TLOTTW: How to make wishes (plans) come true?

Plenty of times I have blogged about LOTTW and dreaming big, but I don’t think I have written about how to make the biggest dreams come true, and why they seem to elude us. I have already told you to be clear about what you want and envision the perfect future you’d like to have. (If you haven’t read the previous posts, there’s plenty in this category to choose from.) This post is about the final stage of your plan: Waiting for it to come true.

This is the phase where you need to let go and let your hair down a bit. This is not a stressful period where you have to be a certain way or act the certain way or BELIEVE everything will be fine, but a phase where you simply go “oh well, I’ve explained it to myself very well and clearly what it is that I want and now I’ll simply have to wait for an opportunity come my way that I can grab and run with it.” You don’t have to chase for an opportunity, just wait for it. It will come to you as if you were sitting on a throne waiting for your trusted soldiers to bring you what you asked for.

Perform only the tasks that come to you without effort. Do what to you feels like breathing. If you feel like laying down to contemplate the world rather than work at your goal, do that. Go on your whim if you like, or if you are stressed out of your mind at your work, well, do your work because at the moment it’s the only thing you can do. Nobody is expecting you to turn into a monk. Just wait for the phone to ring, an unexpected customer to walk in, to meet an unexpected person – if your work involves people, you’re already in a great position to have your live turned around, no matter what you do. Just wait, bide your time and keep your eyes peeled for an opportunity to arise.

Fend off any naysayers, they are the only ones standing in your way, along the traps of contentment over fulfilment. If you want the best, don’t sign up for an “almost as good” alternative; beware of cheap copies! Avoid them at all cost if your gut already knows this is not the opportunity you were waiting for. They’ll be everywhere, by the way, every time you see one, just grin at it and send the Big Dude a thought: “I know what you’re trying to do you cheap louse! 😀 Give me the best and or I will fart in your face!” (It’s only a game.) Imagine God playing a game with you. You are a child at his feet, asking for him to give you the biggest lollipop you’ve ever seen. It looks delicious and you want it, but God is giving you hard time for it and teasing you with it, like big brothers, uncles and fathers sometimes do. They’re just toying with you, with no malice at all, only to teach you a valuable lesson: That lollipop has your name written on it. It is yours, but God is only pretending to be the owner of it. He will give you the smaller treats give you pretty good ones, some of which you’ll probably accept. “Fine, if that’s all I can get, I’ll have that one then.” He seems to be always holding back the biggest one, until you learn to knock back all other offers except that massive, delicious bit of sugar high he has been keeping from you all your life. “Give it to me, it’s mine!” He won’t give it for as long as you’re angry at him, irritated, try to coerce him, bribe him, fight others for it, he will simply sit back and wait until you learn your lesson.

He will tease you with what you want for as long as he can find the smallest of hesitation in you thinking that what is yours isn’t. He will also give you everything you don’t want that much, throw in millions if money doesn’t matter to you much, anything that comes to you easy is what you probably don’t want or need much. You know how women who want nothing but children are barren while women who’d rather give birth to dogs than human children are as fertile as they come. It is the irony of life; we believe the things we want most are the things we can’t have, and the things we don’t want are thrown at our feet… Whatever it is that you’d accept but don’t give that much value for, only to hold onto the things you want the most. For as long as you avoid looking at “the prize”, avoid thinking about it, avoid wanting it… It will stay there untouched… Undisturbed, until the day when you go… “But what about that thing… Can I have it?” “No you can’t have it.” “Why not?” “You can’t reach it.” “But I want it.” “Go on then, take it.” As you get up to reach it, God will pull it away from you: “You thought it’d be that easy?” This is the one thing that he can use to teach you lessons with, and the more you want it, the bigger the lesson, so you’ll be sure to keep your eye on the ball. It is too valuable to give to you without a further benefit; enlightenment. Not until you finally burst out laughing at the realisation: “It’s mine, isn’t it?” You look at him and he laughs with you. “It’s been mine all along, hasn’t it?” you ask, and you finally play-attack him and grab it out of his hands with no difficulty, no remorse, no guilt, no trace of gratitude, because it was yours all along. “You cad!” You’ll finally tell your God, “you had me fooled there for a moment!” “For a moment?” He’d be likely to reply: “Do you realise how long it took for you to take something that was in no way kept from you, all you had to do is to take it… Like it was already yours.”

That is the lesson you have to learn; what you want is already yours. And no matter how many teachers will tell this to you, it won’t sink in until you’ve danced yourself silly at God’s candy shop trying to coax him into giving you what you want, or after spending decades pretending you don’t want the thing you want the most.

By the way, when you realise that the person you’re in love with is only a Partial Mirror, don’t think you have to want less than them, but realize that there’s something more out there for you and you’re being teased with nothing but a  appetisers. Another thing that needs be mentioned in regards to people: If you want someone who doesn’t really belong to you, the thing you have to do is to change yourself to be the kind that they could love. If you’d rather not change yourself for them, you probably don’t love them as much as you think, and if they want you to change for them, they probably don’t love you much, either. But you can have someone you want, too, but you’ll have to first become the person who they could belong to.

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