Tap the Power of the Present Moment to Achieve Breakthroughs and Do You Make Things Happen or Do You Always Ask “What Happened?”

Has this ever happened to you? You were thinking about a problem and no matter how hard you focus it seems that you're stuck. You've gone over the problem several times. You have tried to redefine it. You’ve looked at it from different angles. It seems that no matter what do you do and regardless of when you think about the problem, nothing seems to happen.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that your conscious mind can easily get stuck in a holding pattern. If you've ever gotten on a plane that was trying to land at a busy airport, you probably have experienced a holding pattern before. Your plane would circle around a city several times delaying the moment of your arrival. When the runway clears and your plane is given the green light to land, your pilot will then break the holding pattern and start the descent. That’s how planes work.

It's not much different from your thoughts. When your mind is burning precious energy trying to achieve some sort of breakthrough because you have you find yourself at an impasse, it goes into a holding pattern. It's as if you can't think of anything new. You just keep revisiting the same things over and over again.

This is not much different from you losing your keys. When was the last time you lost your keys? I’m willing to bet that when you were looking for your keys, you kept checking at the places that you checked before. At the back of your head, you know that your keys aren't there. After all, you just checked it a few minutes before but you can't help yourself to keep checking again and again and again.

Maybe you just didn't look properly. Perhaps it's stuck somewhere in the back. Possibly, you just didn’t pay enough attention so you keep repeating this pattern over and over again. That's how your mind works.

Unfortunately, this habit doesn't get us any closer to the solution. How can it? You keep revisiting the same process. As the old saying goes, insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results each time. How can you achieve different results when you're doing the same thing?

When you focus on the present moment, you get the chance to focus on your issues right here, right now. In other words, you can train all your creative and imaginative resources to the right problem at the right time and at the right place. This is definitely better than worrying sick about stuff that may or may not happen or, worse yet, crying over spilled milk.

By learning to tap the present moment through mindfulness or meditation practices, you start looking at your situation differently. The reason why this happens is because your subconscious mind enters the picture. Your subconscious mind is very powerful. It enables you to achieve breakthroughs when you thought these were simply not possible.

Make Things Happen or Ask “What Happened?”

Make no mistake there are two kinds of people on this planet: people who make things happen and everybody else.

Everybody else seems to walk around thinking that somehow some way everything will fall into place. They think that as long as they make the right plans, for whatever reason, things will work out for the best sooner rather than later.

This is wishful thinking. In many cases, life is what happens when you're making other plans. You may have all these neatly laid-out plans. You might even have all sorts of contingency plans. You may think that you have it all figured out.

However, life doesn’t work that way. Sure, things may seem pretty clear as far as your plans and goals go but you wake up and you find out that you have stage 4 cancer. You wake up and you find out that you've been fired from your job. You’re going about your business and, all of a sudden, your business collapses because it got sued or your industry changed overnight.

Whatever the case may be, you find yourself in the same position as the majority of the Earth’s population. You find yourself asking, “What happened to me?”

Wouldn’t it be great if you were on the other side of this issue? Wouldn’t it be awesome if instead of constantly asking yourself, “What happened to my plans? What happened to my life? What happened to my body? What happened to my family? What happened to my relationships?” on and on and on that you end up asking a different question? Wouldn't it be awesome if you were the persons making things happen?

This is not a fantasy nor is it wishful thinking. You can make things happen. You do have that capacity in you.

The problem is when you are so stuck on your conscious mind, it's very easy for you to trick yourself into thinking that the way you've been doing things and the way you’ve been seeing reality is the only way to go. Everything else is a fantasy. Everything else is a theory. Everything else is speculation.

It is no surprise that a lot of people who desperately need me help to turn their lives around actively refuse that help. How come? They laugh off the idea that a simple change in their mindset or, better yet, tapping into their subconscious will help them achieve breakthroughs. They laugh these ideas off as fantastical and simply unrealistic.

What is realistic? Constantly feeling that you're a victim and nothing that you work on ever seems to work or taking responsibility for your life and exploring all the options you have available to you?

It turns out the most powerful tool that we could ever use to make things happen in our life is already right smack-dab in the middle of our ears. I’m talking about yourself subconscious mind.

Unfortunately, a lot of people dismiss this. They don't even acknowledge that they have a subconscious mind. Instead, they’d rather keep banging their head against a wall in the fruitless hope that somehow some way something gets knocked loose and their problems magically disappear. What are the chances of that happening?

If you don't do it, nobody else will. Take the initiative today.