THE MISSING PIECE: Long lost little secret of how to make your biggest dreams come true
People talk about “the law of attraction” and about “positive thinking” and about “holding your vision.” And it all sounds pretty exciting. For a little while. Then it can get frustrating and seem like you’re practicing self-deception.
Because holding the big vision… believing it’s coming into existence simply because you are imagining and affirming it… and thinking and speaking positively, rarely produce — in any immediately recognizable manner — the substantial, sustainable and meaningful change you are seeking.
There is a way to get quick, sustainable, meaningful results.
May I share what I’ve learned, through decades of study and trial and error experimenting?
This is my little secret for how to make big dreams come true and to begin experiencing immediate returns. It snaps into action automatically when you push these four “power buttons” simultaneously:
You Must Push Four Power Buttons to Turn On Your Dream Machine
1. The Power of Clarity.
2. The Power of Momentum.
3. The Power of Evolution.
4. The Power of Attraction. (Like attracts like.)
Today I’ll talk about the Power of Clarity.
In positive thinking, in affirmation teachings, in “believe-it-and-receive-it” visioneering, we actually hold our dreams at a distance. They are a “vision” of something wonderful we will have in the future. And usually it’s something pretty doggone big. Something so big and so different from what you have now that it seems almost impossible.
Some philosophies teach that you are to “claim” or declare that you have it already. But even if and as you do that, you know better. You can look around your life and see that you don’t have this big, almost impossible thing yet. And because you don’t have the “manisfestation” of that big dream yet, your current life seems pretty unsatisfying. And that creates distance between your current reality and what you think you really desire.
The Power of Clarity will help you break down that distance.
The Power of Clarity
Most people, me included, don’t really know what we want most of the time. We think we do. We say we do. But we hold onto these huge fantasy dreams of how life will be if we just get this, or if we get that, or when this happens, or when that happens.
Do you have any “someday, when I have this or that” dreams?
Everybody does.
Realize that they are simply an alarm alerting you that you don’t really know what you want. You think you do. But you aren’t clear. It’s like Creedence Clearwater Revival sang all those years ago: “Some day never comes.” “Some day” is always in the future. “Some-day” dreams are fuzzy and unclear, no matter how vivid and tantalizing they seem as you dream them.
To set manisfestation into motion and to get clarity, you must get up close and personal with your dreams. Getinside your dreams. Right now. Live them, even if just one little piece at a time.
How?
Train yourself to explore what it is about your best, biggest and most-compelling dreams that makes them so appealing to you.
What is it about them?
What is it that you tell yourself you will get from them?
That is… In what ways is it that they will really make your life more satisfying, more joyful, more comforting, more fascinating, more beautiful? What are all the little things that will change, from moment to moment, in your life when you achieve that Big Dream?
Really, what you want, are all those little things, even more than the big thing. You wouldn’t want the big thing unless it came with all those little things.
Really.
If you had all those little things, would it matter to you whether or not you had the Big One?
So get inside your dream and reduce it to its many component parts, to its myriad basic ingredients, to its raw materials… and to the emotions and sensations you expect it to provide.
Your dream is like a mathematical equation. It’s the sum of all its parts. To get clear and get up close, you need to identify all its parts and recognize the important role each plays.
You Don’t Really Want a Million Dollars
I had a writer friend, Jody Cien, who published a piece almost 40 years ago about a man who wanted nothing more than a million dollars. (A million dollars was a lot of money back then…) More than anything in this world, the man wanted a million dollars–or as Jody put it, “a million green pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them.”
The man got his dream. He got the million “pieces of green paper,” the million dollars. All at once. In one big pile.
And he was allowed to look at them. To put them on display in a large glassed-off room in his house. But he wasn’t allowed to touch them. Wasn’t allowed to spend them. If he touched or even spent one of the dollars, the rest would all disappear instantly, in a poof.
The man got what he asked for. But that wasn’t what he really wanted. What he really wanted was all the little pleasures he imagined that he could draw into his life if he had a million dollars. He imagined all the satisfaction, joy, comfort, fascination and beauty he believed he could fund and sustain if he had a million dollars. And he died a broken-hearted man and was entombed in a mausoleum with his million dollars.
(He probably could have tripled his money had he been entrepreneurial. Could have had people lined up for blocks, happily handing over $3, $5, $7, $10 admission just to see what a million dollars looks like piled up in one place and on display behind glass. But that’s not Jody’s story. That’s me riffing on it. And, truly, I may have completely rewritten Jody’s story in memory anyway. I’m a writer. I have a vivid imagination. It plays with everything. Rarely let’s anything sit still for very long. And it’s been a long, long time since I read Jody’s original in the Southwestern College Athapascan.)
I don’t want to be entombed in a mausoleum alongside images of dreams I held out for but could never touch. Do you?
Yet how often do we totally reject all the little bits and pieces and raw materials of our dreams that flit and flutter in the ethers all around us because we’re holding out for the Big One? How often do we totally ignore the little things that we truly believe the Big Dream will bring us?
Allow Your Dreams to Sprout and Grow
Funny thing is, you can start immersing yourself in lots of those little things right now. Drawing them into your environments and relationships and life, moment-by-moment, right now. And you can begin letting go of those things that conflict or prevent you from experiencing (and sharing) satisfaction, joy, comfort, fascination and beauty.
When you allow yourself to deeply explore and practice that, you soon find that you really are living–and growing–your dreams. And your dreams start opening their arms and reaching for you.
Play with that, if that speaks to you, and tell me how it shifts focus in your life…
