When you set a goal you have
created a gap that will continue to dwell between you the goal until you fill
it with your actions or life fills up for you. And if you think a gap is
nothing, think again. Imagine what the world would be like with the number Zero
and please do not say zero is nothing and therefore not a number. The change it
brought to our number system is groundbreaking. So gaps are something in
themselves. In fact they can be obstacles if you let them.
However it is space that your
actions fill in an effort to build the stepping stones or the bridge that will
take you to the destination you have in mind. The proponents of the law of
attraction seem to imply that we must not worry about the in between. All we
must do is to hold the goal in mind long enough for it to be realized leaving
the “hows” to the mysterious universe.
If you have seen the movie “the
secret”, you will recollect Jack canfield (co author of chicken soup for the
soul series) saying that when he set the hundred thousand dollar goal, he had
already written a book waiting to be published. Long and short of the story: he
soon found or should I say attracted a publisher who gave him a cheque for a
hundred thousand dollars. The thing is, he was prepared and had a product worth
a hundred thousand dollars as the book turned out to be a bestseller. So it
makes sense that the magic of the universe will deliver a hundred thousand
dollars to him. I am wondering what the universe would have done if he hadn’t written
the book. Before all of this he had given a talk at a workshop after which he
was interviewed by a journalist from an influential magazine. Somehow that is
how he got connected to the publisher.
It seems to me that gap
between the goal and you are filled based on a number things. Among them are what
you are and what you have are key components. A completed book, presentation in
a workshop and a publisher are stepping stones to a hundred thousand dollars
that has been visualized and designed on a one dollar note. There must be a
thousand and one ways of reaching a hundred thousand dollar goal so why the
publishing of the book? I am guessing it will be easier for the universe to use
what you have to get you where you need to get. Something that raises a big
question for purpose.
But what happens when we set a
goal and have absolutely nothing in hand. How does the universe fill the gap we
create? I am suspecting that the universe will look for something to use and I
am suspecting that it might take a hard look
at us and what we are interested in as well as the things we cherish the
most. It will probably take a close look at what our values are and start
creating circumstances around them.
This is when the random life
begins. When a person who doesn’t have a job or a means of earning a living
decides they want a BMW 5 series and dream about it every day and even make a
vision board about it because they have seen the law of attraction movie, the
universe doesn’t have a choice but to fill in the gap with little information
to work with. Opportunities or Trapportunities begin to appear:
A brand new BMW X5 series
parked by the road with engine running with key in ignition begins to look like
an opportunity. In the absence of values, you might just drive it off thinking
your prayer has been answered. Well…
even the law of attraction requires some guidance in order to do its job. It
needs the codes in order to determine how to fill in the gap and unless you
provide these codes, it will fill in the gaps with some not so good materials.
The law doesn’t appear to think much.
This is why a person may
achieve something that only brings trouble later down the line because of how
they have done it. Of course all things are possible but out of the endless
pages of life’s catalogue what will you choose? The answer is in purpose. It is
when you are focused in a very certain direction guarded by the knowledge of
what you will -and will not do that goal gaps are filled with the right
stepping stones.
It is a bit like what happened
on my front lawn when I just left it there for the weed to grow and overgrow.
Very soon I was visited by a snake who of course found my front lawn super
attractive. I didn’t want the snake there; I just didn’t do the things that
keep snakes away. To be honest every time I walked past the lawn, I always got
the thought, “what if a snake is hiding in there”. It seems I may have
attracted the snake by thinking exactly what I didn’t want. How it got there has everything to do with my
actions and inactions and I couldn’t tell you who decided the in between.
So what is the point here: the
goal gaps you create will be filled with stepping stones which resonate with
your own person and values? When you have purpose, life can only respond to you
through that purpose filling your goal gaps with the right stepping stones. If
you are a musician who wants to make a million in five years, it becomes believable
because somehow, you know that if you could make an album, you have increased
your chances to reach that goal. Law of attraction then finds it easy to fill
in your gaps and eventually lead you to your goal and all of this will be
painless.
If you know anything about the
law of attraction then you probably know that it requires belief to work. I
believe that your honest believe in the ability achieve a goal will largely
depend on your own capability. Where it is not up to scratch you will have some
difficulty authenticating your own belief. Belief itself has a way of
activating you into action. Sometimes before you even think about it and those
actions contribute to filling the gaps.
Your goal gaps will be filled
but you do have a say in what it is filled with, you say it with your purpose
and your value system and life will respond accordingly. You live life, life
doesn’t live you. You develop your own philosophy for it. You see it through
your own eyes and it responds to you according to you. It fills your goal gaps
with the right stepping stones for you. What does this have to do with Peak
performance? Ask me later. REV UP at http://revupblog.blogspot.com/
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