“Desire is the effort of the unexpressed possibility within, seeking expression without through your action.”  Wallace Wattles

We all have dreams. Desires. How does the desire come to be realized?

The answer is always this: When behavior matches desire.

What does that mean? You have to live as if what you want is coming to you, and it is coming to you now. It is not enough to just wish for something. When you have a desire, you have to ask yourself what behaviors need to occur in order to achieve the desire? How do you need to BE in order to achieve what you want?

This is a question I ask myself regularly: “Is this how a successful and confident business owner would act?”  I answer my own question and then act accordingly.

As much as we’d love to believe that simply visualizing is enough—it isn’t. Visualizing is important, but you must also behave according to your desire. Think of it as if you are living “from” the goal – not to it.  That means that you behave as if the achievement of your desire is already set in motion. When you live to the goal, it means there is a gap from where you are now to where you want to be. That feels frustrating. We spend too much time looking at the gap (or at what we don’t have or can’t achieve) that we stay focused on that lack. Remember, what you focus on you get! You are putting the energy into what you don’t have. The result of doing that is the universe is answering you, based on your actions which are based on your thoughts.

Instead, give yourself the experience of winning – even if just a little bit at a time. Create winning situations, go out on a limb and do something that assumes what you want will come true. Example: doing something that scares you a little. .  Be daring, be bold. Step out of your habitual patterns and act as if your desire is moving toward you, right now, in this moment.

I can hear a lot of internal dialogue going on right now: “I’m not good enough, worthy enough, young/old enough, thin enough.” And then there’s this: “What if I fail? What will they think of me – if I fail OR succeed?”  I know this voice, because I’ve heard it in my own head.  It is  the “I’m not worthy” voice.

That thought process needs to change, and it needs to change NOW. I’ll say this again: Spirit did not create any of us more deserving than another. If you have the desire, you have the ability to create whatever it is you want. Spirit doesn’t say you are not worthy and someone else is.

You know, the interesting thing about the universe is that it actually doesn’t really care whether you are a good person or a bad person. It has laws governing it that exist regardless of how nice you are. For example, if you step off a building, you will fall no matter how nice you are. It is the law of gravity.

Universal laws exist because they are laws. They don’t have a conscience, they simply are. The Law of Polarity states that if there’s a negative, there’s a positive. If there’s an up, there’s a down. If there’s a negative cash flow, there has to be a positive cash flow. It’s there. And when your behavior demonstrates that you know it’s there, it starts moving toward you faster and faster.

So, your behavior needs to keep pace with your desire. Ask yourself what does your behavior tell you. Are you acting like a successful business owner? Are you acting as a woman who commands respect in her relationship? Are you behaving like you’re expecting what you want to come forward?

Remember, life mirrors what’s going on inside. You have to BE the person who invests in herself in a program to take you to the next level, who takes the risk of calling that guy you’ve been wanting to go out with, takes the job you’re scared of taking, or raises your fees so that they are commensurate with the value you are providing your client.

Remember, all creations come first as a desire in the mind and heart: the lightbulb, the airplane, the computer and the cell phone were all just once someone’s desire.  When you recognize the desire within yourself, it points the way. And then you have to maintain that vision. Feed it every day with emotionally charged, positive thoughts. The emotions amp up the power of your thoughts and send your desire out to the universe in a super-charged way!

Lastly, you will only find what you want when you look for it and expect it. Henry Ford said, “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”

So what do you think?

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