Faith and Purpose.
Those are the two most important words. Before that, let’s start off with this…
While studying the road to success, I’ve discovered that the three basic human wants revolve around health, wealth and love. People generally want to be loved, to be physically fit, and to be rich. The first thing to adjust in order to achieve ones goals our thoughts. Here, the laws of attraction come to play.
First, Your Thoughts and Feelings
So, you want to be rich, healthy or find your Mr/Mrs. right. First, hold that thought to your mind in positive terms. Look at your emotion - make sure that it feels good. The minute you suddenly feel fear, anger or confusion - STOP! Look at your words and redirect your thoughts to the positive aspect. Intentionally make yourself feel happy and grateful.
For example, you’ve been alone. You want to find Mr. Right. At the back of your mind you think him but you think - “Love is blind. It’s stupid. Why isn’t there anyone for me?” STOP. Look at this emotion and try the Sedona method:
1. Ask your self, quietly… “Could you let go of this feeling?”
2. Repeat until you can say yes. When you are ready to say yes, ask yourself “Would you let go?” Are you willing to let that emotion go? Or are you ok with it to stay here, just for a moment.
3. When you realize you are willing to let go, ask yourself “Could I let go now?” or “When am I going to let it go?”
The process above helps you refine yourself by detaching emotions. Remember that you are not your emotion. It is something that will pass. It is wrong to say “I am angry.” You are not anger materialized in physical form. It is more apt to say “I am feeling angry.” You realize that anger is something that is temporary.
When you are ready with your thoughts and feelings, you can now act with faith and purpose.
What is Faith?
Traditionally, faith and religion are intertwined. People often relate to faith as one’s belief in God (or any other Supreme being). Wikipedia shows that “Faith is a belief in an idea that is unsupported, or contradicted, by evidence.” I disagree with this definition - evidence can in fact exist for beliefs and ideas that may be attributed to by faith. Following a certain method based on theory that, until proven not to work, does work is an example of evidence.
Let’s forget about religion for a moment and talk about faith in broader terms. Faith and may be used standardly in place of either as “trust,” “belief,” or “hope”. Let’s discuss faith in terms of our thoughts and wants.
Have you experienced that feeling that, for some reason, you know something will happen? It’s like you have a premonition. You have a hunch - your gut instinct tells you this something will come true. Irrational and unexplainable, you still know it will come. You just know it.
That is faith.
Acting In Purpose
The other important word is “purpose.” Purpose is defined as an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions. It is an aim, a target, a goal, a determination in every movement.
Let me go back to my favorite sports example for this. I think it’s the nearest and easiest way to describe this concept.
Say you play basketball or volleyball. There is a time, when you are in the midst of the game, when everything seems to stop. When the environment becomes like blur and you are totally engrossed in what you are doing. In psychology, this is called “the flow” or “the zone.” We hear players who are doing extremely well in a particular game say “I’m in the zone.”
Working with purpose is getting yourself in “the flow.” In sports, you must score a goal. In basketball, you shoot it through the hoop. When you have the ball in your hands, everything else suddenly becomes secondary. Your broad problems disappear. You are only working for this moment in time - to score.
Back to Faith and Purpose
Now you are in “the zone.” You act in faith that you will score. You know you will score - eventually, you will. You keep it in your mind and work with purpose. Subconsciously, every action you take leads you to your goals.
If it’s sports, you practice hard every day. In every practice, you memorize every correct physical movement that gets you efficient results. It’s there. It becomes a part of you. Soon, it comes naturally.
In health, you do daily exercises. You feel good in what you do. You keep the good feeling in your mind and imagine the outcome of your daily exercises - a perfect body, the six pack abs, or the sexy buns. When done in faith and purpose, you know it will come. You don’t worry about not achieving it - it doesn’t matter. You JUST DO IT.
In love and wealth, it works the same way. You think about your Mr/Ms Right. You meet lots of people. You socialize. You become adept at talking to people and making them smile. It soon comes naturally. In wealth, you make the most of each day to provide the best value to all potential customers. You do this because you know you are doing good. You are working in faith and purpose.
Personally, I believe in these two words now.