Are you in a rut? You want to get out? Are you stuck in relationship or job that you do not want to be in? If the answer to any of the questions is yes. Then visualise the new, see it and go get it. Comfort in unideal situation is a killer. What is it that you want? How bad do you want it? What are you willing to give or do to get what you want? If you want anything, there should at least be a plan - explicit or implicit. Marketers are very creative and clever in chorus, they make us buy things that we never knew we needed. They mastered the art of creating a need. They create a hype and develop a discomfort. They make you feel dissatisfied with your current situation. Well, that is exactly what we need to do in order to move from one place to another. Until you create discomfort and dissatisfaction of your current situation, you are going nowhere slowly. Your current situation must be your worst nightmare, on the extreme. It must be unsettling you. It must drive you to new heights, or rather catapult there. But if you are settled and content with your current situation then rejoice.
First you need to identify your ideal situation, most of us know exactly what we want and how we want it. Then visualise it and make a 'damn' plan to get it. This can be a process oriented or end product - your destiny. The most challenging thing why we don't achieve what we need is because of us. We haven't made up our minds, we are doubtful, we are willing to settle for second best and are afraid. I know a colleague of mine, who has LLB, Master's Degree and Diplomas but settled down a little until is too late. Now the qualifications are displayed in his office but he is not even a manager, neither is where he would like to be. He never created the need and discomfort in the first place. There is no reason, not to create dissatisfaction with your current situation. As they say if you would like to quit there are thousand reasons to do so. You have to keep pushing, put yourself in the space to obtain and achieve what you would like. I remember when I was fat, I looked at myself once and twice. Then I decided to do something about it. Yes, I did, I never allowed anything to come between me and my goals - target. The desire to lose weight was stronger and I have achieved it. I also created a discomfort about my image, then I made a plan and implemented it. Now I am maintaining the image. It works if you do something about it…one thing at a time. Importantly have a plan and be realistic.
Finally, you need to have hope, faith and trust in your abilities to get what you want. If you are not ready to move closer to your ideal self, you will not create any discomfort. There is biblical backing to this process. First in Hebrews 12:4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. This means if you really want something, it must mean shedding blood. Habakkuk 2: 2-3 states; And then God answered: "Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what's coming. It aches for the coming - it can hardly wait! And it doesn't lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It's on its way. It will come right on time. While Romans 4:17 …calls into existence things that don't even exist (speaks of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past). You speak into existence without intimidation. Without faith and hope, we are basically just living. We all hope that the sun will rise tomorrow. That is enough to keep you alive. We all hope that things will be better one day. Hence Hebrews 11: 1 Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality. The message bible put it this way; this faith - is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see. Visualise the new, see it and go get it. Listen to Myron Butler's song Speak while you read.
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