We were lucky to catch up with Ranji McMillan recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Ranji, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Everything in this Universe, including myself, is ultimately vibrations, energy, and frequencies. Within this Universe, there are seven Universal Laws. My resilience comes from my firm belief in God’s seven universal laws. Particularly, The Law of Rhythm, which postulates that there is a constant ebb and flow to everything. EVERYTHING.
Everything is moving to and fro, like a pendulum swaying backward and forward, and flowing in and out, like waves along the shoreline. This includes each element of my life. If I accept myself as one of God’s wonderful creations I must also celebrate God’s shedding of my own psychological, social, financial, romantic, and directional leaves. Not unlike the beauty that is the deciduous trees losing their leaves for the winter season. After a leaf has reached the ground, it begins to break down, creating a layer of decaying organic material at the tree’s base. The leaf matter is converted back into simple carbon dioxide and water. This is just one of the fundamental parts of the carbon cycle. When I fall, I am always sure it is for good reason and that it is a fundamental part of my life’s cycle. And as long as I have breath in my body, and a connection to my roots, I will always blossom again. Just as sure as Spring will return just after Winter. And the tide will return.
Regardless of what I see and what I THINK I know, God is at play, staying true to all of his promises and laws. I keep things on a positive plane because I know that these laws are in action and that they work. Because of my darkest days, I have strong coping skills and can marshall my available resources, ask for help when needed, and find ways to manage my situations. I am proud to use my skills and strengths to respond to life’s challenges.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
In 2021, I did something that I never thought I could ever do. I took a leap I left everything behind. I left my home, and my belongings, I kissed my family goodbye and became an explorer. I’m still an artist and I work remotely as an image traffic coordinator, but I absolutely positively adore also having the wonderful gift of exploring the world now. I still enjoy freelancing for companies that need a human robot to harmonize, bring to order, and structure their SKUs and images. Digital organizing still soothes me. When I’m free from doing blessed work that does not feel like work, I am exploring and photographing. I want the world to see what I see.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1. Decide right now that you are going to become a more decisive person. You know all the facts to make a decision and if you don’t know them, decide to verbalize that you do not have enough facts to form a solid opinion. Don’t waffle. Spend more time with yourself and YOUR opinions instead of inviting in so many opinions from others. That way when the time comes for you to render a verdict, you’ll only hear your strong, sure, and firm voice making a quick and effective decision.
2. Stop worrying about how you’ll be perceived by others. You’ll never get everyone to like you, you’ll never get everyone to agree with you. So if your reason for not doing something is because you’ll “look a certain way”, then that’s not a good reason and you need to make that move. I stayed in a terrible relationship for an additional year because I didn’t want to look like everything was all my fault. I said no to the job opportunity of a lifetime because I didn’t want to look bad in front of the people I had just begun to work with at a different company. Each of these things blocked me from absolute blessings, freedom, and peace and it was all because I didn’t want to come off a certain way. Go ahead and come off that way if your move is for the positive and good.
3. Start to believe that you actually have more resources than you think. You actually have what you need. I understand the panic. But you are going to be okay. Ask the universe to show you how to use what you have. All of the components for the iPhone existed for a while, someone just needed to figure out how to put them together.
Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. It truthfully isn’t about gaining riches at all. It’s a science book, a textbook, I would never view it as “self-help”. It teaches us about the physics and the science that God has created that we all are functioning within on a day-to-day basis. It tells us how to use that science with good intentions to bring about the changes and the things we need in our lives. It changed my life. It made me realize what my thoughts are doing and if I were going to focus on ANY frequency, it should be how frequently I said “thank you” to God for all of the beautiful things that are around me at all times.
“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”
“The Science of Getting Rich” Wallace D. Wattles
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