This blog post has everything to do with placing your feet in the ground and making your place in this big world. Recently, I have been talking to a lot of my friends and we have been having numerous conversations about how to stand tall when it comes to this world. I loved the conversation so much that I was inspired to write. By the way the conversation lasted about an hour and five minutes!!! I think it lasted so long because the topic was so relevant...how do you go through life and put yourself first? I have battled with this most of my life especially around the age of 18. I loved everything and everyone else, but when people would ask what I liked to do for fun and what made me happy I didn't have a response.
I have realized that in order to place your feet on solid ground you have to go back and do an evaluation on your life as it was before. I mean think about it, we wouldn't know anything about ourselves if we didn't at least look back and get an understanding. For me, around the age of eighteen I had not yet thought about life and what I really wanted out of life. I guess you could say I was a bit irresponsible and really didn't think twice about what I really needed out of life. I didn't think about how I would or could make a difference. So how did I learn to really plant my feet in the ground?
First and foremost, I had to look back. I will say to anyone you have to look back on your life and evaluate what you have become. Looking back allows you to understand past mistakes that were made. Keep in mind that when you make mistakes it is not just something that happens just because, there are reasons we make mistakes. The primary reasons are to learn from them and to understand that mistakes are a stepping stone to growth. One thing you don't want to do is make a mistake and then repeat it over numerous times...the goal is to make a mistake and learn from that mistake, take what you have learned and turn it into something that can help you later or help someone else in their life.
Next, you have to learn yourself. Learning yourself is so important. Many people go through life and love to be with other people so that they don't feel lonely or depressed, but the truth is that when you learn and love yourself you become happier figuring out who you really are. Think about this scenario: before you can bring a person into your life you must always know yourself. How can a person be interested in you if you have no interest in yourself?
Lastly, ground yourself into something that is your passion. Passion can be anything. For example, if you have the passion to play basketball or write, or cook, you should make the passion your template for life. Let's say you never make it to the NBA, but instead you become the coach of a college basketball team, your passion is still there and you can still enjoy your dream. You might not ever become a bestseller, but you might help others to learn to write and become bestsellers. The goal here is to have passion in something for you, remember passion alone can take you anywhere.
These simple three steps can allow to plant your feet in solid ground rather than being a rocky foundation that falls with every brush of the wind. The ultimate goal as I always say is to live life, love life, and learn to laugh about life. Take it light, love yourself, and give of yourself to others, and after you do that I promise your life will be so much more stable and abundant.
