Shifting Stories-Episode 31-Imagination Mastery-Chapter Three

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time.

I choose, therefore I am.
—Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

I wanted to change the world. But I found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
—Aldous Huxley

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.—John F. Kennedy

At the end of each week, I have included a chance to do an I Choose sheet. If you feel no resistance at all to what you have discovered you want, then you could skip this step.

However, that is not likely, is it?

It is our resistance that keeps us stuck.

Sometimes that resistance is so apparent we are well aware of it. Other times, it hides in the shadows, and we only know it’s there because of the symptoms of lethargy, anger, and discouragement, to name a few.

I could spend a long time talking about resistance, but instead let me send you to Steven Pressfield’s book, The War Of Art.

Although he is talking about resistance in terms of an artist, it applies to every one of us, all the time.

So, let’s assume that you have some resistance to living a better life, whether it is buried or noticeable.

Doing this extremely simple-to-do I Choose exercise works what others might call miracles.

One of those miracles happened to me many years ago. My husband had left and I had no idea that was going to happen. I came home from a trip and he was gone.

I had no idea what to do. All my get up and go, had got up and left, too.

I was struggling to pay bills, feed my family, and support a home that I had just purchased.

I loved that house. I can still walk through it in my mind and tell you everything that was there because I designed the whole thing to be exactly how I wanted it to be.

I knew that I needed to sell it because I couldn’t afford the payments, but I resisted that idea until one day my oldest daughter, who was in her last year of high school said, “Mom. Sell the house. You have no other choice.”

I knew she was right. I had to do it. So I put into practice all the things that we are talking about in this book.

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