How To Magnetically Attract Thrills Into Your Life
When you commit to a goal, the methods to achieve that goal will appear. When the methods do appear, they may not be (and seldom are) dressed in familiar garb. Many people are in the habit of saying “no” to all new experiences. Part of this, of course, is the comfort zone: “It’s new, so don’t do it.”
Alas, saying no to something before we know what we’re saying no to has a rather nasty name – one that no one likes to hear applied to themselves. That word is prejudice. It means, of course, to prejudge something. Human beings do it all the time. How many opinions do you have of people you have never even met?
By watching TV, we all have had the chance to meet a number of famous people who we initially “knew” only through the media. Many of them lived up to (or down to) their reputations. Others did not. Some people who had “bad reps” in the press were, in fact, delightful. Others, who are known to be magnificent individuals, were, in fact, monsters.
“My mind is made up,” the old saying goes, “don’t try and confuse me with the facts.” The answer to this comes from Aldous Huxley, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” William S. Burroughs gave the tendency to make up our minds before we have enough information an even more severe interpretation: “A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what’s going on.”
If something presents itself to you, and you don’t know enough about it to really decide if it might help you achieve your goal, don’t say no – find out more. How do we find out more? By asking, doing, listening – in short, by getting involved; experiencing.
As you may have gathered by now, our advice on new opportunities is: if it’s not going to physically harm you, and it might be helpful on the path to your ultimate goal in life, then try it. Other than the comfort zone’s control of your life, what have you got to lose?
Another reason people don’t even want to hear about new opportunities is that people are afraid to say no – especially after they’ve “gotten to know someone.” It’s the old don’t-say-no to-people-you-know-but-do-say-no-to-people-you-don’t-know rule. It’s a rule perpetrated by the people we know, for obvious reasons. (“Why are you giving your money to this charity to save eagles when your own brother needs new plumbing?”)
No, we’re not suggesting you listen to the spiel of every person who tries to sell you a flower at the airport. It is safe to assume that one flower-seller will tell you about the same thing as any other. We are suggesting, however, that you listen to it once. You never know when someone or something has a lot to offer you in reaching your dreams.
