Do you know what you want?

Do you feel like you CAN ask for what you want?

Do you believe you can have what you want?

Do you do whatever it takes to manifest your desires into form?

Do you want to know why not? The answer is in your Christmas List.

Have you ever watched a four-year-old make a Christmas list? I love four-year-olds. Four-year-olds will fearlessly ask for a pony, a magic car that flies, a dog, a baby brother, their own theatre with a stage (one of my daughters asked for this), a dinosaur, 500 Hotwheels cars…there are no limits. They’ll fill up page after page.

Most young children still remember how to fearlessly ask for what they want. When you tell them they can’t have it they just look at you like you’ve lost your mind. In their minds they CAN have everything they want. The Universe (and Santa Claus) are magic. Did you forget?

How quickly we learn that it is not okay to ask for what we want.

Was it okay for you to say in school, “Teacher, I’m not in the mood to study today. Can I go outside and play for a bit and then come back in and learn?”

Or

“Can I please go to the bathroom?” (“No, you had your time to go to the bathroom at recess.”)

“I’m hungry. Can I have a snack?” (“No, snack time is over.”)

Think about it. How quickly did we learn as children that it was not okay to ask for what we wanted? Or that is was rude, selfish, greedy or silly to ask for what we wanted?

Now, I’m not playing the blame game here. This wasn’t your parent’s fault or your teacher’s fault. They were just doing what they learned. Probably, they thought that they were protecting you from disappointment and helping you set “realistic” goals.

Probably our parents and our teachers were struggling with their own dissatisfaction and discouragement.

When we stop asking for what we want and we stop believing we can get what we want, we quickly learn to disconnect with our true desires.

One of the basic tenets of Prosperity Consciousness is you have to know what you want in order to get what you want. Disconnecting from your desires sets you up to live a life fraught with frustration, dissatisfaction and is, ultimately, sinful.

In the Bible, we are taught about the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. For many of us, these seven sins are what we think we are exhibiting when we ask for what we REALLY want.

You may find that when you even think about what you really want you immediately begin a line of thought that sounds like this:

“Oh, how selfish of me to want that. Who am I to deserve such a thing? How can I have that when other people don’t have anything? I should just be satisfied with what I have. I feel so guilty for feeling angry that others have what I want. I shouldn’t ask for more than just enough and for only what I need. To ask for more than that is just wrong.”

Sound familiar?

I’m going to make a bold statement. Ready?

The best way to avoid the Seven Deadly Sins is to get radically selfish and ask for everything you want. And then do whatever it takes to make it happen.

In fact, I’m even going to take this statement one step further. In order to live out the Seven Virtues (the opposite of the Seven Sins), humility, generosity, purity, kindness, abstinence, patience and diligence you HAVE to know what you want and shamelessly ask for it and then take guided action to manifest it.

(Okay. So far I haven’t been struck by lightening.)

Let’s go though each of the sins, one by one.

PRIDE is when you think you are better than someone else. This usually results from not feeling like you are good enough or that you don’t deserve what you truly want.

True pride (humility) comes from an honest assessment of your own magnificence and is never in comparison to someone else. When you recognize and allow yourself and others to be limitlessly magnificent then you realize you deserve to receive everything without shame. And asking in an unlimited way becomes second nature.

GREED is when you want “more than your share”. When we believe that resources are limited and that there isn’t enough for everyone, we either are afraid to ask because we are being greedy or we resort to dishonest means to procure what we want because we are afraid we won’t get our fair share.

The Universe is unlimited. There is more than enough for everyone. Asking for what you want doesn’t take away from anyone. In fact, the more wealth, joy and prosperity you have, the more you have to share with others.

LUST is defined as a stong desire, sexual or otherwise, usually considered dysfunctional or impure. The impurity of lust stems from a strong disconnection from knowing what it is we truly desire.

So many of my clients struggle to know what they want. In the pain and shame of asking for things that were judged, ridiculed or seemed downright impossible they learned to shut off their desires completely. When we don’t know what we want, we leap into lustful situations. We passionately jump into situations that are not in alignment with our true desires and create chaos and even heartbreak. Our desires for most of us, are for a sustainable feeling level. But not knowing what you want only creates those feeling in the moment, not in the long run.

ENVY is the feeling of jealousy that others have what you want. And you don’t believe you can have it. We can all have it all. We are only envious when we limit our thinking and our beliefs about what we can have.

When we celebrate and focus on everyone’s “wins” it only creates more of a chance that that can also happen for us. If your neighbor can have it, you can have it, too.

GLUTTONY is taking more than our “fair” share and withholding from others. Sometimes it even means taking something you didn’t want but holding on to it even if you didn’t want it. When you know what you want and can joyfully ask for it, then you don’t have to hoard or hold on to things you don’t need.

How many of you have all kinds of weird things in your closet that you keep, just in case you need them? Did you know that all that stuff keeps the stuff you really want from flowing into your life? You have to have room to receive that which you truly desire. And, of course, shamelessly ask for it.

WRATH is when we take out our frustrations from not asking for what we want on others. This one kicks my butt. I have a tendency to be nice at all costs and forget to take care of myself and ask for what I want. After a few days of this, I become a big grump. And, if I am not careful, I can really hurt the people who I love the most. Patience stems from having a full cup.

When you know what you want, believe you can have it, ask for it and know you will receive it, then you do not build up resentments and frustrations.

SLOTH is being lazy. Sometimes when we don’t ask for what we want or believe that we can have it we appear lazy. Unconsciously we don’t do what we are “supposed” to do or we don’t live up to the expectations that others have for us because we DON’T WANT TO DO IT. This can manifest in many ways, such as procrastination, “forgetting”, seeming scattered or disorganized and not doing due diligence.

When you ask for what you want and believe that you can have it, then taking the actions necessary to get it become a joyful task and certainly nothing to be afraid of.

The formula for creation is really quite simple. Ask for what you want. Believe you can have it. Take guided action to get it.

But the density and the heaviness of collective belief systems helps us believe that living a dream life is impossible or only for the lucky few. And that pursuing great wealth in all areas of our lives is bad or selfish or somehow immoral, unless we are lucky or we’ve worked hard to achieve it.

To live out the Seven Virtues, we have to be clear in our intention. We have to know what we want. We have to have faith and believe that we can have it. And we have to be deliberate in our actions.

If you are really ready to live a virtuous life and relentlessly pursue your dreams and your abundance, I invite you to join my Prosperity Revolution.

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I look forward to hearing the stories of your blossoming abundance!

Remember, when you prosper, the whole world prospers with you.

Love,
Karen