Do you believe in balance?

The way I look at it, The Universe or God have a way of balancing our life, in a way that we have a say in.

Have you ever heard the phrase

“ Retraction to the mean ”

It means, for every set of bad times that come into life, times will retract back to the middle.

When great times come, there will be a return to normal, or the middle.

The Mean.

Bedros Keuilian throws in a point,

“ A comfortable life now, is a uncomfortable life later.
And an uncomfortable life now leads to a comfortable life down the road “

Now if our God, our Universe has its way of tipping the scales back from where it was, then we can control wether we’re currently in comfort or discomfort.

I personally, hold this to be true.

And I’ve run into a little misfortune,

I’ve been overcharged on my credit card,

I’ve had my debit account misused somewhere in Arizona,

I’ve had electricity in specifically my room go out,

Its put me behind on rent,

behind on payments for these products I’m putting out,

Ive had a flat tire,

And worst of all, the car I drive daily, that allows me to work for my living, Had a very important and expensive piece stolen right from under it in the middle of the night.

just in the past week.

In the morning, I come out to my car, like every other morning, start it up, pull off

and then my car begins to sound like a tractor, like a lawn mower, except 10x louder,

And I knew immediately, what happened.

It’s my Catalytic Converter.

It’s a common thing, these people target specifically my make and model, because it’s the biggest, and the piece holds precious metals to filter out harmful air, and people sell them off for $400-$500.

California also has the strictest rules on them to be the highest grade OEM parts, so you can’t buy a replacement aftermarket.

A piece I replaced in the past year, because it was old, which would’ve put another 150,000 miles back on the car.

It puts me out about $1700..

Now I feel typical thoughts are to get angry, look for someone to blame, should’ve could’ve would’ve myself to death,

Called my insurance, and I’m not covered,

thought about how I just got this replaced because my old one was bad,

all the SHIT,

But this time I took it different,

Its misfortune, yes.

But timely? I’m sure.

Im building my business, creating content,

Why wouldn’t misfortune find me?
Why wouldn’t problems arise?
Why would I expect things to be easy?

Im aware there’s a lot worse, so I’m grateful,

there’s probably bigger problems to be solved in the future,

and if all our life we’re putting out fires,

why wouldn’t a couple bigger than average ones come,

especially at a time of building.

This is true problem solving.

Now I always look back to patterns and things that could’ve been different, but I looked back in a different way.

Recently, Ive been living pretty much a borrowed life.

Ive been staying with my brother in law, relaxing, drinking, playing golf, a life that he earned and worked for but a life that I haven’t yet.

With a short vacation to my hometown, more golf, I haven’t done the things I know I can, even when I know I need to do them.

Uncomfortable things, like working out, simple cardio for 45 minutes, getting proper nutrition, reading my books, posting on this blog, being creative on products and producing content.

And I came to a realization,

a HUGE realization.

That if I believe, that God finds a way to balance life,

to dish out a slice of humble pie,

that things like this are to be expected.

And more so,

I need to live a life of current discomfort, to create a life of comfort later.

And that God / The Universe works in that way,

If The Universe sees you consistently, in discomfort like exercising hard, delaying your gratification like skipping that eating out to cook at home, working hard at your business,

in those times, will The Universe typically throw you fortune to balance out your lifetime.

Why wouldn’t it?

If I eat healthy with enjoyment from time to time now, I will be much happier with my physique and health later.

If I have too much indulgence with little to no discipline now, I will be terribly unhappy and maybe my body will have complications down the road,

Sound about right?

This I believe is how, on a spiritual, quantum, our world works.

And I know through discomfort, the solutions will make themselves visible.

Im already on it.

I ran for the first time, in a long time, but most of all I didn’t stop when I wanted to, I didn’t stop when it started to hurt, I ran longer than planned, and weirdly, to feel more discomfort.

To sit in the pain,

knowing that maybe this won’t exactly solve my problem, but that I can manage my emotions through pain, solve my problems under duress.

Guess what, tomorrow I’m doing it again.

And I want that for you.

So let’s create the discomfort now, to tip the scales,

so that God finds his way,

to pave your way with more fortune.

The universe will see you busting your ass, day in and day out, and say let’s reward his/her work, more results than he/she deserves.

Get too comfortable, don’t fulfill the promises you made to yourself, don’t work on the things you asked for strength to do, and best believe you’ll see or be shown, just how far behind you really are.

This isn’t to associate, great living to an imminent doom or something bad always following good, but that even in good times of winning and creating, we must be our own harsh critic, and make sure we are busting our own ass, to maintain proper balance.

Basically, do what got you there, so you won’t slide backwards.

Luck finds you as far out as your work puts you.

So this week, get uncomfortable,

and watch as the solutions to your problems become more present, due to the confidence grit and toughness you produce from yourself.

Stack up the hard work, rock by rock, so that The Universe has no choice, but to tip the scale back into balance, with solutions and good fortune.