According to success guru, Jack Canfield, “Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
I thought of that quote when a woman, in one of my groups, recently posted: ‘Even though I say I want to create wealth, I keep signing up for more courses that kept putting me deeper in debt.”
I hear this all the time. Taking endless classes feels like you’re taking action, but it’s actually an act of self-deception.
So, I responded with a question: why don’t you want wealth?
When an unconscious desire—say, to conform to family patterns—is stronger than your spoken intention—to be wealthy—you’ll stop yourself at every turn.
You’ll water down your efforts, make misguided choices, and justify your actions with a variety of excuses. You may say, and believe, you want to be wealthy, but that’s not the message that’s reaching your brain.
There’s a story about two caterpillars that spy a butterfly high overhead. One turns to the other and says, ‘You’ll never get me up in one of those things!’
In many ways we’re like that caterpillar.
We get a glimpse of what’s possible and immediately get cold feet.
We may say we want something, but deep down, a muted voice is convincingly arguing, ‘No you don’t.’
So to stay safe, we stay put. Then wonder why we’re not making any progress!
I’d love to hear if you can relate to that caterpillar. Leave me a comment below.
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