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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