See the Bigger Picture

Part 9

See the Bigger Picture

If you devote your days in cleaning the house dusted, vacuumed, emptied bins, plumped up cushions as soon as someone rose from the chair or chase your toddler anxiously with damp cloth. Needles to say, you are not enjoying your child early years, because you are too busy trying to keep the house clean. if we ask you why it was so important to clean the house all day long, you would have been puzzled: doesn't everyone want a spotless house? But looking back, she wished she had relaxed and spent more time with her child.

There are times in everyone's life when you lose perspective on what really matters, when you 'cant see the forest for the trees'. There are 3 main reasons:

1. Sometime it mean that your inner child, your natural self, is hurting and kept yourself busy-busy so you can keep the pain feeling at bay. It's a tiring to run away from yourself and eventually your health and well being pay a price.

2. when you lose your way your ego-self take over and focus on details rather than on what really matters.

3. You never had a bigger picture or have no idea what your higher purpose is or What your dream are - so you choose a 'false goal' in order to have something to aim for, rather like an anorexic who aims to be thinner and thinner without really knowing why.

I often ask myself is: 'What is the bigger picture here?' Whatever you are doing, ask yourself whether it is part of your Dreams or higher purpose, or is a way of expressing or developing a higher quality such as love or gratitude, or whether you are simply enjoying it. Seeing the bigger picture is often the key to a more positive attitude to whatever you are doing.