A Deeper Cut

In the earlier post, “What creates a transformation?” I looked at how a declaration of what you want can be a key to causing transformation.  In that post, I said that making a declaration wasn’t the end of the creative process, just a key element to it.  So once the declaration is made, how do you create the future?  Simple. You take action.  There’s no mystery here.  Want to learn to play the piano, go sign up for piano lessons.  Want to learn to ride a horse, go take riding lessons.  Want to find a spouse, then start dating.  Want to have a new house built, go talk to contractors.  Want to start a business, lose 100 pounds, or find a new job, then take actions consistent with the future you want to create. 

This may not seem very transformational.  We know that to create anything in our lives requires action, yet knowing that it requires action and actually taking action are two very different things.  There are likely several or many areas in your life where you know what to do, but you aren’t doing it.  The past is whispering to you.  “You can’t take piano lessons, you don’t have the money.”  “You can’t have a relationship, you’ve failed at three already.”  What is that chatter describing?  It’s only describing outcomes.  Three failed relationships is not evidence for anything about the future.  You have the amount of money you have; it may not be enough to take piano lessons, but it is what it is.  Now you know that to take piano lessons, you need more money, so create the money.  “Oh wonderful, I’m already working two jobs just to make ends meet, and you want me to create more money.”  What is that chatter describing?  Again, it’s describing an outcome.  What keeps us stuck is not the condition; it’s our relationship to the condition.  It’s the chattering about “what is” that keeps us from moving forward. 

So how do you quiet the chatter?  Simple.  You declare the future.  This is something you’re going to have to experiment with, but the bottom line is the past will continue to chatter in your ear unless you say something else and say it powerfully.  Your mind can smell a lie a mile away. You mind has to know that a different future is possible and that you (not your boss, your spouse, your parents, your government, but you) are going to create it.  This is not a mindless practice of chanting what you want over and over again hoping that it will somehow magically appear in your life; nevertheless, it’s transformational. 

No transformation?  Then you haven’t said it in the way that I’m describing here.  The past is still lingering and sapping the power from your words. When you make the declaration of what you’re going to create in this way, it cuts through the past like a knife.  You’ll experience yourself letting go of the past as it lets go of you.  The lid of the default future disappears.  The illusion is cast away.  With the past quiet, your mind will naturally begin to think about and focus on how to create what you want.  Whatever comes up, do it.  You don’t need to do it right now today, but you must put it in existence to be done or at the very least, clearly declare that you’re not going to do it.  Just don’t resist.  Resistance is a product of the past.  Don’t try to fool yourself.  Like I said, your mind can smell a lie a mile away.  The moment you waver, your mind will jump on it and say, “See, it’s all bullshit.  You can’t have what you want,” and it will start chattering again, and will continue to do so until you say something different.

Does making this declaration guarantee success?  No, but if you look, failure isn’t what makes life hard.  Failure is just an outcome.  Possibility is killed in your life as a result of listening to the chatter.  It comes from living in the cage of “I can’t have what I want.”  No, success is not guaranteed, but that’s okay, because neither is failure the problem.  Standing still is.

In the end, transformation isn’t about success or failure or how we feel; it’s about what we see as possible in our lives.  I’ve used everyday things people want to create to make the point, but the ultimate point isn’t about creating those things.  This conversation is about creating a new way of life on this planet – a way of life where good things happen naturally for people, and the one thing I’m very clear about is that to achieve that end we have to get better at creating, period.  The world we want will not come about by fixing, resisting or otherwise manipulating the world we’ve already created.  It will come about in only one way: by creating it.