Funny How Things Work Out

I usually post on Monday and Wednesday. This week I had to leave town for a couple of days so I had my post in my draft folder all ready to go-but I forgot to post it before I left. Funny thing is, I realized that I had neglected  something important in my overview so it ended up being a good thing that I forgot to post that draft.

And that is how things generally work out in real life too. It may seem like a mistake, it may seem like a bad thing but often it happens just the way it is supposed to and works out for the best. That said, let’s get on to what I forgot; persistence & confidence.

If you never give up you can never fail, if you quit you will never ‘arrive’. Rome wasn’t built in a day and it wasn’t built without a challenge or two so understand that if you persist sooner or later you will achieve what you want to achieve.

I could say that while you are persisting, do so with confidence but you should do everything with confidence and many people have an insufficient supply of that so instead I will say pretend! Sometimes you just have to ‘act’ the part before you get it. The first time that I was told to ‘act as if’ I had absolutely no idea of how to do that. And you might not either, so you might be sitting there saying something like, I am not wealthy and I never have been so first of all how do I act like something I don’t know how to act like and second, how do you act rich if you are not? Good question and easy answer; it’s not about spending a lot of money, it’s not about acting like what you think wealthy people act like, it’s about confidence. Wealthy people do not sit around and think about money, bills and debt all of the time. Well, okay, some of the wealthy people think about money all of the time but not the same way people with little or no money do. They are thinking about how to grow their capital while poor people are thinking about, worrying about, fretting about, how to get more of the stuff. When you lack something that you want, you tend to think about that lack constantly and when you have what you want, you tend to think about your life, almost taking for granted that what you want is in abundant supply-that is confidence. So to pretend or act as if is simply being confident that your supply is there-no need to constantly think about it.

And that is the key to acting as if; be confident that what you need is in abundant supply whenever you need it.