Some things I've tried to accomplish in life have been such a struggle, and yet some other things have just "fallen into place," almost without much effort. Does this have any bearing on how we should choose to do things? Should I stop planning my life so much and just try to "go with the flow"? I'm almost afraid that if I stop planning so much, nothing will happen! I am overwhelmed by thinki...

In this answer to a viewer's question during a live broadcast, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how everything in our lives becomes rightly organized -- including the pursuit of goals -- if we will remember to put first things first.

If we were able to always accept every moment as complete and always be at peace, wouldn't it lead to us no longer pursuing anything? Would we not become entirely passive? And wouldn't that be a problem? Are we supposed to be satisfied with whatever is going on at the moment? Isn't some amount of dissatisfaction necessary to drive us to make changes in our lives?

Topics covered: expectation, goal, desire, acceptance, submission, letting go, freedom, comparison...

Guy Finley explains that when we meet our limitations head on we enter into relationship with a transformative power that enables us to transcend anything that would limit us.

We must choose whether to live our lives in that endless struggle of trying to fit ourselves into life as this world gives it to us, or to work to give ourselves that Life that all else is created to fit into.

Real wealth is not measured by how much we manage to take from life, but is realized in discovering our endless potential to give something of ourselves to each moment that enriches everything in it, including us.

Guy Finley answers a viewer's question about the constant self-judgment we impose upon ourselves. He explains that the need we feel to "succeed" comes from an identity attached to an end goal, and when that goal isn't met, it feels like everything falls apart. Guy goes on to say that instead of trying to control the judgments...

Nothing we spend our lives struggling to take from this world has the power to grant us the one thing we long to possess above all else: our own true nature.

Only the mind emptied of its painful need to seek something outside of itself finds lasting peace.

Perfection is not a goal; it already exists, and you are created to perfectly reflect this fact... and to know its freedom.

Rushing through life lends the one who habitually hurries the feeling of being "important"; but loans such as these come at the high cost of always having to justify one's unkindness -- as when one has to convince himself that his impatience with others is a necessary evil along the way to that "greater good" towards which he ever runs.