The architect

I find the power of human belief incredible; we have the ability to think and do amazing things and the ability to believe in ourselves is one of the reasons so many people achieve great things. Of course, belief is a double-edged sword as it has the power to destroy just as it has the power to create - believing negative things about oneself can help bring them into being, or exacerbate them.

Experiences are one of the ways in which a human learns, develops and changes; we can take an experience, good or bad, and bring meaning to it which empowers, gives one the ability to affect great change, lift us to greater efforts, bring life-changing understanding and incredible results - it can help us design and place the the building blocks of life to become a foundation on which to build upon into the future. Those experiences can help us become the architect of our own amazing lives.

Those experiences can also disempower, strip bare, disarm and destroy a person and often does.

In our modern society there's many distractions and I believe it can cause people to focus outwardly rather than inwardly and that can lead them to believe they're living life well...but are they creating it?

This is just my opinion of course, but I feel people should be a little more focused on creating their ideal life, being the architect of it, not taking someone else's and making it fit or putting it together like a Lego set. Society is filled with examples of conformity and the re-creation of what came before, just slightly differently, but the truly enlightened are creating their lives their own way, just like Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi did with his designs. He believed in what he did, imagined it, wanted it and created it. Legit right?

Our lives can be relatively short - just how short is unknown - and it seems logical to me that a person would want to live their best life and one they created themselves, rather than one designed by someone else and made to fit. Yes, we need to conform in certain areas, but allowing the lack of belief in oneself to inhibit rather than empower one to create one's own unique life seems quite wasteful and illogical to me.

Have you got a plan as far as designing your life your own way? Did you developed that plan early or did it come later with age as so often happens. Do you believe you deserve an amazing life - I know some simply do not - and if so why and what do you do to design and create it. Do you apply ownership and how has that impacted on your thoughts and attitudes towards your own life or do you prefer to be a passenger? Feel free to comment below if you'd like to.