Reaching For Your Dreams

Summary

Trista Signe Ainsworth encourages perseverance and self-belief in pursuing one's dreams, emphasizing the importance of starting projects and showing up consistently, while also addressing the mental barriers that can hinder progress.

Abstract

In a reflective piece titled "Reaching For Your Dreams," Trista Signe Ainsworth shares her personal experience with overcoming procrastination and self-doubt to complete a home improvement project. She draws inspiration from Stuart Wilde's teachings, advocating for a warrior-like approach to personal goals. Ainsworth highlights the significance of daily action and acknowledges the mind's tendency to resist change to maintain safety. She encourages readers to affirm their worthiness and creator potential, despite the challenges and stories that may limit their beliefs about deserving success. The article serves as a motivational call to action for individuals to embark on their unique paths, reminding them of their inherent ability to create miracles and achieve their dreams through consistent effort and self-compassion.

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Ainsworth believes that starting a project, no matter how daunting, is the key to overcoming the mental barriers that make it seem too complex or challenging.
She suggests that the mind's resistance to change is a natural protective mechanism, but it should not prevent one from stepping out of their comfort zone.
Ainsworth quotes Stuart Wilde to reinforce the idea that individuals can achieve their goals and create their desired reality through determination and resilience.
She points out that many people hold themselves back from their dreams due to feelings of unworthiness or outdated beliefs that they are not enough or do not deserve success.
Ainsworth emphasizes the importance of self-affirmation, viewing oneself as a worthy, infinite creator, and evolving at one's own pace while respecting others' journeys.
She encourages readers to support each other on their respective paths, fostering a sense of community and shared purpose within the "Illumination Family."
Ainsworth's prayer and intention for her audience is that they believe in their potential to achieve greatness and give themselves grace when they face setbacks.

Day 50: Always showing up, no matter what

Today I woke up a little later than usual. I was tired from all of the work I had done yesterday, painting our hallway bathroom floor. It is a project I had been meaning to do for quite some time, and yesterday I finally got started on it. Amazingly, it was so much easier than I thought. This has inspired me to paint the other small bathroom and paint the floor in there too. So very often, in our mind, a project or a goal is just too complicated, too challenging, or has too many steps for us to accomplish it. However, if we just get started, we will see that if we keep going, we will make it to the finish line! Today I am celebrating day 50 on my 100 day journey in exploring the book Miracles by Stuart Wilde among his other great spiritual works.

You’ll have to take the path like a warrior. You’re going to achieve your goal, no matter what confronts you, no matter where you are right now, no matter what adversity faces you, you will reach your objective. -Stuart Wilde

So many times in my life, I have had the same experience. I stare at a project and think I’ll never get there. However, if I simply just start, and show up every day, it will get done. We must treat our path as sacred, showing up every day to do the work, no matter what. We can make excuses, we can think that we are not capable, or that we don’t have the tools to do the job, but that is just our mind keeping us comfortable.

At every moment, our mind is trying to keep us safe. We must be vigilant and aware of the mind. When we set out to accomplish a goal that is out of our comfort zone, we can tell our mind: “Mind, thank you for trying to keep me safe. I appreciate that. I have everything that I need to do this project. Kindly step aside, take a break, and let me show up today to do my work.” In this way, you are acknowledging that the mind is trying to do something to help you, but you must step past that comfort zone in order to go towards your dreams in life.

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You can have anything you want, and when you create it, it is yours. Often we feel we do not deserve success, or wealth or complete health, or anything else we might yearn for. -Stuart Wilde

So many moments in our lives, we repeat the stories that we learned so long ago, stories that say that we do not deserve the things that we want in life. Often it is because we don’t feel like we are enough, or that we shouldn’t have something because there are problems in the world and we need to solve them first. It is like an old, archaic program in our mind that insists on running when we are trying to install the newer software. “I am not enough 1.0” keeps trying to run our system, when we are trying to run “I am an infinite creator.”

The most important thing that we need to tell our whole being each day is that we are worthy, we are creators and we are infinite. We are evolving at a different pace than others, they are living their truths on a different timeline, but we are all striving for the same thing: becoming our true selves. We can have compassion, love, and caring for others while staying on the path that is meant for us.

My prayer and my intention for you today is that you believe that you deserve all of the wonderful blessings that life has to offer you. You came to this Earth to do something amazing. Just get started today, just keep working every day towards that goal, whatever it may be. Give yourself grace when you slip off the path, and then start walking it again.

What is the dream or goal you are working towards?

Trista Signe Ainsworth is a professional organizer with Joyful Minimalism. She helps working women clear the clutter, overwhelm, and shame from their homes and lives so that they can truly live in joy.

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More on this Journey:

Reaching For Your Dreams

Day 50: Always showing up, no matter what

You Are An Unlimited Creator

Day 49: Anything that you can imagine is already with you

You Are Training For Greatness

Day 48: Daily life is a special training ground for our spirit

You Can Create Miracles

Day 47: Learning that the power is always with you