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Tip The universe doesn’t demand a payment
You don’t need to justify your existence by choosing dreams that are ‘meaningful’ or ‘good’. Many people seem to feel that they have to pay a price just for their existence. All that is important is that your dreams are real for you and will bring you happiness and joy.
Summary Step 2
First decide what you want.
Look to your past dreams for inspiration.
Collect pictures and objects to stimulate your imagination and create inspiration.
Think about what you want.
Make sure you think about what you want in all parts of your life.
Step 3: Turn your wants into specific orders
‘This above all—to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.’
SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, I.III
You can choose your own destinations in life
Imagine that you wanted to go to South America on holiday. You’d probably start by buying a ticket. But where exactly would you buy a ticket to?
Would you step onto the aeroplane without being specific about your destination? Would you be equally happy to end up in Chile or Argentina?
Perhaps, when you go to the travel agent, you make a decision that where you really want to go to was Peru, but you don’t specify where in Peru. Would it matter to you if you end up in the capital city or the countryside?
Sometimes it can be quite an adventure to see where you end up in life when you don’t have a clear destination. The trouble is, you can end up with a few misadventures on the journey as well. And you may not like the destination you finally reach.
If you want to be certain you will enjoy yourself, it is better to be specific about where you want to go.
Yet in life, how many people happily drift along like a passenger without a destination, going wherever the plane chooses to fly, or perhaps like a rudderless boat adrift on the ocean, just floating with the tide, knowing only some general direction in which they are travelling?
The difference between wanting and ordering
In Step 3 you can start to apply the process of turning all the wants and dreams you have written down in Step 2 into individual cosmic orders. You do this by adding focus and commitment to your wants.
A want is just a longing or a desire without energy. ‘I will’ means that whatever happens, you won’t stop until you get your desire. A wish is passive, a cosmic order is active: harnessing the power of the universe to fulfil your desire.
You may want to go to South America on holiday, but until you go and buy a ticket you are not going to get there. You may want to buy a car, but unless you make a decision to buy one, you are not committed, and you could change your mind and spend your money on your home or a holiday instead.
A cosmic order is a decision that you will have,be or do something new in your life; you willchange in some way, you will have a result inyour life that you haven’t had before.
Each time you take a want and make it a cosmic order you are giving a clear instruction to the universe to deliver to you what you want, in the same way as an airline ticket has a clear instruction written down on it about where you want the pilot to fly you. You may not know all the details of the route he is going to take, but your ticket instructs him to take you to exactly the destination you want.
The process of turning your wants into cosmicorders is a five-part process.
1: Be specific about what you want
As soon as you start to think about and write down your dreams, you have already begun to become a deliberate creator of your future. To make sure that you get more of what you really want, think as specifically as possible about each dream you have written down.
Why is this important? Because you really will get exactly what you ask for. Remember the story of King Midas,