What’s It Going To Take?

“What did they do to deserve that kind of success?” folks noften ask about celebrities while watching TV or browsing nthe magazine stands.

Not you… but other folks.

“They haven’t earned it, so they must simply be lucky.”

That’s kind of how it is, isn’t it? People have either done enough nto justify their success (according to our standards), or they just ngot lucky.

Which kind of confines us to the same fate: To have what we nwant, we are either going to have to get lucky (which we are npretty sure we won’t do), or we are going to have to justify nachieving it by…

Hmmm… by what…?

What do you have to do – or be – to justify the success/nabundance you desire?

Here’s the deal – whatever that magic equation is in your belief nsystem, that’s what it is going to take.

People will tell you all kinds of things that you need to do:

“You have to work 80 hours a week!” (yikes!)

“You have to be born into it!” (rats!)

“You have to cheat!” (hmmm…do I have to?)

And so on and so forth – a long list of either unappealing or neven undoable requirements that leave us discouraged. Or nhave us subjecting ourselves to painful ordeals.

We’ve been overly (and often mistakenly) programmed with nlists of such requirements – by well-meaning parents, friends, nteachers – even self-improvement gurus.

Where do they come up with these? Well, it’s usually what they nwere told. And either they’ve been able to prove it through personal nexperience – doing these things to justify their circumstances – nor they feel they’ve proved it by not doing these things, and thus njustifying their lack of what they say they would have wanted nif it were attainable.

The person who has worked 80 hours a week to achieve their nwealth will insist that such labor is necessary to justify that nkind of wealth. Because if they didn’t, how would they justify nthat kind of labor – and the personal sacrifice it entails?

This is in spite of the evidence that there are plenty of people nwith greater wealth working fewer hours. But the workaholic nwill argue that something is fishy there. They have to. The nalte
ative – that they didn’t have to sacrifice so much - is too nthreatening.

We may find ourselves requiring the same effort of ourselves nso as not to upset them. We want them to agree that our success nis justified.

So – what do you believe it will take? And are you doing it and ngetting the results you want?

If you’re not doing it, you may not really want the goal. Fear nof success, maybe…?

If you are doing it and not getting what you want, you probably ndon’t really believe that your actions justify the successful nattainment of the goal. There is likely an internal belief of “It can’t be this easy.” If you say so.

This is not merely the case with being successful in one’s career.
I see it in the healing process as well. There is certainly a lot of “It can’t be this easy” that shows up with EFT – at least upon ninitial introduction. Especially if the person has spent years doing nother kinds of therapy, and feels a need (understandably) to justify nthe previous expense of time and money.

A good percentage of potential clients ask me the million dollar
Question (and I don’t blame anyone for doing so): “How many nsessions will it take?” (Even when they haven’t defined a nquantifiable end result).

As I considered writing this article, it occurred to me that I might nstart answering that question with, “Well – you tell me. How nmany sessions will you have to do to justify the positive change nyou desire?”

Funny thing is – at some level, the answer is probably in there.
And if the fear of success is great enough, the correct answer nmigth be, “One more tha
I’ll be willing to do.”

Maybe we might define a miracle as some result that can’t be notherwise justified…

We are pure energy. Seemingly unbelievable changes – in ncharacter traits or financial status or anything – can occur in nthe blink of an eye. We just don’t allow that unless we can njustify it as a reasonable occurrence according to our beliefs.

Fortunately, our beliefs aren’t as unchangeable as we might think.

Maybe we don’t need to do more in order to achieve success – nall we need to do is question how much is necessary to justify nsuccess in our own minds, and reduce the requirement.

What if you could justify rapid change because it is possible nand has happened for others?

What if you could justify easy abundance simply because nabundance is all around, waiting to be experienced?

What if you looked at someone who has what you want, and nseems to have gotten it in an appealingly doable way, and rather nthan labeling them as lucky you said, “Hmmm… maybe they nknow something I don’t… I could probably do that.”…?

Could it really be that easy…? If you say so.