What Is It Time To Invite Into Your Life?

Yes, that is the right question.  Me and a couple of colleagues already went into fun debate on this one.

But for the new year, the focus is always on becoming something, or getting something.

But we don’t give credit to the power of inviting something.  To take action to attract, and let something into our lives, instead of either forcing it in, or chasing after it.

What is it time to invite into your life?

 

Belief

Specifically, belief in myself.

To believe in yourself.

I’d always racked my head on this question:

“How do you come to believe in yourself more?”

Figures out, you don’t.

You can’t just will it.  You’ve got to do things, that will invite the belief in yourself.

And allow it to take root, and grow stronger and stronger.

You also have to make space for the belief to grow.  It’s easily crowded out by it’s unsavory cousins – fear, doubt, pride, and lack of confidence.

You’ve got to make an earnest effort to invite your belief in yourself, and to nurture it.

Don’t kill it.

 

Love

Love is also something you invite into your life, to fill it with bliss, and gratitude.

It’s true what they say.  That you really can’t get love.  You can’t force it, buy it, take it, enslave it, or command it.

It’s freely given, and it’s freely received.

And the way to be given love, is to do, and to be, a person that is capable of inviting love.

Capable is the word, because it deals with our capacity.

Our capacity to give love, and to receive love.

Our capacity to accept love, because there are times when we don’t feel we deserve it, so we push it away.

Our capacity to recognize when it is love, or when it is something else masquerading as love, or using love as an entry ticket into our lives.

Our capacity to forgive ourselves, and to be wrong, and to make things right.

Every time I’ve gone after love, all it’s done is run away from me.

But the moment I began to invite love, and in the process, take steps to become a better person worthy of that invitation, love began to come.

Love began to stay.

 

Happiness

Happiness is fleeting, short-lived, and just beyond my grasp.

If I have (state your desired amount) dollars, then I’ll be happy.

Those were things I said before, and I bet you’ve said them one time or another.

And it was painful for me, to have had the experience of going after happiness, and finding ways to make myself feel happy.

That happiness was always dependent on what I got, what I have, who I’m with, and what I’m doing.

That was all wrong.

The moment I then decided to be happy, was the moment I truly began to invite happiness into my life.

It’s an invitation to find ways to be happy.

It’s an invitation to make a decision to be happy.

Whatever comes your way.

I had to decide to be happy, before I found any happiness.

I had to ask myself, “What makes me happy, right now?”, even when things were going south.

Invite happiness into your life, instead of chasing it away with negativity, doubt, and fear.

 

Abundance

This is a struggle for most of us, because society has taught us that abundance and riches, wealth, has to be created and chased after, to be obtained.

I do agree with the creation part.  Wealth has to built, on solid foundation, especially, if you want it to last.

But, abundance and wealth, I realized, has to be invited into your life.  Similar to anything that you want to have and keep, you’ve got to make space for it, and prepare that space.

Otherwise, what you want won’t come to you, and stay with you.

To be able to have abundance, means believing in it, and seeing how abundance is present and possible in all areas of your life.

And how you can be abundant in how you think, believe, say, or do.

For a long time, I kept going after wealth, and riches, but since I wasn’t inviting abundance in my life, I would always end up short, and I’d never get the results that I wanted.

Because I didn’t have abundance in my life.  I didn’t get it to stay with me.

I couldn’t get abundance to stay, because I kept on entertaining scarcity, and fear, instead of chasing them out, and inviting a more supporting guest.

To invite something into your life, is to make space for it, and to be open to it.

It may come in the form we least expect it.

 

What is it time to invite in your life?

For this 2017, what is it time to invite into your life?

What is time to make space for?

What is the reason to prepare for?  To be a better person for?

What do you want, and are willing to commit to inviting, receiving, and keeping?

 

What is it time to invite in your life?  Please share in the comments below!