You Have Everything you Need Right Now

“We need dirt,”  he said. “What?  Why do we need dirt?” I asked.  My 13 year old son replied, “We need dirt for our backyard so I can make (bicycle) jumps.”  Ohhhhh….I thought as I now understood where he was coming from.  I then said, “Sure, we can look at that.”

Although I decided to make the calls and investigate bringing in dirt, I was mostly thinking, “That’s my guy…keeps my hopping, never a dull moment, and man… that child likes to spend some money!…On dirt this time! I think I will try and discourage him.”   There I am…the supportive mom.

A couple of weeks roll by and he mentions it again.  My husband and son go outside to look at the greenbelt behind our house.  It is full of trees and needs to be cleaned out. They were discussing and designing where the dirt should go.  I am still thinking… “Really…dirt?”  

One of the things I consistently teach is that we have everything we need right now to take the next step in the direction we want to go.  We allow inevitable challenges and obstacles to become the reasons of why we don’t finish something (yet) and accomplish little or nothing.  Many times these “obstacles” are nothing more than a thought we allowed ourselves to think.  A reason or excuse of why we haven’t done something.  That happens sometimes, doesn’t it? 

Rather than waiting on dirt, waiting on me to visit Home Depot and asking for the dirt guy list of numbers, calling the dirt people, getting the estimate on dirt, who is delivering it?  Really?  I really do not want to spend my money on dirt.  

In the meantime, my son and his friend got to work.  With our shovel, ax, hoe and their desire for and willingness to work to create bike ramps; they cleared a path in the greenbelt.  They collected sticks and branches that had fallen from trees and piled them horizontally in one nice stack until it reached a reasonable height for a ramp.  They found a piece of plywood and angled that plywood on that pile of branches.  In another spot, about 15 feet in front of that, they found some large stones (probably from my garden), and used a smaller piece of plywood to create the first and smaller ramp.  

I was so proud of them.  They used the resources they had, worked for what they wanted and created some jumps!  Free!  Complete!  Now they can enjoy their jumps and feel amazing for making it happen; the reward for their efforts.  Not to mention, saving the mother her time and money.  

Imagination.  Creation.  Accomplishment.  Achievement.  Success.  These things can be measured in many ways.  Some of those measures are not what you would normally think of.  Those measures are that you kept your commitment to yourself, you stayed the course, you created your reality and did not allow something you made up in your head, a thought, keep you from doing what you wanted to do.  

You know what you need to do.  Take that step, then the next, and the next.  Take one day at a time, and get one in a row, then two and so on.  Control what you can and understand that you can’t always control outside factors, yet you can control what you do to move forward.  Most importantly you can control your thoughts.  You may have heard the saying that if you believe that you can’t, then you are right.  Stay peaceful, stay on track, take a deep breath and look at your choices when a challenge arises.  What will you choose?  Chip away.  You can.  Build your ramps.  Those will take you where you want to go.  


Health Inspires. 

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