What is the biggest mistake you have made about
manifesting your desires?

You will be surprised by the answer and you probably
thought it was the best thing you could do to achieve
your desires. However, this mistake has made your desires
100 times more difficult to achieve.

What is this mistake?

It is trying to figure out and worrying about how to make
your desires happen.

You’re doing this everyday. You have a desire of making
a million dollars but your immediate reaction will be,
“How to make it happen?”. Then you get busy finding ways
to make money, you keep trying until you lose your faith.
Then you start to believe that you don’t deserve
the million dollars.

Does this sound familiar?

What goes wrong here?

You are making a mistake of focusing on the wrong thing.

Let’s see …

Why you should not focus on “How to make
your desires happen”.

1. Focusing on “How” introduces doubt and worry
into your mind.

Let’s take the previous example. Suppose you want
to have a million dollars, but you’ve never earned
10,000 dollars before. Your mind will start to search
your memory bank for the ways to make a million dollars.
It keeps searching and searching but never succeeds,
because you never experienced it before.
The conclusion it will logically draw is that you
can’t have a million dollars. Once this is concluded,
you will immediately feel doubt and worry, and create
energy blocks in your creation process.

2. You don’t know the best way possible.

Have you ever attended a seminar that promises you to make
$10,000 in the first week or achieve your financial
freedom in 1 year?

You probably have, what result did you get?

I guess very likely you put the course material on your
shelf and hope someday you will be able to apply them.

Usually in these seminars, they teach a system or a formula
that has been tested to be effective in certain types
of business. Do these systems or formulas work?

I can tell you most of them work very effectively.

If one person has made it, there is no reason why
others can not.

But why don’t most people get results?

It is because these formulas are not the best
formulas for them.

Based on one’s background, experience and level
of awareness, there is always a perfect formula for anyone
to achieve any of his desires. But his information
is not in their conscious mind, it can only be given
by the higher intelligence.

Instead of focusing on figuring how to get things done,
why not get quiet, wait for the guidance from
the higher intelligence.

If focusing on “How” is not right, what should I focus on?

The only thing you should focus on is the end result.
Focus on your heart desires single mindedly, and don’t
question and worry about it. Keep feeling your desires
are coming true. Hold that feeling as long as possible.
Hold a mental picture of your end results, and keep
energizing it with emotions and feelings. Do this
anytime and anywhere. Don’t let your feelings fade.
This will quickly shift all your energy in the direction
of manifestation and creation.

Don’t worry if you don’t see any evidence of your desires,
you should know that 99% of the creation process happens
in the unseen energy level. You only need to focus on
your desires, give them faith and trust the universe.
Do your own part, and the universe will do its part
by taking care of all the details. You will be guided
to the exact right opportunity at the right time.
Everything happens easily and naturally.

Manifestation is a happy and stress-free process.

Song ChengXiang is the editor “The Ultimate
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of “Rapid Manifestation” online course.
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Copyright 2005 Writer’s Eye Advisory Service

First of all, I often become too intense when I journal.
Sometimes it’s easier for me to be serious then to write fun
entries. There’s always a season to journal about serious
topics. I am going to introduce one simple way to have fun when
you journal.

Create Your Persona: Create a whole new personality, a person
who has all of your favorite character traits, mannerisms and
work skills. To avoid boredom, make sure that your persona is
interesting to you.

Picture Your Persona: Remember that this is symbol for this
persona, draw a simple image. You can use this symbol when you
write entries or you may just use your persona’s initials.

Give Your Persona A Backstory: Write a three sentence history
of your persona, so you can differentiate this persona from
other people that you might write about in the future. Stop,
reread your three sentences and add any extra details in a
fourth sentence.

Chat With Your Persona: Practice journaling with your persona,
using letters, sharing pictures, and doodles. To enhance your
entries, experiment using colored pens, crayons and other
materials.

Reread Your Entries: Finally, after you finish your first
dialogue, stop and reread your conversation(s). What surprised
you? What bothered you? What do you want to repeat in future
conversations? Do you want to continue chatting with your
current persona? Do you want to create new persona? Did you have
fun with this exercise? If not, what could you do to increase
the fun potential with your next persona?

Feel free to experiment with this exercise at least one more
time, before you move on to another technique. Enjoy creating
and interacting with other parts of yourself!!

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.

There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.

There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.

Overcoming Blocks

There are essentially two groups of blocks, the first being evaluation apprehension or evaluation anxiety and the second being task hindrance.

a) Evaluation Anxiety blocks include: fear of being unoriginal, fear of being perceived unintelligent, negatively assessing own ideas, risk aversion, the illusion of difficulty etc.

b) Task hindrance blocks include: lack of finance, no access to decision makers, lack of appropriate resources, no movement of ideas etc.

As blocks can be grouped into two, so resolutions can be grouped into two.

a) Psychological and Cultural resolutions. These include engendering a culture of psychological safety and freedom, individuals becoming aware of their own evaluation apprehension and consciously countering, developing confidence through improving their task competency and success rates etc.

b) Structural resolutions. Organisations creating management structures that allow direct access to decision makers, tangible movement of ideas, access to knowledge bases, reduced competition for resources etc.

These and other topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com/

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Kal Bishop MBA, is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached on http://www.managing-creativity.com/

It’s the season of gratitude, yet last week I found myself in a sea of darkness. I was sick. I don’t know about you, but I find it very difficult to be grateful when I’m sneezing, coughing, aching and generally feeling horrible. I did my best to remain positive, reminding myself that I was being given a non- negotiable opportunity to relax and recharge. Still I found myself drawn towards the “woe is me” place with thoughts such as, “This is the worst possible time to be sick,” and “I have way too much to do.” I even caught myself heading into victim mode, thinking, “Ella got me sick,” as if my one year old daughter had somehow conspired to transmit her sick germs to me. If anyone had conspired, it was myself, or more accurately, a wise, unconscious aspect of my mind and body forcing me to take some much needed time off.

Still, it took me a full four days of acute sickness before I was able to stop and allow myself to enjoy the break. Even then it was no inner leap of enlightenment that catalyzed the shift. Rather it was a little jumping spider who had made its home in my car.

While my wife was working I was driving Ella to get her to sleep (being sick, my patience was way too thin to deal with a tired and fussy baby). I noticed that our resident jumping spider had found its way onto the edge of the steering wheel. It seemed quite content to sit and observe as we zoomed down the straight and narrow. But when we came to a turn, that spider’s world suddenly turned upside down. Literally! That little guy or girl held on for dear life as the wheel spun one way. Then on the way back, Spidey must have thought “I’m outta here,” because it dropped down from a thread in search of more stable ground. That however turned out to be not such a great plan, because the momentum of the turn flung that spider right back into the steering wheel with a crash. At that point Spidey decided it would be best to hang on and ride out the storm.

When the turbulence ended and we were back on a straight stretch, that spider somehow knew exactly what it needed to do: It headed directly for the center of the steering wheel and planted itself firmly atop the Toyota logo. When we came to the next turn Spidey just went for a nice little spin, which it was able to neutralize by spinning in the opposite direction.

Watching the spider do its thing, I imagined myself on one of those amusement park rides where you stand up against a fence as it spins around really fast, so fast that it’s nearly impossible to push, or is it pull, yourself away from the fence. That’s sort of how I had been feeling in my sickness: dizzily pressed up against a wall, unable to peel myself off. Only unlike at an amusement park, this sickness was an involuntary ride, and it was showing no signs of slowing down.

Spidey’s demonstration was just what I needed to remind myself to come back to my center. Witnessing the innate wisdom of a spider, I was able to apply that same awareness to myself and re-imagine my own position. Like Spidey, I had a choice. What would it feel like in the center of the ride? And how would I get there?

For me, being in the center meant being fully in my sickness, not fighting it, not trying to push myself off of that wall. So all that day and the following day, I acknowledged my gratitude: for the sickness, for Ella, for my wife, for the time off. I basked in my sickness, taking naps and baths, sitting for long periods of time doing nothing and just generally loafing. It was wonderful. And the amazing thing is that by the end of that second day I felt great. Certainly not completely better, but my energy level was vibrant and flowing whereas before it had been stagnant and dull.

I believe it was the gratitude that shifted me into the center of that ride. Instead of worrying about all the stuff I was not doing, all the meetings I was missing, and all the money that was not coming in, I was able to stop and accept exactly where I was, and, indeed, acknowledge my gratitude for being there.

Just like that little spider, we get to choose how we experience each moment of our lives. We can enjoy the thrill of riding out at the edge, or choose the more stable, yet no less enlivening, ride in the center. Certainly there are times when being on the outer edge is appropriate, and even necessary, but I don’t need to live my life there. Neither did Spidey.

And neither do you. For many people the holidays can be a whirlwind of too much shopping, cooking, family, parties, eating, traffic, credit cards debts . . . well you get the idea. So this holiday season remember to periodically come back to your center. If you find yourself riding that dizzy edge, stop and take time to acknowledge your gratitude. No matter how turbulent your life might get, find something to be thankful for and let that gratitude draw you gently back towards your calm, stable center.

I’ve quoted Meister Eckhart before, and I’m sure I’ll do so again, but he stated it so simply and beautifully when he said, “If the only prayer you ever say is ‘Thank you,’ that will be enough.”

Thank you!

Edward Mills, MIM, is a life coach, teacher and speaker, empowering people to more joyfully and abundantly share their essential gifts with the world. You can sign up for his monthly ezine, Evolving Times, at his website: http://www.edwardmills.com or blog: http://www.evolvingtimes.com