This week’s question from our portal “Ask Us Anything” comes from Tristan.
You’ve taught that the subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between an actual experience and imagination. You’ve also been teaching about going out and buying really nice things and staying in five-star hotels. What if I just imagine all of that in fine detail – the smell of clean sheets, the nice pool? Wouldn’t that be just as good since I can’t afford those things right now?
No. Why? Because you’re not getting the result of it:
You imagine it to create the expectation, but you act on it to create the result.
To some degree imagination helps, but not fully, because you won’t actually have the result in your life, and you don’t go through the receiving process. The receiving process is huge. You can imagine yourself with all different kinds of things, but it’s a much different thing to actually be able to open up and receive something in your life for real.
That’s not true that you can’t afford those things. You’re bringing in a false assumption. You could afford anything that you decide to afford. If you can imagine it, it’s here. If you can desire it, it’s here. And so is the money to acquire it, but you must do the thing to bring the money in to acquire it.
When you don’t do the thing consistently, you won’t acquire it. And then you’ll say, “I don’t have the money.” When the truth is you do have the money. You just stopped receiving. You did not go out and continue to do what’s necessary to receive it.
You also need to analyze whether what you’re doing is effective or not. Ask yourself, “Do I need to get better at this skill set?” If it’s sales and you’re not making sales, then something’s wrong. That’s feedback. You have to look at exactly what is going wrong – am I talking to the right people? Am I bringing the right product or service? Is it the right price? Am I asking for the sale?
To get better at anything, you have to break it down into its particular parts and ask what is working and what is not working.
