Trending toward Your Good

If you’re anything like me, when I set a goal, I mean business—I want the results TODAY!

While some goals can manifest quickly, others take the long road, like an investment. When I put money in stocks, I can’t expect my money to double by the end of the day! I have to have patience, detachment, persistence.

What is a goal you are working toward right now? Losing weight? Saving money for a new car? Forgiving someone in your life? Embracing  more positive thoughts throughout your day? Or some other goal that will take more than a few hours, days or even weeks to accomplish?

These long term goals require us to have a long view of our achievement process. We are changing patterns, some of which have been with us for some time, and our progress will naturally look more like a Dow Jones Industrial Average chart, with the characteristic ups and downs. Our objective isn’t to climb with daily perfection, but to trend toward our goal.

We have our great days, when our new outlook seems easy and attainable. We take great strides some days! Other days can leave us feeling like we have taken one step forward and two steps backward. These are the days when we have the opportunity to have compassion on ourselves, strengthen the areas that need more work, and keep our eyes on the bigger goal down the road.

We are always moving forward in consciousness; whether we feel the truth of that  or not can vary day to day. Our job is to remember that we are slowly but surely trending toward our good, and that goal will give way to a new good to achieve.

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