It’s the simplicity that really grabs us. Because we humans love to overcomplicate things. A dog will lie in the sun, come to their favourite humans for a pat, celebrate their food and play.
But we can be above all that animal behaviour. We have the gift of a prefrontal cortex – an executive centre – that allows us to consider and reflect and weigh up the options.
And our minds are fabulous things which can imagine something that doesn’t exist yet and then imagine the steps to bring that into creation.
So if you know how powerful and creative your mind is, why don’t you just do the things you’d love to do?
It’s because you believe that there are certain conditions that have to be met before you can have what you want.
You need to learn more. You need to get more organised. You need to find the right person to guide you. You need to have a better resume or wardrobe or straighter teeth.
You need more money. You need more support. You need to be more clever than you are. You need to be stronger.
You need another certificate or qualification.
Look, if you’d love to be a doctor, you do need to study medicine and get that degree.
But there are things in your life that you are not doing which are completely within your capacity, but your mind is telling you that you can’t do them.
You might say “I’m just going to DO THAT THING….this year……
New year resolutions anyone…?!
And then things happen or don’t happen so that the thing you’d love never happens.
It’s not the circumstances that you’re telling yourself that prevent you from having what you’d love.
Not enough time?
What are you doing now that doesn’t fulfil you which blocks time for what does?
Doing things for your kids that they can do for themselves? Spending time talking about other people’s lives or worrying about what they think of you?
Performing tasks that others would love to be paid to do for you? (I’ve mastered this one in the past!).
If your partner or your kids or your boss can get you to give an extra hour of your time for something they need, you can give that to yourself too.
Sometimes by saying no to them. But first by saying yes to yourself, to your dreams, to what you’d love.
There are tools you can apply to manage the beliefs you have about what you must do first. Or what you must do for others because they need you.
The first step is to identify what gets in the way of doing what you love.
The next is to NOT DO THAT THING! And to do just one thing, the next most obvious thing for you to do to create what you would love.
Want to step into more of what you’d love? Let’s chat.