You’ve heard the saying, “Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.” yes?
Well, it’s absolutely right.
Now you might be saying, but Kim, “I ask and ask but never get what I want”? Well, in that case, count your blessings!
Maybe what you want isn’t what you truly desire.
The universe can’t read between the lines. It knows what you truly desire, but if you request something you only want (and which just happens to be available); the universe has no other choice than to ALLOW you to have it –because of Free Will.
Now notice that I said “ALLOW” rather than “GIVE.” How many times have we cried that the Universe never gives us what we want?
YOU ARE RIGHT! It never does, nor ever will. The Universe is about Abundance and Desire, Not Lack and Want.
If you persist in focusing on what you want, you will either get it for a short while or stay in a perpetual state of “wanting.”
Example:
An excellent illustration of this point happened during an exercise in one of my seminars with a group of entrepreneurs.
I spoke of desire like it was a silver tray of goodies containing everything you could ask for: Love, Power,
Health, and Money.
I told them the Universe works like this: You can have ANYTHING you desire, but you need to ask for it specifically – because whatever you ask for you will get.
One of the attendees, a woman who had been married for 50 years, had an amazing A-ha moment.
When I asked her to choose her desire from the Abundance Tray, she picked love.
She explained, “When I was younger, I desperately wanted to be married, so I asked for a husband.
But the ironicthing is that, in all the 50 years, I’ve never felt really loved by my husband.”
She didn’t ask for a loving relationship; she asked for a husband – and she got precisely what she asked for.
A husband was her goal… but love was her
desire. Interesting huh?
What “wants” in your life are you confusing with “desires”? What an amazing life you could be having if only you get clear on what you TRULY desire –and create goals and strategies to prepare you to receive them!
Action step: Take out a piece of paper and fold it in half the long way.
Fold it so that you have two columns and on the left side write down everything you say you want. Money, New Car, Bigger Home, More Clients….everything you can think of…
Now for each item that you list, next to in on the other column write down what you think that item will bring you. Security, Well being, Joy, Peace of mind….you get the idea.
Once you are down look at the column on the right. That is what you need to ask for…that is your TRUE desire…what you wrote on the left is what you think it should look like.
Focus on the right column and ask for it daily.
