You guys know I never write a blog unless im compelled to. I dont think someone should be writing music or inspirational passages unless they have been compelled by god, the universe, an event or what have you that brings forth a natural organic feeling to share with the masses. Anything in life that is forced, just isn’t right in my opinion. Life is legit and it has already factored you in as an equation so why try to force the sum of all things to find the answer. LET IT BE.
That is what leads me to this blog actually. I have personally had a rough month. Along with all the many incredible blessings I have (traveling the world, not having a normal job, working for myself, building my little “empire” in life) I have many and let me emphasize MANY ups and downs. A lot of people tell me “Danny, you’re so lucky, your living the life I want, you’re doing this you’re doing that, your here, and then your there” To me… all I hear is “BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH”. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t wan’t that to sound arrogant or ungrateful, but hear me out.
I have no ego even though my confidence in who I am can appear as that to some, but those who know me genuinely know i am a very compassionate, empathetic modern hippy. So none of those “hand job” comments (genuine or not) cater to who or what I am. I appreciate them, but they serve no purpose to me. They serve more purpose to the person relaying and projecting that feeling on me. The more I began to sit back and think about it, especially in the month of march, with april coming around, meaning “TAX SEASON” it got me thinking…
Tax Season is when we go over our financial INS & OUTS of the year. We factor what came in as income and what went out as expenses. Some of us claim every penny and some of us don’t claim much at all so that we can keep more to ourselves, and not give as much to the IRS. That made me think a little deeper.
We spend only one month a year and truthfully, not even that, to go over our financial ins and outs, however not many of us, take even a moment to go over our emotional, spiritual, physical and mental ins and outs. So, in that thought, i decided to write an inspiration blog about your monthly SOUL TAX SEASON. Every month, should be SOUL TAX SEASON. What is this STS month? What does it mean to me?
It means that YOU aren’t f$^%&ing around any more with who YOU are and what YOUR self-worth is. It means that YOU arent negotiating any more with people who don’t benefit your life and make you a better person. It means that you only live 100 years (if your super stinking lucky) so lets just say 60 to be safe, and as your reading this your roughly already 1/4 of your way through your life and you’re sitting back going “WHY!?, why don’t I have the things I want, why don’t I have the things I deserve? Why are these things always happening to me!?!?” Or… maybe you do feel you have all the things you desire, and wanted. If so, you can stop reading right here, because you probably already figured it out. Congrats.
For the rest of you… this is why, and this is how. Were going to change all that right here, right now. No motivational speaking involved. Just straight up honesty from someone who has had absolutely nothing to start with, then everything in the middle, then everything taking away while I was at the finish line and now I believe I can have whatever I want to have, as long as I choose a path of honesty, integrity, i remain genuine to those around me, I calculate and make revisions monthly with who I am, who is in my life, and who is contributing to me becoming a better person and who is not.
Don’t think for one moment, that just because your calculating yourself, that others aren’t also calculating YOU within THEIR lives. It’s YOUR job as well, to make the people around you become better more efficient, loving and giving human beings.
We need to look at our lives daily but I understand that daily is much to consuming for most and so monthly SOUL MAINTENANCE is what I would recommend for those of you who are feeling like “I am constantly putting this out, and constantly getting these results”
If you choose to invest your time, money and soul efforts into ONE particular way of being, you will always get the same result. Make no mistake that the definition of repeating the same action while getting the same result and hoping for something different to happen because of the same action = CRAZY. Stop being crazy. You are not crazy, your just confused because you keep running in circles and they take you no where.
Have you ever thought that all you had to truly do was lift your head up, stop looking at your feet and tell yourself to just STOP WALKING IN CIRCLES. Did you ever think that maybe this whole time you have been following your FEET and not your HEART & MIND. Do you feel betrayed by your feet and where the have led you. Look deeper. This isn’t about your feet. Your feet are simply metaphors.
The point is that you will never get to where you want to be by following the wrong path. The people who are along for your ride can be either your greatest assets or your biggest downfall and you play that same role within their lives. Harmony is not the same as unity. You can tie the tails of a dog and cat to one another and you have created UNITY but I can assure you, HARMONY is not present during that moment.
We often keep people in our lives for various reasons but the biggest reason we are afraid to let people go when they are bad for us is our comfort zone. Human being have a major character flaw in which we place the word and feeling of FEAR in front of anything that means CHANGE, when instead the word and feeling EXCITEMENT should be there. Change is very good when calculated and planned out properly. Change is NOT good however when your firing from the hip and making emotional decisions based solely on feeling and not much thought. That is where you start chasing your feet again. How do you create HARMONY within the balance of your soul and get your feet following your heart and mind?
That is where I feel you must become the CSA of your life before you can become a CPA of the world. (CSA = certified self accountant, CPA = certified public accountant). I know I am corny with my little phrases and made up analogies but I truly know they apply. You must be able to look at your life and stop questions why, and starting doing NOW.
WISHERS ARE WAITERS. Stop wishing your life away. Stop waiting for results. START NOW, turning your dreams into reality. Remove the people who are cancerous to your production and to your well-being, even if they are your blood. Your true blue people in the world will understand and come back to you changed.
I had to walk away from my mother when I was 20 years old. We had a very bad relationship. It wasnt healthy and it was extremely toxic to my development and it really hurts to write this because I know she will read this, but my mother NOW is one of my closest and best friends I could ever have. I am so blessed to have in my life but I will never forget the day I jumped out of the car and told her to her face that I would cut her out of my life if she could not give me the love and support I needed to grow and become the man I believe I was meant to be. It’s a very powerful and earth-shaking action to do that to someone who gave you life on this earth but in my spiritual belief, my mother was just the bearer of my body on this earth much like a plant bearing a beautiful flower, and my belief is that GOD is my ultimate creator.
I am not going to get all religious on you but you must know where I am coming from when I am saying the rest of this.
To exact a dramatic change in your life, you must be willing to take extreme and drastic measures for YOUR life. No human being has the ability to control or own you. If you feel controlled or owned and powerless, it is not their fault. You are the only one responsible for that. You have ALLOWED yourself to be subject to someone elses control.
Let me clarify this further more. People come to me all the time for advice on their relationships, career choices, life choices and so on, (I really should have went to school to become a therapist ha!) and I hear the same things over and over about feeling controlled, helpless, powerless, un-able to make a decision that betters that person’s life. WHY!? Why are you so afraid to do what is best for YOU! Don’t you get it! In this life, we will encounter MANY people, good and bad. Many lovers, many heart breaks, many exciting moments, many hard to breath moments and they all make up the tapestry of your life. There is never a moment in YOUR life in which you have no say. YOU ALWAYS HAVE A SAY IN YOUR LIFE. That is power. Hold that and feel it in your “plums” as Will Ferrel said in East Bound & Down. Grab your nuts boys and girls. Your beautiful, your powerful, you have the ability to change not only YOUR world, but THE world as it is surely rotating and changing with or without you.
We are all the framework of a much bigger picture. A machine with many nuts and bolts. Our job in this life is not a self-serving mission. Sure, we all want nice things, the home, the car the husband/wife, some money in the bank and guess what…. get your paper boo boo (Katt Williams) but do not forget that in this life. The more you help others, the more you help yourself. The machine does not work if the oil is not in it. The pistons will over heat and shoot through the engine block and BAM! No one wins, nothing runs right. HARMONY comes into play here and leading by example. When your able to walk in harmony with yourself and others around you it is infectious. It inspires others to live a life more like yours. It makes people want to help you walk longer in harmony and you will find more and more people laying down the harmony carpet at your feet. You will realize that a lot of these things we deem and call important are really not important at all. I have spent some serious time in the jungle and I have learned that your car, your money, and your ego no longer exist when you are stripped of even simple things like being able to look at yourself in a mirror and reflect on how you look or feel that day. I know what its like to be alone with your thoughts when there isn’t a computer to eat up 6 hours of my day on Facebook or an iPod to play music and create any sound diversion to what is really going on in my mind. Your mind is damn powerful and when you can shut everything down and eliminate all the sounds that are distracting your eternal clarity of YOU and what you need to get to the next place as a person, you will come to a higher realization that CHANGE is ok and your mind sometimes needs you as a buddy to go over things and re-evaluate who you are in correlation with your body. WHO AM I? Am I Danny? Is that all I am? Am I a sum of all parts or am I a part of a much bigger sum?
I can keep going but I will save that for the book. I encourage you all to sit back and find some quiet time to reflect on your life. Think about what has been coming IN & OUT of your emotional, mental, physical and even financial sphere the last month or last 6 months. Ask yourself… How do I feel about the last 6 months of my life? Am I proud of what I have accomplished or done? Can I better myself on all those fronts? Can I better others around me by living as a quality example? How can I become a quality example for people to reflect their own lives upon? How can I create harmony within my life and others around me? Are there people who I need to re-evaluate their presence in my life?
That is a good start to breaking the traditions you have come to accept out of comfort. I promise you, nothing happens overnight but with pure dedication to your soul and mind, you will notice not only a difference in your outlook, but you will be blown away by the new types of people you attract into your life. Never forget who you are, and your value, always remember that time is short, and at any moment your cards could be up. Make the most of life, make the most of YOU.
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