What is Keeping You From What You Want?

I'm currently reading "This Thing Called You", written by Ernest Holmes in 1948 and just came across this gem:

The thing that stands between you and the greater good is a thing of thought and nothing else. It is NOT reality that you must change, but your mental reaction to it.

Can the message be any clearer? If you think about it, we have been taught backwards & have been "doing it" backwards for eons.

We think cause & effect, right? But we think the cause is the effect and the effect is the cause.

For example, when something good happens to you, you feel happy. When something bad happens to you you feel angry, sad, depressed, or all of the above. We see the event as the cause and the emotion as the effect.

But there is a CAUSE to the event in the first place. The cause is the Law of Attraction responding to what you have been sending out - good, bad or indifferent, doesn't matter.

I recently thought about the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and reviewed the 7 habits. The first one is to be proactive. When I first read this book in the early 1990s, to me, being proactive meant to prevent problems before they happen. It involved taking preventive action now to avoid having to "fix" something in the future and it was very helpful to me.

Now I realize that it is even more important to be Proactive with our thoughts and emotions. See, if you didn't have those negative thoughts & feelings, you wouldn't have that bad thing happen to you. And when you respond negatively to a negative event, guess what? Yep, you're just ordering up more of it from the Universe via the Law of Attraction.

When something - good or bad - happens in your reality, it is feedback from the Universe on where you have been vibrationally, emotionally. You can either continue to respond the same way and keep getting what you are getting, or you can be proactive and change your thoughts.

Here are three of my favorite quotes that relate to this:

•  "Change your thinking, change your life"
• "If you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep getting what you have always gotten"
• "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein

It sounds so simple doesn't it? Everyone makes it sound SO easy - oh just change your thoughts and be happy and everything will be rainbows & unicorns! It is simple, but it isn't easy. It can take a while. It takes baby steps and it is kind of like peeling an onion, once you get one layer off, there is another layer.

The good news is that just a little bit of "positive thinking" and unconditional happiness will shift your life enough for you to see that it works. Then just keep working on it a little bit everyday and before you know it you will be living the life of your dreams!!

You can start right now by deciding to be happy.  Decide NOT to let outside events or people be the "cause" of your happiness or unhappiness.  Be proactive.  Don't let outside people and events dictate your happiness. Practice unconditional happiness every day and your life will soar!