The Magic is in Surrender

As a little girl, many of my lucid- or day-dreams were about my ability to invoke MAGIC! I thought about it a lot, and it made me feel excited every time I did. Did you?

 When I think about the Harry Potter Phenomenon, it must be so, that others are deeply curious, inspired, and motivated by this notion.

 When I think about the stories of Merlin the Magician ... he made magic overnight. Or did he? What we read and saw in movies certainly made it an overnight, 'magical' thing. For years I have been thinking about "what IF it wasn't overnight? What if these things took weeks, months, years, or even decades to manifest?" What I knew was that it was overnight. What I began to see was, perhaps it wasn't.

It would mean that We could do the same thing! We love the idea of overnight, don't we?

More than half a century later, my dream came true. I distinguished exactly how I was already making magic. I had always done it! That allowed me to repeat it. It all happened like in Carl Sandburg's poem Fog ... It's like

"The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches

and then moves on.”

The MAGIC for which I wished, perhaps for which we all wish, was already HERE! It snuck up on me! It surrounded me wherever I walked! I didn't SEE it ... UNTIL ... I surrendered to 'not already knowing everything.' Rather, there was so much more to learn! This was a reversal of the beliefs about magic, up until the moment I saw another side; the opposite side. Both were true for me. Now I could choose one over the other.

I was resisting accepting that if I could override my internal conversation about what it meant to me to go from 'already knowing,' a powerful feeling, to surrender of 'not knowing,' a not so great feeling, maybe I could get closer to recognizing the magic I am already creating and have been all my life.

Just because I don't know, yet, how something works, doesn't mean it isn't working. Five decades to figure that out!

As children, the most thrilling, creative and exciting times are when we are learning. When we 'get it ... or something new!'

We know in general that true success ... being happy, healthy, and wealthy (or on our way to it), consistently over time, requires this absolute: We must set goals that we will achieve with regularity and then predictability!

The problem is that we didn't learn How to set goals like we learned there are six basic formulas for solving word problems. Once you knew the six and read the word problem, you could figure out which formula would provide the answer.

We never had that for setting goals. No one taught us any 'rules.' So the challenge is how do we enjoy the magic of living a life of happiness, health, and wealth? We don't want one of them, or even two. We're supposed to have all three!

I made it my business more than ten years ago to master achievement and derive these rules and a clear process to apply them; that is, solve the issue of not knowing how to achieve consistently by learning the rules or benchmarks of goal setting, so results become consistently predictable over time.

Now that's living life large, by design, and employing the magic which has always been there.

I opened Goal School where you not only learn the benchmarks of achievement, you learn to develop and grow your mindset 'muscle' to continually 'match' your growing revenue and business generation. You have to have both; the mindset and the revenue, to have it all. 

In your area of expertise, what is missing that you know about? Who could you help with this information ... help them to further their own journey more easily?