Let Your Light Shine

I believe that you can never realize your potential in life by simply trying to eliminate those things that would prevent you from getting there. This may not make sense at first, but let's consider why such an approach is ineffective.


It's no secret that bad habits are one of the main things that stand in the way of reaching our potential. They're so hard to break because we expend all our mental energy trying to eliminate them. If we're not successful, we fall right back into them, sometimes worse than ever. We tend to think that when we fail it's because we lack will power. But it's when we focus our energy on what we don't want that we wear down mentally and end up giving in.



Mental energy, like physical energy, is not unlimited. Just like you can't lift a weight an unlimited number of times without the muscle fatiguing, so it is with our mental energy. Attached to the mental energy we exert focusing on eliminating negative habits, come emotional connections that make them that much harder to break. This process tends to leave us depressed or even despondent - sitting in emotional darkness.


Instead, if you work to shine a light on the person you want to become, you can awaken your positive life force rather than empowering the negative forces that create darkness.

Think about it - illuminating a room isn't the removal of darkness from that room, rather it is the introduction of light into it!