Be the one who helps yourself

Every once in a while I feel I can almost do something, but feel like  I just need a little help. Then I get stuck, when there's no one there to help.

A variation on "Be your own best friend" is: be the one who helps yourself.

Really, our potential is limitless. It takes nothing at all to stretch yourself a little bit and be what you need.

Anyhow, it worked for me, just now.

The destination

I not only have to remember to jump through psychological hyperspace, I have to imagine my destination. Here’s my current destination.

I’m smiling. I’m energetic. I’m purposeful. That is: I have things that I want to do, I’m clear about what they are, and I’m doing them.

I have clear priorities I got a list of things that I’m going to do, and I do the one at the top of the list, knock it off, and go to the next one. If I hesitate, I consult my list, maybe reorder it, and strike out again.

I’m in motion. If I stop, I notice it, and start again, maybe in a new direction, maybe the same direction as before.

I visualize that destination, jump through pychological hyperspace, and I'm there, writing this post, and more important--posting it.

Psychological hyperspace

I’m in some mental state. It’s not the state that I want to be in. How do I get where I want to be?

The wrong answer, the old answer, was to try to find a way to get from here from there. Maybe ask “What’s keeping me from getting there?” Maybe ask: “What do I need to do to get there?”

The right answer, the new answer, is to just be there. It’s a jump through psychological hyperspace. Instead of moving from here to there, instead of becoming what I want to be, I just declare myself to be there. And there I am.

It works lots of the times that I have tried it. But sometimes it doesn’t. I end up someplace different than I started out, but generally closer.

The thing about hyperspace jumps is this: sometimes it take more than on jump to get where you want to go. So I take a second jump. Or a third. And get there.

I just have to remember to jump.