Abraham Hicks ~ How to Get What you Want in 2022

How To Get What You Want With Three Words (By Pam Bauer)

A friend of mine got married last month. As her wedding approached, the question of what to wear loomed large. She didn't want to wear a traditional wedding dress.

A few weeks before the wedding, she went shopping with some friends. They tried bridal boutiques and department stores but she came home empty-handed. Her friends vetoed the dresses she chose; she disliked the dresses they selected.

She was disappointed and frustrated. She doesn't like shopping and didn't have time to traipse all over the city. She dreaded continuing the search.

I wanted to help, but I live 1,000 miles away. What could I do? I asked her this question: What three words describe how you want to feel in your dress on your wedding day?

She paused, then spoke: Comfortable. Elegant. Celebratory.

Ah-ha! That's the dress she's looking for: the dress that feels comfortable, elegant and celebratory. With these three words in mind, she went back to a store she'd visited on her shopping trip and purchased a dress she'd tried on but left behind.

I wasn't surprised. When she was shopping with her well-meaning friends, their ideas of what a wedding dress should look like overwhelmed her own wisdom about what she wanted.

That's the power of three words. They get to the heart of what you wish for and become a GPS to help you navigate the bewildering possibilities in order to find the best option for you.

The key to success with three words is asking yourself how you'll feel when you have what you desire. No matter what it is we want, what we really want is the feeling that the desired result will generate.

Rather than the thing itself, it's the experience of the thing that we seek.

By tapping into those feelings in advance, articulating words to describe them and using the words to guide your choices, you tune out distracting noise (others' opinions, social media trends, companies with gigantic advertising budgets) and avoid buyer's remorse (when what you thought you wanted ends up disappointing).

It's a simple, yet powerful, method to lead you toward fulfilling your dreams.

Want to apply the three words strategy to your life? Here's how:

1. Think of something you want. This can be something you want to acquire (like my friend's wedding dress) or it can be a goal (like a new year's resolution).
2. Imagine the result. What would your life be like if you achieved this? Let you mind fill in as many details as possible of the experience.
3. Generate your three words. What does your imagined result feel like?
4. Look around. What people, places, things, events, or activities can be described by your words? Go forth and bring them into your life.

Let your three words be your guide. They may take you in a direction you didn't expect but it's going to be toward a more fulfilling and satisfying life.

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How to Get What You Want in Six Steps

Do you want to know a very simple formula for getting whatever you want in life?

This is so simple it seems trivial when you first hear it, but few people follow it, and if you do follow it, you can create anything you want in life. There are six steps to this formula.

Step One is to know where you are. This means you evaluate your circumstances honestly and become clear about exactly where you are. It also means you don't beat yourself up for where you are, or feel victimized if you don't like where you are. You just know where you are. If you want to get to China, you can't really start traveling until you know where you are. If you don't know where you are, how will you know what direction to go?

Step Two is to know where you want to be. This is a big one. You have to know where you want to go, or what you want, before you can set out to go there or get it. If you just say, "I want to go somewhere," you wouldn't have enough information to know what to do, what action to take. If you said, "I want to go East," that would be a little better, since you'd at least know what direction to go. However, you would not know when you got there? The more specific you are, the more you'll know what to do, how to start, and how to know when you get there.

Step Three is to take action. This is a huge stumbling block for many people. How do you know what action to take? You see someone who is already successful and you say to them, "Sure, it's easy for you. You know what to do." Here's a big secret, and very few people know it. The successful person doesn't know what to do any more than you do, unless he or she is doing something for the second time. Almost no one knows what to do when they do something for the first time.

Take your best guess, but DO SOMETHING

Step Four is to evaluate the results of the action. You could call this The Dr. Phil Step, where you say, "How's that workin' for you?" You take some sort of action, no matter how pathetic it might be, and then you check and see what happened. If you made some progress, you might want to do some more of the same action. If not, you ask yourself what other action you might take. If you made some progress but not a lot, you might ask yourself how to improve the action you took in order to make it work better. Whatever you do, you will learn something. Take enough action and you will become very wise.

Step Five is to refine the action, based on the evaluation you just made. Now your refined action might be just as pathetic as the first action, or it might be better. It doesn't matter. After you take stock of your first action and take your best shot at refining and improving it, take action again. This idea of taking action is the key. Don't just stand there, do something, no matter what it is.

Obviously, the better the action the faster you'll get the result, but I'll let you in on something that people who wait and wait and wait to act don't realize: You learn a thousand times more from a bad action than you do from waiting until you think you have everything figured out. When you act, you really find out what works and what doesn't work. Before you act, you're just guessing.

Step Six is to keep repeating steps 3, 4, and 5, to continue acting, evaluating the results, and refining your action until you get to where you want to go.

If you follow these six steps, you can have anything you want in life, and along the way you'll become a very wise individual.

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