Yehuda Berg’s Blog

The New Year is on!

All those wishes and changes and vessel-building — now it’s time to start putting our money where our mouths are, so to speak.

Oh boy. We’ve all made a lot of promises to ourselves. How are we going to keep them all?

Baby steps, my friends. Baby steps. That’s the name of the game. Slow and gradual.

Today, don’t overwhelm yourself with thoughts of how you’re gonna get up that mountain. Just start walking. One baby step at a time

Emails are flooding in from students who feel unprepared for the New Year. Great - you are ready to go!

We’re never prepared. That’s the point. There’s always more we can do, but at a certain point, like Nachshon who was the first to jump into the Red Sea, we’ve got to just say, what the hay, let’s do it!

Or put another way, buy the new pants before you lose the weight. Certainty that the Light will be there — even when you ‘think’ it’s not, is what creates the vessel for the Light to be there!

Today, and every day, when you feel that pit in your stomach, when you don’t know if you’re ready, when you are totally freaking out — tell yourself: THIS IS A GOOD SIGN. You are about to expand your vessel, and jump up to a whole new level.

Unprepared … and ready to go!

“I try to go to the gym, but I don’t. I try to look for a job, but I can’t. I try to be more spiritual, but I just can’t get started.”

I think many of us can relate to the dilemma of lack of motivation.

Motivation is all about personal responsibility. At some level you are still waiting for someone to spoon feed you. Get over it and just start sharing, doing. Ask yourself if you want to be a victim for the rest of your life.

That’s why some people need pain — it gives them REAL motivation not to go back.

Was I too tough with you? I hope so. The way of the Kabbalist is hard because the ego is hard.

Make your choice today. Wait for the pain to get you out of bed, or just jump up and say I AM DOING IT.

And as tonight is the eve of Rosh Hashanah, I can’t think of any better day to kick yourself in the rear and wake up those sleepy parts of your life.