ALLOW YOUR OWN IDEAS

January 2, 2008

Tom O’Leary writes for his blog at www.LifeGoalAction.com. I enjoy his posts. He wants to make the most of his life, as do I. We agree that this means asking yourself some questions and taking the time to let the answers come to you.

This is a conscious decision and some action on your part is required or nothing is going to happen to you that isn’t already happening.

Rise above the daily trivia

Tom wrote an article recently that I spent a few days thinking about. The post is entitled Producing Ideas. It spoke to me of how we begin to live a mundane life.

We soak up other people’s ideas (like TV), or just the obvious facts regarding day-to-day life (like “my computer is slow” and “I’m annoyed that I had to wait for 4 traffic lights”), and never produce anything creative of our own. The important message is that as soon as we evict all the chatter, new ideas come flooding in.

Having our own ideas defines us. It distinguishes us from every other living being. Do you want to drag yourself through the day thinking about traffic lights or do you want to feel your own imagination and creativity percolating inside you?

LifeGoalAction

From Tom’s ABOUT page :

“Life Goal Action is a web site designed to re-start our journey towards the extraordinary. It is a set of information, tools, and inspiration to use in building things that are spectacular to you. It is based on the premise that the path to effectively achieving whatever is worthwhile comes at the end of three successive steps: Searching your Life, defining your Goal, and taking simple but effective Action.”

Like me, he writes about self-development, a term which is becoming a little tired these days, but really is just reflection on direction. It’s about being all that you could be.

A cascade of insignificance

My understanding of Tom’s meaning was this : Don’t get caught up in the physical reality of the present. Who cares about the weather, the noisy kids, what someone said about a person you know? This is exactly the stuff that makes life boring and stationary.

Everywhere you turn, someone is telling about the latest goofy notion they heard about, like a catalog of joke e-mails. This stuff is worth about 2 seconds of your attention, so don’t give it more than that. It will take up the space needed by the things that come your way that do matter, and you’ll forget them instead of making them part of your life.

All of this random incoming data is temporary. It is momentary. It is done and over in a flash. It won’t matter a week from now. You won’t remember most of it tomorrow, so how important can it be? There’s no payback to spending any time here. I guess we do it because it’s in front of us and seems very immediately in need of attention.

Quiet the noise

Clog up your head with the 3D world in front of you and you’re almost certain to never move forward towards an awareness of yourself and your potential. You can be a sponge for the 10 million gigabytes of superficial chaos coming at you every day, or you can block that sender and get some great stuff in your own Outbox.

Quiet all the babble, decide not to recognize that it exists, and ideas will be born inside your own mind. These ideas are special because they are unique to you. Only your one-of-a-kind thought patterns and imagination could come together to produce this genius. Don’t let the “coffee’s too strong, eyeliner’s not straight, kid forgot her lunch on the bus” racket drown it out.

Esther and Jerry again

I related Tom’s ideas to making your days more interesting and inspired, instead of monotonous routine. I see an application here about creating a better future for yourself as well.

I have enjoyed 2 of Jerry and Esther Hicks’ books, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent and The Astonishing Power of Emotions. These 2 books brought a very big change for the better into my life so I refer to them often. It becomes difficult to deny the Hicks’ writings or techniques, because they just seem to work. These words left a profound impression on me: see your world not as it is, but as you want it to be.

Move with purpose on the road of life.

Choose to see only what could be

Although it takes a little practice to see only what could be, it’s not actually difficult. In the beginning it feels like pretend, but why does that matter? What so important about reality?

Shift your thoughts onto a new track. Live more inside your own head. So you’re driving to work, and it’s not “do I have time for coffee, which kid has hockey tonight, I hate what I wore today”, it’s “I’m driving a Subaru Forester that I’ve owned for 3 years and it still drives pretty well”, “ I’m excited to get to work because I have several business deals on the go”.

What could your life look like to you?

What harm can it do? Create your own personal fantasy of desires achieved. Hypnotize yourself. Live in your private trance. No one will be able to tell. If you’re not really clear on what your goals are, this will help you outline them more plainly.

Think about what you really want life to look like out your own eyes. Start with something easy like your car. Picture it. Hold on to it. It’s easy to get there. Once you’re able to just shift your head gears and go to that place, practice turbo-charging the strength of your fantasies by using the article on energizing your thoughts even more.

Things are going to start happening. You’ll be surprised at first because you might not be expecting them. In some kind of way that I still find fascinating and a little spooky, you’ll also see clearly how to make them happen.

Posted by Christine Scaman | Filed Under Happiness, Sites To Know