Desire

Balboa Press

Contents

Preface.................................ixIntroduction............................xiAbout the Author........................xiiiChapter 1 Desire........................1Chapter 2 Energy........................21Chapter 3 Success.......................33Chapter 4 Intuition.....................51Chapter 5 Results.......................61Chapter 6 Evolve........................87Afterword...............................109Acknowledgments.........................111

Chapter One

To change your life, you must change the concept of who you are.

For any change to take place in your life, first you must change the concept of who you are. Until you can imagine and create an image in your mind, of what you desire, change will not take place in your life. All changes take place first in your subconscious mind. Your concept of yourself, your assumptions about who you are, whether true or false, determines what manifests in your life. What you believe to be true is true for you. It is your reality until you change your concept of who you are.

What is your attitude towards yourself? What you affirm to be true for you is what your life will be.

I have witnessed many young people who don't believe they are capable of achieving something in their life, and they live out the belief. On the other hand, I have witnessed many young people who have changed their belief about themselves and achieved amazing results. Until you can image yourself experiencing what it is that you aspire to, you will not achieve your desire.

Once you accept the assumption that you are who you wish to be or achieve, your life starts to change. You start your climb up the mountain, your mountain, your adventure, as opposed to someone else's mountain or adventure. Every person's mountain or adventure is unique to them. You may choose the same mountain, but your path will be different. Until you accept the image of yourself as being something other than who you are at this present moment, you will always remain as you are. The false image of yourself, as someone unable to achieve or be what you truly desire, will persist.

Change your concept of who you are.

Once you have changed your concept of who you perceive yourself to be, changes start to take place in your life.

I have trained many young people to run the 400 metres in athletic competition. Over and over again, I am fascinated by those who start out being reluctant to compete because they do not believe in their ability. Their concept of themselves is not that of a successful 400 metre runner. In their first year they compete because I ask them to. As they witness their own results, their confidence grows. Their concept of themselves changes from one of "I am not a good 400 metre runner", to one of "I can do this." In their second year, they run with a different concept of themselves, and by the third year these young people see themselves as athletes who can compete successfully at the highest level.

To begin with, the only person who believes in them as runners is me. By the third year, they believe in themselves as runners. As they experience life as a successful 400 metre runner they grow into the person they were always capable of being.

Many people have no idea what they are capable of; what their true potential is. Until you make a choice about what you wish to desire and assume the feeling of that desire having been fulfilled in your life, very little changes. You drift from day to day which soon becomes years, and for some people, a life-time. This is not how your life was meant to be lived.

I run a program with colleagues called High Challenge that involves a high ropes course. Confronted by the prospect, we always have a number of students who declare they are scared of heights and will not participate. But as they watch other students completing the course, their concept of themselves changes. Suddenly, they want to participate. And not just try, but do. While my colleagues and I play a role in encouraging and supporting them to participate, ultimately, it is not us who makes the difference in having students give up their reluctance. It is the student themself. The student consciously changes their concept of themself from "I refuse to do this" to "I want to do this", from "I can't do this" to "I can do this". The student's internal world changes, and as a result of taking action their external world changes also. Once they affirm they will do the high ropes, reality changes for them.

Until you change the concept of yourself to what you desire it to be, nothing will change.

I often speak to students, young people and ex-students who have no idea what they would like to do in life. Many have been working for a number of years, not enjoying what they are doing, but don't know how to change their situation or work out what they really want to do with their life. One question I often ask is, "Can you imagine yourself doing something else?" Often the answer is "No" or "I don't know what else I can do." Until you can imagine a different version of yourself, nothing will change. Your imagination is the gateway to a different reality, a different life, a different way of living. Your imagination is the only way you can create a different world for yourself. It all starts in your imagination. Once you accept you are responsible for your life and nobody else, you can start the journey up your mountain towards your desired outcome.

If you are struggling to know what it is you want to do or achieve in your life, realize there are infinite possibilities for you to select from to achieve a desired outcome. There is a smorgasbord of choices that are available to you, but you must make a choice. Until you choose, your energy is spread too thinly. It's like trying to commit to playing basketball, dancing and playing football all at the same time. One, if not all of the activities you choose to participate in will usually suffer. With all the choices, you must decide. By deciding you cut off all other options and become crystal clear about what you want. Th ere is no wavering, you commit to the one thing you most desire. Most of the pain and agony comes from the time leading up to making your decision. Once you have made the decision, the other options fall away and you are free to focus all your energy on the desire you have chosen.

I remember a student who agonized about whether to complete his final year of schooling or to enter the workforce. For weeks I could see the pain in his face until he finally decided that school life wasn't for him and focused all his energy on obtaining a job. For this young man, his life as a student had no meaning; the choice to stay at school was meaningless and pointless. By his own admission, he was causing trouble by being there because schooling was not high in his value system. Within two weeks he left school to start a new direction in his life. In doing so, he brought his head and heart into alignment and thereby gained the power and energy he needed to move forward.

By leaving school, he exercised his freedom to choose a different way of life; to choose a different identify for himself and to follow a different path. I respect this young man for choosing a different path, a path more meaningful to him, instead of staying stuck in an inner world of pain and meaninglessness.

Almost twelve months...