Greetings and welcome to this week's edition of my
newsletter.
The pipe dream goal a step too far.
The only viable way for us to grow
our manifesting powers is by taking one successful progressively larger
baby step after another out of our box.
When I first began teaching prosperity workshops
years ago, I let participants choose goals that were, for them,
unreachable in the short term. That was before I discovered the
importance and the necessity of starting with the shorter, but
successful baby step rather than one giant leap of faith.
Do we have the power to take the quantum leap? Yes,
most certainly! but we can only leap as far as our belief will take us
in one leap.
Not beyond
our ability to believe.
For instance
the record high for the pole vault remained unbroken for years. For some
reason pole-vaulters believed that record would never be beaten. Then
one day the record was broken.
As soon as that old mental limit was lifted, several
other pole vaulters set new records, which proves we can only jump as
high as we can believe.
Years ago, if a workshop participant failed to reach
his or her goal, I was naturally disappointed. And of course I wondered
what went wrong and why? These principles always work, without fail. If
that participant had truly made a new BEING choice, how could he or she
fail? The answer is: Their goal was a pipe dream, and no one ever
succeeds beyond his or her ability to believe.
Our ego encourages us to choose pipe dreams. And
since our ego wants to keep us confined in our old box, one of its
favorite traps is to encourage us to choose a pipe dream goal -- a goal
so far outside the box we don't really believe it can or will happen.
As an individualization of God, a fact of life for
us is that if we don't really believe it will, it won't. You will
demonstrate only at the level of your own belief.
But don't let this idea of "too big" stop or
discourage you from dreaming big! I encourage you to choose big and them
take a baby step toward it.
But have we
really chosen?
The Universe
is set up so that we can and will manifest any reality we can dream up,
but only if we truly believe it can and will happen. So, keep dreaming
big, it is important not to choose a short-term goal that's beyond our
ability to believe or accept. Our powers are unlimited, however, our
lack of self confidence will place a limit on our manifesting powers.
And our self limiting self-worth will have a set of limits on our
ability to accept more good. Little by little, we will be raising the
limit on our manifesting powers and upping the bar on our self-worth.
One of the tests for determining whether or not we
have truly committed is whether or not our ego reacts to our new BEING
choice. If our ego is not threatened by our most recent goal setting,
that goal may be a pipe dream. If so, our ego will be very pleased that
we have chosen an unreachable goal.
But if our ego is truly upset, it's time to
celebrated because our ego's reaction is positive evidence that we have
truly chosen out of our box. Now all we have to do is study up on the
rest of our ego's tricks for keeping us boxed into the current reality.
It is also interesting to notice that before our ego
can trick us back into our box, it must first con us into a state of
amnesia. Then we will be living our life as our ego, once again, because
we have forgotten our True identity.
