Celebrate Change

When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled it is with a minimum of effort. You must control the direction of the movements of your attention. But you must do it with the least effort. If there is effort in the control, and you are compelling it in a certain way you are not going to get the results. You will get the opposite results, what ever they might be.
- Neville Goddard

Is change easy, or is it hard? Of course the immediate response is - “Well - what kind of change are we talking about?”

We like to imagine that there are “big changes” and “small changes”. The reality is that “big” or “small,” the process of change is remarkably similar.

The Law of Assumption that Neville Goddard describes operates on a surprising Change Principle of Least Effort. Take a small scene from your movie of future success and simply enjoy looking at it with no effort or planning or worry. Just like you have old Kodachrome pictures or smartphone reels of happy events in the past, you can pick up and look at your pictures of future goals with the same amount of minimal enjoyable effort. See your future goal with the same enjoyment you feel when you see a picture of an old birthday party or gathering of friends or some career milestone.

Don’t overthink this process. You can practice it on “small” things on a day by day basis, and then start using it for “bigger” things. We have discussed how your smartphone can be a magic compass. Another powerful use of your smartphone is using it to capture your future goals and changes. Each morning, just make a montage of 5 or 10 great moments you plan on taking a picture of, and then see how many you can capture over the course of the day! They can be “small” things like having a great meal with friends, or taking a walk, or “big” things like completing an important paper or receiving an unexpected windfall, or kicking off a big project.

Incredibly, simply by seeing in advance the success moment pictures you hope to capture, and then keeping a look out for them, more and more success events will start crossing your path - not just the ones you imagined, but countless other unexpected opportunities and surprises. Your phone’s camera can literally become the enjoyable and relaxing wayfinder for capturing all of your incredible future success.

One Final Note: Pictures alone do not yet unlock instantaneous time travel. In other words, if you want to build a beautiful mansion on an empty lot - chances are low that you will be able to walk through it by the end of today. The same with enjoying vegetables from a new vegetable garden in your backyard. That being said, today’s world is awash with digital planning tools and specialized contractors - so you can certainly have a great first draft design in hand of whatever you are hoping to build by end of day.