How Would It Feel to Have More Than Enough?

How would it change your life if you knew you had enough success, money, good looks, adoration and anything else that your heart desires?

Today I want to throw out some ideas on the concept of “enough.”

“In any competitive situation, he who has the least interest, has the most power.”

Here’s what I know in every cell of my being: when you feel like you are enough and have enough life opens itself for you.  Things come to you with ease.  You vibrate at the frequency of having instead of needing and when you go from someone who needs to someone who has you take the pressure off the situation.  It allows ease, flow, and joy to be present. You are open and receptive.  And when you come from a place of being open, things flow with ease; you become more attractive to people and a pleasure to be around.

Think about it.  Having a strong attachment to the outcome of anything only creates tension and makes things more difficult than they need to be. Yes, you might like to have a situation go a certain way, but when there’s a lot riding on it, when it just HAS to go the way you need it to, it creates an air of desperation and that my dears is the emotional equivalent of RAID–stops anything dead in its tracks.  You know the saying about optimal performance “being in the zone?”   You can’t be “in the zone” and be needy or desperate.

Do you think I’m contradicting myself?  I assure you, I am not.  In order to have some say in what happens in your life you do have to create  intentions and believe they are possible but AT THE SAME TIME you need to trust that whatever does happen is what’s supposed to happen, even if it’s not what you want.  You articulate the intention and then you LET IT GO and silently whisper, “if not this, then something better,” even though you have no idea what that something is.  What feels like endless waiting might just be the gift of time so that the better thing, the real thing that you hadn’t even thought of can show up.  It’s the same when something doesn’t work out the way you want it to.

In the words of the brilliant Byron Katie: “Everything happens for me, not to me.”

What would it feel like to have enough and be enough?  How do you react when you don’t need to have a certain outcome? What happens to your behavior when you know you have enough, are enough?  I urge you to try inhabiting this space, maybe just for one day, maybe just for one hour and see how it changes things.  I think my favorite concept of all time is summed up in this saying:  Instead of chasing the carrot, be the carrot.

If you are an entrepreneur and would like to learn how to apply the principles of “enough” to your business life, please join me for the telecourse:  Taking Care of Your Business When Your Business Isn’t Taking Care of You. It starts Thursday, June 10th.  And it’s on the phone!  Just click the link for the details.  I would love to have you in class.