A Glimpse of Future You
Or How to Solve Every Problem
Today’s Abraham-Hicks Daily Quote, which I get in my email, was this:
“There will be a time, not so far from now, that you will look back on this phase of your life and instead of condemning it or beating up on it … Instead of blaming or guilting, you will feel appreciation for it, because you will understand that a renewed desire for life was born out of this time period that will bring you to physical heights that you could not have achieved without the contrast that gave birth to this desire.”
Excerpted from Boston, MA on 10/4/97
I really loved this quote. It got my mind really going, and it fits perfectly with a little challenge (not a big one) that’s cropped up. It occurred to me that this current challenge is forcing me to level up in several parts of my daily life.
It danced through my mind, as it often does, that every single big improvement I have made in my personal life has been preceded by a “problem.” My “problems” have shoved me relentlessly and mercilessly forward, unhelpful habits peeling away from me like layers of clothing taken by the wind.
Every single “problem” we have is our inner being, the one who knows, prying us with a crow-bar to get us to level up.
Whatever I have to do in order to solve the problem becomes the new me. The me without that issue. I become the version of me who has left that issue behind like another scarf in the headwind as I move ever forward into the next iteration of Maggie.
I grow from the me who has the problem into the me who has the solution.
How to Solve Every Problem
Here’s the thing; we don’t have to do anything to the problem. The change that is required occurs within ourselves. Once we change, if a solution is needed, we will have it in our hands and know how to wield it. But most often, the problems resolve on their own once we grow past them.
We become more, you see? We change. We grow. We evolve. And those things we call problems are what compel us to grow and change and evolve. Without problems, we’d become complacent where we are. We’d stop expanding, and that can never happen. This is just how things work. If there’s no expansion, there’s no existence. But that can never be. We are eternally expanding components of an eternally expanding consciousness. Even our physical universe is ever-expanding.
As above, so below. As within so without.
Problems are…
Problems are the proverbial fires lit under our asses and to force us to grow.
And remember, too, especially at this particular time in the world, pushing against what we do not want will never work well or fast or efficiently to eradicate the problem. We’re creating more of it because of our attention to it.
We must rather push for what we do want, creating more of it because of our attention to it. And we must do so while evolving into the version of ourselves who is living that, rather than this.
PS: I’m sorry I didn’t get a post up last Sunday. It was the two days before the release of my new small-town rom-com, Harrison Hyde and the Runaway Bride. There’s a lot for an author to do at such a time. It’s rather like giving birth, releasing a book into the wild. And it is my day job, so…
This is an uplifting, funny, page-turner that’ll leave you feeling better than you did before you opened it. Promise.
