind of interesting that as humans we want to make others responsible for what we're doing to ourselves, individually. We're each making sure to do our best to make our life turn out in a way that we then find ourselves complaining about. Yet, we want others outside of us to be the so-called solution to that crumbling.

It's not OUR perception of what's happening that can be at the root of what is causing us pain. Uh-uh.

It's not OUR view of the world that is making us scared in the core of our soul. No way.

It's not OUR actions that are innocently backfiring and torching us with our own heat that we at first tried to apply to that other person but couldn't make stick or stay pointed in their direction. No sirree, bub.

No, we would rather make someone or some situation outside of us responsible for the fear and the shakiness that we feel from day to day.

But, you know, it doesn't have to stay this way. Why? Because when one knows that it is a matter of understanding that what we have been doing to-date is what is causing our foundations to crumble beneath our feet, everything changes in that instant with regards to that situation.

Once we take individual responsibility for what is happening beneath us as we walk through our days, we will be creating a sense of empowerment from a very deep part of ourselves that no other person can create for us, or put inside of us.

And, once we understand that it's not up to some outside action to make each of us feel the strength inside - the inner resolve and fortitude - to handle what happens outside, then we'll know that the rebuilding of our shaky foundation is what is needed. And, more importantly, to help create the strong mortar that'll forever hold things together: only we can do it.

You see, it's not a matter of shoring up the edges and keeping the walls inside from crumbling further. Rather, get the sledgehammer out and start swinging away at each shoring and let the shaky foundation walls come tumbling and crashing down. Why?

Because the foundation that is falling apart right now under you isn't the foundation of your True life.

Let me rephrase: It's a false foundation that you personally put there, thinking that it was right and true, and strong enough to hold you up and support you through your days here. Unfortunately, this was misinformation on yours and others parts, but now you know what is really needed to ensure that you are firm in your position in life as you move forward through your time here.

There is another way to be in the world, a way that doesn't involve being a heavy morass that can't be there for others, never mind being there for oneself in the first place.

That's why no one is able to truly support anyone else - not that that is what should be being done in the first place. But, when the current foundation that each of us stands on and wobble on throughout our day is allowed to disintegrate and a new stronger Right foundation is allowed to be integrated anew, the world we know changes for the better and becomes brighter each and every day.

Again, is this easy and an overnight fix? Of course, you know by reading my blog that you should know the answer to that question by now.

Which is, of course, this takes effort on one's part, the part of the person willing to do the work. And that effort needs to be maintained for quite some time.

But using the analogy of the proverbial thirsty traveler crawling through the dry and desolate desert, that taste, and then the memory of the taste of that first drop of sweet water is all that is needed to keep one moving forward continuing to seek and find ways to get the next taste, or in the context of this article, solidify the foundation of their New Life.

After all, I think most of us would rather be looking forward though our days, instead of looking down to ensure that we don't step in a newly-opened pothole or on a wide crack that could break our stride, if not our leg, right?

So, do what you can to go to your local right-brained hardware store inside your head, and ask the clerk at the insights counter where the sledgehammers are. And, once gotten, do your best to 'swing away' at your current shaky foundation.

Oh how strong you'll feel afterwards. And what a new, firm, and secure foundation you'll be building on incredibly solid ground too. I promise.

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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