I recently went to a workshop in which the facilitator, a man called Luis Cordoba, talked about being the source of our lives. He said, “You are the source of your life. You are in charge—it’s not your parents, it’s not the weather, it’s not your neighbor, it’s not your dog.” Everyone laughed when he said that and yet, how many times have you woken up and been at the effect of the weather, your parents, a neighbor, or even your dog? I know I have.
I remember once living by a parking lot where a storeowner parked his truck every morning at 4:30 am. And every morning after he parked, a loud warning siren blasted me awake. I got mad and thought of calling the police. Then I asked myself, ‘what is the right thing to do?’ So I called the storeowner and explained about his siren. He apologized and it never happened again. Imagine if I had called the police instead. I would have created a lot of trouble and bad feelings. Instead, a simple phone call got the job done.
Luis said, when we get in touch with the fact that we are the creators of our experiences we realize certain pay offs—he got us to make a list. Here are a few of the payoffs by living life as the source:
- Take action
- Create anything
- Move on—get on with my life
- Be in charge of my life
- Achieve my goal
- Be in touch with my power
- Grow
- Be in control of my destiny
- Stop wasting time worrying
- Take charge
- Do whatever I wanted to do
- Live in the present
After we made the list, Luis asked us if there were any rip-offs to living life as the source—and we discovered there were none. Living life as the source produced only positive results. Luis told us that living life as the source is about living in the present and that when we do that, we have no problems.
Now you could be like me and think, “No problems—are you kidding?” So I asked him how that was possible, to have no problems.
“Problems exist in the past and in the future.” Then he asked us, “Have you noticed that you spend time worrying about the past, then when you get bored with the past, you shoot yourself into the future and you worry about all the terrible things that are just about to happen to you at any moment.” We laughed and admitted that most of us did and that when we lived in the present moment, we could handle all our problems just by taking the right action.
Luis asked, “Do you think the people who climb Mount Everest are scared?”
We answered, “Yes!”
“That’s right,” he said, “and they are willing to do it any way.” He went on to say that becoming the source is a journey—just like climbing Mount Everest. It takes preparation, then the actual climb and then dealing with whatever happens afterwards.
“In today’s world we are used to everything being instant, so if something doesn’t work out immediately the way we want it to, we get mad, or give up, or just go on to something else. Being the source means always being the source—even if you wake up one morning and it’s raining and you feel depressed, remember that it is your choice how you want to be. You can be depressed that it is raining, or you can find an umbrella and get on with living an amazing life—it is all a choice—it is your choice.”
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