If you could be a Jedi. Would you?
You know, the heroes from the Star Wars movies. A friend posted this question on Facebook recently.
Would I want to be one?
Sure, but don’t think I could handle the pressure. What pressure?
From The Empire?
Space creatures?
The Jedi Council?
No, from artists when they’re not grateful.
Sometimes I wanna choke one out with the force.
To kill them? No! I’m no animal. Just maybe till they black out. You know, I just wanna make a point.
Let me explain…
And I TOTALLY went thru this myself so I’m just as guilty of not following this philosophy.
You gotta be grateful for what you got and for what you get.
‘But Adam” you say, “I am grateful for everything I have.”
Really?
But what about when you get a ridiculous deadline?
What about that one client that always pays or shows up late?
Or that one project you did for “family” that you weren’t thrilled to do?
You have to appreciate it all because that’s where your power either shrinks or expands. Wallace Wattles in The Science of Getting Rich put it like this.
‘The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and the mean; and your mind takes the form of these things.”
Notice Wattles doesn’t say you ‘attract’ these things. He said you BECOME these things.
It’s like Newton’s third law:
“An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force.”
And guess what, Pumpkin? YOU’RE the unbalanced force!
Imagine this. You’re chillin.
Painting.
Cutting hair.
Whatever you do.
And then bad news hits. It could be work or it could be your personal life. You wanna get passed it asap!
You don’t want to be stewing about it or posting on Facebook, ‘you won’t believe what happened to me…’.
I mean, you can do it. But know when you do you lose your power and break the flow.
I know you can’t go from, ‘my client gets on my nerves’ to I’m so grateful immediately. But YOU CAN play with your dog. YOU CAN watch cat videos, or do Zumba for 60 seconds.
Anything that you enjoy that will help you raise your state.
And THEN, be grateful for that.
Adam