#UnBlockYourself

Are You Using Your Skills For Yourself? or Your Purpose...

Tea Time 4: Are You Using Your Skills For Yourself? or Your Purpose...
 
I find when we discover our gifts we usually try to use it to make a profit from them. But was that what they were intended for us to do with them? Think about it.

Have positioned yourself to where you are unstoppable?

Tea Time 3: Have positioned yourself to where you are unstoppable? (all things will be working for your good!)
 
When we are functioning in our purpose we often find ourselves in the position where the know how and experience we have acquired keeps us in peace and safety no matter what is happening around us.

Tea Time 2: Are you doing your best? or is it just good enough?

Tea Time 2: In todays tea time we are talking about you doing your best and giving your all. Are we doing our best, or is it just good enough?

Why not start today?

Sharing my tea time with you! 
Here is today's thought: Why not start today?

Perfection in the imperfection, Strength found in your weakness

Wabi-Sabi overall is finding perfection in the imperfections... finding strength in our weaknesses.
Wabi deals with the beauty in uniqueness, individuality, singularity.
Sabi shows respect to the aged, weathered, antique, defects, and mistakes.
A little history:
Sen Rikyu was considered the "godfather of the tea ceremony"
- Tea Ceremony was designed to bring peace in oneself, and peace to Lords and politicians, higher ups...
- It became a way to show off, be flashy, and display how much better you were than every one else.
- Rikyu stripped it down to bare essentials, and wabi sabi focused on the simplicity of materials used.
- The humbled tea ceremony took the focus off of the vain materialistic aspects, and returned the focus back to the participants sharing in the moment.

Purpose As A Seed

We are all a Masterpiece, we carry a piece of the Master within us. This “piece” is purpose, which He plants deep within us to have His will fulfilled in the earth.
 
Adapted From Trust & Inspire:
We all have purpose inside each of us, although sometimes it is just dormant, the seed is always there it just needs the right conditions to flourish.
 
Our desires to accomplish something causes us to start to line up the right conditions to awaken the potential within us. We need to recognize that there is power in the seed. We need to nurture it so that this seed within us can flourish… not unlike the soil, water, air, and sunlight that enable a seed to grow. As it grows, we start to see that our purpose will begin to “show and grow”, becoming an unstoppable force toward its goal.
 
 
Adapted From Mastery:
When our purpose seed planted deep within us starts to grow, it has a voice which calls us to that authentic being is what we call "vocation." But the majority of us will devote all of our time trying to silence that voice and refuse to hear it.  This is because it is unique to us, and since it is not the “norm”, we stand out. Not to stand out, we would have to distract ourselves in order not to hear it by substituting our genuine selves and authentic voice from our purpose for the a false, “this is what everyone is doing” voice that calls us to conform to social norms.
 
All of us are born unique. This uniqueness is marked genetically in our DNA. We are a one-time phenomenon in the universe-our exact genetic makeup has never occurred before nor will it ever be repeated.

Planning Peace in your days

Our plans are how we design them to be.
Design your day before you start it.
Design your week before you start your day.
Design your month before you start the week.
This gets you to start living life by design.
 
Put yourself in the center of your design.
I have a pond with a fountain in it. The water is constantly and consistently disturbed. Ripples are always flowing from the center of this distraction in the water. About 20 feet away though, the water is calm. Sometimes it’s so still at night it is like a mirror reflecting the night sky. 
 
It reminds me of how the tides of life can have these rippling and calming moments. Now, by design, where do we place ourselves? It’s according to what we want at the moment. If we want to be busy, or live fast paced, we place ourselves near the fountain. At times we want peace, we put into plans for moments of peace.
 
Everything according to your design.
When we design our lives, and things go according to our plans, we live in the moment instead of living for the moment. Every moment is an Ichigo Ichie.

5 Questions to Unlock and Unblock

5 Questions to Unlock and Unblock Yourself:
Using the past, present, and future for our self-development, we need to ask ourselves:
Where did I come from?
Do I view my life and it's lessons and schooling? (Is life teaching me something to prepare me for something bigger?
What am I working on?
What am I working with?
Where am I going?
Answer honestly and you may see things you can use from your past right now, to build that future you are called to live out!