For all the workaholics and others who believe the only way to get something is to work hard for it, this may be a challenging idea for sure. It simply goes against the grain of conventional wisdom that says people who don’t work hard achieve very little in life.
At first glance, you're probably thinking how can one achieve more and work less? It seems counter-intuitive. Actually, this idea is more in line with the way the universe operates. You don't have to work hard to create the result you desire.
Nature operates with ease. All the complex principals associated with life itself operate with ease. Your heart beats, your lungs breath, the lilies don't toil, the seasons change, all of this is going on effortlessly. And so it is with the realization of your desires and the accomplishment of your goals. There is no need to toil through drudgery to get what you want. Actually, the very idea of toil and drudgery is counter-productive to the whole process of creation. Think about these ideas for moment:
* hard work has absolutely nothing to do with creating success
* hard work is not the basis for success
* success is inversely proportional to hard work
* avoiding hard work has driven all human progress
After years of banging my head against the wall, I have found the revelation that doing less, in an easy and relaxed way, is the best means of creating what you want.
First of all, no one likes to "have to" do anything. When you say I "have to" pay my bills, so I "have to" go to work to get the money... already you can sense the despair and powerlessness in the very idea of "having to" do anything. Desperation and powerlessness is fear, and you know that fear is not a point of view that creates anything useful in life. When you "have to" do anything, you are in a state of resistance. You are fighting the natural flow by pointing yourself upstream, resisting.
After a couple of decades of this resistance, (think working hard) you can see how we eventually burn-out, lose our perspective, lose our joy, create sickness and ultimately lose our life. No, having to work hard to get what we want is not the answer. Grinding away at something is the root cause of all disappointments in life. Turn this idea around.
Start with what you love.
What do you love? I mean really love! What do you like to "play at"? What are you effortlessly good at? What excites you to such an extent that when you are engaged in it, you actually lose your awareness of time? Think about this idea deeply. Within this idea of "play" is the seed of joyous, easy, relaxed, natural, lazy creation. There is no working when you are engaged in an activity you love. If you have an idea that you love to play with, do you force yourself to play with it? Of course not. You are naturally drawn to it. You are lovingly engaged in it. Things are easy. There is no work involved and the results of your creation seem almost miraculous. Live your whole life from this point of view. It is essential to achieving your heart's desire. Do not trade one more second of your precious life working hard.
Any useful idea that has elevated the life experience of humans has come about because we want to avoid having to do hard work.
Hard work is counter-productive to the direction of life expanding. Hard work shuts off the flow of creative, inspired energy. Hard work is not in alignment with the laws of creation. Nature creates in an easy and relaxed way. You are made of the same stuff and this natural law applies to you wittingly or unwittingly. You will not became healthy, wealthy and wise:
* keeping your nose to the grindstone
* pushing the ball uphill
* working your fingers to the bone
* going to a salt mine
* spending the day with a slave driver
No, my friend there is an easier, lazy, do nothing way to create the life you have always desired. You must engage yourself in what you love, play and have fun. Play with everything. If it's not fun, you are wasting your chances for creating massive success in your life. Align your focus and attention to only that which you love.
Enjoy (playing) through action (doing what you love) what you create through your thoughts (vision and goals).
