Get to work to get the results.  Once we make the decision to move on a new story with confidence and faith in our ability to do it, we need to act on it.  Follow through is what gets you there.  Yes, the vibration is important but we can’t get where we need to on thought alone.  We need to show the universe that we are willing to do the work required by this new energy.  I wrote a piece a while ago about setting intention and I used the example of wanting to go to Bali but buying a ticket to Florida.  That won’t get you where you want.  Similarly, we can’t say we want to bring about change and continue to do the same thing every day.  I’ve done that for decades.  I told myself I was doing the work by reading, by feeling righteous, by getting angry of what has done.  Those feelings all inspired belief and understanding, but I didn’t move.  I didn’t act on those beliefs to tell the universe I believed I was worth more.  For example, I have never walked out of a job that treated me like crap—I was living with one foot in each camp thinking that was getting me forward.  We can move forward like that but there comes a point on the line where the gap is too great and we need to pick a side.

Don’t get me wrong, establishing belief and understanding for ourselves is a huge step—it just isn’t enough to create the change we need.  Only action can do that.  I got myself stuck here as well.  1. I would create these plans for how to bring about that change and then I would inevitably get exhausted continuing to prioritize my old way of being.  Like, I’d get up early to work on things for my personal goals but then end up cutting myself off because it was time to get to work when I really wanted to take a personal day and keep going.  2. I’d get overwhelmed because I would lose focus and stop prioritizing what I needed to and end up right where I started.  I’d also be overwhelmed because I focused too much on the end result, got frustrated when I didn’t get it, and go back to old habits.  I had to learn to break down the goal into smaller bits-understanding and accepting that big changes are brought about by small daily changes in support of our shift.  3. I had to learn to really let go of ego and my timeline.  I’d get so frustrated when things didn’t happen on my schedule that I’d give up.  I had to believe differently.

Undergoing change in our lives is simultaneously exhilarating/exhausting and empowering/humbling.  We need to be humble enough to pick up that what we are doing isn’t working and empowered enough to change it and it’s exhilarating because it’s something new and an entirely new world opens up to us but it’s exhausting because we aren’t used to that energy.  We can’t assume we are able to flip a switch and become a new version of ourselves.  That’s when we are most likely to give up.  We have to move slowly and integrate every day.  Some days it will go faster than others but there are some lessons that take time.  Regardless of the challenges, we are meant to keep going.  We are meant to ignite the spark of change and let it become a blaze that lights our path and inspires the flame in others.  We have to be willing to burn away the old so there is room for the new.  That is a terrifying moment. They key is that we keep the lessons we need from the past and release the rest.  That way we have what we need and we honor it but we are firmly in a new direction.  We can’t always take the past with us.  New destinations require new moves.  What work are you willing to do?