Tips for Getting What You Want
October 6th, 2008

SEAN WARD’S MONDAY MEDITATION

Artists and creative people know better than most about the truth behind the idea that you create your own reality.  We have created a new reality every time we finish a new work.  Watching the external world transform through the work that we do is one of the best things about being an artist.  But many artists I know are still struggling, despite increasing success.  If we are creating our reality, why do we struggle?

Recently, I’ve been getting upset about the way certain ‘goals’ were not working out, and even started to wonder if this was all baloney and that I’d wasted the focus of most of my adult life investigating this stuff.  I decided to stop caring about it, put my DVDs and books about creating your reality away, and let whatever was going to happen do so without my trying to affect it one way or the other.  It was almost instantaneous how as soon as I stopped trying to get what I wanted, what I wanted landed right in my lap.

So I learned a few things about how it works:

  1. It knows what you really want.
  2. It never happens the way you think it’s going to.
  3. It never happens on your schedule.
  4. It waits until you’ve either forgotten about it or given up.

Basically, it doesn’t want you to get an ego about being able to make it happen, and it wants you to not get emotional about it either way.

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  • http://www.myspace.com/miketuckerart Tucker Mike

    Yeah yeah.. Sorta like, You’ll just forget all about. Then somebody comes to you out of the blue, and they say “Hey you’re that ‘so and so’ that did ‘that thing’”, and you’re all.. “oh yeah, that was me!” “thanks for reminding”.

    (A lot of times, it’s a quick little scribble of Batman or a dragon that you gave for somebodies 4 year old.)

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean

    I mean on an even bigger scale. There’s a way that I wanted to organize my life for the winter. And then there’s an amount of money that I wanted to go into my bank account. And the way that those two things are coming true I could not have predicted. And I definitely could not have foreseen the way that they would be entwined.

  • http://www.myspace.com/miketuckerart Tucker Mike

    Right, I was just down playing it, to beat myself up a little bit.
    It doesn’t go to plan, yet I trudge on ahead none-the-less.

    The good news is, things are happening, not the way I’d want, but things are happening still in a good way that best serves me and my situation around me.

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