When a painting is said to be ravishing or beautiful, it bespeaks of a masterwork.

The same would be said of life. Like great works of art, great people exhibit style, originality, and creativity. Suffice to say; to live well is simply to practice an ART of living.

But one would ask, isn’t what bequeaths an art its beauty purely aesthetic? How then can we compare the same to the values that are important to a good life – happiness, moral goodness, or friendship? Viewing life as a work of art and fathoming that we have a surprising amount of power within us to craft the life we want can shape and guide our choices.

There’s no doubt that we all want to create the life of our dreams; to make a difference, to get it right, to produce the desired results. Don’t we all desire to live big, do what we love and get paid well for it? Achieve all we want and attract people we desire into our lives all with little effort?

To achieve that, you need to have a Vision and be enamored to that vision because loving your vision will give you the drive to create and achieve your desires.

Understand your sub-conscious mind because like it or not, it is running the show. Experts aver that almost 98% of your resources are at the sub conscious level. That is why we spend a lot of our time using our sub-conscious to set goals and dream big.

It is the jury that decides how happy you will be, how much you will make, how happy your relationship will be and generally the person you are is stored at the sub-conscious level.

Take action. Once you have a vision and you visualize it then your bulk of resources have no choice but to bulge and give you solutions.

Opening yourself to who you are avails you the opportunity to meet people of like mindedness and of the same path who are able to offer us assistance. Unless you are committed to living the life you ought to live, hesitancy and ineffectiveness will shadow your creativity and initiatives.

Ignorance is the number one enemy of progress killing countless ideas and splendid plans; but the moment one is committed, unforeseen events like material assistance and others arising in their favor comes in followed by providence.

“Boldness has power, genius and magic in it, whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. One of Goethe’s couplets reads

 And as much as verbal commitment, no matter how bold and inspiring cannot ensure we reach our destination but it can sure enhance the likelihood for success.

As human-beings, we are designed to be whole with the ability to work, love, celebrate and invent all in the large and loving unity of our core selves. To be whole is to be everything, including divine.

How many times in life have we desired, wished and hoped that things would be different, that some things ought not to be the way they are. Ground yourself deeply in realty-only then would you be able to change the things that can be changed in you, others and the world.

Remember, you cannot choose your external circumstances but you can choose how you respond to them, for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.