The Lovely
and I have been busy getting prepared for the upcoming winter, and more
importantly for me – Race For Life in a few weeks. It made me realise that if your desire is great enough, you can
achieve something truly extraordinary. I work with so many people, who dream
about making changes in their lives – yet when it comes down to making it
happen, simply don’t do anything to help themselves. It always puts me in mind
of the story about the guy who prays fervently to God to win the lottery, never
winning – until he asks God why he hasn’t helped him reach his goal. God
replies ‘You need to at least meet me half way and buy a ticket!’ It amazes me
how many people have this mentality – they will pray, and affirm and do all
sorts of dreaming, but when push comes to shove they won’t take the action
required to assist in making the change occur.
All change
comes from our will. It comes from a desire so strong that we won't let
anything get in the way of our achieving our goal. I will be honest I have been
pretty fearful a lot recently myself. I feel I am walking in almost uncharted
territory for me. Re-starting my business - walking away from the potential of
a well-paid, regular job, with a great pension in the voluntary sector - back into
the fickle world of self-employment is a huge change, and the fact that I am
not intending to go back to 'normal work' again makes it a very daunting
prospect. But my determination to make it work has me learning new skills in
marketing, has me working even harder with my clients to create a better
experience for them, has me learning everything I can to be the best therapist
I can be for all of you. I am scared stiff I will end up where I did before,
when I chose to give up and go for a 'normal' job, but I am fighting that fear
every moment with my will to succeed this time, to really make it work.
Now, I am
not saying that what I have chosen to do has been an easy decision - even
taking the decision I had to fight a lot of fear, nor am I saying that I stay
courageous all day every day. I have moments, sometimes even whole days when I
think myself into panic, and my will seems to desert me - but when I wake up to
what I am doing I reapply my will and get going again. I use my goal - to help
as many people as I can to change their own lives for the better - to spur me
on. This ultimate goal keeps me on track, and is so exciting and important to
me that it will work every time so I find the courage to work through my fear,
instead of allowing myself to wallow in fearful thoughts (I've made the wrong
choice again, I'm not good enough, I don't have the right skills etc).
So my
parting question to you is this…
What
are YOU allowing your fears to intefere with in your life?
What are
You not manifesting because you are too scared to just take that first step
over the edge, to take that leap of faith in yourself?
I am often
fearful, but because I know what I want and I have faith in myself I keep
putting myself out there, giving myself chance after chance to fail - and yes
occasionally I do fail and I do it in splendid fashion, but I pick myself up,
learn the lesson and try again - but
more often than not I succeed and I have learned that this is the part to hold
on to.
One of my
favourite sayings is 'Feel the fear and do it anyway', and all of my clients
will tell you how much I love the marketing slogans used by Nike 'Just Do It'
and L'Oreal 'Because you're worth it'. I challenge you now to make use of these
phrases, or some you have thought up that are applicable to your own situation,
use them as affirmations regularly over the next few weeks and start with small
actions. I guarantee you will be manifesting things you were scared to dream of
in no time!
I'm off to manifest a beautiful, strong and healthy body, an overflowing
client list, and a holiday to Greece, oh and one of the gorgeous NYR diffusers
in the ad below - wish me positive affirmations and courage, I won't need luck!
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