Get Real With Yourself, And The World Will Be Real With You

By Joshua Clayton

We all love to win, but who loves to meet God halfway with the work before God helps us to the next levels? Those who love both will make it genuinely and better than that. Those who expect God to do it all, and God to get them out of bed in the morning on top of it all are in for a big disappointment. I know I was when I found out I had to "earn my own miracles". Sure, I believe in God most genuinely. The thing is, though, triumph comes through inspiration and perspiration equally when done right. When done wrong, total luck and wishful thinking really is depended on too much. Why do you think lottery winnings disappear when there is not any real possessive effort behind them, anyway, for many who win them?

Work and production are virtues that we must take on if we want to keep the riches or make them repeatable. Note, though: I did not put "hard" or "easy" before the word "work". I just said and meant: essence filled work that starts from within you and builds a motion that ultimately succeeds. What do you think "nothing succeeds like genuine success" means anyway?

When I think of reality, I think of what it genuinely takes to live, survive and more. I combine my prayer with effort upon myself. The only way to genuinely lose is to "throw it all on God", and say the devil made me do it all anyway! My point is, earned virtue comes from positive efforts on yourself, "all else" does not count. Even philosopher John Locke knew this one with his sayings about "God's Law" and meeting God halfway.

This is a good point for me to say: Reality is cold, hard cash. The fantasy is the promissory note without even asking for it. Sure, that seems like a fantastically fragmented thing to say in an article full of meaning and honesty, but it is the genuine honest reality about it all.

So, I can only end with a variation on the title that says, get real and the world will be real with you and all you can do is take action, and reality will meet you halfway either way. Your choice, your call. In closing and in life, we have three choices in a sense: Up, Down or Sideways. may you make the right one at the right time.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.