When I was about to turn 16, what I wanted most in the world was a red Pontiac Fiero. Despite evidence to the contrary, I convinced myself that it was possible I would get one for my birthday. I woke up that morning, fully picturing and feeling in my heart the car that would surely be gifted to me. I knew it was mine, that when I looked in the driveway, it would be there, waiting for my grabby, grateful hands. The disappointment I felt when I rose from bed and peered out of my bedroom window only to see an empty driveway was crushing. Fast Forward...Around ten years ago when I first dove into the world of personal development, shortly after moving to California, The Secret and other manifestation-type materials flooded the market. It was heady stuff: if I could only change my thinking--focus on what I wanted to attract instead of what I didn't--I would have everything I wanted with no more than the cost of concentration. The problem is that, while changing your thoughts will change your world, simply meditating on that shiny red convertible you covet or the hot bod you want will not make it pop into your world as if your fairy godmother granted your wish. Trust me: my vision boards were filled with things that never manifested themselves into my world, no matter how much I thought about them. Same Ol'Changing your thoughts is a starting place. If you aren't attuned to possibility, if your energy is focused on what you don't want or what you always do in a certain situation, there's no hope for a change of behavior. And if there's no change in behavior, you'll continue to get what you've always gotten: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~Albert Einstein Once you change your perspective and get clear on what you want, you have the opportunity to make different choices than you have in the past. Unfortunately, this is where your habits and resistance kicks in, setting you up for more of the same. The actions we take are the fuel that gets us what we want, whatever that happens to be. We limit what is possible in our lives not only through our old stories and thinking, but also through our actions. To get what we want, we have to DO something different. We have to be willing to be uncomfortable. We have to have discipline, which, as Michael Hyatt quotes Andy Andrews "Discipline is making yourself do something you don't want to do in order to get a result you really want." How to Get (Almost) Everything You WantThe process of creating the life you want is easy, but uncomfortable. I resisted it for years, but once I began to consciously follow this process, my life began to change in the ways I desired.
Sandi Amorim has written an inspired book, The 100 Day Promise, and developed a class around these concepts plus a whole lot more. After three courses of following through on promises to myself, I finally see (duh) that there is no shortcut to doing the work. If you are looking for something to ready you for and guide you through the process, Sandi's guide and coaching can't be beat. For evidence all you need to know is that I. Don't. Run. And yet, I'm running, and I like it. (Well, once it's over, I like it and the happy little endorphins that show up. I still hate it while it's happening. But I'm doing it.) You already know what to do, you just have to be willing to be uncomfortable for a little bit while you step into a new story. Are you?
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