A BIG STEP TO SUCCESS – THE MENTAL CLEANSE WITH MICHAEL DLOUHY

For many of us there is a moment in time when we make a choice that changes us forever. For me that was the moment when I realized I was not where I wanted to be in my life. I was sixty years old, still working, sometimes seven day a week, and no retirement. Don’t get me wrong – I had made some great choices. I chose to stay home with my children while they were growing up when I could have been working. I would have been in a better place financially. But I believed and still do that it was important for me to be home with them.

Now they are grown and it seems that I am still just letting life happen to me. I don’t have the freedom I would like to have to do the things I would like to do. I could and have blamed others for this condition. My parents were great parents but they were raised during the depression. My mother especially continued to live as if things were still very depressing even though my dad had a good job and we were comfortable. She was raised with a lot of fear and passed that on to me. Fear of failure kept me from trying new things. Fear of disappointing my parents kept me doing whatever they wanted me to do whether or not it was what I wanted. Fear of being different kept me going along with what our relatives and the people at church were doing. I let others make my choices over and over. I married a man who wanted to make all decisions, without my opinion. Being so unsure of myself, I accepted this and believed it was the right thing to do. Therefore I came to believe my opinions didn’t matter.

So do I continue this way or find a way to take charge of my own life? This is when I found a way to make a big change. I found something called the Mental Cleanse, a mastermind group led by Michael Dlouhy. At first I was not convinced this would change anything for me. It was just following a program. Then I realized I have always been following a program. It was the program of my parents, teachers, friends, parents of friends, church. This one was not making me feel like I was my own person and could make my own decisions. But at my age, is it too late to change?

Recently an aunt of mine died at the age of eighty-something. At her funeral, her children and grandchildren were talking about how encouraging she was to them. I’m sure she was not always like that because I remember her when I was young and she was like the rest of the family. So somewhere along the way, she changed. So why not me.? Must I give up on MY dreams of having a few years to travel, not worry about work or having enough money? Must I work until I have the strength to do nothing else.? I loved my grandmothers but I visited them more out of obligation than wanting to be around them. If I stay on the road I am on now, I could end up just like them. Do I want that for my grandchildren?