A wild Aha! is something new you’ve never heard before, and if only you did, life would be completely different.
Think light bulb moments, choir voices at your shoulder, your sad gray world instantly changing to bold, bright colors. It’s the power of you and the powers that be in brief but utter harmony.
I’m not saying they don’t exist. They absolutely do.
I’m saying that there are probably not as many as you think.
Look, I get as bored, frustrated, restless and stuck as the best of them. In fact, I could walk off with a bucketful of medals if it were a sport, or give you a run for your money if I don’t.
But even I have learned—reluctantly, grudgingly, I might add—that waiting for that one new thing, that wild Aha!, that life-altering secret is not what’s been holding me back.
It’s usually me.
Wild Aha!s, while always welcome (*ahem* . . attention, Universe), cannot be pursued, no matter how intense or goal-obsessed or extra-mile-goers we become. Aha!s are received, not chased, and thus they are rare and unpredictable.
So what can you do when faced with life’s difficulties or deep, internal struggle? I mean, other than eternally hoping for the Aha! miracle, the dues ex machina to the story you’re telling yourself?
You can make tiny, intentional shifts.
The one degree change in a different direction rather than the secretly-fantasized one-eighty-degree miracle.
A wild Aha! might bring visions of troubles be-gone, a fresh start, a clean canvas of possibilities. It might offer hope of ending the sameness or blah-ness or the pain, while it breathes new breath into the idea of better. Please, do open your heart and mind and soul to all of that.
But waiting and only waiting means you are refusing to accept responsibility of your role in the situation. And you cannot truly move forward until you do.
Moving forward doesn’t mean moving in leaps and bounds and all the overwhelm and impossibility you think it entails.
Moving forward can be moving in small steps with intention. It means doing your part.
In doing so, we often discover we didn’t need a wild Aha! as much as a reminder of what we already knew but had forgotten or were resistant to admitting.
Funnily enough, this is exactly what it takes to be in a receiving state of mind, should you have a rare, wild, light-bulb-choir-voice experience.
Although you probably already knew that.
It is for the how that I offer you support and encouragement on your way. Small shifts, with intention, can carry you on the path you deeply seek.
Not quite as wild, but wildly more known to work.
To light your path, I offer you The Light Shift as it celebrates its 5th (!!) anniversary. Talk about wild.
It is a book that I wrote, yet still refer to from time to time to remind myself, as you might need to remind yourself, that you already know what you need, and what you can do to keep shifting forward.
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