When we look to thrive we can sometimes miss the mark.

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We think that just because we can handle things better, we are thriving.

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Or that when we can handle more we are thriving.

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Yet that's not really what thriving is all about.

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It seems that we often confuse surviving better with thriving.

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They are not the same.

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We can think that we are thriving, yet we are actually only surviving better.

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We maybe better at handling stressful situations.

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Or perhaps we are just feeling more comfortable with the situation we are in.

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We might even feel better at predicting what is coming next in our lives.

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Feeling more in control of our day to day life.

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Yet none of that really means we are thriving.

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For we are truly thriving when we are living in the overflow of our abundance.

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When we are open to life's mysteries with joyfulness and wonder.

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For thriving is about living in the flow of life, allowing life to support us.

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To lift us up.

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In ways we never even expected.

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Something even better than our intentions.

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Something even better than our dreams.

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For when we seek to control, it is our ego grasping not our spirit soaring.

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When we seek for things to be predictable and comfortable, that is our fear wanting to keep us safe.

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To truly thrive we must drop our attachments to those ideas.

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To be open to life's magic that awaits us.

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And to not hold onto our expectations so tightly.

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Growth is not comfortable, predictable, or controllable.

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It bursts forth in ways we never imagined.

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For ultimately, life has a much better imagination for our life than we do.

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Life will bring us to unexplored places and to the unknown depths within ourselves.

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Were we learn real trust and true flow.

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When we are willing to take that leap.

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And discover that while there is no net beneath us, we actually do know how to fly.

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So where in your life can you release the need to control, to predict, or to be comfortable?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant