Entertain the Possibility

For starters, open yourself to the possibility that you have as much time as you need; in fact, you have as much time as you want for everything you want to do. Entertain the idea that every thought you have is creating the reality you experience. You don't have to believe this at the moment, but try living as if you do, and the proof will be in what you experience.

What do I mean by living as if you believe your every thought creates your reality? Well, to understand this concept, you have to become aware. Become aware of what you are saying to yourself and the world in every moment. Can you remember what you were thinking before you began to read this? Can you remember what you were thinking about yourself when you looked in the mirror this morning while you brushed your teeth? What did you think about sitting behind the car in front of you at the red light? What did you say to yourself (or think) about your spouse, your children, a friend, a coworker, a woman walking down the street with very tight pants, your boss, etc.? Of course, if the woman in tight pants is your boss, that is for another book ... he he.

Seriously, though, if your thoughts tend toward being critical of yourself and others, you are setting yourself up to find more work. You have sentenced yourself to spend each moment in a less-than-relaxed and appreciative state, but a relaxed and appreciative state is where time expands. In addition, on a more practical level, if you are overcritical, you won't find anyone in your life who can do the jobs you don't want to do well enough. You also won't find time to enjoy yourself, because you have a list of corrections to make before you can love yourself.

Imagine if every thought instantly manifested in reality and you were thinking about how your computer could get a virus, how signs of old age are starting to appear on your face, how the guy in front of you is driving like a jerk and it would serve him right if he got into an accident. Imagine if all that came true, instantly, right before your eyes. I think we would all be more careful about what we were thinking if we saw right before our eyes the computer freeze up, more wrinkles and gray hair appear, and the guy in front of us get into an accident, resulting in our spending a few hours stopped in traffic.

It just so happens that this is how it works. It may not seem so sudden, but given the fact that you think between sixty thousand and eighty thousand thoughts a day, consciously, and that you are subconsciously feeding yourself an even greater amount of data and forming alliances with all kinds of groups and people who bleed into your data banks, it seems very complex. The fact is, however, that it is very simple. All of that thought is creating your every experience. If I am wrong, so what? But if I am right—and I am—then what are you creating with your incredibly powerful mind? Wouldn't you like to harness that power?

When you think about your computer freezing up, you also have many counter-thoughts about how your computer doesn't freeze up all the time. You have many more memories of when it works fairly well; these counteract that immediate conscious thought of disaster. That is a good thing—but just imagine if you could get all your conscious and unconscious thinking to align with what you want, and only what you want. That is the goal; it is also how successful people in any endeavor get where they want to go. No action in the world can counteract thoughts that are out of alignment with what you want.

Once you become aware of thoughts that work against you, you have the power to change those thoughts, statements, and beliefs to what you would like to live and experience. For example, thinking or saying, "I don't have enough time" would be changed to "I have plenty of time." I know, right now you are saying, "I thought she said this would be easy." Keep reading with that in mind, and I will make it easy for you.

In reference to the time issue, instead of saying, "I don't have time to do this or that," change the internal dialogue to "I choose not to spend my time doing this or that." This puts you in a position to take control of your life—instead of letting life drag you along a path you do not want. If you want to have plenty of time for everything, you have to stop telling yourself that you don't have time for things you want.

In a bigger sense, you have to stop telling the universe that you have no time. The universe, or little people, or whatever it is that makes this a force that works as systematically as gravity, grants your every wish. There is no judgment about whether it is good for you or not, just pure response. You may not believe it but, just for now, entertain the possibility and act as if it is so. Just for now, become aware of the messages you are giving the universe, or yourself, to carry out.

First and foremost, if you continue to say out loud and to yourself that you don't have enough time, you will continue to create that truth in your world. For example, if you continue to want to exercise but do not, stop using the excuse that you don't have time, and state clearly in your mind that you are choosing not to exercise. In reality, you know that you have time, but you have made other choices, such as sleeping or cooking dinner or cleaning or watching TV or talking on the phone—none of these are invalid choices or wrong choices. Just get clear that you have chosen not to exercise, and stop pretending that you don't have time.

You may have an uneasy feeling about this; I have just taken away your valid excuse for not exercising, and you are so comfortable with the excuse that you don't have enough time that you are unwilling to let that excuse go easily. It seems so real when you repeat it to yourself and others daily for years; it seems that it can't be a lie—but it is. It is a lie that seems to give you some room to breathe, but in actuality, it is cutting your life force away.

I am sure that there are moments when you are doing nothing during the day—moments when you could drop down and do twenty sit-ups. You choose otherwise because you would be embarrassed to do that at work or while waiting in line at the grocery store. You may even take the elevator when you could use the stairs. I am not making a judgment or even suggesting that you take...