Alisima wrote:You need a target and work towards it everyday.
Just following on from what Shezmear and others have said regarding what they want to attract into their lives – be it materialistic or spiritual – for me, I have a simple but effective answer.
About 25 years ago I heard a live address by Dr Wayne Dyer, a US spiritual and motivational author, for want of a better term. One of the last things he said struck me like a bullet and I’ve never forgotten it since …
(Paraphrasing / embellishing): Imagine that you have six months to live. That’s it. Six months. What would you do differently?..
Would you live where you’re living?
Would you work in the same job / organisation?
Would you be in the same relationships (intimate and friendships)?
When you’ve thought about and answered those questions, consider this:
What do you want to do with the rest of your life?
How do you want to make a difference – in your life and in the lives of others?
Think about that. Six months. That’s all you’ve got. That’s all any of us have got when you consider the big picture. Any of us could go at any time. We don’t know when. We don’t know how. So, it’s important that we start moving in the direction of our dreams, our goals, our purpose. NOW. Not tomorrow.
NOW.
Tick. Tock.
Six months, my friends. Let that sink in. Then do something about it.
When you consider the rest of your life in the blink of an eye, like that, it puts things in focus. Well, it does for me.
I have used this analogy many times in workshops and in just regular conversations and, each time (as I am doing right now), I re-consider the ramifications in my own life: I wonder what can I do – what should I do – differently if I knew I only had those six months.
For me, I can honestly say that I am on the right track and heading in the right direction –
for me. There have been some stumbles along the path, sure, but I have continued onward and upward – and it’s because I have never lost sight of that big picture – of that six months.
OK, once you’ve worked out what’s truly important – what you want to do with the ‘rest of your life’, as outlined, how do you go about doing it.
As we all know, it begins with goals. And goals begin with baby steps. Small steps up the rungs of the ladder.
I won’t go into goal-setting here. I’m sure you know all about that but I would like to add one element to it. Something you all can – and do – practice naturally.
Visualisation.
When meditating or concentrating (depending on your definition), remember all of the things you’ve just learned about yourself, about what you want for yourself. Then imagine them in your life. Thought expands. We draw things – people, thoughts, stuff – into our lives when we continually focus on them. It can take time, of course, but this manifestation principle has been discussed in many books and I’ve seen it happen in my own life and in others.
All you have to do is believe. Believe it will. Believe in you.