I want

"I want to win the lotto. Today! Then I can tell them to shove their job."

To want implies that I lack something. A lack of anything is always negative.

So when I keep saying I want to win the lotto, or I want a new job I am surrounding myself with negative energy. But what is the alternative? If you hate your job so much that you can't bear to get up in the morning and face it, how do you turn that into a positive?

I've read books telling me that I need to tell myself that I already have enough money and a great job and it will be so. Also not to focus on what I don't want, like this current job. Don't is negative and if you focus on it, you'll bring it into being.

I've tried the positive affirmations, but I found it hard sticking with them. A good place to start though is to have goals and visualize them happening. Focus on that being the reality, which is much like the affirmations, but you're seeing it in your minds eye instead of ranting on and on to yourself and starting to feel insane.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try the affirmations. I just didn't get it right. I work in pictures. So seeing it is easier than saying it for me.

Not that I seem any less insane as a smile crosses my face for no apparent reason. No reason that is, that others can see. But I can see my vision getting closer and closer. So close I can almost touch it. I know that it's going to happen.

Now I need to condition myself into thinking that I already have and don't want anything. It's going to take a lot of reminding before it becomes a habit. It is the re-education of my brain, from years of wanting to a future of having.

Can you have and not want to make it reality?

Wish of the moment

We all have dreams and wishes for our lives, but these can change in an instant. Yesterday you were wishing to win the lotto or find a job and today your wish is for you recently injured family member to recover. Or your dog - who is just another family member to return home safe and sound after running away.

We all have long term goals. And never more than at this time of year do they come into focus. At least for those of us who celebrate a 1st of January new year. But for any of us that celebrate any kind of new year, it is the time when we feel we have a fresh start and can conquer the world. But life starts happening and very soon we lose our momentum and are back dealing with the struggle of every day life.

Our goals and dreams are with us and we longingly think about them every now and again, but we're too busy thinking about the problem of now. What is today's crisis that I need a miracle to get through?

I'm here to tell you that there is a miracle for each day and each goal and dream, long term or short. Your wish of this moment and the next can come true. You just need to ask and understand that the Universe has a time line. My mom always used to say que sera sera (what will be, will be). I believe though that we can influence what will be and if we learn to ask for help, we can get it. Be it angles, guides, God or whomever/whatever you believe in. Ask.

Let this be the year where we all learn to ask for help. Asking is not enough alone though. You need to believe that you are worthy of the help and that it will come. But don't decline or ignore the help, just because it comes in a different form to what you were expecting.

Ask and believe in your wish of the moment.