I haven't posted here in a while, and have been active - which is the next step.
At one point when you are starting a change in your life, which means you are realigning your goals toward your dreams...IOW, empowering yourself to transform your dream into reality. This is really big stuff, and requires a completely different mindset.
That's where all this "ask, believe, receive" comes from. (Matthew, Mark, John)
The very first thing you have to do is ask. This means you have to get straight about what YOU really want, where you really want to go, what you really want to be, what you really want to have.
The next thing you have to do is believe. This means you believe that you can do this. This means that sometimes, this goes against what may appear to be reality. This is the Einsteinian part of all this...Einstein said that time is relative...everything has already happened to us, we just don't know it. That sounds like a play on words but it's really not. This is also what that Leap of Faith is all about. This is also the Leap of Faith part. You have to have faith and believe it so strongly, that no matter what mayhem maybe appearing around you, you believe it. (There's a personal anecdote here at below the line at the bottom, to illustrate this.)
This gets into how sometimes we can get so beat down by circumstances that we let those circumstances take control instead of us taking control of our circumstances.
But once you have done this, and gotten your head straight, so to speak, that's not the end of this. The next part can be verbalized and labeled many ways, but basically it is action. You must have your head straight before you begin the action part but you must have the action. You can not go out flailing around trying to do this or that, just to take "any" kind of action. Your action must be specific, sure and dynamic. You must take that believe, vision, energy, passion and direct it into action. Simply because having the good mindset is not enough.
This action is different from action you have taken before that has been so fraught with failure. This action is different because it is backed up by YOUR passion, YOUR desire, YOUR belief...that is what makes this so different.
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Toward that end, there is a wonderful video posted by Henry Cloud. It is on Facebook - I know you have to know your settings, and once you do, then it's safe (and don't join any of those Aquarium or Farm games - they're the ones infiltrating your files to find out more info about you). Once you're on Facebook, or if you already are, then you can "friend" Henry Cloud (and I'd friend John Townsend too), and poof, periodically these little LPV's (low-production videos appear). This latest one, Motivation, is a gem. Henry goes through this whole process from asking, believing to action and draws all of it together in a meaningful and smooth way that makes so much total sense.
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OK so where are we on this great trek. Hopefully you've learned something with my little missals here, but also it has caused you to explore outside where you originally thought there were possibilities. Also this has given you the strength, faith, motivation and clarity to step outside your sphere of knowledge and comfort and explore the world and its possibilities.
The world is your oyster.
