What About Manifesting?

"Your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head. And when the door opens in real life, just walk through it. And don't worry if you miss your cue because there's always doors opening. They keep opening."
​― Jim Carrey

It’s New Year’s Eve 2024 and I’m getting my monthly post published under the wire, “just in time.” With the US Thanksgiving holiday so late this year, I’ve been practicing a lot of “just in time” – just in time house cleaning, holiday baking, gift shopping and giving, meal planning. The just in time thing works for awhile for me and then I start to feel the effects. Which for me looks like waking up in the night with to-do lists and worries running through my mind, fitting one more thing in as I’m late to whatever is coming next in my schedule. And then there’s the combination of procrastinating and just in time action. I wait until I really, really can’t wait any more and then I do something more quickly, possibly less carefully than I would like just to get it done! It relieves the pressure until the next thing that I'm avoiding shows up.

​The week before the holiday break as I was busy procrastinating and "just in time" doing, I woke up in the night, thinking about and literally hearing the words “expectations, requirements, and judgments” in my head. It was a mantra like Dorothy’s Wizard of Oz mantra of “lions and tigers and bears, oh my” – instead it’s “expectations, requirements and judgments, oh my!” Like the lions, tigers, and bears for Dorothy, expectations, requirements, and judgments are my fears and worries about how I’m measuring up or more likely how I'm not really measuring up.

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