John Cali
We recently received the following question:
“I hear two conflicting messages in the world of self-help: ‘If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,’ and ‘If something isn't working, try something else,’ or words to that effect.
“How do I discern when to keep at something or when to go in a different direction?”
Chief Joseph
Both those pieces of advice are fine, depending on the specific circumstances in which they’re offered.
We have always advised humans to never take action unless it feels good.
However, they’re both missing an essential ingredient. That ingredient is the inner guidance of the person to whom the advice is offered. Better advice would be to say, “Do whatever makes you happy.”
We have always advised humans to never take action unless it feels good. We call that inspired action.
If you take action when it’s not inspired from within, you’re doing it because . . . well, the possible reasons are many. Someone said you “should” do it. You feel an “obligation” to another person. Society tells you this is what you’re “supposed” to do. And on and on, ad nauseam.
When you take action from any of those places, that is uninspired action. Action you’re feeling forced into. That never works well.
Maybe the timing isn’t right. Maybe, for other reasons, you’re not ready. There are many possible reasons the proposed action may not feel right for you at that moment.
When you force yourself to take action contrary to what your inner guidance is telling you, it’s counterproductive. And definitely not helpful to you or anyone else.
So not succeeding (however you define “succeeding”) at something doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You’ve actually succeeded because you’ve discovered something that won’t work for you.
So don’t do the same thing over again, but find something else that will work.
On the other hand, if you feel your first action was a good one, but didn’t work out exactly as you’d envisioned, then perhaps taking a slightly altered approach to the same action will work.
The “bottom line” here, friends, is this:
Do only what feels good to you, what feels right for you. Always.
When you do only what feels good and right, you are following your inner guidance. That guidance from that all-powerful, all-wise part of you in the realms of Spirit.
Then you will never go astray.
About the Channel
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John Cali Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John. Visit Chief Joseph’s and John’s website here: |
