I am an alarm clock

That's right an alarm clock. Stop laughing. In today's modern age, it is one of the most vital pieces of equipment there is. Many of us would just go on slumbering long past the time that we needed to be up, if there were not some way of knowing when to wake.

Yes, life did exist before we had digital or even mechanical alarms. But things were a lot less precise. Getting a group of people together had to focus around a general time of day, like dawn, dusk or midday. A 7:15 AM meeting could never happen without a tool specifically designed to rouse the participants on time. So, you see, they are very important.

But not as important as what I am actually talking about. Have you seen the Matrix trilogy? IF you haven't, get up and go out right now and rent a copy of at least the first movie and watch it.(otherwise SPOILER alert) It is full of eye candy, great music and some pretty amazing philosophy. The philosophy is the part I am really awed by of course.

There is a character in the movie, whose chosen job is exactly what I see mine as. His name is Morpheus. Now in ancient Greece, Morpheus was supposed to be the god of dreams. He was responsible for bringing each person their nightly visions from the time they fell asleep until the time they woke.

In the movie, his role was a little different. Nearly every living person, in the movie, countless billions, are connected to a computer matrix and are living out a simulation of life. Morpheus took it upon himself to start "waking" people up. He would unplug them from the matrix, show them what life was really like, or could be like, and then give them the choice to either, join him in waking others from their eternal slumber, or if they could not or did not want to handle reality, to go back to sleep.

Long before ever hearing about this movie I was doing the same thing. See, our world is filled to the brim with the nightmares of the unawakened. It is a great big boiling mass of chaos created by all the slumbering billions crying out and lashing out in fear. It is a great sea of sleepers, living on autopilot, their lives controlled by the subconscious whims of other participants of this nightmare world.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Those of us who are awake, people like myself, people like Morpheus can, no should, wake others up. In the movie, Morpheus was looking for "the One". He was looking for a person that would take control and change the destiny of the world. I believe we are all "the One" because it is our own personal world that needs changing and it is only that which we ever have absolute control over.

Each person, once they wake from their long slumber, can be shown the nightmare world they are used to living in and then compare it to the way life could be if only we are willing to do the work to make it better.

We can live in an enlightened world full of peace, harmony and prosperity, but not while the world is yet filled by a sea of nightmare dreamers.

 Join me. Become part of my army of alarm clocks so that we might one day wake the whole world from its dark dreams, wake it from the nightmare to the dawn of a bright new wonderful tomorrow.

What is "the right direction"

Are you heading in the right direction in your life? With all the trillions of different possibilities life has to offer, how can you tell?

Well, a good indicator is this simple test. When you get up in the morning, whatever time morning is for you, what is it like?

When you first wake up, are you cursing and swearing at the alarm clock, filled with aches and pains from the day before, still tired and not wanting to get up?Are you filled with dread for the day that you know is ahead of you?

Or, do you wake up, well rested and refreshed ready for the new day and what it has in store for you? Perhaps you are not ecstatic to find that the time to arise and face those new challenges is at hand but at the very least not grumpy and resisting them.

If the first example is kind of what your mornings are like, then something is wrong somewhere. You may be in the wrong line of work, the wrong relationship or simply suffering the consequences of having made a series of poor choices somewhere along the way.

I don't know you well enough to tell you exactly what it is that needs to change in order for you to get the train that is your life back on the tracks leading to happiness and success. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. The voyage of empowerment and self-improvement just does not work that way.
I have tried many times to just give people the answers they seek. What ends up happening is they end up not not believing I know what I am talking about, so they do not use the answer I provide. Or they attempt to implement what I say but do not really understand what it is that I say and end up making things worse than if they had not asked for my input in the first place.

What I have learned from this is that the best way to assist another person is to show them the way to find the answers for themselves. To get your life back on track you need to figure out what it is that your life would look like if it was working the way you wanted it to and then take steps to make those things happen.

Whatever job it is that you do should be something that you enjoy well enough that you would still be willing to do it even if you were not being paid to do it. Whatever relationship you are in you should be in because you want to be there, not because you are expected to be or feel obligated to be there.
Not quite sure what it is that needs to change in your life? Close your eyes and imagine that it is two years in the future. Everything in your life is exactly the way you want it to be. Your alarm clock is just about to go off. You wake up refreshed, feeling awesome and turn the alarm off just before it activates. You bounce out of bed ready to handle your day.

What time is it? Where are you? Who are you with? What does where you are look like? You head off to take a shower. After your shower you get dressed. What clothing do you put on? Are you off to the office? If so where do you work? If not what does the rest of your day look like? Hold that whole image of your life working exactly the way you want it to two years in the future. Really live in that moment. Take in that future and own it. Then look back from there to what you have today.
What is different between your future life and your current one? What changes had to be made to make that future life possible?

The answers to these questions will tell you what steps to start making today to get where you want to be in the future.