Your Life Purpose, Pt 3 An Easier Take on Solving the World’s Problems, and Your Own

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• On the way to something else…
• Brilliant wisdom from a 10 year old

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Dear world server,

Having established that we all share a simple Life Purpose, let’s add another shared interest re: purpose.  Service. Most of us feel an inner urge to make or be a difference.  

We want to serve others.  Among us, there’s a strong feeling of being here to help make the world a better place, to help with “the shift,” isn’t there?  

On my way to something else recently, rustling through old files, I came across this very early blog, from Dec 30 of 2006.  It fits nicely in our ongoing series exploring Life Purpose so I’m sharing it here.  It’s short and sweet and deconstructs our over-thinking about being of service.  What a relief.

What Does It Really Take to Solve World Problems?

Let’s begin today with a wonderful truth spoken by ten year old (!) Marco from Bulgaria, who said,

“Open the eyes of your heart, and solve your problems in a new way.  You believe it will take years or lifetimes to solve things like hunger, disease and violence.  Is it possible that it is simple, and that your need to see it as complicated has been the the very thing that has kept you from the answer?”

I think that’s an illuminating question, don’t you?  Our minds have a learned preference for complexity instead of simplicity.  Our egos also have a rapt fascination with the complicated – which allows for maximum cleverness, strategy and personal heroism.  Together these keep us in a more adrenal-laden quest for the complex view and solution. 

This creates complicated, confusing and often overwhelming lives.  Simple methods seem naive and boring; we tend to discount them.  We just aren’t that interested in the obvious or easy, we mistrust it.

Could it be that, as ten year old Mario said so wisely, the need to see a problem as complicated is the very thing that prevents the answer?  So often genius and innovation have come out of simple moments, sometimes even as “accidents” stumbled upon on the way to something else (like today’s blog).  What could be more simple?

In the simple there is often wisdom and greater ease.  Therein lies serendipity and the profound.  But before a solution is even considered, our minds most often first tell us of the many difficulties standing in the way, the resources not at hand, the extensive time needed.  

We go straight to what can’t be done and the dire consequences of that.  Despair rises, overwhelm short-circuits our energy and we often don’t even get started with the thought process let alone actions.

The consequences of this are far reaching.  We grow fearful and overly cautious. We lose hope.  We begin to think and assume that the world is too polarized to get along, that covid will be with us forever, that the earth is doomed and humans are hopeless, warring and bad by nature, that the bad guys are winning and always have.  It then feels like the world is “going to hell in a hand basket,” as the saying goes.  

These thoughts and feelings become undercurrents in us, nearly unnoticed.  They are default beliefs that keep us from breaking bonds that limit higher potential.  The way to turn this around is to avoid complexity at any stage.  

Complexity is not always a bad thing.  However, the proper path to arrive at a balanced complex system is through clear, simple actions and understandings that build on one another in a balanced way.  Not by starting from complication and adding more complication to it.

Learning to appreciate and enjoy the more simple (the non-glamorous, non-adrenal) maybe even the more obvious (not clever, not heroic, less brag-worthy) takes a little commitment and practice but it’s so very worth it!  

Learning to see our own and our world’s needs and problems, dreams, desires, and difficulties with greater simplicity and clarity is one of the most valuable ways to reduce stress, support the body and achieve our Life Purpose.  

When thinking of service re: your life purpose, keep it simple.  It’s not about saving the planet, or the world, or others.  It’s about being what you really are – elevated love and light – and letting that express freely.  And beyond that, choosing what you most enjoyably want to do from that place.  

If that’s working in a cause, great, but keep the energy and actions more simple.  If it’s sharing uplifting energy with others, great, but don’t complicate that with thinking they need to believe as you do, just be you.  If it’s starting a community project, excellent, but build it from a clear simple idea and expand it in simple and clear stages.  

Working like this, we free ourselves of guilt and “have to” and avoid lightworker burnout.  Instead we feel satisfaction, peace and have a bit of fun.  I vote for that!

Sending you much love today,

❤️ Mayet