Maybe your looks a little different. That new job, a new house, a dream car, or maybe it's that one absolute babe you have been dying to go out on a date with.
No matter what you think it might be, I have a challenge for you. Dig deep. Real deep. Soul search. Now begin to answer that question with some real honesty. Focus on the answer and really, truly accept what it is. Own it. Write it down. Now figure out how you are going to get there.
You can't get what you want until you know what you want (I think I heard that in a song...yep just googled it, it's a Joe Jackson song...man I've heard a lot of odd music in my life). You have to be honest with yourself about what you want. You have to be able to picture it and then be able to chase it with real, deep, heartfelt honesty. It will be, perhaps, the first time in a long time (or maybe your whole life) that you have been the brutally honest with yourself and it will scare you. The thing itself will frighten you because you weren't sure you had it in you. Then you'll look at the journey ahead and think "there's no way I can get there". Really? Is that all you think of yourself? Do really find yourself that incapable?
I'm here to tell you that you are (to quote Marianne Williamson) powerful beyond measure. Check out this piece of amazing word fuel:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Ch. 7, Section 3 (1992), p. 190.)
Why fear your power? Your power to create and effect change. Your power to empower others.
Now, focus again. What do you, in the deepest corner of your heart, want more than anything? Where is your happiness? Now focus all you are, all of your power, on it and GO GET IT! When you do (and you should do it now) you may be the reason someone else chases their happiness or maybe even the reason the world changes.
Are you going to accept status quo, or will you be an awe-inspiring, world changing happiness chaser? You have the power, use it.
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