mediocre | David M Masters

My Life is Going Nowhere

Ever look around you and say, “My life is going nowhere?” It seems like every day is the same ol’ thing over and over again? You’re feeling like you’re missing something in life, or something’s missing you. Life’s not bad. In fact, it’s quite good, but where’s the sense of meaning in it all?

There was a time when you felt like you were at the top of your game. Now, you’re still in pretty good shape, but you’re wondering what all the fuss is about? You felt like life was a competition and you felt like you were a contender. Now, you’re wondering what you were competing for or against?

You thought maybe this is your time to settle into life and relax. Then you look around and can see that all the other people “relaxing” are content not to contribute as they slowly relax into never-ending slumber.

“Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere, (angel).”*

Not you. You know

It’s time to shake things up!

You know that first time you went to Cabo? (Or insert any exiting place you visited for the first time.) Everything was new, exciting, and you knew that you didn’t know what unexpected pleasure would come next? A sense of wonder and excitement was in the air, everywhere you looked.

You can break up the monotony in your life just by getting out of your comfort zone. You don’t have to go to some far away place to go on an adventure. You can venture outside your neighborhood, or some town nearby and explore guided by nothing but your instincts. Have no agenda, no using your phone to guide you (or interrupt you), just meander and wonder.

Find ways to break yourself out of the routine of your life, and if you dare to really change your life,

You can change the whole world by changing your thoughts.

The most significant thing you can do to change your life and the world is to realign your thoughts with your heart. Living your life in an attitude of gratitude, allowing everyone else to just “be” without judgment, and loving unconditionally, while you hold your most precious thoughts to yourself (without having to be validated by anyone else) helps to connect the deepest part of you with your highest self. This changes not only your life but the whole world around you.

If you feel negative dialogue taking place within you, Stop it. Reverse it, and speak a loving affirmation to yourself about yourself. The more you speak lovingly about yourself, the more lovingly you encounter all the things life brings to you.

Tapping into the energy of love will greater enable you to be more intuitive. If you check in with your sensory receptors, you will find them coming to life in a new empowered way.

The world comes to life before your very eyes, in a way you’ve never experienced before. Everything will take on a new texture, things will “feel” completely new and exciting, colors become more vibrant, even breathing takes on a new exhilaration.

You’re able to enjoy all the fresh fragrances of life and feel them interact with your body. In stillness, you can hear life growing and expanding all around you while you feel your own heart beating inside you with a new sense of vitality.

As much as you might feel as though you are disconnected from others, do not be afraid to reach out and invite others to share your journey with you. There are other people in your world, just like you, who are at a similar juncture in their lives. Join up and explore the new world which is evolving before you, even if only for a while.

Humanity and the world are amidst the most significant evolutionary period of all time and you’re smack-dab in the middle of it.

If for one second you don’t believe God is calling you forth into this new and exciting life, just look around. God is leaving a trail of sacred breadcrumbs all around you to follow.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that when you think of someone, they are also thinking of you?

What are the words that jump out at you from signage, lyrics from a song, or conversations which you’ve eavesdropped on?

When you dream, in an awakened state or at night, where do your thoughts take you? What are the hidden messages, and what about those which are clearly not hidden?

Even when you feel like these things could have little or nothing to do with you, what is the Holy Spirit trying to say to you?

It’s saying

Now is your time to break free

Free from a life less-lived and stopping into your fresh, new life, of love and exploration, as you continue to grow, expand, and evolve.

And with every new breath of life that you breathe, the world around you evolves too.

May you be blessed as you breathe forward into new life.

* line from Golden Years by David Bowie

Don’t Settle for Mediocrity

If you really want to live a better life, your best life, and make the world a better place, you’re going to have stop settling for less than your very best. Mediocrity sucks the life out of your highest potential. Bold determination, dedication and persistence, even when you don’t feel like it, wins the race to achieve your highest and best.

This is the difference between those who live the best lives, and those who settle for what they can get from life.

If you are confronted with a roadblock or obstacle in life, do you turn away, feeling rejected, unworthy, or consider yourself a victim of the system, resigning yourself to utter those “woe is me” lines, “I guess that’s just the way it is.” Do you approach a volunteer project, or any potentially explosive undertaking, by eeking out your bare minimum effort because you just want to get the job done so you can go off to do something else?

If you’re not pushing through, or giving everything you have in everything you do, and laying to waste what you might even have considered to be your limits to achieve new levels of ability and competency you didn’t even know you had, you’re settling for less than your very best.

Oh sure, everyone says, “I want to live a better life,” and, “I want to make the world a better place.” They might even dare to utter the words, “I’d like to have the best things this life has to offer,” but fail to do the work, to take the action to make their life different, it will remain the same, day after day, until the day they die. And that’s okay, because that’s what keeps the sociologically powered money machine running.

Most of us are just eating, working, consuming, sleeping and keeping ourselves so busy participating in distractions and doing nothing meaningful, leading us nowhere and leaving nothing behind.

Is that the life you want to live? Okay. It’s not bad. But if there’s something inside of you that longs for something better then you have to stop. Stop settling for mundane mediocrity and make a stand against just being another sheep in the herd, and do something about it.

Is it scary? Yes. Will it take pushing back when people expect you to just do what you’re told and nothing more? Yes. Will it make you stick out from the other sheep? Yes. And if the other sheep don’t like it, “too ba-a-a-a-d.”

In order to even consider living a different kind of life, a higher level of living, you must want a better life, and the more you want it, the more likely it will be better. You have to have a reason to make your life better that is so profound and meaningful that you will continue to break through the barriers that stand between where you were and where you want to be, no matter what obstacles you are presented with.

Oh, it’s happened to all of us. God gave you an idea an inspiration, a burning desire to do something or to reach out and help others, and you waited, second-guessed yourself, let someone whisper into your ear (probably yourself) about how you’re not good enough, not rich enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not healthy enough… on and on, until you’re so knotted up, you couldn’t do anything if you tried.

So, you had been given the vision, the keys, all you had to do was to push through and do the work, but you didn’t, and God gave that idea to someone else. And you saw your gift come brought to fruition by someone else because you didn’t embrace the gift you were given.

Your idea was given to someone who refused the knots, pushed through the barriers and wouldn’t take no for an answer. He or she kept knocking on doors, putting his-or-her-self out there, in difficult situations, every day proclaiming their message until their seed found fertile ground. They were dedicated and committed enough to endure countless objections and thousand of no’s, or “that won’t works,” in order to get to that one, “let’s give it a try.”

People who make it, aren’t just given “it” on a silver platter, they aren’t the lucky ones; they “make it.” With blood, sweat and tears, in the face of any and all fears they might face, they persist. These are the people that make it and they make it, by the sweat of their brow with their own two hands, and nothing can stand in their way.

Oh, they may hit that one big setback, that knocks them off their feet, but they don’t give up. They don’t give up, turn away and walk home in tears. No. They get up, wipe their tears, take a deep breath, and keep going, because for them, there is no going back.

Now, they’re smart about it, they learn on the way. Even if they start out awkwardly all alone they get better, they hone their skills and gather a support system along the way.

Sometimes it takes a village to make a thing so, but it starts with the one. One with an idea, a dream, a message, or a mission… Someone special. Someone who is not going to settle for second best, someone like you, who can see this through to its incredible conclusion.

It’s going to take steadfast nerve, some strategy, assembling a team along the way, and doing the work that needs to be done, making progress every day, whether you like it or not.

Are you going to shy away? Or are ready to do this thing now?

Then do this thing.

Do it with everything you’ve got.

You got this.

Mediocre Personal Best

There comes a time in your life when you look in the mirror and ask yourself, “Is this all there is?”

And you might just find as you contemplate the meaning and quality of your life you’ve allowed yourself to accept. At some point, you may feel incongruency with accepting a life that is mediocre at best and you begin to consider you deserve the best and you will no longer resign yourself to living a mediocre life.

You draw the line in the sand – it stops here – you know your worth and never settle for less.

Society has programmed us to find comfort in mediocrity, to never expect too much from life, commercial products or services, or other people (even those closest to us) for that matter. These low expectations have lulled us into a basic state of trance where complacency is not only acceptable but begins to feel safe, if not good. And for the most part, it’s an effective method of controlling the masses with the least amount of effort, if we can all stay in the haze of confusion feeling as though we’re all in the same soup; until you’re hit with those brief moments when the state breaks down.

Don’t worry. You are surrounded by enough hypnotic stimuli to pull you back into the trance state no matter where you are. If you’re looking at yourself in the mirror, you notice your hair, clothes, other items behind you… If you’re walking or traveling, there’s architecture, signage, cars, other people wearing different apparel… If you’re in the wilderness, there’s the sound of crickets, birds, flora and fauna to focus upon… There are the everyday concerns of life firing synapses in your brain, or your cell phone begs for your attention… and all of these are triggers that snap you back into your state of unconscious consciousness.

When you shift back into the comfortably numb soup you think, “I’m okay enough,” as you get what you settle for and you’ve resigned yourself to being okay with that, too. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Overcoming Mediocrity

Then there are those who for whatever reason, resist returning to the state immediately, prolonging that moment of clarity. If you’re one of these people, the time may have come for you to evolve into a grander version of yourself.

You focus intensely on the inconsistencies of mediocrity and vow to never settle for less. With your undivided attention, you pledge to expect more, give, live and love more, perform better with higher efficiency and increase your quality of life to achieve your personal best.

Personal Best

As you separate yourself from the fog of acceptable compliance you begin to explore the expansiveness of all this life has to offer. Armed with your new sense of clarity you’re beginning to see things are not always as they seem. Your awareness is expanding as you start to take on individual characteristics that are uniquely you as you not only dare to be different but begin to transform and evolve into the new you, affecting every cell of your body and reprogramming your DNA.

All the while you’re attracting and acquiring new skills and abilities (some you were born with) as you explore this emerging frontier being more pliable, open and give it all you got so as not to hinder your expansion and accelerate peak flow.

To be different you refuse to accept mediocrity and never settle for less than your best as you give it all you’ve got to only settle for the best from this point forward because you deserve the best. You know that now.

And for those who continue on their path accepting mediocrity, you realize we’re all just doing the best we can with what we have. When their time comes (and it will) they will realize they don’t have to continually settle for less than the very best this life has to offer. You do not focus on the evolution of others, while you allow them the time and space to find their own way with love and acceptance.

It’s all on you as you begin to cycle and recycle through your ever emerging new personal best.