Once you have seen it, you can never un-see it.

A friend of mine has two young daughters as do I, we swap dad issues and challenges from time to time and try to work out by comparison how we are doing on the scale of one to OMG! Usually it’s closer to the OMG end of the spectrum and we go off and rethink the approach we once thought was right.

Recently my friend asked me about the internet and how I controlled their use of it. We both agreed that in this age of immediacy it was almost impossible to control it, rather what we should do was prepare them for what might come their way. He pointed out to his girls that ‘Once seen, we can never un-see it’ whatever ‘It’ is. Startling and graphic images so easily available on the net can leave an image on the mind that can haunt us for the rest of lives.

 "The thing about the ‘Miracle Morning’ is, it is exactly the same. Now that we have all seen it and understand how it works and effects our life, we cannot un-know the knowledge that we have gained."

Several years ago I attended a course in personal effectiveness, a practical version of the Miracle Morning so to speak. It was a week long residential training which was a huge turning point in my life. One of the exercises was to visualise one’s self standing in front of a mirror in our senior years and then looking back on one’s life and forward possibly to the end of one’s life. The idea was to either take stock of the things we had accomplished or, to look back and see many of the things left undone. It was not meant to be shock and horror rather a way in which we could get in touch with what it was that we wanted to achieve in our life and to leave no stone unturned at the end of it.

The problem for me was, I was some twenty years younger at the time and no matter how I tried to imagine the various outcomes seeing myself in old age I was never able to make it a reality. As I say I was much younger and the possible end of my life seemed a hundred years away and anyway, I was doing okay, right?

So twenty years on with what is now the other side of my youth I am faced with several issues that I must reconcile before my time comes to stand in front of that mirror. One of which is the understanding that I have been given not only the awareness of my Miracle, but also the tools to make the rest of my life amazing. I can never un-learn the things I know about myself or how to access the Miracle that I am (That we all are) and the one thing I have been able to access is the vision in the mirror.

To date I have lived a good life and I am truly grateful that I own a home, I am in love and married to the woman of my dreams, I have three amazing children and, but here’s the rub, I still have things I want to do and achieve. Things I wake up to and are still with me when I go to sleep at night. So now I have the tools to do those things. The Miracle Morning has changed both mine and my wife’s life and we never want to go back, but it would be too easy to settle. The price however for me if I settle will come when it is my time to look in the mirror, knowing that I knew.