Elias' statement says much of what Seth said before him (no coincidence).  We create our own realities.  Why then, can I not achieve my goals all the time?  Because there is an underlying belief deep down to the contrary or a blockage.  I agree with this idea.

Our goals then should be to break down un-needed or hindering belief systems (as Bruce Moen says, you may address the belief or higher self, thank it for its service, but ask that it remove itself now, that you are a big boy or girl and ready to change it).

We should try to merge consciousness so that we are full of love, light and unity, and not (as many of us are) full of points and counterpoints.  First, of course, we have to acknowledge the subconscious or conscious beliefs holding us back - this requires being totally honest with yourself.  Ah, there's the rub.

Matthew

Unfortunately WF, I feel the same way.  However, coming to terms with our subconscious beliefs and blocks is not easy and quick to do, or easy to overcome.

Bruce has some free articles on this site about making un-needed beliefs go away.  I hope that helps.


Love,

Matthew

Well, a daily planner might help...you know, a calendar on which you make the dates for yourself to achieve your goals.  Break everything down into smaller pieces for yourself.

We can't do it all at once can we?  That's just life, right?

blink

What you have is standard life problems, that is, conflicting
desires and agendas.

It has been my experience that the only time I have accomplished
anything is when I have fully concentrated on one program. Like,
when I take a trip with an objective, I load up my van with all
things relevant to that objective, and nothing else. There just is
not room in the van for everything. The test then is how will I
conduct myself each day so as to accomplish this set objective.
During this period you accept that this is enough and you do not
have to do a lot of other things also. They can wait.

Then at another time, there will be a different objective, and for
that period, I will surround myself with the paraphernalia of that
objective. There is time in life to go through undertakings
sequentially that way. The next project won't be in a van, but the
selectively loaded van is for me the symbol of how to focus on one
thing for a while. You are far away from everything else not in the
van and you don't deal with other things.

I have been an executive, and for that job, you must handle several
things at once. For this I suggest you choose about 3 things that
need doing that day and do everything required for each of the
three things and carry through each one to where it is either at a
holding point or completed. Then move on to the next item.

As for choosing what to do when, you can get a feeling for a time
for each thing. If you want to write seriously, that requires a lot
of maturity before you have things to write that amount to
something, and a lot of accumulation of information in the area in
which you want to write. Generally your writing gets better with
time, as you mind processes your material. Therefore I don't see
getting urgent about for instance philosophical writing, because it
improves with time. There will be moments of clarity which happen
at odd times. For me it is often the first hour after I wake up,
but it is at other times also. It is good to sit down and write
when the moment of clarity comes. Writing is not an obligation
unless you have a deadline.

As for social life, you are getting some of that here. Typed
communication is meaningful, you get a wide range of people to talk
to, and a lot of growth takes place in forum discussions. There
will be a time for getting together according to feel. When I was
in college there was sometimes a party every weekend with a similar
group of people until it got a bit boring once in a while. The
desire to meet and talk has a spontaneous quality about it, when
people are full of conversation, but other times they are not.

A certain amount of your time is claimed by necessities, like
earning a living. If activities away from work count a lot, try to
get a job that is not exhausting, and you do not need to take it
home with you. If your job is tiring, when you get home, eat a
quick refresher meal, then lie down horizontally to rest. You can
rest much more effectively in a fully horizontal position. The food
is needed to begin to restore your energy.

As for reading about spiritual matters, that goes on forever, you
don't get answers very often, and it has only a certain amount of
urgency. The books are not textbooks to be memorized. You can take
it at whatever pace you can handle. You can leave it for a while if
you want, in order to do other things. Absorption is gradual and
takes time.

It is necessary to learn to function without answers. At each stage
in life you have a certain amount of knowledge, and that is what
you work with. Later, with more knowledge you work a little
differently. It is acceptable to say, "that is what I worked with
at that time, because that is what I knew at that time".

Hi WF

This Elias quote reminds me of what I call cross-purposes.  Usually when we are seemingly unable to create what we want to create, we have more than one conflicting beliefs and this causes us to analyze things too much.  We end up confusing the energy behind our intention.  It sounds a little like you may have some fears about making a decision.  That you are afraid you will make the wrong one.  Sometimes to get over this fear we need to just do it… make a decision and go for it.  Most of the decisions we make are not set in stone… after a fair amount of time we can change our mind and make a different decision if we see that our original decision isn’t creating what we wanted.

After we make a decision to accomplish something, we either get the results we wanted or we get a bunch “why not” reasons.  Our reasons of “why not” is really a tricky way of denial that we apply to our life everyday.  These reasons give us rationalized excuses and alibis, in which we tell ourselves stories about why we didn’t get what we wanted.  Our reasons of why not never give us the results we originally wanted and the tricky part comes in because in our mind we think our reasons of why not are almost as good as what we wanted to accomplish in the first place.

We all have many standard reasons of why not that we use all the time… some of these are… I’m too busy… I don’t have time… It doesn’t really matter… I’m not good enough… I might make the wrong choice… I don’t have enough support… money… talent… etc., etc., etc.  All these things and more are what we tell ourselves over and over until we believe they are true.  All of our reasons why not is what prevents us from accomplishing the things we want to accomplish.  

Everyone does this everyday, so you are not alone.  However, once we recognize what we do, then we give ourselves the power to accomplish more of what we want.

Love, Kathy :-)