The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. ~ Leonard I. Sweet
According to the laws of the universe, what we can conceive, we can achieve.
The resounding question is: But, how?
The clue has something to do with what I posted in last week's memo, which is why I love this quote.
T. Harv Eker says, "It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right PERSON, in the right place at the right time."
I like it because he addresses our part in the matter. I don't think it's true that if we do all the right things, we get all the right results.
If that were true, so many people wouldn't be struggling today.
But I do think that immense amounts of good are available to us if we open ourselves up to it.
There's a wise woman I was talking to the other day who brought up this phrase to meditate on. The phrase was: "How good can it get?"
The question made me pause. Really?
How good can it get?
How often do we ask ourselves this question?
More often it's, "What's going to go wrong this time?" We're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Or we are "fingers-crossed", hoping that things will work out in our favor.
What if none of it had to be that difficult? That really, all we had to do is allow for the possibility. And then make ourselves available to it? In other words, act as if we could have it?
I was coaching a woman the other day on how to book a prominent speaker on a teleseminar line up. I asked her to send me her "pitch" via audio so I could listen to it and help her to improve.
I listened to it for awhile and noticed a pattern in her tone.
She didn't really believe she could get the person as a speaker. She was hoping for it. Her words were telling them about it, but her "tone" was that she had to convince them that her line-up would be worth their time.
Hoping for something and expecting something are very different energies.
When it comes down to a quantum level, we are all made up of energy.
The same energy surrounds our desires, dreams and wishes.
Do you want something you don't think you can really have?
Do you want to be a millionaire, and yet secretly or not so secretly think that people with money are all liars and cheats? Or that money is the root of all evil?
Is there something you want to pursue, but don't know how to go about it and so don't think it's possible?
All of our thoughts, feelings and considerations translate into energy. And the one thing we have control over is how we carry, utilize and project that energy.
It's up to us.
But, and it's a big BUT, we have to be aware of our "meter", how we are feeling on a particular subject.
In other words, we can't want something and be in conflict with having it at the same time, and expect to get it.
We have to bridge the gap between what we want and what we think we can have.
Which is what brings me back to pre-paving, which is essentially, directing energy in the direction we would like it to go.
Whenever I am starting on a project I like to pre-pave which gives me access to two things:
- I get to establish the outcome I want, which makes me clear in my mind and in my "energy" what I am going for. In other words, it puts me "on purpose".
- I get to gauge my meter on how likely I feel it's possible.
Generally, if I'm way out of the ball park for a particular outcome, I will feel it, and I will lower the expectation to one I can align my energy with.
Because here's the thing: The difference between the atoms in a hunk of steel and the atoms in a magnet is that the atoms in the hunk of steel are moving randomly all about. But the atoms in the magnet are all moving in one direction. They're focused.
It's this kind of "energy" alignment I'm talking about that can help us to get the results we want.
The saying "What we can conceive, we can achieve" is true, but the second part of that equation is "If we can line up with it".
Pre-paving is doing OUR work to line up the atoms like a magnet, and becoming attracted and attractive to the outcome we want to see.
Does this make sense?
This week, think of something you are hoping for, something you are desiring, or something you're in the middle of working on.
What is the desired outcome? Write it down. And while you're writing it down, ask yourself. Do I believe this is possible? Do I really believe this can be possible for me?
If, when you write down your outcome, there is a resounding "yes, I know this is possible for me" the next step would be to sit back in meditation for a few minutes and to imagine how it would feel having achieved this outcome.
Or to move a little further into it you could ask yourself how does a person who achieves this outcome behave? How do they handle their business, go about their day, feel in their body, act in their life?
When pre-paving, you're creating your future, directing the energy. Play with it. See how it feels. Get creative.
Have fun.
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