Gold dust? It’s not what you think. I’m obviously not talking about the excessive gifts, commercialism, or holiday glitz.  I’m talking about the rich gold of the abundance of good in your life.  A richness in satisfaction. A wealth of things to be grateful for.

Honestly, it’s a little hard to write about something when the words I have to use have become clichéd to the point where we glaze over when we read them. Everyone is talking about abundance versus lack. So, let’s take it a step deeper. I want you to go beyond the simple journaling about all that you are grateful for, thinking abundant thoughts – both hugely important to staying in the vibration of creating more things to be grateful for.  I want to talk about how to step into the abundance.  (And I’m going to get a little woowoo on you here.)

Of course, it begins in the mind, one of the greatest tools we have to work with.  Everything that has been invented, from the light bulb to the iPad, was first conceived in the mind.  I hope you have some goals in your mind. If you don’t, you should, because if you can conceive of it, you can create it, just like the light bulb or iPad. But first, you have to formulate the idea in your mind.

So, as you are moving through the holiday season, and doing some planning for 2014, let’s talk about how ideas come to fruition and how to grab some of that “gold dust” and make it a reality.

This “gold dust” that I’m talking about is really the etheric, spiritual, energetic field of the source of our lives. It precedes us into situations, and acts like a magnet for the things we are thinking about. It is the energy of “more life” and what we have to be grateful for.

Look at it this way: since everything created first began as an idea, where do you think the idea came from? When you tap into source, you are stepping into that “gold dust” of the spirit, where things are first created.

A great way to access that concept is to think of it as unseen gold dust particles that swirl around you and throughout the world. They have a charge to them. So do your thoughts. Imagine you could polarize these particles with your thoughts. Can you picture the gold dust swirling and forming into something a bit more concrete?

You can also do this when you sit down to plan your 2014 goals. Imagine yourself being in this gold energy of success. Picture yourself being the person you need to be to accomplish these tasks. Imagine it being actionable but with as little effort as possible. See yourself accomplishing each task as you move through your planning.

This is the natural time to focus on the upcoming year.  Filled with great hopes, we can choose to see a golden vision for our future. But, I also want to acknowledge that there’s also a lot of emotion that comes up during this time of year – we miss people, get annoyed by family members, feel disappointed when things don’t match expectations. But, there’s also an energy of hopefulness and that is what we need to tap into and focus on in order to stay in the gold-dust-of-creation mode.

Guilt or conflict about whether you should be prosperous neutralizes your efforts to become prosperous, so let’s leave that out of it, okay? Bye bye guilt and conflict!

Here are some “gold dust” strategies for planning 2014:

1. Light a candle. As you do, set the intention for 2014 and visualize your goals clearly.
2. Close your eyes and imagine you are sitting in a swirling mist of gold dust all around you.
3. Look for things to be grateful for in your life and feel how good that feels. Come up with as many of these “gold” feelings of gratitude for every detail you can.
4. With all of this good feeling, realize that the gold dust is growing and thickening into a more and more beautiful creation.
5. Just begin to let your visions for 2014 be formed in the gold dust. What does it look like for you next year? What will be your lightning rod moments? Who is with you? What have you created? Really spend some time sitting with this.
6. Start writing down your goals by the month – at least one per month. Then, create an overview goal for the year. (See last week’s posting)
7. Just sit with this for awhile, basking in how great it will feel when you accomplish these golden goals.
8. Write more details around each month’s goal(s) as desired.
9. Reflect often on your goals. You can do this anywhere, anytime.  Sitting in a snowed in airport, waiting in holiday shopping lines, or in the shower.
10. When you feel yourself waiver, reinvigorate your vision by tapping into that gold dust feeling again.

Ask yourself all the while, “who do I need to be to accomplish these goals?” – and BE that person as you take action on them. Don’t “work toward them” – behave as if they are a certainty. They are happening. Act and think  “from” that vision of your desire.

You’re merely carrying out your version of the iPad invention that came to your gold- dust mind.

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