"Next!"

I find myself saying something a lot lately...two words...a simple expression that comes up in conversation with people from time to time.  In my experience, it is usually the truly successful people in life who say this and they say it often..."What's Next?".  That's it...what's next?  It is a question I exhaust myself with...I fill my time dutifully and without exception I allow space for Creative Expression and Mental imaging and play and rest.  But I unfailingly ask myself and people around me this simple question.

I think the importance of the "what's next" mentality is that the question itself creates forward motion.  Here is an example.  A person falls in love with playing a musical instrument- say, guitar.  She thinks it would be great to know how to play it because so few girls do.  So she asks herself the question...what's next?  She knows instinctively because it is in her heart already that she must Act in accordance with her desires.  She must buy herself a guitar, so she does.  Now...what's next?  She needs lessons.  She finds herself an instructor and begins to learn.  Some people would stop here...but the inquisitive mind of the successful person would ask...what's next?  What else can I do with this?  How can I make that which I love into something bigger and better than it already is?  Aha!  Join a musical group..write some songs...do some amateur gigs...get discovered...get produced..get rich and famous... right??  Where do you want it to go?  Where it CAN go and that is the point!  Push it as far as it can go and then see what you have made.

In the Bible there is this scripture...it is a new testament verse and full of wisdom.  A man has asked a holy person to clear his home of an evil demon which has possessed it.  When the demon had been exercised the holy man who had performed the miracle advises the man who was once stricken- "do not leave the home empty, but rather fill it with many good things...lest you wish for this demon to return and reinhabit the house and bring along with him a legion more of his kind".  This is exactly the reason to ask the question...what's next?  It is precisely what that man ought to have been asking right after he said "Thank You".  I feel like this man in my own life.  In my experience, the holyman was a woman named Rhonda Byrne who showed me how to rid myself of my own demons.  Her book, The Secret, illuminated this for me.  I became a woman of pure faith after reading about The Law of Attraction.

You see, if I dissect this scripture and apply it to myself, I see it in a way I never did when I was a Christian in my old Church...when I was seeing it with Christian eyes...I saw it as being about miracles and duty.  The miracle was the fastest, simplest and easiest part.  It took nothing for a Holy Man to rid a house of demons.  It was as easy as blinking his eyes.  There was no magic.  The harder part- the real challenge was what to do once your slate was wiped clean (so to speak).  What's Next?  after you have forgiven my sins?  What's next after you emptied my house?  Now what do I do?  The answer is easy enough- make some plans.  Believe in them.  That is where the real magic is...in manifesting your own destiny.  In keeping the demons of your past life from returning.

Some people don't think they have demons or a past life (this is all figurative because I do not believe in hauntings or demons or cleansings).  What I am referring to are our failures and mistakes.  If we wish for a fresh start in our lives it is as easy as just taking it!  You do not need to save yourself or turn to a religion.  Just Forgive your own self of your past failures and then believe that you can change your future life starting today.  Starting right now in this very instant.  I am elevated beyond where I have ever stood based on this principle I now live by.  In every moment, I forgive myself and go on to experience greater successes and blessings.  I am not alone.  Other people who use these principles are experiencing it too.  I am the luckiest woman alive because I know these things.