What I did, and what you could be doing – is creating more obstacles and challenges in your life. The subconscious driver for this is to give yourself a more heroic hero’s journey – to try and overcome feelings on unworthiness.
And it will never work…
Everything else is redundant. Because if you strive diligently to become the highest possible version of yourself – all the elements of prosperity will manifest. Vibrant health, healthy relationships, spiritual harmony, wealth and success.
There are not too many people who would actually decide they don’t want to achieve their goals and have a better life. Most people would at least lie to themselves and believe that is the case. So why don’t more people achieve prosperity?
The human animal has two basic psychological pathways: We run towards things we want, and run away from things we fear. Because motivation only happens when you have a “why,” it’s worth spending some time thinking about how that process unfolds.
Think back to the example of James Allen in As a Man Thinketh. He equated the mind with a garden plot. You can just let it happen. The wind blows in seeds and you have a bunch of wild weeds. Or you consciously cultivate the crop, and you grow flowers or vegetables.
Of course your mind is the same way. But the stakes are a whole lot higher…
The average person has about 60,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, most of them are the same ones every day. These thoughts follow the same neural pathway in your brain. They literally create a rut they travel through over and over.
We like to think we create our future. But you don’t really create your future. You create your daily habits – and then those habits actually create your future.
