Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) DEC 2016 / JAN 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue A Miracl | Page 50
to claim the things we visualize and pray for
are rarely easy. They challenge us, stretch
us, and scare us like nothing else can.
Sometimes, they feel downright impossible.
(Case in point: it’s hard to motor off into the
sunset of your dreams if you have no idea
how to drive the car!) However, it is through
these inspired actions, these baby steps
toward our dreams, that we test the mettle
of our convictions, and show our benevolent
Universe that we mean business.
Why Wishing
Doesn’t Work
Most of the time, when we don’t get what
we wish for, it’s because we aren’t ready to
receive it.
Yup. I said it. We aren’t ready to receive it. (I
know, your inner critic is busy blaming and
shaming right now, but hear me out.)
Sometimes, our human minds play tricks
on us. We instinctively deflect, repel,
and dodge questions and situations that
challenge our egos. Sometimes, we don’t
even realize that we’re doing it. However
it happens, though, the result is that we
make excuses for why we’re not taking the
steps to create the life we’ve asserted that
we want, because taking those steps would
require a complete reevaluation of who we
think we are, what we believe, and what
we’ve already created. Wishing is a “safe”
way to try to create change, because all it
requires of us is that we sit back and wait for
the Law of Attraction to do its thing.
I wanted to be a better writer―but I wasn’t
willing to acknowledge that a) there was a
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...natural talent,
no matter how
prodigious, is in no
way a substitute
for practice and
experience.
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