What Will It Take to Produce the Results?

What Are You Willing To Do To Get It?

Okay, so those things that you really, really want…what are YOU willing to do to get them?  What are you willing to sacrifice, what are you willing to change, where are you willing to go the extra mile to achieve the desired result?

Being Catholic I am a big Saint fan, therefore I know that the Saints used to practice something called ‘intentional suffering’ to produce a result that they wanted.  There was one Saint who gave up sitting down for a long period of time…Mother Teresa is famous for sacrificing things in the name of the results she desired to produce in partnership with the Divine.  You will remember the saying, ‘God helps those who help themselves’…there is actually a workable spiritual principle behind that saying as in order to produce miracles you must give them a place to rest.  This means that you must start some type of forward motion toward the result that you want to see.  Once you do that the Divine will empower you to move mountains, the problem is most people sit around waiting for a miracle to drop on their head instead of taking direct action to create one.

Taking direct action requires responsibility, discipline, integrity and commitment on your part.  When you are looking to create a major miracle or shift of circumstances you must line up all the items on your side of the street to make sure that you are in alignment with the Divine.  If you are intending to produce a major result you better be prepared to clean your side of the street so to speak…this means you need to do things like keep your word, stop complaining, look to help other people, see how you can challenge yourself, be disciplined, do things that insult your ego and be committed to the result you want to see NO MATTER WHAT.

Sometimes your shifts of behavior will be simple adjustments and sometimes they will be more difficult.  Anyone that knows me knows that I am a HUGE coffee drinker and every morning I pour myself a cup of coffee in this very large mug and every morning it ends up getting cold and I end up pouring half of it out—this morning I saw in my cabinet what I considered to be a very small and useless coffee cup, however it occurred to me that if I used the smaller cup I could avoid throwing half my coffee away because it was cold….so I did something different and used the smaller cup—imagine my surprise when I actually drank what was in the cup and didn’t pour any out.  In that moment it dawned on me that maybe making changes in our behavior for a different result was just that simple…perhaps the solution sits right in front of us every morning….

xo,

n