Take action to see change

$ few weeks ago as usual my business women’s group got together, as we do every month, and share any business insights, motivate each other and just network.

This time as it is near year end we spoke about what we were ready to let go of in our lives and set our intentions for the New Year. We not only spoke our intentions, we prayed for them with each other. It was beautiful and powerful.

But a few days later, as I was sitting in meditation I heard the voice of my heart tell me, ³You aren’t going to make those intentions come true unless you get very specific about how they are going to come about this year. You need to set goals and outline steps and commit to bringing this about in your life. Otherwise, it’s just going to be business as usual.´

I was shown that I needed to set goals in every area of my life and be very specific about what I desire to create in that area and what it will take to get there.

Then I needed to commit to the steps and have a process for tracking them and keeping my goals in my awareness.

Since then, I have been deeply engaged in a process of visioning my life, creating goals for the year, and dividing those goals into measurable, achievable steps, and then following through. I now have developed a whole process to keep me moving toward my heart’s desires in a balanced way. The process has been ama]ing, and challenging, and quite a learning experience.

Suddenly I am making things happen in my life that I have wanted for a long time and felt that I either could not make time for or had no control over.

In the process I have had to get very real about what is important to me, what I truly desire, and to what I am willing to commit myself, my energy, time, and resources. How much do I want it" $nd what is in the way inside of me" What has been holding me back"

WISHFUL THINKING

One of the things I am realising is that in the past I relied heavily on wishful thinking, waiting for a miracle to take me out of my current dilemma and bring me my dreams. I would hope for a miracle while not committing myself to making the things I desire happen. I still fall into this, because it’s hard to get crystal clear and then take action. It brings us up against our fears, our false beliefs, our la]iness or insecurity or doubt. But the bigger problem was I didn’t feel empowered to create the life I desire, to manifest my dreams. I felt helpless and hopeless, like the best I could do was hope and pray, and maybe these things would show up and maybe they wouldn’t. Hence I would hesitate between periods of great optimism and great despair, because I didn’t feel I had any urgency in the situation. Now I realise this is totally wrong.

ATTITUDE

$n attitude of surrendering to the flow of life can help us to remember to release the results, the outcome. $fter you create your vision, this is an important, in fact, crucial step, that is often missed in the whole manifesting cra]e. But it doesn’t mean you just sit by and do nothing, waiting for your dreams to come true. Our heart’s desires can bring us into right relationship with the world, to the livingness in and around us. In fact, I believe a true heart’s desire is meant to do just that. Because it summons us to our greatness, to our fullest, most alive being, to our full participation here. We often wish for the best life or success but I was forgetting my part in the equation that I too am part of bringing my dreams to fruition, a big part. So as you work on attaining your dream or a better life always know that you have to be very clear about what it is that you desire to create in your life. You name it. You visualise it with all of your senses. You feel it in your being. In feeling it, you make sure you really want it, and it isn’t just something you think you should want. You get clear and real about the details. I wasn’t really doing this step before. You change the wishing and wanting to a commitment. I find in changing my desire to a commitment, feelings and resistance may arise. There may be fear or doubt in my ability.

VISIT

$lso you need to visit your dreams daily. You re-affirm your dream and your commitment to it daily. .eep it in your consciousness. $s you do, create space for silence, so you can hear where you are being led, what steps you need to take. $s you go maintain the peace as well.

This is because social security ensures that every citi]en, regardless of their political, social or economic status, is able to afford and access all available and needed basic human needs and basic human rights such as food, shelter, health, education, transport, communication, safety and security.

If all these things are easily available, accessible and affordable, what else can one want after that - politics"

No! 3ositively not! 3olitics only entices people to vigorously and violently participate in it when they cannot access their basic daily human needs enumerated above. Who would ever think of starting a fight with someone on a full stomach" Nobody, right"

Hence it is my contention that if the (swatini National Government had implemented all inclusive, universal and comprehensive social security programmes as directed by His 0ajesty the .ing when he wisely created and promulgated the 0inistry of Labour and Social Security way back in , the current political, social and economic conflict which bedevils the country today would not have happened!

TURMOIL

But then all of years have passed since without the country having put into place even a single new social security fund or programme, hence our current political turmoil and resultant instability thereof.

Wherever and whenever people have got social, economic, safety and security challenges, they almost always tend to blame them on politics and hence they then seek to change their political situations even though politics may have nothing at all to do with those problems.

In fact, many problem faced countries have frequently changed their political leaders only to find out that their original problems did not go away but just persisted regardless! I rest my case.

about your day, stay open to guidance and opportunities to help you realise your dreams. If you aren’t paying attention to the opportunities, you are going to make it a whole lot more difficult to reach your desire. The road to get there may go through some unusual routes that you had not planned or never conceived off. If you are too fixated on how you think you should get there or even where you should arrive, you may be missing the beautiful openings that Life is granting you. $s you visit with your dreams, remember it is up to you to take steps, to act. You take actions matching with your desire. You make your life corresponding with what you wish to create.

$t most you will realise that you need to eventually surrender everything thing to the almighty God. Well that has been how I do things, though this is a very important step many people miss. You hand it over to the flow of Life, trusting that the highest and best for you will be done in this situation, even if it looks nothing like what you asked for. You let it go. So it’s not enough to engage in wishful thinking and magical practices. You have to go out and change your life, take action. Be the creative force in your life. 0ake your behaviour similar with your desire. Be accountable, be empowered, ask for help, and then release the results. No one is going to do it for you if you don’t care enough to make it happen in your life. That was the big surprise I didn’t want to realise. But it has made a world of difference.

³You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being fully alive, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.´ ± *$%5, (//( 527+