What Can Lead To That Breakthrough?

There are phases and cycles of life. We encounter much on our journey both joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, pleasing people, and the most vile of humans, fact and fiction, truths, and lies, acts of kindness, and acts of deceit, profits and losses. With each win, we gain something in the form of self-esteem, respect, energy, and it acts as a deposit into our emotional and spiritual bank account. And with each crushing blow, rejection, humiliation, trial, obstacle we lose something and that acts as a debit from our emotional and spiritual bank account.

We ideally need and strive for a somewhat precarious balance in life. For some it’s easier to achieve and in more constructive linear fashions than others.

Yet, each of us has a completely different path and journey. With each new level we approach a new test, perhaps there is a blessing, but there is also a sense of futility. Sometimes when we give our all and invest much energy, resources, time, and money in other words blood, sweat, and tears into a business, a project, a pursuit, or even a relationship, we come up empty. It is here that we have a choice as we stand at the crossroads do we become better or bitter from the phase of the journey?

There have been many people who think of, write about, pray, hope and work for breakthroughs. Breakthroughs can be understood in many different areas of life.

A breakthrough can come after a break down in life. A breakthrough idea can arise after much research, reflection, and fresh new insights, or the otherwise unique method of combining new ideas, techniques, or drawing from a host of other disciplines. Or by suddenly noticing how and where the weakness arises in the way this has been done before.

Breakthroughs in technology, science, health, well- being, psychology, and our political realm always have a price associated with them. When we desire to be more, give more, and work more there are sacrifices that we make. Some prices and sacrifices we can comprehend when we make them; others we don’t get the full bill until years later.

In our youth, we may recklessly and carelessly approach life and we discount the wise advice from our elders. Or we may bury our heads so deep in work and our career, academic professional pursuits, chasing certification after certification, pursuing leads, courses, focus on skill building, efficiency, and miss out on the heart of the matter while hastily engaging in the business of living.

It is here when we experience frustration, stagnation with our rate of progress and a falling away of people who we have outgrown, things and places that no longer serve us as we make progress in our lives that we at a crossroads can choose.

Go through the heart of the storm, take on the risks, calculate, weigh the benefits and the costs in our full analysis. Do we soldier on and accept the original lot that has come to us? How do we stand out from the hordes of other people who want the same things that we do?

Do we dismiss the reality of competition and instead embrace a more loving, unified, holistic view of the universe and the corporate world?

That sought after client is going to one agency, not all 20,000 of them. There’s only so much room on the New York Times’ Bestsellers list. Can everyone do a Ted Talk or become a Thought leader? The man or woman of our dreams may or may not choose us. Is that the pain we bear? We may be the most ambitious, kindest, best child, but the parents may love your brother or sister more than you and you may have to forgive them for that even if you look at your sibling (rival) as a failure in life. I went to college, She had a baby at a very young age and stayed in the same hometown and the father is a psychopathic drug user with many health issues.

Here we see the alarm bell going off. Are you letting the trials of life make you bitter or will you look on all with love and adopt a new mindset?

Shift your beliefs and thoughts into a healthier territory and then experience joy and your breakthrough looms.

Sometimes the breakthrough comes after the breakdown. When all falls apart and things go terribly wrong, and there seems to be a destructive cycle and the storm is blowing ever stronger, this can lead to that time spent alone, reading, studying, journaling- assessing where you are on your life path. Are you in alignment with who you truly are? Are you using your gift? Are the people in your life encouraging, supportive,and overall beneficial? Do you ever go on retreats and take time out for yourself? Do you know how and understand the importance of setting boundaries?

Sometimes we have to clean our vessel. We purge to make room to create space for growth, for the new to emerge, and to surface in our lives in a powerful way.

We may feel like nothing is really happening. You may be steadily working behind the scenes, preparing for your big break, learning and practicing new skills, publishing, producing, cultivating your network, and you take a step back to assess your growth and progress. You notice you haven’t met many of your benchmarks and you have not reached many of your goals.

Now you have a choice: do you stop here and become discouraged and go on a Netflix binge for the next 6 months? Or do you take another course of action such as reading a book that is all about encouraging you to take action, or do you sign up for a challenge, or adopt a new “atomic” habit, create your success routine- morning and night?

Yes, sometimes you need to accept the loss. Then you begin the rebuilding and after some degree of frustration peaks, letting go, re-inventing yourself and your life takes precedence. You navigate a new course.

Then the breakthrough is on the horizon. You may feel alone, misunderstood, overlooked or underappreciated, but things happen when you are not looking or that you may not be aware of.

Some breakthroughs take time. Some may wait decades. I think those who have to wait the longest; their journey is about learning the art of perseverance, determination, consistency and patience.