Ask and You Shall Receive

They can, because they think they can
Virgil

I have noticed that most people don't choose wisely from the many options available to them, but instead choose what is comfortable, familiar, safe, cheap, easy and readily available. That is certainly not how I structure my life. I have chosen to create strong positive intentions as to where I want it to go, for I notice that when I do this that I'm able to manifest the life I want.

Consider for a moment - what is the difference between a man who has become wealthy, and one who has stayed poor? Choice. There are thousands of examples of people who have been raised in poverty who have become wealthy, and those who started out wealthy and became poor. Those who become wealthy want to become wealthy. They desire it. They intend it. They choose to pursue it. They make it happen. The same is true of those who are determined to pursue a particular career, find a suitable partner, live in a nice home, develop supportive friends. The world we experience is not the haphazard place it appears to be. It is planned. It is planned by us. We create our life, even when we don't realize we are response-able for what manifests.

Only those who choose wise and strong intentions create a life worth living. Intentions are like guided missiles, leading you to the target of what you desire. Most people want very little, so they get very little from life. Those who have the most fun and enjoyment, energetically demand that. Sadly, most of us are like sheep, spending years grazing at the factory, office, or with the animals out on the farm. Just as sheep demand nothing from life, so too do those who habitually and continuously assign themselves to a boring existence.

Take a look around you. Those who are having the most fun and excitement are out there materializing their intentions. This process is no secret. We can all do the same when we are focused on what will bring us the most pleasure, and continue to send the energetic signals to the universe that we are serious about wanting a good time. Consider these lines from Robbie Burns:

I bargained with life for a penny, and life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store,
For life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask
But once you have set the wages, why you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn dismayed,
That any wage I had asked for, life would have willingly paid.

Be determined to ask for everything that would make your life what you would want it to be. Form a very clear and determined intention to get from life whatever would light your fire. Was it Plato who said that children could be forgiven for being afraid of the dark, but grownups could not be forgiven for fearing the light? Demand that life bring to you vast quantities of light. Make whatever changes would for you be tantamount to bringing more light into your life. Life will only give you what you ask for, as Robbie Burns so eloquently penned in the lines above. Don't bargain for a penny, when merely expecting a pound is not going to rob anyone else of their due. Some wise guy once noted that as we asked so would we receive. Develop strong intention to get more of what matters to you.

(Excerpt from The 12 Choices of Winners, Book 1 in the Spiritual Life Mastery Series, by Jeffery Saunders. The associated cartoons cannot be displayed.)