Do It Again
Microcosmic Energy Shifts
This time of year, more than at any other, you’re probably considering making an energy shift that will allow you to accomplish some quantifiable goal.
Completion is not required
The “big secret” about — or perhaps we’ll call it an often-overlooked aspect of — creating an effective energy shift is that completion is not required.
Completion often comes after a series of similar — smaller — actions.
As you fuel your initial commitment, keep in mind that:
- Just starting the path is being on the path.
- Just taking the first action creates the energy that propels all the other “steps”
Small, sustainable, serial actions
Most long-term goals and intentions for conscious, willful, creative change can be broken down into a series of repetitive actions.
These action steps are:
- small choices in thought and behavior
- simple behaviors, repeated concurrently
- a bread-crumb trail of multiple potential successes
Many small successes reinforce Self-esteem, which energizes all positive changes and life (spirit) -style choices.
The momentum of the Beginning levels quickly to a plateau of daily practices.
Concrete examples:
Let’s say you want to lose thirty pounds — you shift into the frequency of that long-term success the very first time you take actions on your new intentions.
Let’s say the required repetitive action is something like exercising thirty minutes a day — the vibration you need to tune into is reached the first day you show up for that exercise.
You experience the same energy losing thirty pounds as you do when you lose one pound.
Let’s say you want to write a 250 page book — you accumulate those pages by showing up and filling them one at a time. You also begin collecting and using your power from the very first paragraph you put into form.
Let’s say the chosen repetitive action is writing a page a day — you know what it feels like to write pages from the first day to the last.
It’s the same tool — you just apply it X-number of times.
Completion is not required to shift that vibration — a (single) willful, (intentional) earthly action will call in the proper vibe.
One small success in a day carries the same energy as thirty of them in a month, or three hundred sixty-five in a year.
Why wait until you’re Perfect and Totally Done before you affirm the power shift you’re calling in?
You called it — it’s as here — as in effect — as it will ever be.
Use that initial achievement to propel you forward.
You do it once?
You’ve done it.
Do it again.
Image credit jared via Creative Commons on Flickr
Contacting Your Spirit Guides - 101
Free resources for Shift Your Spirits readers:
- Read the ebook by Slade Roberson especially for beginners who want to know who/what spirit guides are and how to communicate with them
- Listen to the mp3 preview of the Spirit Guide Attunement portion of the Talking to Your Spirit Guides class by Slade Roberson
- Try the meditation to Meet a Guide contributed by Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal
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Thanks for this, Slade. It makes me think of stepping onto the moon — one small step by me equals one giant shift in my energy.
No mention of your surgery and recovery. I’ve been thinking about you. How are you doing now?
Slade,
A very powerful message. Ha… as soon as I typed that,
I thought to myself… ‘I wonder what category Slade posted
this message under?’ ……..
Filed Under: Power
Smile ~
xo xo
Deb in OH
This was great - clear and concise, I hope a lot of people read this because there is great power here! Thank you for the post… I will pass it along -
This is a wonderful article. Always keep you in my prayers.
I was watching an interview with John Reese yesterday. He’s an Internet marketer probably most famous for doing the one million dollar launch in 24 hours with his Traffic Secrets product.
Anyway, in the interview he talks about at one point being $107,900 in debt. He felt depressed and overwhelmed, but then applied the process of small steps (Kaizen) and got the debt down below $99,999 and then further down and down.
It’s all about taking the small steps and celebrating our achievements.
I really like that line you said:
“You did it. Now do it again.”
Awesome. Very powerful.
-Paul
Thank you Slade.
So simple, so obvious, such ease.
Please keep doing what you do.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act- but a habit.” …… Aristotle.
Brenda,
Thanks for asking about my recovery - I usually post more “personal” information and updates on my Facebook - please add me as a friend if you’re on Facebook.
Deb,
Power is my favorite category. I always… feel… Something… when I find I’ve written something that belongs to that category.
Gil,
Thank you! Please pass it along, I love that. (I like your web site).
Linda,
Thanks for the prayers - I appreciate that!
Paul,
Thanks for relating my message to a practical and specific example. Nice illustration.
Mohini,
Ooo, excellent quote! I will add that one to my collection right away.
Hey Slade,
Happy New Year! This post really helped me grasp your point that “one small success in a day carries the same energy as thirty of them in a month, or three hundred sixty-five in a year.” You go beyond the obvious - small changes build gradually into a big change - and highlight that whatever larger longterm success we envision is contained in the tiny beginning micro-step.
There’s something comprehensive yet elusive in this concept. Thanks for stretching my mind to comprehend it. As I practice with this micro-step method, I hope to “get it” more and more. I’m documenting my practice though a series of notes on my FB profile, if you’re interested.
Wishing you the very best,
Sarah
Thanks Slade!
As usual, a perfectly timely post, as today I was looking at where I wish to be from where I am now and contemplating how I would get there.
It is great to remember that we are perfectly capable of accomplishing whatever we wish, and that we need not be overwhelmed by the enormity of it. Also, we need to be reminded to celebrate our successes, no matter how small, since in some ways, those are the most important.
I loved your reminder that if we can do it once, we can do it over and over again until it’s done.
When is your first book coming out? I keep wishing you would write one so I could read it! : )
Kara