Miracle Soup Day 4

One of the most important ingredients in attracting miracles is to EMBRACE EXPANSION.

This is a tough thing to do in today's society, which favors linear thinking.

Growing up, creative children are told that they have "too many ideas." As creative folks grow up, they are often labeled as being scattered, disorganized, chaotic, unfocused.

Is that you?

Were you ever called "unreliable" because you did not bring projects to completion? If so, you may be carrying that label with you today, and it is SURE to get in the way of making your miracles.

They may have told you that you had to know what you wanted to do when you grew up, but your answer changed daily. They said your head was in the clouds, they called you a "dreamer". They said you'd never make any money, and that your destiny was to be a "starving artist."

And along the way, you probably got the idea that this was a bad thing. You believed that you would never make money, and so you likely took a string of jobs that made you feel empty, frustrated, and lost. Ironically, you probably didn't make money at THESE jobs either, because you already had such an ingrained sense of lack related to the very essence of who you are.

It's a myth - all of it.

In reality, your very full imagination - both the one you had a child and the one you possess now - is anything but bad. It is the womb for brilliance, the rich soil for miracles. Your creativity has gifted you with an abundance of ideas, which is something to celebrate in a big way.

Furthermore, your imagination is your greatest tool in creating miracles at will.

Reclaiming the imagination is a vital ingredient in the soup!!!

MIRACLE RECIPE #4: Reclaiming Imagination

Your creativity is your true miracle-maker! Release what you've heard in the past...it's time to let it work FOR you, instead of against you!

Write down any memories from childhood that you have of someone telling you that imagination was a liability. (If you are a visual person, and would prefer to visualize the memories, rather than write them down, that's fine.)

Next, re-write (or re-visualize) a different outcome to the memory. Remember "as if" you were full of confidence in your imagination as being your best tool for creating your massively successful future. If you had possession of that confidence, how would the memory be different? Imagine yourself as this very confident, robust child. What might that young child have said to put that person in his or her place?

Play with this (on paper, in your mind, or either/both) and see what comes out.

When you're done, write down that sassy phrase that came from your childhood mouth, in this exercise. Write it down somewhere where you can see it often, to remind yourself that your imagination is your magic ingredient.

We'll be working on finely preparing that ingredient, next...


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