You’ve Got To Take Action

Have you ever had one of those days when you have lots of great ideas or things you need to do and you know you need to take action…and you do nothing?  Well maybe not nothing, you just do anything except what you are supposed to do.

Well I have just had one of those weeks.  I had to force myself to do what needed to be done, things I knew would help me in my life and in my business; and I still only got about a quarter done.  And here we are at the start of a new week and it’s threatening to happen all over again.  This got me to thinking about the importance of taking action.

                                                                  

It is really easy to say you want something, to dream of it, wish for it, ache for it.  But when it comes down to attracting it into your life and obtaining it, it won’t happen unless you take action.  Even if that action is no more than having a clear out of your wardrobe to make space for some new clothes, writing out your CV so that your in a position to send it when you’re finally ready to start applying for new jobs or sending your finished manuscript to a publisher.  See?  It could be anything.  Taking action is important now matter how small.  When you ask for what you want, you have to let the Universe know you are ready to receive it. 

Clarity, visualisation, intention and action are 4 keys to actually getting your desired outcome.  First you need to be clear about what you want, then you need to imagination – in full technical, really see it in detail, you then need to set the firm intention that what you see is what you will have or achieve and you back up your intention by taking action.

Unfortunately, because of well meaning films like The Secret, which revealed the Law of Attraction to so many of us but left us with the impression that we only had to make an order and the Universe would deliver it, action is the part of the sequence that gets left out and yet it’s importance cannot be overstated.  Without action on our part, no matter how miniscule it may seem, nothing happens.

So think about what action you need to take to obtain what you want, and then go and do it.

See It to Achieve It

I was thinking the other day about how we can attain our ideal life, you know the actual steps it takes to create it, and I got to thinking about how vital it is that we take the time to visualise what we want and where we want to be.

If you really want to create a new life for yourself, a better, more fulfilling, more fantastic life, you need to be able to see it.  Now I don’t mean just having a vague idea in your head that you would like a bigger house, a flash car, a husband and 2 children or a better job.  I mean you need to be able to visualise your life as you want it to be.

Think of the Universe as a cash dispenser (for want of a better analogy).  You state what you want and it gives it to you.  You ask for £20 and it gives you £20. It might give it to you as 2 x £10, £4 x £5 or 1 x £20.  But you get £20.  The Universe is just like this.  If you give it a clear order, tell it what you want by visualising it, it will give it to you and will do so in the most appropriate form for you at that time. 

Say you want a nice house, by the ocean.  Don’t just leave it at that, be a bit more specific and give it some detail.  Your job is to see yourself living in such a place.  What would it look like, feel like, smell like?  Go from room to room and decorate it.  See yourself having dinner there, entertaining friends and family, sleeping in your cosy bedroom, and relaxing in your lovely living room. And do this as often as the fancy takes you. 

Now the Universe knows what kind of house you want, it will start to take steps to see you get it and, it will make sure the house in question is just right for you at the time you receive it. 

Ok, there are more steps than this to creating your ideal life, but visualising it in some detail is where you start.

The problem is that what we normally do is this, we think:

“I would so love to live in a house by the sea; maybe in Miami, or Marbella or Ibiza.  I’d like 2 rooms, no 4 would be better no maybe 6 would be better.  I’d love to have two floors.  No wait, maybe I’d prefer a bungalow.  Or, maybe I should live in a penthouse in the city instead”.

Then we wonder why we either stay where we are or move onto to something that’s no better or sometimes worse.

People think that it’s ok to not know what they want and to just go with the flow.  But if you go with the flow you’ll continue to drift aimlessly, then find yourself washed up on any old river bank, or God forbid, find yourself going over a waterfall and smashing into the waters beneath.

If you don’t tell the Universe where you want to go, where you want to be, how can it take you there?

Take the time to decide what you want in your life and put some energy into visualising yourself having it.  It doesn’t matter if what you want is a new job, a new relationship, a new wardrobe, to be living in another country or all of the above.  See yourself there so the Universe knows where to take you.

Otherwise you’ll just end up drifting along, and it will be your own fault if you end up in a place you don’t want to be.