Making Things Happen vs. Letting Things Happen

      When I started this project, I was constantly monitoring my thoughts about myself, regarding money and abundance. I take my work seriously. I wanted to do it right and be successful. At one point I wondered if I was trying too hard.

      When contemplating the use of intention to affect your circumstances, a balanced outlook might also consider letting go of the outcome. Is that contradictory? If you intend to get that new job, can you simultaneously not care? There are those who say the harder you hold on, the more easily it will slip through your hands. Is it best to go with the flow, accepting what comes your way as what is meant to be? Is anything meant to be or are we always choosing what is, whether we know it or not, through our thoughts and expectations? These questions illustrate one of life’s great contradictions. We must find a way to reconcile both views.
      Using the job example: you intend to get a particular new job. Why? You want to make more money. You set your intentions on that job. You picture yourself in that office, at that desk and then out to dinner in an expensive restaurant, to celebrate. Then you don’t get the job. A week later your supervisor decides to retire and you are promoted into an even better job. You are getting all the things you pictured just not in the way you expected them. This happens all the time.
    What this shows us is that our underlying motives are important. In the example, yours was for more money. You envisioned its fulfillment through a particular job but it came to you another way. Some of my most enjoyable experiences have occurred when I had absolutely no expectations and set no plans. I suspect my underlying motivation of wanting a good time was the thought that created the reality.
      It also shows us that some things are just out of our hands. Who knew your boss was going to retire? The intricate web of connecting circumstance - if that didn’t happen, then this wouldn’t have happened and caused those things to occur - is mind boggling. Trying to figure it all out can be bad for the health. On the other hand, try smiling, laughing and relaxing in the moment. This has been scientifically proven to be healthy. And it is just such behavior that is the catalyst to the fruition of intentional thinking. Holding thoughts of happiness and appreciation for the world around us keeps us in a positive frame of mind. Like attracts like and positive things come our way.    
     I’ve been enjoying working on my house - cleaning and getting it ready for a new renter. I appreciate how nice it looks. As I labor, my mind reviews its many pleasant memories. I mop the basement floor and remember my daughter’s sleep overs with her friends down there. I weed the vegetable garden and think of how I built that raised-bed garden and got fertile soil for it from the shores of the Flathead Lake. Not knowing what was in store, the deep down, good feelings I felt in that house, told me it would all work out. That is how to let go. Just follow the good feelings.
      So do those good feelings mean I should stay and live in the house myself? No. As soon as I asked that question the good feelings were gone. What I need is to hand my house over to someone who has those same good feelings for it. And that seems to have happened, not on the day, nor with the people I envisioned but in a way to fully meet my needs. On October first I will be signing a lease with the perfect tenant; a single mom, with two kids, just like me, who loves gardening, just like me. I know she will love living there, just like I did. And that makes me feel even better.
    So I am going to stay with the happy thoughts and let go of trying to do everything right. I’ll still continue to visualize that $5000.00 in the bank, not knowing where it will come from. And I’ll find other creative ways to reinforce my vision of the pleasing prospects of my bright and shining future. Tonight I took a suggestion from a reader and wrote my wishes down. I used special paper. I placed it on the night stand by my bed and I laid a candle and a crystal on top to bring energy from the ether.  
    And one more good thing to think about - I sold another eBook.
Running Total - $4981.28 to go.