What do you really want?

The month of achievement and willpower

What do you really want?

I was talking with my good friend, Ed, about why is it that some people succeed and others do not. We went through the issues of socio-economic status, genetics and opportuntiy, and ended up talking about "will" as in willpower and freewill.

It becomes clear that those that do succeed, and by that I realise that success is an individual thing, do so because they can consistently and persistently pursue their aims, goals and desires. However, it would seem that first, we have to be clear about our aim and secondly, we need to act in ways that will take us towards that goal.

One thing that we are told by those that are sharing “The Law of Attraction” is the insistence that we all have choice and that this choice is a limitless resource. Well, I accept that this must be an absolute truth, but the statement fails to understand that choice is a relative experience. For most people, choice is restricted because within their experience and their paradigm, the choices are limited. This limit is mainly their attitudes and ideas.

The response to this is that we should be able to think outside of the box. Well, for many of us, the reality of what there might be outside of the box may well be like trying to envision life on Pluto and unless we have a pretty good imagination, this may be beyond us.

So the magical process of self-discovery begins with understanding the limits to our inner self or paradigm. Once we understand this, then we can begin to see that what we call “will” is really a limited but fixed set of alternatives. If we can discover the “free”, we may then be able to contact and engage in the “will”. Now this is important. Unless our will is really “free”, it does not matter how consistent or persistent we are, we are only working with limited alternatives that have been encoded in our paradigm and that is not freedom. In many cases, this just creates a cycle where consistence and persistence serves to reinforce the limits.

However, when we are able to get outside of the box, we can really begin to create dreams and images that are really profound and really are able to change life, your life.

This month is about connecting with your willpower (once you understand what that is). You can only connect with the power of will once you have the appropriate goals and dreams and they will nearly always be outside of your box. The limits of the box, the barriers to your expansion, are always negative paradigm issues. These may include such negative feelings as fear, sadness, disgust, anger, contempt, remorse, aggression. Once we are clearer and we can genuinely connect with our goals with positive emotions, we are then free to accept and use will. This is free will. I guess that there are very few people who actually have access to free will. Would you like to be one of them?