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~ Hope Inspired Destiny ~

~ Hope Inspired Destiny ~

Hope is essential for fulfilling my destiny. I have been blessed with two meaningful trajectories in my life: my path as an Industrial Engineer and my role as Rune Master . On a secondary level, I am a husband to my wonderful wife and a paternal figurehead for our children and grandchildren. These are not less important; in fact, they may be even more important. On a third level, I am a mentor to aspiring Rune Masters. There are additional, lower-level streams that help to sustain me.

If I want to persist, I need to serve and secure my income. This is my primary challenge, as I have not yet built passive income streams. There is no guarantee that my body and mind will support my hope that I will continue healthily and with clarity in my next phase as a productive individual. I don’t know if the world will allow me to act as a productive individual, except if I craft my own way forward.

But I know hope gives me the strength to keep going even when the future is uncertain. Hope gives me a sense of purpose and direction. It helps me to see beyond the present moment and to imagine a better future. The vision of a future brings me back to live fully in the present moment.

My philosophy is strong and my focus is clear, but now I need to look at the emerging opportunities. It is time to shift my mindset to identify what can be moved and what can move me beyond the present currency of my being into a next phase of living. Hope motivates me to take action. When I have hope, I am more likely to persevere in the face of challenges.

I must keep up the habit of looking after my mental and physical health. Without those two, there is very little to sustain me in the future. I can try to manifest a savings or investment plan, but time is not on my side. My legacy for future Rune Masters is in motion, but the future is still fragile and vulnerable.

My children are finding their own unique ways through life. They are not ordinary, but extraordinary in their own right. I do not know to what degree they will sustain me, but I am happy to continue to evolve the freedom and creativity of thought that I have imparted to them. Hope connects me to others. It allows me to find strength and support in the people around me.

This is the end of my writing for today, but not the end of this contemplation. I expect it will linger for the foreseeable future. It is important for me to find my feet and build a vision of hope for my future. This will give me maximum time to fulfill my destiny. My thoughts are still incoherent and my plans still spiced with uncertainty, but that does not let me give up on the hope that I have to build, persist, and leave a legacy. Hope makes life more meaningful. It gives us something to strive for and to live for.

In conclusion, hope is essential for fulfilling our destiny. It gives us the strength to keep going even when the future is uncertain. It helps us to see beyond the present moment and to imagine a better future. It motivates us to take action and to make the world a better place.

If you are feeling discouraged or lost, I encourage you to find your hope. It may be in your relationships, your work, your faith, or your dreams. Whatever it is, hold onto it tightly and let it guide you forward. With hope, anything is possible.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved.

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Preoccupations

What are the main dilemmas that preoccupy me and what might be the source of my doubts?

As a reiki master I affirm to myself the 5 reiki spiritual principle on a daily basis and one of those principles is not to worry. As a Stoic my focus is on those things that are within my control. I can say with ease that my mind is not too much occupied with worries and concerns even when thre might be grounds for worry. I rather place the focus on actions I can take. This approach brings a huge relief from stress and tension. If we can avoid stress and tension in the first place we need less effort to work on the effects of those stresses on our body.  I have to reflect on this then from the perspective that I have done a lot of work in my own pshychology to avoid wasting energy on preoccupation.

As I mentioned before my weakness is probably financial management and it is consequently also interestingly enough the area of most concern for me. My preoccupation is often due to pressure that certain things have to be paid when the funds are not available and a strategy needs to be developed to either get the required funds available or alternatively to get a feasible way to postpone the pressure until the required funds becomes available. Financial management is an area I need to improve in. My current total value is positive in terms that my assets do exceed my debts. The concern I have wrote about before is not survival in the present moment but survival when I can no longer deliver value through physical or mental work to earn and income. It will be opportune to make provision for that time but present needs negate such an approach.  In living life fully I have opted to use what I earn optimally and not to waste it on luxury or things not needed.

The roman philosopher Senneca wrote: “Remember continually what a noble thing it is to round out your life before death comes, and then await in peace the remaining portion of your time, claiming nothing for yourself, since you are in possession of the happy life; for such a life is not made happier for being longer. ”

A second thing that has preoccupied my mind a lot is the question about the legacy I will be leaving behind. When I did history as a child I had dreams of being like the great hero’s that will be remembered accross time for something significant that I have done or discovered. However that dream has shrunk with time. So far I have not done or worte something that has had such a phenomenal impact on the world or even my local society. Many people adviced me that I set my standards to high.  I personal coach convinced me to focus on the smaller things I do do. Currently my legacy opportunity lies in some of my spiritual writing, in the nature of the work I am doing. My memory and impact will probably carry on for 5 years after my death. Then people will forget about me. It posed the question…why do you want to be remembered? So currently I have shifted my preoccupation of leaving a legacy and focus on adding value to the lifes of the people I meet in my life. Every day there is opportunities to make a difference for somebody and while I am capable it is part of my mission to optimise the value I bring into this life while I am alive.