If you want your best life now, you may have to do a frank self-examination to see what isn’t working and why. What can you do differently to shift from the status quo to create a dynamic new paradigm of success and happiness? Can you learn to trust enough in God and yourself as co-creator to manifest the success you seek? The more optimism you have that things will work (because you have enlisted the Divine and the Heavenly Host to help you), the more you will attract what you desire. Optimism, faith, and trust bring you more of what you hope will manifest, and more of the goodness you desire and anticipate; doubt, disbelief, and distrust, conversely, return more darkness and despair. You are a child of the divine. The world and everything in creation is truly yours, so claim it. Believe that you are a spark of that Great Light that existed even before the dawn of creation. The Sufi poet and mystic Rumi wrote that people traverse back and forth “across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,” but because they desire sleep more than discovering the secrets that the dawn holds, they go back to sleep, forgetting to ask for what they really want. Take Rumi’s admonition not to sleep into your heart. Meditate at dawn, ask for what you want, and cultivate faith and trust in God.
