The Risk & Reward of Wanting

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Permalink Reply by Kris Stroz on November 30, 2008 at 11:20pm

What if you don't know what you want?

Partly kidding. I have some decision to make as soon as I make my decision, I will ask universe for it. You see... At the moment, I am house hunting. I thought I will buy a house, because I can have my fashion studio and my home in one place. It will be more convenient for me that having to run downtown to my studio.

But I LOVE living in the city and I will miss it badly. I feel I will become another person if I move to the suburbs. I am a city boy. So that is why I cannot decide. I want to ask the universe for a very big condo or loft, but I have a hard time believing for that. Probably because it is so expensive and housing market is bad.

Sorry to hijack. Your post is encouraging to me.

Cheers.

Kris

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Permalink Reply by the7killers on December 1, 2008 at 7:11am

Thanks, just keep wanting that house/studio in the city, don't think about if it's "realistic" or not because imagination creates reality.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Stroz on December 2, 2008 at 9:05pm

Thanks! You are right. Imagination does create reality. Everything everyone has began with a thought, which became a want, then it became reality. So I need to visualize myself in my city condo with my studio inside.

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Permalink Reply by New Dawn on December 2, 2008 at 3:56am

I started to start a discussion earlier and then canceled it out. How do we know what we want? AND What do you do when what you want is always evasive and out of reach or leaving you high and dry? I thought I wanted to be this or that and got there with a degree of success and then life took a sudden turn and I am virtually rerouted and to a different direction. I want to continue to be who I have been for years (i.e. the artist, the designer, the Realtor) but the door slammed shut and I am forced to move on. Sometimes taking a complete 180 from where I was. Here I am again. This is at least the third time where I have set out to be/do something (career wise) and after 7 to 10 years I hit the wall and can't get it back for some reason. Now, I am wondering again, what now???
I have lost my way, I have no desires to be anything anymore except to be financially secure. All my dreams have been realized and all have died (prematurely, in my perspective). I didn't just give up either . . . not until I had exhausted all resources and/or was presented with a tangible final end or a new direction. I am still hanging on hoping to rectify but hope is dimming that I will ever get my business back.
I have surrendered, analyzed, and kept trying to keep in the groove. I ask questions and attempt to understand the why's.
Why are some people lucky enough to be in a career for life and I hit walls?

I think I need to clear out the cobwebs and clutter within my soul and soul search how I should direct my path.
I just am not sure how to do that anymore. I am at peace for now, slightly confused as to why some people bumble through life and all works for them--they keep the job, they have insurance, they have money . . .

Then, it seems my desired life------despite a good education, a good spirit, personable, responsible, clean, hard working, planning, praying, being truly grateful and appreciative, etc.------just seems to be the proverbial rug that keeps getting pulled out from under me. My butt hurts! It has hit the ground again. I am older now and just don't know if there is another career in me.

I am not ready to give up yet, just scratching my head for now!

I am wondering-----waiting, looking to see the guiding light in the distance and hopefully it will be my ship coming in.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Stroz on December 2, 2008 at 9:14pm

I am glad you have not given up, New Dawn. And you should feel free to post what is in your mind on this board. That is what it is here for.

7 Killers is right. If you will be as specific as you can be, you will have it. Even though the book say it is as easy to get big things as small things, I find I get a lot of small things and occasional big thing. But seeing the small things come, makes me want to believe even more. We can create our own lives. If you want your business back, believe strongly for it again. The business I am in is very tough right now and I have a regular job. But I want to work for myself full time. I know it will happen. I just don't know when.

Don't compare yourself to others. Someone may have some job that you would like, but maybe they have other problem. No one is problem free. I have friends who should be happy, but they have some problems beyond control. One friend is successful and clinically depressed and cannot keep her love life afloat. Another friend has all kind of health problems. So I don't compare myself to no one anymore.

Keep believing. Don't ever give up.

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Permalink Reply by the7killers on December 2, 2008 at 7:07am

People who have go through life living success, after success, after success tend to have a different way of thinking, they are always focused on what they like to see. Even if you did achieve the career you wanted, you'd probably still have other things you'd want. We have access to infinite energy so you should use at every opportunity. When you see something you want, no matter how small, intend to get it, and try to be a specific as you can pertaining to to time and way you'll have it. Doing that will feel good, and smaller things will start coming into your life that bring you joy, and eventually more important things will start coming. Law of Attraction gives us the power to have whatever we want, so why use it to attract one thing. You should use it all the time to attract everything you want, that's how we'll create a wonderful happy life.

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