You Create Yourself from Chaos. Turn the mystery of uncertainty into…
By: Real Coach Monk
Tags: Personal Development, Business, Spirituality, Parenting, Philosophy

You Create Yourself from Chaos

Turn the mystery of uncertainty into your greatest ally.

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“In the beginning was the word. And the word was with God and the word was God.”–John 1:1

“Call me Ishmael.”–Herman Melville from Moby Dick, or the Whale

Chaos. A world swirling in madness. Confusion. Collusion. Atoms crashing, smashing, exploding. No order. Things happening. Violently. But yet, there is a kind of terrifying beauty in the whole thing.

Think about it. All those billions of megatons of potential energy, suddenly made kinetic. A great and powerful destruction. But also…a magnificent creation.

God spoke the world into existence. God lives inside of you. So you can too.

There it sits. Chaos burning inside of you. Chaos is the stuff dreams are made of. If you dare to dream. But that’s just it, now that you’ve dreamed, you have to do something about it.

By the mere act of thinking or dreaming, the potential has been made kinetic. The next phase comes with speaking. You can speak a thing into existence. The chaotic space of swirling energy is taking more shape and now it exists in the air around you. It is no longer trapped inside your head. It is out there. What are you going to do next?

Time to act. This is where most of us get tripped up. Act. Act sooner rather than later. You don’t need a perfect plan. As General Patton once said, “A good plan now is better than a perfect plan when it’s too late.” If you spend too much time thinking and dreaming you won’t speak. If you spend too much timing speaking and planning it’s because you fear action. Act.

Here’s the thing about action. “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Action most often leads to more chaos.

The magic often lies in the madness. From chaos comes creation. And from creation you can make order of all of this potential energy.

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What If It All Goes Bad?

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The plans didn’t work out. Your dreams melted to dust. You valiantly pursued all angles and are left with chaos, a horrid situation, something you never expected. Or worse, you’re left with a tragedy, what then?

You stepped out and created in the midst of the chaos, yet it has only bred more of itself. Confusion. Trauma. You’re left asking why? Why me? Why this? Why us? What did I do to deserve this?

Understand this paradox: You are not as important as you think. You are simultaneously the most important person that ever existed.

You’ve created out of chaos before. You can do it again. Train your brain to understand this is a time of excitement. You can let the chaos of loss doom you for the rest of your life, or you can celebrate, learn, move on and create anew.

That’s the thing about it. This swirling potential energy is yours to create. If you don’t…it will metastasize and become cancerous. Physical and mental ailments. Spiritual blindness. They are all the results of you staying defeated.

The energy has to go somewhere. Use it to create. If you don’t, it will slowly burn you alive from the inside out.

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The Funny Thing About Miracles

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There’s nothing wrong with being defeated, with losing. The problem occurs when you lose and you don’t get back up. You let the chaos create you instead of creating in the midst of chaos.

Why not choose the bold path instead? Dust yourself off and know all of these circumstances were brought to you for specific points and purposes. You don’t like the one you’re in, change it. Be gracious with yourself and with others.

You’ll notice the funny thing about miracles is that most often they appear when you least notice, not because you’re ungrateful, but because you’re firmly journeying down your path creating your masterpiece from the depths of chaos.