I don’t mean ‘when you grow up’ – I mean what do you
want to be, right now?

Do you want to be a writer?
Do you want to be an entrepreneur?
Do you want to be successful?
Do you want to be popular?
Do you want to be an authority in your field?
What do YOU want to BE?

I’m sure that every single one of us has a list in our
heads of things that we want to be – and a much longer
list of excuses why we aren’t or can’t.

Well think on this for a second:

You are what you are.

You ARE what you ARE.

If you want TO BE a writer, for example, you will
remain wanting TO BE a writer for as long as your mind
keeps ‘writerdom’ in the future tense.

The day you stop saying I WANT TO BE and starting I AM
is the day that the future arrives in the present, and
the day that you become your dream.

When you say ‘I AM a writer’ you no longer have the
luxury of all those excuses. They stop mattering. The
only thing that matters now is how you will find the
time and inspiration to write. And if your mind accepts
the idea that a writer is what you now are, it will
also accept that it has to help out with all the
trimmings. opportunities will open up for you so that
you can sit down to write, ideas will start to flow,
inspirations will start to arrive from places you
didn’t even think possible.

Writing is a concrete example, but how does it work for
the more abstract concepts like success and popularity?

Just the same! Once your mental process has brought the
desire from the future (I want to be) to the present (I
am) your subconscious brain starts to shape your
behaviors so that they fit the concept that you are
manifesting.

That is not to say that you adopt a ‘fake it until you
make it’ approach, but that you start to see the world
through the eyes of one who is where you want to be.

A popular person sees the world differently to an
unpopular one and behaves accordingly. That behavior
reinforces the popularity and so the attribute gets
stronger.

The same with success. How often do we say that success
breeds success? It really does – successful people see
the world as a pool of opportunity and have no qualms
about wading in to take what is theirs. By adopting
that mindset, you can soon be wading with the best of
them!

So today, think about what you want to be. Then instead
of just wanting, start being.

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In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll wrote “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Today, I don’t know if you’ve had your breakfast or not yet, but I certainly don’t want you to believe six impossible things. Just one will do
to start with.

The one impossible thing that I want you to believe today – and I really mean BELIEVE it with every ounce of your being – is that you CAN.

You CAN achieve success.

You CAN do anything that you WANT to do.

You CAN … fill in your own blank!

With that fundamental belief, anything that is physically possible is within your range. At at times, even disability isn’t a barrier if you
have sufficient belief.

I read just this morning about a young man who was a successful mountain climber. He had a fall and trapped his arm between two rocks. He had a
choice that most of us couldn’t imagine having to take – he could hang there until he died, or he could cut off his own arm. He chose to live.
But that horrific tale isn’t the end of it.

He could easily have decided that without an arm, his mountain climbing days were over, but not this guy. He has the fire of ‘I Can’ burning
like a torch inside of him.

He now has a prosthetic arm, shaped like a pirate’s hook and he is back climbing mountains like he never left off.

You don’t need to cut off your own arm to prove that you can climb mountains – and we all have different mountains to tackle in any case. What
you do need is an absolute, unshakeable certainty that you CAN climb it.

When you KNOW that you CAN, actually doing it doesn’t seem so hard after all.

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There is a delightful Chinese saying:

‘Many thanks for pushing my wheel.’

It means, thank you for your recommendation.

It often follows another traditional saying, ‘I hope that you will remove the weeds that obstruct my mind.’ (A request for advice and guidance).

We DO have weeds in our minds, all of us, and we ARE often like wheels resting against a wall. Sometimes we can tend to the weeds ourselves, and sometimes we can set our wheel rolling without outside help – BUT most of the time we don’t.

So if someone else helps me to remove my mental weeds and set my wheel in motion I am not going to hesitate to let them – and thank them heartily for their efforts.

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