You want a greater life, and there may be areas where you feel stuck. As you know, our lives can be segmented into quadrants, Health, Love, Career and Freedom.
There’s probably something you long to have more of, maybe it’s greater health, a loving relationship, a better job or more money. There are many people speaking into your ears – books, courses, guru’s, coaches, influencers – and it can be hard to know what to listen to, or who to trust to help you have the “what” you’ve longed for, your version of what I call “an abundant life.”
Let’s use the term “abundant life” as code for the life you’d love. Even if you’re not totally sure about all aspects of your life, you know a few things about what you’d love to have more of in your life and what you’d like to have less of in your life.
For example, you long to have more love in your life in the form of a romantic partnership – maybe a new one, maybe deepening in a partnership you already have. You could long to have greater financial income and flow, to be able to take the trips and experience life’s adventures. Maybe there’s plenty of money, however you are working so much that you haven’t had the time to take the vacations and trips you planned, you’re longing for time freedom.
I have longings too. One is a longing for greater health, the kind of health that will have me racing mountain bikes, feeling good and strong while doing it. I longed for a great relationship, and took Vision driven action to call in my man.
What do you want more of? These are your longings.
What do you want less of? These are your discontents.
An “abundant life” has these desires fulfilled. I have a question for you…its an important one, critical in fact to the fulfillment of your desires. The question I invite you to lean into which because it’s so important I’m going to ask you more than once….
Would it really be okay with you if you began living at a higher level of abundance?
And it’s easy to say yes to that, right?
That’s an easy, yes. We want to be able to say a full throated, full hearted, yes.
Yet along the way, there’s probably parts of us that are holding back like we really lean into
that we want to live a full and complete life of abundance. There may be parts of us
that aren’t quite on board and are hanging out somewhere else.
If you’re feeling any hesitation, or if you’re feeling a need to control the universe, as in:
• I’ll say yes to abundance, if it happens my way,
• It has to come to me through this work,
• It has to come to me through this client,
• It has to come to me through this project,
• It has to come to me through this person,
• It has to come to me from this relative…
Whenever you’re structuring or managing the universe, you’re going to have a smaller experience.
Think about infinity for a moment. (Yes, back to math and science. I am a nerd, remember?)
Infinity means unlimited in size.
Think of the “my way,” where every “my way” is a finite or limited size.
• It has to come to me through this work, (no matter how big, it’s finite)
• It has to come to me through this client, (finite, even if Fortune 100)
• It has to come to me through this project, (even a $100 Billion project is finite)
• It has to come to me through this person, (finite)
• It has to come to me from this relative… (finite)
A finite solution is like trying to force the Universe through a drinking straw. The Universe can do that, yet, how long do you think it will take to hit that small target? You could instead hand the Universe, the “Blue” as in “it came to me from out of the Blue.”
That target is much much larger, could be infinite in fact, as we are not controlling it.
Do you think it would be easier to hit something infinite in size or the size of a drinking straw?
Abundance is most easily realized where we have a dream and we hold it loosely.
This is one of the keys to success that few people talk about.