Every once in while someone says something that changes your life and perspective instantly, for me it was just a few little words of advice spoken from my wise friend and business partner, Mike Mitchell. Mike and I love to go to this beautiful little restaurant to discuss our Law of Attraction seminars and talk about manifesting our life dreams. Mike and I feed off of each other and have the same high energy level; we get so passionate about our plans that we forget to eat sometimes. Often we identify with each other’s issues. This time it was just my one big issue that was taking up all the conversation. I was feeling like I was spinning my wheels in so many directions and never arriving at my desired destinations. The underlying problem was me always having back-up for everything: extra cars, extra boyfriends, extra jobs, three phones, three computers, a freezer full of food I couldn’t eat in a year, and a plethora of interests and hobbies. This tendency started early for me, I had three scholarships when I went to college; art, dance, communications and later multiple careers…all at once. I had more than enough of many things but little focus and little time and fast-paced living permeated all of my life. I was crying in my coffee to Mike about not being able to make choices and being Jill-of-all-trades, master-of-none. I wanted one great breathtaking exclusive love interest, one good car, a career that I was passionate about and a humble home in the country instead of a huge home in the city, I had none of these and I’m not getting any younger. I told Mike I was stuck in a rut or should I say stuck in many ruts since one rut was too narrow for me. To top it off I was worried that I might be hypocritical teaching the Law of Attraction when I couldn’t seem to narrow down one thing I wanted because there are so many options. I knew that I thought I’d be missing something and feared putting my eggs all in one basket, which made me too vulnerable. I was living out of fear of losing security and buying into the media madness that we need a lot of “stuff” to be happy. Because I know that the Law of Attraction works so well and that we get just what we think about the most, I was afraid to narrow down my choices; neither did I want to desire everything because I was already overwhelmed. How may of you are like that, thinking that lots of things makes you happy? Then Mike said something that changed the way I look at my life from that wonderful moment on. “Linda, if you chase two rabbits you won’t catch either one.” His words caught in my throat as I repeated them back slowly. “If I chase too many rabbits I won’t catch even one!” Visions of thousands of rabbits scurrying past me as I tried to grab just one came to mind, my hands remaining empty.

So many of us want so much to have it all. The media sends us messages every day about what we need; our wants have become needs. We avoid narrowing down our wishes because we want and want but fear getting everything we’ve wished for so we settle for what shows up instead of what we plan. Perhaps the most difficult part of applying the Law of Attraction and enjoying quality instead of quantity is making a decision about what we desire the most. To be happiest we must prioritize our desires, decide on that one special rabbit to chase.

One thing remains constant all of us only have 24-hours in a day to enjoy whatever we wish for. Time simplifies life for us, shouldn’t we choose how we want to use that precious time? Shouldn’t we spend less time chasing many elusive rabbits and more time petting that one exceptionally soft rabbit, you know the white one with the long fur and blue eyes, and perky ears? (A lioness, before the hunt, carefully picks out one wildebeest to chase, she never chases one then diverts to another.) I started looking around at rabbit chasers and noticed that the people who chased one dream, had one love, had one car, one career seemed to be able to focus and they are happier. Relationship-chasers, like I used to be, seem to find the intimate close relationship elusive and ultimately shallow. Material-things chasers seem to have so much stuff and no time to enjoy the stuff and besides each thing we possess ultimately possesses us; we need to maintain it, make money to buy it, then allocate a number of brain cells to remember where it is stored. Ugh that’s a lot of work, slowly and noxiously things begin to own us.

So now I have distilled my desires to the best “I wants”, gotten rid of a lot of “stuff”, and have the perfect relationship defined on my Law of Attraction send-outs list. I am being more specific and visionary and frugal. Now I can teach with Mike the Law of Attraction without feeling hypocritical and I am looking forward to catching that one rabbit before it goes down the rabbit hole.

Linda Strasburg

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