Nothing happens by accident. Yet there are those who believe the experience of life is based upon random chance.

For those people the experience of life seems to happen in a chaotic “drive by” fashion. Everything comes as a surprise demanding an immediate reaction.

Then there are those individuals who seem to possess the uncanny ability to literally “see” what’s coming before they have to react to it. Because of this they are able to avoid the kinds of things other people are forced to deal with.

Would you call these people lucky?

Why are they always in the right place at the right time? While others seem to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Why are some people able to build a life, while others seem to be constantly treading water? More importantly, why is it that most of the people who live a life full of chaos never make an obvious connection:

Their chaos is the result of their attitudes, opinions and beliefs and the ramifications of previous intent and action. In other words they keep creating their own chaos.

A large portion of the world’s population lives this way.

They actually believe that life is some kind of hell on earth they have to accept as their fate… and that somehow this accepting this fate is going to assure them a better life after death.

There’s an old spiritual saying: As above so below.

Whatever your current state of consciousness, which is your attitudes, opinions and beliefs. happens to be… is what your life experience will reflect. It also implies that life, if it is indeed a continuum, must also, in whatever form of experience it takes after this physical form, will still reflect your current state of consciousness.

If it’s true, that’s a lot of personal responsibility.

-Bob Baran