Mining Life The Secert to Chipping Your Goals - Hint Five Simple Steps Inside

So you're lost! Looking to discover that inner guidance that will move you forward to life's next breathe taking moment. Good, that’s a beautiful thing. Your day does not come with a satisfaction guaranteed stamp. There is nothing wrong with a little bit of work. Living in an age where every single aspect is becoming instant, smaller, slimmer, faster!

What do we expect besides, a push button for inner peace. Soon we become shocked that, our days are slipping past us, with no real memories or emotional jolts. Just a few spare moments where multiple episodes of the Office gave us a laugh, Walking Dead gave us a thrill, Game of Thrones made us rise to the occasion of declaring our loyalty to a flag, and March Madness has us taking a risk and placing a bet. 

Wonderful for the moment, but where is my fulfillment? These task are pouring small amounts of water in a glass we continually keep tipping back. Only to find it empty when we set it down, finding a reflection of ourselves wondering where it all went. Empty, but able to be filled again; but what is it that you want to fill your glass with? Where are your real glass fillers? Luckily we live in a world with an ever growing possibility of glass fillers.  

 You have to be a miner. Gold, Diamonds, the best friends of men and women. These are the true materials we are all looking for those gems of time, that are so solid they have to be Real! The thing about the miner is, she does not pick up her pickaxe, with one swing to the ground. One chip of the earth, and the task is complete. She is forever rich, she has found gold. No this is not reality, this is not the true state of the miner. 

Why? That story sounds so good, forever rich has a certain ring to it doesn't it? Of course it does, that is the quick cup filler we keep quenching ourselves with. That is the problem, which is the reason we do not feel the true emotion. The quick swing is followed by quick lose, the quick pour is followed by a quick drink. Only when we carry that large bucket of water, home to our glass and we pour the arctic water into our glass, is when it is truly Gold. When the adventure of getting the water from a land less traveled, the blisters of our hands are no longer burning but smoothed out from the ice cold glass. The hardship of cries and yells are left in the past. We drink from the cup slowly because the water is so cold. The water is so cold and fresh that we even, after all our personal adventure, say you have to try this, it taste so good. Your hard work is such a privilege, that your water needs to be shared. An after those last drops are put back into your mouth. It’s not over, the adventure lives throughout your mind. It wasn't simple so you simply cannot forget it.  

That's the beauty of the miner, the miner is all of us. We sit in our small towns, villages or cities, living our everyday lives. Then one day we are tossed a piece of news that triggers our mind. We hear a voice say there is Gold there, there are Diamonds over there. We become the miner, we say I could go get that. Then reality sets in, I have to dig, I have to dig deep. What if nothing is actually there? What if someone has already found it? Worst of all why do I deserve to mine there? 

These are all the reasons why we need to pursue your mining. Fear is the reason to dive forward. The monster roller coaster that you're most afraid of is the one that will give you the most joy, the one that will leave you with the largest memory. Mining that roller coaster, the pull of your friends or loved ones telling you  "come on lets go on it", that’s mining. The rumbling around in your head, should I do it, I would love too, nooo I couldn't possibly go on it. It will be fun, but it’s so high, but it’s safe but what if it isn't? This is mining, the long, long line, is mining, that’s putting in time for the thrill. Chipping away at the line, slowly, slowly, slowly we move forward. We get hours into it, should we turn back, well you're already here might as well continue forward. The moment when you can taste the drop, is mining. When you get right up to the ride, strapped in you could still yell, GET ME OFF, this is mining, you scream this inside your mind seconds before you gain the glory! This is mining. 

The beautiful thing behind this is, we make the things we are most scared of really difficult in our minds, so we wrestle with the idea for a small amount of time which is good. But we tend to let the difficulty win, before we have even faced this. Many of us can relate this with the idea of cleaning our room or doing a simple high school homework assignment. The beautiful thing is, like the roller coaster, we move forward with the idea, we get caught up in the moment and slowly mine our way to our goal. We just do it, whether it was our friends, loved ones, or just ourselves, when we go forward, it’s not instant and that is the best part. You don't just decided to go on the roller coaster an instantly, boom you're at the very top of this monster that you have to face. No you slowly juggle this idea that you're afraid of. You slowly move forward. We talk to people in line, we hear stories of how wild and crazy this ride is. We hear stories of people how have turned back, while we are in line, while they were mining. This adds to the thrill of us wanting more.  Building the fear, but we keep mining slowly, slowly we get there.  This is the beautiful things, we are not faced with the diamonds until we have slowly prepared ourselves unknowingly. We arrive at the right moment. We never know how long the line is going to take, we don't know if the ride will get stuck, we don't know if during our travels our cars will breakdown, we don't know, but we go. 

We go forward, continually we move forward, we have done this mining over and over again in or lives. The glories task of cleaning our home feels pretty good, actually. We don't get a parade for the completed task but it makes us feel just as good, we walk around, realizing how much space we actually have. We find items that were under our couch that can trigger a long lost memory, no one else feels this memory but you do. And there is nothing wrong with these success, success follows success, the only problem is realizing what a success is, what is actual happiness? Mining, mining your success, the gold might be the ultimate goal, but in pursuit of gold, we travel across the country seeing people, places, Foods that we never would have back home. We gain confidences in ourselves, when our GPS goes out in a large city or rural area and we find a new way to navigate. We are mining without a pickaxe, we don't even know it but we are succeeding.  When we finally arrive, to our gold destination, we begin to actually chip away. 

The first chip is the first dollar made at a self-start up grocery store, the first like of your well designed dress, then the next couple of chips come, we stop thinking about their meaning because we're working, but every chip is just as important as our first. Slowly we mine, slowly we are six feet deep, in the ground we have a moment where we realize, hey I never would have thought I would make it this far.  We take this moment in, we have an ice cold bucket of water moment. Then we continue, we chip, we chip, we have to stop for rest, our arms begin to hurt, like our legs in line for a roller coaster. We begin to doubt ourselves, we think will I ever get there, when will this be over, but you're chipping, mining away just as you did that first chip, it’s just as important. We become deeper and deeper in the pit, getting closer but we're not sure, we keep swinging. People may show up, like the people in line at the roller coaster, telling you tales of friends who have turned back, telling you tales of how scared they were. They may come and say look at this pit that you're digging, they don't see the mining, they don't see the pursuit, they see the moment, and they don't see the moments. They don't see that you learned about South Vietnamese's Fo, on your journey, they don't see that you met a handful of friends at the tavern the night before. They see this pit, an empty lot, full of you. You're mining, you have to continue, you have made it this far, you already have so much invested. The mining continues, it becomes harder and harder, the earth becoming harder, tougher, but you're mining for diamond, the hardest substance on the planet, the earth should be getting harder. The pain seems like you should turn back when actually you should push that much further. 

An after all this, adventure. After all of these different success we reach our ultimate success, we strike our gold, we strike our diamond. It may just be a small piece at a time, but we see the gold, diamond layers in the earth, we get rejuvenated, it becomes easier to push, to keep pushing. We get ahold of the gold, the diamonds. What happens, the people that were standing above you rush back, people that have never heard your story, rush toward you, they have no idea of the path, they have no idea of every moment you encountered, they just see gold. You're in their eyes an overnight success. They remember themselves telling you that you could do it, they will go back to their taverns that night and say I told her, she could find gold in that pit. That story for them is the quick drink of success. When its closing time and they set down their glass, they see themselves at the bottom of the glass empty.  

Mining, is the thrill, mining is the actual gold in all of this. Once we realize we can mine, the gold is endless. Mining is the overall goal, the allowance to know that voice in your head is right. There is gold there and you can take it. The gold of the world is your real experiences, the trades, skills, vocabulary, people and family that you meet on the way. Those are the gold pieces because they're the most easily shared, they bring the most wealth not only to yourself but everyone else involved. 

Thank you for reading, I am glad that you looked after yourself and decided to mine to the bottom of this page in a time where, people demand the sticky notes. Mining to the bottom was a simple success for you and a success for us. Please share if you have the desire.

Great Work Mining the five simple steps!