Is your destiny set…?

Or do you create it? This is an oft debated topic, with strong opinions on both sides, as well as those who do not believe in destiny at all.

How about you? Do you believe that the purpose of your life is set and predetermined by you, God or others…? Or, do you believe it is mutable, and something you’re able to change?

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Is your destiny set…?
  • Audio Article – Be Your Own Hero
  • Religion Aside
• Life Purpose
• Your Destiny
• Be Your Own Hero
• Don’t be a Spectator
• Revisit and Revive Your Vision
• Lindsey Stirling
  • Crystalize production in a beautiful “ice castle”
  • Water fountain show

AUDIO ARTICLE – Be Your Own Hero

What’s Holding You Back?

For many, their religion is believed to dictate their destiny. Be it God or karma, there are those in each religion who tend to believe their life is out of their hands and in the hands of God. Or that karma past, dictates circumstances that cannot be changed but by the will of God or Lords of Karma.

For our purposes here, we’re speaking to all that’s possible for each of us to achieve for ourselves and because of ourselves. No matter—and perhaps even in spite of—prior conditioning, others before us have proven that it’s entirely possible to move beyond conditioning and circumstances, whatever they may be.

Our past need not limit us, nor label us, unless we allow it to.

POSTURE OF POSSIBILITY

What is a posture of defeat?
Try it on, see what it looks and feels like.

What is a posture of possibility?
Try it on, see what it looks and feels like.

Now keep it on. This is your daily garment.

This garment will become a family heirloom.

LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“We can dig deep and say, ‘In this moment I’m going to choose to be the best version of myself and seek possibility.’

It turns out that that’s a life. You can build an entire life doing just that. And then what happens, more often than not, is the world responds by inviting you to play on a bigger stage.”
~Seth Godin, entrepreneur, author, speaker, teacher, b.7/10/1960

Beyond Limits

What if past limitations were no longer an issue. What could you do next? And of that, what is it that you’re able to do now, without the perfect circumstance?

If you’re limited by prior conditioning… by what society, parents, teachers and others told you, let that conditioning dissolve into the past. You’ve carried that burden long enough.

If nothing was holding you back, what would you do?

Life Purpose

No matter whether you’re “supposed to be” a surgeon or a painter… an author or an actor… a singer or an entrepreneur—or any combination of these—the outer forms your creativity takes on, is for most of us, rarely so specifically important. So if you’re not certain of your life purpose, don’t worry.

Life purpose is more of a concept than a specific thing.

Most artists we know are not creative in only one area. It’s like cuisine: most of us have favorite foods, but we also enjoy favorite foods in different cuisines. Same thing with art, music, books, flowers… whatever. It’s rare for book lovers to love only one kind of book. Rare for chefs to enjoy cooking—and eating—only one kind of food, and so forth, whatever the topic, there are many possible variants.

It’s the same thing with life purpose. There are many different ways we can express our life purpose, and many different names and nuances we can give to any life purpose we perceive.

One of the reasons for this is that life purpose more often than not, is a wide ranging generalization. Like painting, and the wide array of color options and images to paint; or music and songs to sing or play. So too with our life purpose, and subsequently, so too with destiny. More often than not, destiny is the horizon before us.

For more on discovering purpose, you may enjoy this article and quotes.

Your destiny is ever the horizon before you. Head in the direction that will take you closer to who you wish to become.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Your Destiny

No matter whether you have a keen sense of your destiny, or feel completely clueless as to what it is you’re here to do, there’s a simple truism that’s relevant for every living organism, and especially humans.

Humans are the bridge between animals and angels… between devil and divinity. Our evolutionary birthright is to ascend into the glory of greatness. To be all that we can be.

Our heroes are those who have fought their way to a higher level of being by the sweat of struggle and strife. The heroes of stories are to inspire us and remind of us our destiny… of what’s possible. It’s just that we tend to forget that it is an example and reminder, rather than entertainment, or the prerogative of the privileged.

Heroes are so because they fought their way to be who they became.

Destiny is simple. Your destiny is to be all that you can be.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Be Your Own Hero

Who do you admire? Who are your idols? They hold clues to your destiny.

One of our favorite performing artists is dancer-violinist extraordinaire, Lindsey Stirling. I am not here to be a violinist, or even an exquisite dancer, though I did take years of classical Indian dance classes.

However, movement, music and dance stirs my soul and propels me into doing and being more on the trajectory that I’m on.

The role of heroes today is not to save us, but to inspire us to take action and to be your own hero.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Matthew McConaughey

One of My Heroes

We love this video clip message from the exceptionally actor, Matthew McConaughey. It’s very much in alignment with our theme here, that to focus on being your own hero, no matter your knowledge or sense of you destiny, is that which will get you there.

RELATED: Matthew McConaughey Quotes and Book

Don’t be a Spectator

As children, we see and do… see and do. Children see the examples of their elders and mimic them. The child doesn’t want to just watch mom or dad cook; he/she also wants to help. The child doesn’t watch others dance; he/she wants to also jump in and dance.

Then somewhere along the way, too often, we begin to lose our spark… our enthusiasm… our energy and intrigue with trying, and jumping in and doing.

Does it begin in middle school when we become self-conscious and shy, or perhaps in high school. Maybe it happens in the workplace where we lose sight of our dreams in the fog of routine and work we don’t love.

Don’t be a spectator… get into the arena of your dreams.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Lindsey Stirling – The Arena

An Oft Quoted Favorite on Heroes and Critics

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…”
~Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, 1858-1919

Image by Franck Barske from Pixabay

Revisit and Revive Your Vision

What were the dreams of your younger self? How have those changed? How can you embellish it with highlights from your childhood?

Your earliest daydreams may hold clues. One of my creative heroes is Lindsey Stirling. I admire her incredible musical talent, her wide ranging and fluid dance skills and the fantastically creative video performances she proliferates.

Lindsey reminds me to be a better version of myself, because of her example of that. She is one of my creative heroes, and her musical performances stir me to be better and be better… to do more and be more of who I’m capable of being, whatever that may be for me, at whatever age.

As you pursue your personal excellence and be your own hero, you will in turn be hero and inspiration to others.

A life lived fully, inspires others to rise into fuller lives.

Head in the direction of dreams. Your hero awaits. There you will find your destiny… yourself… the hero in you.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, co-creator – iCreateDaily®

Lindsey Stirling

A phenomenal dancer and choreographer as well, there are MANY delightful music videos. Here are two of our favorites to enchant and entrance.

Lindsey’s – Crystalize production in a beautiful “ice castle”.

Lindsey Stirling – Water Fountain Show

We shared another all time Lindsey favorite in this article as well. Or check out Lindsay’s Christmas productions, such as this one, especially if you’re reading this around the holidays.

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