The Viable Alternative

Okay, I’ve definitely been sucking at writing on here regularly as of recent. Oh well, hopefully that changes.

In the past month, I’ve been confronted with the cycles of life and death, and it has kind of thrown me off and really made me look at life differently. I won’t get into what happened yet, but I’ll say that I’ve been forced to take a look at myself and ask myself how I want to live the rest of my life and the type of person I would like to spend it with.

But you know what? The good news is that in the midst of all this inner turmoil, I had a financial breakthrough! Woohoo!

The breakthrough didn’t make me a millionaire or financially independent, and some may not consider it a big sum, but for me it is a big deal because it’s the most money I’ve had in a number of years, and as such, I’m grateful for it. In addition to helping me make a dent in a lot of my debts, giving me breathing room, allowing to invest in some projects that I wanted to start, it has also helped me to remember what it’s like to not have to worry about money, and has also helped shift the way I see success.

Funny, this breakthrough came to me via several deals in a rapid succession within the span of a week that I really didn’t have to work “hard” for. They just seemed to “come” to me. n fact, I put less work into making the money I did through these deals than I did all those long periods of times when I ground, and ground and ground but ultimately came up with nothing.

I can’t put my finger on what specifically happened within me that caused this success, though I know generally it’s due to the cumulative effects of removing the emotional and mental blocks via the body oriented therapy I’ve been undergoing over the past almost two years. Leading up to and through my breakthrough, I had been working on “intergenerational trauma” which is generally, the trauma that’s passed from one generation to the other.

I had been sharing with my therapist the stories of what had gone on in my grandfather’s and my father’s lives in terms of the issues they had with their parents, and the struggles they were confronted with, and apparently, it turns out that parents don’t only pass on their DNA from one generation to another, their emotional baggage also goes into the conception of an embryo.

Thus, I had been carrying emotional baggage of things I personally never even went through, and a couple of sessions went into releasing them.

Whatever the case may be, one thing I learned is that you don’t always have to work “hard” to have success. There are many people who work hard and still struggle to make ends meet. I always prided myself in being a hard worker, but had little to show for it.

I used to always disagree with people when they said that you don’t have to work hard to be successful. The way I was raised was that everything had to be a struggle, and if you didn’t work hard for something, it wasn’t worth having.

With such a mindset, I sabotaged many imminent successes because I felt unworthy of them because I didn’t work hard enough for them.

I have finally begun to accept that I don’t need to “try,” struggle or strain to get wealth to come to me. Wealth is part of a flow, and all I need to do is to continue to get out of my own way which will get me in the way of the flow and connect me to God. As I do that, I’ll be aligned with what’s necessary to do to align with the opportunities and circumstances that will manifest my success.

Now, just because I had this realization, it doesn’t mean that I believe that you can simply lie down on your couch all day and a million bucks will simply just fall through your ceiling into your living room just because you “wish” for it to happen. I’m not stupid. To acquire anything, including financial success requires some sort of action, but if done right, you don’t ALWAYS have to work hard for it.

At times you will be led to work hard, at times you be led to “chill” and allow things to come to you, but in surrendering to the “flow,” you don’t ever have to strain and struggle to force things to come to you. Always expecting a struggle to acquire wealth is what blocks success just as always expecting things to be “easy.”

This is The Viable Alternative.

Hope this helps,

Ike Love