Lord: First, what is your focus? What are you trying to create? Find a purpose in your creativity, and then each thing you do becomes a step towards the goal. In your writing, you have not set any goals. Therefore each time you sit down to write, you wander with words until a point comes out, and then you have to rewrite to support your point. It is like a baby taking its first steps. Every ounce of their energy and coordination is being consumed by taking one step. The key here is repetitive practice. A baby practices until stepping is second nature, then they can set destinations for their mobility. For you right now, setting a goal for your writing should motivate you to practice writing. If you reach the goal, great, if not, that is also fine, because you are practicing. When your writing becomes second nature, your goal setting will take on a different depth, because it will merely be setting a destination and taking the necessary steps. It will not be hard. So find something to motivate you to practice writing, and the rest will come.
As for business ideas, I have told you. Some of those are to be given away. Write them down, keep them in a safe place until you know to whom to give them. Also, if it is for you, I will let you know. When you perceive a lack of resource, I want you to stop and look at the creation story. Something out of nothing. Approach everything you create with that in mind. What is the source, where is the resource? This is important.
Me: Well, as usual, I understand reluctantly, because all of this sounds like really hard work for me to do.
Lord: I wouldn’t give you something that you couldn’t do. Patrick, the idea here is not to put you to work. I am not a task master trying to get you to use your time productively. You want to know who I Am. Spend your time discovering who I Am in you. This shouldn’t feel like work, it should be enjoyable. If you are not enjoying me, something is amiss. Remember that.
Me: Well, its not that I don’t enjoy you, but I am having a hard time with motivation right now. It is a relentless struggle. Every time I get motivated, it is so short lived, and I don’t know how to maintain a state of motivation. What I think motivates me ends up fizzling, and what I think should motivate me doesn’t for some reason. I have always had this problem. I really want to stay motivated.
Lord: You have not found the right goal yet. To find it, you really must take a good look into your own heart and find out what it wants. That is your biggest challenge. We are back to the beginning of your journaling, find out what’s in your heart. Once you do, everything else just follows almost effortlessly. This is good, Patrick. You are progressing more than you think.
Take the next half hour to explore this question. Don’t stop and get distracted. Don’t think about other things. Focus on this one question, what are the desires of your heart? I want you to list as many as you can think of, and then we will work on refining them into the true desire.
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30 minutes later
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Me: OK, Lord, here is what I came up with.
- A full heart: to live a life full of love, not bound by fear.
- A full spirit: to life life knowing You, and displaying your love, power and glory.
- A full mind: to live in peace, knowing true purpose in life.
Lord: Not bad. Now the hard part is figuring out whether you are truly motivated by this or whether it is something you think you should be motivated by but aren’t.
Me: Well, I think I am motivated by this partially. I think a lot of negative motivation gets in the way of staying focused on this.
Lord: So, what are you going to do with this?
Me: I am going to use it to define a goal that will give me the motivation to start something that I don’t want to give up on a couple steps down the road.
Lord: What kind of goal?
Me: I guess I could make several goals and write them down. It seems that every aspect of my life is covered by the three major things. Also, I think I could expound upon all three of those desires to explore what they all really look like, practically speaking. So, I could have a goal in my work, I could have a goal in my writing, I could ahve a goal in my relationships, etc. Looks like setting goals are the next big thing for me.
Lord: Don’t confuse setting goals with obtaining your desires. The goals are defining steps toward your desires. Sometimes your goals will be unattainable, and sometimes they will be out of step with your desires. Don’t worry if they are, just readjust. Got it?
Me: Duly noted. Thank you Lord. I already feel more motivated.
Lord: It’s what I do.
