What Are You Waiting For?

What Are You Waiting For?

by Jim Becker

"When I was your age..." Throughout my younger days I heard many sentences that began with those five words. It seems as though every one had some interesting story to tell about their youth. People saw the war to end all wars and the one that followed. They saw radio eclipsed by the latest fad--television--and watched airplanes lose their propellers. And man actually walked on the moon.

Looking back I believe that there is only one truly important event that I watched happen, and it is still going strong--the birth of the computer revolution.

Computers today are blindingly fast and can store stupendous amounts of data compared to the glorified adding machines that I first learned to use.

I have been using computers for about twenty years now, and I only recently purchased one for myself. Being an advocate of computer technology and sometimes the in-house computer guru, fellow employees found it strange when they learned that I did not have more than a pocket calculator at home.

The reason for this was simple: I was waiting for the right time to buy.

I wanted to have the biggest and best that technology had to offer, and if you know anything about computers, you know that there is always something faster-smaller-better scheduled for release next month.

At some point I realized that I had been waiting a long time, and I had nothing to show for it. I had been missing out on the benefits while waiting for the right time. There was never going to be a right time. That implies the future. The right time is now.

I also had a similar experience with Avatar. I had been through The Avatar Course and had a very good experience. I was a thinking, technical minded kind of person, and Avatar taught me to look at things in a completely different way. Once I allowed the thinking to stop I discovered not only a different world but a different me.

So, when the first chance to take The Master Course came along, I immediately took the opportunity to not do it. That's right. I put it off.

My excuse was that I was just too busy. I had several different projects at the office that had to be done. There were deadlines to meet, and my work would surely suffer during my absence.

I felt that I hadn't had quite finished with Avatar yet. There were still things that I needed to integrate. I felt I hadn't had enough time to live and practice with my newly-learned Avatar tools. I wanted to wait and see what effect Avatar would have on my life. I thought, Maybe I should review Avatar before I go on to The Master Course. The time just wasn't right.

Where had I heard that before? Am I again missing out while waiting for that elusive right time?

I took advantage of the next available Master Course. Even still, I was resisting it the first day or two. But I didn't give up. Through the use of the exercises, I changed from a person who couldn't wait for the week to be over to a person who was disappointed for it to be over. I was sad to see all of these beautiful people I had gotten to know over the last nine days returning to their homes at various points around the globe.

Such wonderful connections had been made with people who were strangers only a few days earlier. But one of the great things about The Master Course is that the connections made do not diminish with the passage of time. I knew no matter how many days were to pass, when we meet again we will share a hug and a smile, and the connection will be just as strong.

Not only is there a connection to other people, but the entire world is a brighter place when viewed from this viewpoint of calm appreciation that is ever present at Masters.

Did my work suffer? Were deadlines missed? More importantly did I need to spend more time with Avatar before moving on to Masters?

No.

As Harry says, The Master Course is a whole new level, and when people begin to grow and stretch toward the next level they naturally integrate and become more grounded with the Avatar tools.

Somewhere inside I intuitively knew that The Master Course was the right thing to do. The stream of ever so logical reasons why I could not possibly do Masters were just secondaries, and by the time I was on course and into the exercises they had slipped away.

The decision to do Masters does not come from the logical, reasoning side of the mind. When you quiet the thinker and you feel, you will know that now is the right time.

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