Standing Strong In The Flood Waters Of Life

Have you been Standing Strong lately? Standing strong in life? In your relationships? What does it look like to be standing strong? Do I mean physically strong, like right after a trip to the Gym or some P90X? Not exactly what I was thinking here.

Setting the Stage

A few years ago now, I had the privilege of sitting through a rather small group training by a network marketing trainer. We were all first-level achievers in our new business and we were all on fire. We had earned our trip to home office for Reaching GOLD!!!

He was trying to explain to us that life was much like a river. Many people float down this river bouncing along; left and right, as the rocks, branches and current carry us one way or another, and riding through life.

There is a second group of individuals that are a little more solid and tend to be in one place for a little longer. They seem relatively stable and strong until heavier water comes and tumbles them a little further downstream or roll them slowly side to side.

Then there are others that choose to make a stand. They choose not to be pushed around by the changing fashions and fads, rolled around by the people around them or their situations at their work.

These people choose to be strong; they choose to stand up for their beliefs and passions and make a difference. They remain standing strong!

These people are the boulders in the river of life, the big ones sticking out of the river; and as the storms come down, and the water rushes on by, these boulders remain still and force the water to go around them, standing strong in their place, unmoved by the rushing world around.

Standing Strong

Make no mistake, thinking that your life will “instantly be easy” when you choose to make a stand and change your path; causing you to really look for different results.

When you choose to take a stand and choose to really run with an idea, or a project, or belief…THAT is when the flood waters will come! This is when you need to be standing strong and unwavering.

Life can be beautiful and everything is just perfect, all adding up… but the minute you REALLY put your feet down and make that CHOICE to stand up for those beliefs… those flood waters will come surging towards you, trying to unbalance you and drive you down the river.

Life Happens

You are constantly bombarded by the little things, vaguely annoying, but you can handle them. Then you notice the waters rising, but you can tell you are rooted well. You have this.

It’s just a lot of pressure right now, but I always keep my promises so I can handle it. Suddenly here comes a tree down in the flood waters.

Everything at once

You will be hit with it all, sometimes gradually, sometimes all at once. That’s when you feel continuously pushed and attacked.

This is when you need to put both feet on the ground and say I choose THIS! I am Good Enough, and I deserve my Dharma. DO IT NOW!! Keep standing strong.

I was introduced to the Master Key Experience (MKE) through a friend quite a few years ago who was taking the course. I was doing GO90GROW with Mark J, and I was incredibly overwhelmed.

I thought I was drowning in it all and “didn’t have enough time.” Talk about NOT standing Strong.

Fast forward a year and I get an email invitation to apply for am MKE scholarship. I quickly continued through my email as I was “too busy” to be bothered.

I got a text message from my dear friend asking me if I had sent my application. I told her I did not and that I didn’t have the time for it. She vaguely half acknowledged my answer, and I knew she was disappointed.

I felt like I had let her down as both a friend and more importantly, a leader. Almost right away I started this internal battle. “I don’t have the time for this,” and “I can’t do personal development when I sign up because of someone else.” “I didn’t even finish GO90GROW…”

Ready for a rinse and repeat

It was the cement truck rolling around and around; getting ready to dump a fresh load of concrete …. and I knew in an instant that this was not by chance that this was offered to us, and I knew this is where I needed to be right now! I realized that I should be standing strong and tall, not hiding or bailing out as not good enough.

Mark always says, “If you don’t have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have time to do it again?” I DEFINITELY did not have time to do it over, so I had better start doing it right.

Of course, by this point it was Wednesday, and the applications were due Friday, and I KNEW that there were only a limited number of spots. Praise the Lord, I woke up Saturday and I saw my name on the list. YAY!!!!

New Beginnings to Standing Strong

EEEEKKKK!!!! I was TERRIFIED. What in the world did I sign up for?!!! By the time I watched the replay of week one, I was starting to get excited. All this work, and daily tasks, but I just felt like this was right where I needed to be. I knew this is where I needed to be putting my energy.

At this point, I had spent some time studying The Secret and working with a motivational speaker; and I mean; really, it’s beautiful. If you can Hold it in your Mind, you can Hold it in your Hand! And it is TRUTH! …but it is also only a partial truth.

The real good stuff

You can absolutely have your heart’s desires, with limitation only to yourself. BUT it is not just free or for nothing. There is always balance and where there is a “push” there is a “pull”.

The universe always operates in balance. Some times a bit uneven at time, yet it always balances out.

I had been trying to meditate for a while now, before MKE, and I was starting to regain control of my body.

The mind, on the other hand, that has been the hard part. I have been focusing on the positive, and everything being okay, along with really trying to avoid the negative thoughts, including those about financials, and overwhelming feelings.

I felt like I was doing a tiny bit better at really trying to see the “big picture.” Understanding that it is all habit and creating the culture for our very powerful subby, I was focusing on the DMP (definite major purpose), balance, and peace.

I was trying to make sure that I was standing strong in all that I do.

Implementing the knowledge

I have a car that has really been riding on a prayer for a while. And this has been one of the areas in my life that I have really been focusing my energies on. I have been trying to keep my patience and cool, knowing that it will work out.

I am a blue in the personality profile, and have been quite dysfunctional at times, but I have been working on it over the years.

My mantra for our car has been, “it will last until we have the means to replace it. It will last until we have the means to replace it.” I actually find peace in it, and I truly believed it.

Here I am driving home for lunch, and it dies! Beyond a loose battery connection dies. At first glance I took it well. I was extremely grateful that it died in a safe place, no harm, no accident or injury.

As the few weeks have come past, it has become more of an underlying thorn. What’s wrong? I tried so hard, I truly believed!!! I thought that if I focused on it that this would end okay… that it would continue to last until the time I was able to fix it.

But I realized that I wasn’t standing strong.

It came to me one week that I was using The Secret’s version of thinking and not the Master Key’s version of thinking.

Was I in harmony with everything around me? Was I full of accumulative consciousness or scattered consciousness? Did I want my world within to be brought forth to this world without?

Easy street?

The MKE is no bird course. It takes more perseverance than time, and more self-management than skill or control.  I had tried to read the scrolls 3 times a day before, and I would get about a day, maybe 2… and on the days I did read, I wasn’t even completing 3 times a day.

We set ourselves up for failure when we say one thing and do another. As Mark said this week… anyone CAN do the daily tasks, and anyone can choose NOT to do them.

Both are hard and both are easy. Back to a choice again. What do I CHOOSE to do? To be grateful? Focused? Driven? Grumpy? Cross? I choose to continually be standing strong.

It is often true that conditions of fear, worry, poverty, disease, inharmony and evils of all kinds dominate us by reason of false suggestions accepted by the unguarded subconscious mind. All this the trained conscious mind can entirely prevent by its vigilant protective action. It may properly be called “the watchman at the gate” of the great subconscious domain.”

Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 2:14

This all came together regarding what false and destructive suggestions my subconscious has been addicted to for so long. The amount of conditioning where fear, stress, and poverty lie… goodness it was no wonder with the unguarded subby, that there isn’t all anarchy.

It is time to secure the gate and take subby back! For if I am to create the world without that I truly believe is my future, it’s time to take back control, and to recondition with GOOD HABITS, so the world within can be crystal clear on the main thing.

Check out Davene’s blog on 7 Life-Changing Reasons You Join the Master Key Experience for some more idea’s on how the Master Key helps you stay standing strong.