Between Friends

Caution: Thinking is required!

What have been your most significant turning points -- and watershed moments? These are the times when your inner voice spoke up... or your gut-instinct slapped you in the face -- leading to some profound  -- often life-changing -- vision or idea.

Maybe the turning point provided the direction you needed at the time -- which fork in the road to take to get your needs met -- or perhaps it enhanced your self awareness -- such as the realization of inner strengths and abilities you didn't know you had -- or millions of other things.

My own experience reveals at least 2 types of turning points:

1. Turning points we experience but don't have awareness of at the time -- nor their value   
2. Turning points we are acutely aware of -- and know their value -- at the very nanosecond it arrives

If we lack awareness at the time -- of the actual occurrence of a turning point moment -- we may continue to be in the dark for months or years or decades. Then one day, for some reason, it becomes evident to us that -- back then -- we had, but turned our back on, an opportunity of a lifetime. 

But sometimes -- for only some people -- lacking awareness at the moment a turning point moment arrives doesn't prevent our acting on the message it presents! How is this possible? Answer: The programming of the world's most effective and fastest super-computer and servo-mechanism: our subconcious mind.

And either you know what I am talking about -- because you have experienced firsthand this very dyanmic -- or you don't know -- and if you don't know, no amount of time I may spend trying to help you understand will be enough time. You'll have to tackle that steep learning curve on your own; investing your own dime and time.

My own experiences have me convinced that without self mastery, it's impossible to see and understand and grasp these moments at the moment they arrive -- when action is required. Since these moments come and go in a gazillionith of a second -- just as fast as a nerve cell sends its signal to the brain and the brain signals the body to respond -- seizing the moment -- and the myriad opportunities that come with it -- must be immediate.

Failure and success alike is built one moment at at time. The right decisions at the right moments -- during the moment -- makes all the difference. And having awareness that a turning point is upon us -- and making the decision to act on it -- is all it takes to shift from one path to another.  

Everyone -- irrelevant of their age, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, race, education level, job or occupation, marital status, sexual preference, lifestyle, IQ, EQ, DQ milkshake flavor preference, health and wealth -- has this innate ability. But very few people know it and act on it.

Why is this?