How to “predict” your own future in challenging times

Ingrid Gudenas

March 25, 2020

Communication

I received an email you might consider highly unusual for this week. It said:

“I feel with this pandemic situation my life will change for the better.”

I’ve been receiving numerous communications with this theme. My job is to help people be causative in a world that isn’t. It’s working. Let me tell you what’s making this person feel good.

Whatever you put your attention on, whatever you pour your energy into, will create your present reality as well as your future.

99% of the world doesn’t realize it yet.

When you were a little kid, you were very clear about where you wanted to put your attention. Your attention was free. You daydreamed. You imagined.

From the time you went to school, the world has been trying to direct your attention.

You had to sit in one spot and fixate your attention on the person in the front of the room. For hours. Whether they were a good teacher, whether they were even interesting, or not. Whether you wanted to or not. You were little. It wasn’t up to you.

If your attention strayed, you were reprimanded, punished, labeled. You were rewarded for paying attention to one source only - the person in front. This person had “authority”. You did not.

This is not about obeying authority. I think authority is good, when it’s deserved.

What this is about is what happens to many people. And that is not listening to the truest authority of all – that authority inside yourself.

Fixating attention on one person, whether they deserved your attention or not, signaled the end of daydreaming, the end of imagination, the end of being the source of your own creative realities and even your decision power. And for many, the end of being truly causative, being as powerful as you really are.

It became a, “I’m waiting to see what authority tells me to do next.”

When the world goes into a frenzy, this fixation of attention can happen again.

It’s fine to grant authority to others. But to be causative, you need to do it while still preserving the finest authority for you – which is yourself.

You should be aware of the reality of the world around you, but you should stay in control of your own perceptions, in command of where you put your attention, your dreams and your own reality. And most importantly, instead of just copying and agreeing with the reality around you (especially if it’s crazy), focus on creating the reality and future you want.

The more your attention goes on the positive, the more positive your reality will be. The more energy you pour into creating a beautiful future, the more future you will have.

You can predict your own future. Because you create it. And seeing a beautiful future ahead for you makes you feel good.

So how do you create this?

By focusing on your own personal development. Nothing beats feeling powerful. You get there by developing knowledge and skills that enable you to be so positive in your thinking, so causative, so able to communicate well and make everyone around you feel good, so competent in handling anything life can throw at you, that you no longer worry about it, you just handle it and create the present and future reality you want. For yourself and for others too.

I look at my own abilities and those of the people I and my team are helping today. The world can shake, scream and yell, thunder can roll, our abilities stand up in a hurricane. Why? Because we’ve invested so much energy in developing them. We’ve done the work. And continue to do it.

It pays off. Our clients achieve spectacular outcomes in a world that has yet to see that such success can be totally under your control.

The rest of the email I received went on to say:

“The pandemic has created a higher necessity level that I have to rise up to. So, I’ve been dedicating serious time every day to my own self-development. As I do, I clearly see what motivates me the most and I’m shifting the focus of my career to be able to do more of that. Other activities don’t give me as much passion and interest like that. And the more I learn new skills (like I’m doing quite intensively now) the more I get passionate about it. I’m gaining such excellent knowledge!”

I love working with people in person. I’m one of those people that likes to hug people after we’ve gotten to know each other (often after one day of training).

But I’ve learned these past two weeks that I’m just as able to help people virtually. The incredibly wonderful online technology that we have today is enabling me and my team to sail through this storm and help even more people than before. It’s really opened our eyes to all the possibilities. We’re helping a lot of people. And that feels good.

To respond to all the people who want our help and can’t show up in person, I have developed a menu of online training and coaching (and more is coming), each of which will enable you to be causative in a world that isn’t.

There are a series of free webinars you can take advantage of too. Info is below.

What happens today is up to you. And so is tomorrow, and tomorrow’s tomorrow.

Maybe when you were little it wasn’t up to you. But it’s up to you now.

Being causative means you’re not just waiting around for it to show up. You’re actually creating what shows up.

It all hinges on what you put your attention on and what you pour energy into.

Whichever way you can, pour energy right now into increasing your skills, your power, and your morale will be super high today, and your future will be more beautiful than you’ve ever dreamed. Please see below for ways we can help you.

Be the cause!

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