“All things come to those who wait.”

If there is truth to that cliché, then we should get what we want just by sticking around, right? If I hang in there at my job, I’ll get a promotion. If I wait long enough, I’ll get the house I want. So, I’ll just sit here and watch the clock.

Does that make any sense? If you want to achieve great things in your life and for your life, you have to actively pursue them. Success results from the choices you make, and the chances you take. It doesn’t happen by being a bystander.

Whether you live according to a set of religious beliefs, philosophical conviction, a metaphysical connection, or the rules of quantum physics, you are making a choice. Socrates and Plato defined the laws of cause and effect. Do this, and get those results. Simple. So, you make a choice and there is a consequence.

Let’s say you don’t like the consequence. Maybe you just made a bad choice. Don’t accept the result. Trace the effect to the cause, and then change it. If you don’t like your life, make different choices. If you don’t like where you are, move. You’re not a tree. Yes, you have roots, but you can transplant them!

Jesus taught us that if you don’t like the harvest, it’s because of the seeds you have sown. So, give yourself a fresh start — a “do over” — and plant a new seed or even a whole new crop!

Myers

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