Have you ever felt a burst of enlightenment, a feeling of certainty that you need to travel a different path or pursue a particular goal? As you embark on your journey toward your goal, things start to fall apart. You meet one obstacle after another. You begin to doubt whether you heard right. Maybe you made a mistake.
Was it really a mistake? Probably not. The thing is, any big goal or dream requires something of you. If you were currently capable of receiving the objective, you would already have it in your possession. Because it’s something “out there,” it’s going to require some kind of adaptation or evolution on your part. A realignment of actions, thoughts, perceptions, energy or habits is required in order to receive.
This means there are going to be challenges or hurdles. You’ll need to flex muscles you haven’t used before. You may need to develop skills you don’t currently possess. Or it may require a different level of thinking than you’ve had in the past.
All of this feels like you’re being blocked or told that you’re going the wrong direction. This may not be the case at all. If it felt right when you prayed about it and felt peace about it, most likely it is still right. Rather than assume you’re on the wrong path, ask yourself a different set of questions. Try some of these:
- What would I do now that I wouldn’t have been willing to do before?
- What am I resisting? What if that is the very thing I need to do?
- What new way of thinking is this causing me to adopt?
- What if all of this is for a reason?
- If I look at this through the eyes of a loving heavenly Parent who is trying to help me reach my highest soul fulfillment, what do I see?
- What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?
- What would I do if I let go of what other people think of me?
- What would I feel and do if I trusted God completely and knew that all of this was going to work out for my highest good?
- If I could create my ideal solution to this challenge, what it be? What would it look like? Feel like? Describe it in detail. Now, create it! Think it. Speak it. Move forward with whatever you know to do on it.
Act where and how you know to act, even if those steps are tiny. Forward movement, even if in baby steps, opens doors of opportunity.
What questions have you found helpful to ask yourself or God when things aren’t working as you expected them to?
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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