The Magic of Believing Action Plan (Master Class Series)

It is having a passionate, absolute, definite, and unshakable aim. That is the dividing line between success and failure in any program of self-development whether metaphysical, therapeutic or both.

Your desire must be specific. It is insufficient to have a wishy-washy, half-committed desire or a general wish for things to get better.

What is your wish? Remember, you don’t have to share it with anybody. In fact, it’s better not to. It’s better to be silent because you don’t want to invite the opinion of someone who’s going to break down your mental resolve, who’s going to randomly criticize you, or who’s going to tell you in so many words that you’re not being “spiritual enough.”

The driving engine of all progress is the urgency to repair something.

“There’s a relationship between pain and excellence

When your mind is profoundly and deeply focused on something, you may be constantly sending out a kind of communication, a kind of signal to other people who may be able to help you, who may be able to meet you halfway.

when you are fixated on a solution, and you’re thinking about it constantly and productively, you may be sending out a communiqué to others who have something to offer you, who might be able to lend assistance or suggestion.

when you write down a wish, the very act of committing in a physical manner is the first step of actualization.

Always take first steps seriously.

Go out for a walk or sit in meditation or lie down and give yourself permission to really ponder what you want in life; hold it up for no one else’s approval; be silent about it; seek not even your own approval.

A corporate go-getter might say, “I want to advance up the ranks. I want to run things.” But he or she might actually harbor an unacknowledged wish to stay at home, to nest, to be private. Again, there’s nothing wrong with that if it’s sincere. Truth liberates.

Ask yourself, “What do I really want in life?” without reference to anything that’s come before. My only condition is that your goal be actionable—that there is some way, however small, that you can begin acting on it.

Let the first, smallest step be writing down your goal.

The only rule is: begin.

just because you may not see results immediately or even for years does not mean that those results are not developing, gestating, and coming toward you.

Everything in life, including doing nothing, carries unexpected consequence.

Your wish may arrive through channels that seem routine or ordinary, so much so that you’re apt to overlook them,

Not only must you watch carefully, but also say yes to promising things when they reach you.

Anxiety can be a friend because it helps you prepare for difficult circumstances.

Everything is possible at once but nothing is experienced without an observer.