You asked for it. Now accept it.
Happy Thursday!
Abundance is one of the Eight Happiness Essentials I think about most carefully. The distance between receiving it and accepting it is wider than most people expect, and even fewer people name what lives in that gap.
Early in my television career, I wanted what was beginning to come toward me. Bigger shows, more creative responsibility, a real chance to lead. And when those possibilities began to appear, something in me shied away, sometimes ran.
What if I was not talented enough, not strong enough as a leader, not capable of making the right call at the right moment?
That gap, between wanting something and being willing to fully receive it, cost me in ways I did not see clearly until much later.
When something you genuinely wanted arrives, something else often arrives alongside it. A hesitation, the sense that this may be more than you bargained for, that you might not actually deserve it, that reaching for it fully might prove you were never meant to have it. Abundance can arrive before your sense of deserving it has caught up.
Receiving is what happens when something comes your way. Accepting is what you do with it, and it requires a genuine belief, held in the body and not only the mind, that you are allowed to have what you asked for, that you are worthy of it, and that you can be trusted with it.
Without that belief, what arrives does not stay. You receive it and release it in the same motion, and you may never notice it happening.
The practice that changes this works in three steps.
Ask. Clearly, honestly, without softening what you mean into something more manageable. Name what you actually want.
Act. Within twenty-four hours, do or recall one thing that shows you are already moving toward what you named.
Accept. This is the step that asks the most. It requires you to examine what you believe you deserve, what you are prepared to be responsible for, and whether you can stay with what arrives rather than allowing it to pass through.
Return to these steps again and again. That is how the belief in yourself and what you can accept builds.
What you want most may already be closer than your current thinking allows.
Understanding that gap and accepting that I was talented enough, capable enough, and strong enough opened doors to opportunities that have led to a life I love so much today.
