Hi,
This is Guy and we've come to the 31st of our 31 keys to change your destiny.
And it's fitting that the last of the keys really kind of ties together all of the keys that have come before it.
The last of the 31 keys is entitled,
The Time is Always Now.
Here's what it means for those of us who really want to have another kind of life,
A higher life,
A happier life,
A life that's no longer taken from us by errant thoughts and feelings,
But rather that we,
In those moments when those thoughts and feelings come for us,
Are able to use them like rungs of a ladder to realize a completely different order of our self that is already liberated.
Here's the 31st key.
We cannot change the kind of person that we are later.
Let me repeat it.
We cannot change the kind of person that we are later.
We all think that tomorrow,
After we've learned the lesson of today,
That we'll be a different kind of person and that we'll act differently tomorrow.
But if we've learned anything in our 31 keys to change our destiny,
It's that our actions are a direct expression of our nature.
And then until we change our nature,
Our actions can't be any different than they've been.
And we have the evidence of that,
But now we need to prove it to ourselves so thoroughly that we enter into the moments we do with a new understanding that changes the kind of person we are in that moment so that we don't have to repeat those moments again and again and again.
So let me reiterate.
When it comes to changing our destiny,
There is no such thing as later.
It's always now or never.
I can't be kind later.
You can't learn the lesson later.
None of us can have compassion after the moment has passed where we didn't have it,
And we ought to know by now that judging ourselves is the insurance that whatever it is that we did that we didn't want to do,
We will do again because judging ourselves doesn't change anything.
But to catch ourselves judging ourselves is what it means to start over right now in the only time that we have to make this kind of change.
If we can understand that number one,
When it comes to changing our nature,
It's now or never,
And then tie it together with this important idea that we can always start over again,
Means that every moment of our life,
Whether we so-called succeed or fail in it,
Is the moment in which we can change our destiny because we can be present to the part of ourselves making those judgments,
Telling us we can't change or it's too late,
Or whatever it may be that those thoughts and feelings want to convince us of.
We know the truth now.
The truth is that the time to change our destiny is right now.
We can acknowledge these truths.
I know that we can,
But the most important thing isn't to acknowledge them.
That's mental.
We must act on the knowledge.
We must turn the wisdom that we've gained,
The insights that we've gathered,
And move them into our life in such a way that we meet our life through our new understanding because it is our new understanding that allows us to see the moment in a completely different way.
So,
Make it your aim to stay awake in as many challenging moments as you can so that instead of being captured by the old thoughts and feelings that have produced what brings us to the place we're in in that moment,
We catch them,
We drop them,
We see through them,
We recognize that if we want to change our destiny,
We have to change the direction of our thoughts and feelings in this same moment that they want to misdirect us.
And one last note before we close our time together.
If you will succeed just once,
And I mean that,
Just once with any of the 31 keys that we've just gone through,
You will see something that few human beings on this planet ever see.
You'll see it's actually possible to change your destiny because the exercise itself awakened you to the nature that is currently determining your destiny for you.
And in that moment,
Everything will be new.
You will understand it is possible to change yourself from the inside out.
And for your victory,
You will find yourself in a place that is so rare and beautiful that you'll want to return to that place time and time again because your new understanding has shown you that you can change your destiny.
Thanks again for joining me on this special journey.
This is Guy Findley,
And I hope you'll join me in some of my other sessions where we study these important ideas and find the right place for them in our heart and in our mind so that we can continue along this path of perfecting ourselves and fulfilling our highest possibilities.
