Wishes Fulfilled

In his book, Wishes Fulfilled, Wayne Dyer takes the ante up a notch on building a successful life, declaring it’s not enough to just wish for something good to happen or to picture it happening, you have to feel it as though it is already happening.  You have to “feel” what it will be like once you get there.

Reality Check

This is not only a hard concept to grasp … simply wonderful as it sounds, it’s very difficult to master.  Worse, it goes some distance beyond an ingrainable sense of authenticity, trying to impose a contrived construct from the unknown future on a present reality.     

So I’m going to push the ante up another notch and insist that one has to live wherever one wants to be – better yet, where one “belongs”, not just imagine it or feel it.   

When I was in graduate school, I couldn’t just imagine or “feel” like what I thought a biomedical scientist would – or ought to be or “feel” like, I had to behave like a biomedical scientist and, in fact, become a biomedical scientist, doing all the things a biomedical scientist would do.  That meant exhaustive reading of the biomedical sciences literature, developing testable hypotheses, setting up experiments to test the hypotheses, running the experiments, analyzing the results and critically evaluating the findings.  It’s a behavior, be-DOER thing.   

Abraham Lincoln didn’t just become “Presidential” when he was elected President.  He lived “presidentially” his entire life … at the very core, he was “Presidential Material”.   

If you are “star” material, simply BE – authentically – the star you are!  Everyone expects it and it will ultimately fit you better than any caricature you might otherwise be inclined to adopt.  

If you’re NOT star material, stop acting like it!  Nobody likes a fraud and it’s embarrassing to those who have to deal with it.   

As for the wishes, wishes don’t hold much water.  Stop wishing and start BEING*.   

Caveat:

Unless you were born to royalty, you can forget the “Prince” or “Princess” thing. 

And if you don’t know or don’t think you are “Star” material, don’t worry about it.  Just be the best “YOU” you can be, and things will turn out pretty much the best they can possibly turn out for YOU.  Life beyond wishes is yours for the taking.  

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Be BECOMING: BECOME someone/BECOME something.

Don’t be a Burden or Baggage – unless you’re claimable/reclaimable baggage. 

Be Balanced                                                   Be Bold

Be Bankable                                                   Be Brain-Engaged

Be Bedrock                                                     Be Brandable

Be Believable                                                  Be Bright/Brilliant

Be Have                                                          Be Bullishly Accountable

Be Ware                                                          Be Buoyant

Be Beneficent/Benevolent                              Be Brave

Be Better/Best                                                 Be Busy [at Goal Tending] 

Belong – completely – and be BEHOLDEN to the Dream and Destiny inside you.

Quartermaster