When You Find What You Want Inside You, You Will Find What You Want Outside You

One of Alan Cohen’s daily messages was this:

Take time this week to look within. When you find what you want inside you, you will find what you want outside. - Alan Cohen

What a great way to look at reviewing where you are right now and where you’d like to be by the end of the year.

What do you desire for yourself? Write down your intentions. Take each one and determine what you would need to find inside yourself for that to manifest. What beliefs and behaviours will create your desired results?

You will never have in the exte
al world what you do not have in your internal world. The exte
al is always an out-picturing of the internal. To ensure results, your work will be to make the changes on the inside that will allow and match your desires.

Some common goals are greater balance in your life, financial freedom, a loving relationship with your ideal partner, a healthy, fit and trim body.

Now look at what internal conditions you would have to have for these exte
al goals to manifest.

Greater balance seems to require knowing what you value and setting a priority on those, then disciplining yourself to schedule these into your week. Commitment to following that schedule would also be essential. Recognize and honour your needs for relationships, work, spiritual and mental activity, physical exercise and rest.

Financial freedom may call on your courage to take your work to a greater audience. You may also need persistence in honing your skills to a new level of excellence. Some of you will need to educate yourself on how to invest or budget. Others will have to work on shifting your internal beliefs about deserving financial abundance.

To attract and maintain a loving relationship you have to love yourself enough to allow someone loving in your life. Maybe your skills at interacting could improve to take your love relationship to its next level. Committing to spending quality time with your loved one may be your internal shift.

Loving yourself enough to eat foods that are healthy for you in the right amounts, and to exercise in ways you enjoy will create that fit, trim and healthy body in 2008.

When you care enough about yourself to lovingly give yourself what you most need, and you believe you deserve to have whatever you desire, you’ll find following your resolutions easier. Your attention on loving care expands and will attract to you what is best for you.

Trying to follow a diet and exercise because you think you’re too fat and lazy puts your focus on fat and lazy; merely bringing on more fat and laziness.

Imagine how great you’ll feel at this time next year when you have found what you desire both inside and out.

I wish you all the joy, peace, love and prosperity you deserve.