Being "CONGRUENT"

CONGRUENT -  to come together, agreeing, corresponding, harmonious

Sunlight focused through a magnifying glass can start a fire. But the conditions must be "just right." If the magnifying glass is held too high above the paper, the rays are diffused and dont generate enough heat to make fire.
    When you heat water to 212°, it begins to boil. If the temperature only reaches 211°, the water wont boil.
   An airplane has to reach a certain ground speed before it lifts off into the sky. Any speed less than this will not produce flight - only a crash at the end of the runway
   A satellite must reach "escape velocity" to break free of earth's gravitational pull. Then it falls into an effortless orbit where the breath of a baby is enough to propel it. But if the spacecraft doesnt reach escape velocity, it tumbles back down to earth.
   Some people expend enormous amounts of energy trying to become successful. They seem to do almost everything right e.g set goals, disciplined etc. they go through all the right motions. Still, success seems somehow to elude them. Yet others appear to go through the same motions and are literally awash in abundance of success. What is the difference?
     To manifest abundance ( read my manisfestation blog post http://tiny.cc/tcbat to understand the importance of it), you need to achieve congruence - the condition where all parts of you are in alignment, to come together, correspond and be harmonious with each other. There are 3 important key parts you need to align!

The first is DESIRE: you have got to want it
The second is BELIEF: You've got to believe that you can be successful, and have a continued abundance of success
The third is SELF-ACCEPTANCE: You have got to believe your deserve to be successful, to your very core.

If one of these is out of alignment, your energy is diffused, ineffective. e.g You may want to become wealthy or a performer and even if you feel you deserve it and have the burning desire to make it a reality, but after several unsuccesful attempts, you form the belief that your're just not cut out for it. two out of three isn't enough. You're not congruent.

You're only firing on two engines, and it takes three to reach escape velocity. You end up falling back to earth. To produce enough heat, to reach boiling point, to attain the right ground speed, to achieve escape velocity, you need to be congruent.  EVERY part of you must "buy in" your heart, your mind and your spirit. It has to be all systems go otherwise you will always end up falling back down to earth.

Remember being congruent is to align your heart, mind and spirit or without sounding so spiritually spoken is to align these important elements DESIRE, BELIEF, SELF- ACCEPTANCE.

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning".

Begin to process this information deep down inside yourself, then succeeding will become a habit and not a rare occurance of achievement in your life, its not wrong or selfish to be successful every second, every minute of every day you live. People who believe it is are usually the people who dont realise or in some cases do, that the are moving backwards if not standing still in life. Be better than this...

The Butterfly Effect

I happened to stumble across a book recently which opened my eyes to a completely different way about approaching my life. I was willing to take that first step to changing it because I was fortunate enough to have the right people around me to realise what I was doing previously was not working, the people I surrounded myself with, the way I treated people, my inner attitude and beliefs towards myself and others was only keeping me on a path where it would always end destructively because life is only a process of cycles, and every cycle we are tested again, again and again. When you come to the end of the process of a cycle of which can be 20 years, 5 years or even 5mins you either will have succeeded or failed, either way this cycle will begin again and you will repeat this process with your next cycle or goal in life and have the chance to succeed next time. The reality is if you are continually failing these tests throughout each of these cycles in your life then it is time to change...because we are continually tested in everyday life but how many chances we have with each opportunity is never known.
 
This comes back to "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"

Let me tell you now about a page I read regarding "the butterfly effect" and the process and how it was applied to everyday life.

Five decades ago Edward Lorenz a research meteorologist at MIT created a computer program designed to model the weather. Lorenz had reduced weather into a series of formulas that behaved in recognizable weather patterns.
    In 1961 on a winter day, Lorenz wanted to shortcut a weather printout by starting midway through. To give the machine the initial conditions, he typed the numbers straight from the earlier printout
    Something unexpected happened. What he notices was his simulated weather pattern had diverged dramatically from the previous printout. At first he thought his computer malfunctioned. Then it suddenly hit him. There was no computer malfunction. The answer was the numbers he had put into the computer. In the original programming he had used six decimal places: . 506127. In the second run he had rounded off the numbers to .506. He assumed the difference, one part of a thousand, would have no real impact. He was wrong. This slight change had made a huge difference. This tiny change in input had quickly created an overwhelmingly different output!
   The formal name for this phenomenon is "sensitive dependence on initial conditions". Its informal and more popular name is the "Butterfly Effect" http://tiny.cc/hf1is.
   Simply stated, it means that the tiny changes brought about by a butterfly moving its wings in San Francisco have the power to transform the weather conditions in Shanghai
   Along with Lorenz, W. Edwards Deming http://tiny.cc/skb8h came up with a very similar conclusion. Deming an American statistician who established the Total Quality Movement, first in Japan, then in the rest of the world and historically so important he was called one of the "nine hidden turning points in history" (along with the birth control pill and the Apostle Paul)
   Deming pointed out that in every process there is a beginning and an end. When you focus on the first 15% of that process and get it correct (its initial conditions), you ensure at least 85% of your desired outcome. By focusing on the 15% of anything, the remaining 85% will effortlessly follow

I will type that again...

When you focus on the first 15% of that process and get it correct (its initial conditions), you ensure at least 85% of your desired outcome. By focusing on the 15% of anything, the remaining 85% will effortlessly follow

Think about that and apply it to the next process/goal you want to achieve. Create tiny movements in your thoughts and actions and get this as close to perfect as possible in your first 15% of your process and then it will be impossible that the outcome is not successful, do this every minute and you will get to where you want to go quicker than you can imagine.  

I suppose just reading things like this isnt always enough to convince yourself, and sometimes you need to apply it to situations in your life. For example for me I applied it to what matters the most to me. When Im playing football, if I have a ball coming in the air at me quickly and its important that I control this ball perfectly in order to give myself the best chance to score, then first of all I need to focus on making eye contact with the ball followed by getting my body in line with the flight of ball then telling myself to relax and presenting the surface of which to control the ball (these are the principles of controlling a football, and I will explain what a principle is in my next blog) because my brain knows that when I make these tiny movements in my thoughts and actions that the only outcome is I control this ball perfectly allowing the next 85% percent of my desired outcome to effortlessly flow whether this is to make a pass, cross or shoot.