“For 21 days I want you to keep your mind on what you want and keep it off what you don’t want. Keep your conversations on what you want, keep your conversation off what you don’t want. Keep your dreams, your imagination, your thoughts, your feelings, everything in your environment consistent with what you desire and keep it off of what you don’t want.  Why do we pick 21 days?  For a very good reason. It takes 21 days for a chicken that has a brain the size of a pea to sit patiently, calmly, faithfully on an egg to hatch the egg. Now we feel if a chicken with a little brain like that can sit on an egg for 21 days without seeing any change, just in faith, for 21 days they sit on that egg, we can ask adults who have brains the size of 3 pounds, that have 12 to 20 billion cells and has the capacity to remember and retain all the knowledge known to man, if the brain can be tapped, we’d ask them to keep at it for 21 days, if you go on a positive mental attitude diet for 21 days keep your mind on it. The goal is to become what we call a purely positive person,” Manifestation Wishes.  Just a little reminder that with time and consistency, what we think about can become a reality and will become a part of us, innate, as long as we create the habits with practice and patience.

It takes time and practice but there is no clock on these things.  We have to train ourselves to be what we are trying to be, to be open enough to welcome the life we want.  We can’t handle new things with old habits if they aren’t meant to fit in the same mold we came from.  New ideas and new life come from positive places and it is our job to ensure our brain/mind is a fertile place for that which we want.  Whether it’s a new look, renewed health, a new sense of self, a new job, a new routine, it takes time to make it something natural.  But this isn’t just about making something natural—it’s about the consistency to keep going even when we don’t see the results right away.  I’ve been on a health journey for over a decade—constant ups and downs, trying new things.  Health has always been important to me but I allowed myself to be distracted and I wouldn’t give the work I was doing enough time to take hold.  I didn’t believe I could be that person who looked how I wanted to look and feel how I wanted to feel.  It was only in the last year when I decided that I’d had enough and it was time to make it happen. For me this wasn’t just physical: there was an entire mental component to it as well.

So for the last year I’ve been consistent with the diet and exercise and I see the results. The physical transformation is one thing, but the mental transformation is another.  It has re-instilled belief in myself by showing me I could do it.  It encouraged me to go for something new—more specifically the thing I knew I wanted to do with my life.  My career path has been another series of stops and starts and this time when an opportunity fell in my lap, I went for it.  The timing was right and it was the right place for me.  And I’ve stuck with my business for the last 4 years because I love the work and what it stands for and what I can do for people but it hasn’t seen much action.  And now another opportunity has presented itself and I know that the timing is right for all that as well. These things wouldn’t have stayed on my mind, the opportunities continuing to show up if they weren’t meant to be.  That is something I have paid attention to. In my previous life I would have ignored it and possibly let fear win, believing that it wasn’t for me, that it would come around again.  But this time, I’m grabbing that golden ring and I’m going for it.  Consistency has taught me that as well: you have to go for it when you see it.  Changing mindset is never easy but it is always worth it—it’s a game changer.  So be consistent, be patient, stay focused and let the universe work its magic.