Once you know where you’re going, getting there is easy.
It’s the figuring-out-where-you-want-to-go part that is difficult!!!
But once a decision has been made and you know where you’re going (once the goal is set), getting there is easy.
This is a message that I sent to my coaching group on June 8, 2010 on the 37th day of the 6-week program. I was on the road, moving my life from Wisconsin to New Hampshire. I had great revelation while I was driving.
Here it is:
June 8, 2010
I’m in Syracuse, New York now – 6 hours away from my destination.
Yee-haw. It’s been a great trip.
Yesterday while I was driving, I listened to an Abraham-Hicks CD and there was a great analogy that if you are driving from Texas to San Diego (or in my case Wisconsin to New Hampshire) you don’t turn around when you are halfway there just because you’re not there yet.
You keep going.
You don’t do a U-turn in the middle of the route, giving up in frustration.
Instead, you feel EXCITEMENT knowing that you’re getting closer, knowing that you’re heading in the right direction of where you want to go.
Yet, the mass majority of people turn around halfway to their destination, in frustration, complaining that they’re not there yet, and that’s why they never get there.
THEY TURNED AROUND!
But if you keep going – just do what’s IN FRONT of you – you will get to where you want to go. That’s the key. Just do what’s in front of you, and don’t look back (Jesus says, “Follow me. Don’t look back Lest you be turned into a pillar of salt”).
FORWARD AHEAD. STRAIGHT TO GOD.
And I just love that – because I could get to New Hampshire faster if I wanted to (driving through the night) or I can take my time and get there when I want. I could take a month or a year getting there if I wanted.
The speed of “how fast” it takes me is up to me.
But I would never get to New Hampshire if I landed in Ohio and got frustrated that I wasn’t there yet, and turned my car back around to Wisconsin, while thinking “it’s never going to work, I’m never going to get there, I might as well just give up, this is just a waste of time.”
But see, I KNOW I’M GOING TO GET THERE as long as I keep heading in the right direction. As long as I keep consulting the map that I’m on the right road, and that the destination is in sight.
DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR DESTINATION.
Remember, the goal is God. The goal is happiness. The goal is to know thyself. If you’re not there yet, keep going. That’s how simple this gets. Don’t do a U-turn. Don’t despair. Just keep going.
I don’t stall in Ohio in frustration and despair. I don’t throw a temper-tantrum. I don’t sink into depression.
Keep going with your eye on the destination and you’ll get there. And in the meantime: ENJOY THE RIDE! 
ENJOY THE SCENERY. Getting there is half the fun!
Simple, right?
A Course in Miracles is your map. Your goal is God. Your goal is happiness. You’ll get there if you keep going. The speed in which you arrive is entirely up to you.
Esther Hicks also tells a great white-river story. She and Jerry decided to try white-river rafting and there was a group of 6, and also another group, and not one single person in the group had an idea to turn the boat upstream against the current. NOT ONE! They all put their boats in facing downstream to work with the power of the river. And that’s God. You want to work with the power and current of God, and NOT struggle against it. You want to allow yourself to flow.
In fact, the CD is called “The Art of Allowing.”
You want to start allowing yourself to flow.
No more resistance.
No more struggling against life.
She also said that everyone says they want the “outcome” (the manifestation, the money, the house, the finished product, “the stuff” (WHERE’S MY STUFF???? ) but that’s not what anyone really wants. What everyone wants in THE EXPERIENCE – the thrill of living – the excitement of going in the direction you want to go and feeling alive by it.
She said it would be like arriving at the river, and then saying to the river guide, okay, let’s just put the boat on top of the car and drive down to the finish line. And the guide says “but I thought you wanted to ride this river??”
LOL.
I thought you wanted to ride this river?
You want the experience of life. You want to enjoy the ride because it’s ALL good, not just the finish line.
And then she says my all-time favorite sentence by the river guide as they are all facing this very-fast moving river: “FRIENDS, THIS IS NOT DISNEYLAND AND WE CANNOT TURN THIS RIVER OFF.”
HAHA. The river guide is giving them an idea of the POWER of the river – it’s not Disneyland and you can’t turn it off – and Jesus is giving you an idea of the POWER of God.
Today’s instruction is about KNOWING YOUR GOAL and heading in that direction, using the map to get there, and not doubting just because you’re not there yet.
If you’re not yet where you want to go, you’re almost there. Keep going. Whatever you do, don’t turn back.
KEEP GOING.
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there, and that’s the difficulty with most people. They say they want to go somewhere (for things to change) but they don’t know where they want to go.
Today I want you to look over your intentions that you wrote last week.
Look over the goals you set.
See where you are on the map.
Know where you’re going.
Just like with a road trip, sometimes there are obstacles and delays and road blocks. But it’s all part of the journey, and that’s what makes it so great.
The unknown is scary and there can be a great temptation to turn around to your life of safety, routine and habit as you start moving further away from it. You’re not sure what awaits you. I’M NOT SURE WHAT AWAITS ME. But I still keep heading forward because I’ve set the goal and I know where I’m going.
Do you know where you’re going? Do you know what you want?
Once you know where you’re going, getting there is easy.
You won’t go down other roads because that doesn’t make any sense. I know I’m heading east and it wouldn’t make any sense to head south or west. And that’s how it with A Course in Miracles. When happiness is your goal, you wouldn’t dream of heading down a road of conflict because that takes you off in a whole other direction.
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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for all the good thoughts and energy. Two things really came up as I was reading this.
Do what’s in front of you – is most often the BLOCK or delaying mechanism or avoidance technique for opening my life into the unknown or making progress towards bringing forth a vision I’ve been given. There are endless relatively meaningless things right before me all the time that have nothing to do with manifesting the vision/goal. If I just do what’s obviously in my face to do I go nowhere, I can sweep the floor and clean the house and take care of ………..responsibilities endlessly and NOTHING is brought forth of the inner vision. I find that my challenge has been in being true to what’s INSIDE and DOING what brings that into my “life”. It’s creating something from the invisible rather than responding to whatever shows up. For me that is where I experience my greatest resistance/block. It’s so much easier, safer and more obvious to just be here now and address whatever in my face – take the path of least resistance.
That leads to the other thing. Often it has seemed to me the raging river comes to sweep me OFF the path TOWARD my goals and in the other direction – back into the same old familiar dead patterns, habits etc……. It’s actually in somehow resolving NOT to get swept off course by the raging river that DOES NOT WANT PROGRESS, FREEDOM, BRAND NEW OPENESS(receptivity to grace), JOY, LIFE, FULFILLMENT, etc……..actually I experience this more like a tidal wave than a river of opposition, seemingly impossible to stay conscious and resist, ( ALL addiction is surrender/allowing oneself to go with that force ), so for me the idea of allowing oneself to just get in the river and go where it’s going doesn’t work towards getting me to where I really want. For almost everyone it’s going to be the river of programmed consciousness/ ego desire, beliefs etc….
The only way I know how to come closer to what I really want is actually in my willingness to practice inner silence along with the willingness to hold my mind open, not full of ideas about anything including what I think I should be doing. I hear over and over inside ” in returning and rest ye shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be thy strength”.
Part of the challenge when someone is called to awaken is that all doing/ goals of this world, of worldly accomplishment become truly, entirely meaningless, without value. You just can feel how there’s no point there’s REALLY nothing real to do here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there is a period perhaps of retreat, of dropping out, disconnecting from the “world” and all it’s trappings, mazes, ego adventures. “No longer riding on the merry go round…..I just had to let it goooooo” – John Lennon. And then the only thing that makes it all well is the full, real, experience/ knowledge of truth, identity, God, eternal life and probably you will be “here” still and then it’s just intuitive now what to do all the time not predetermined anything. For me it isn’t a sudden total constant “shazzam” total, permanent zen awakening but a process of enlightenment, more and more light, gradually stabilizing like keeping my head above water, I find myself drowning in illusion less and less, THANK GOD, I LOVE peace and clarity and LOVE and yet the dream and the idea I have to do something here is very persistent and doesn’t just quit as I’m sure you know. Maybe/probably we all do have a perfect role to fulfill that the whole process of us all healing depends on. I believe the Course. It is the one and ONLY thing I reocognize as authority (other than my own deepest sense of things – the same voice speaks on the inside too!!!! That’s the way I like it best and Ha Ha that’s what I avoid the most!!!) There’s the biggest mystery of all. Why would I know that PERFECT KNOWLEDGE AND GUIDANCE is in me and not be turning to it continually in silence?
Anyway Lisa I’m glad you moved East. I very glad you are loving and sharing true ideas so fully, it is really beautiful, thank you for loving truth and love this much. Yaay!!! I’m just grateful I’ve accumulated enough strength of awareness to see the whole opposition at work in my thought/ behavior etc…… to see it! and know it for what it is. We call it devil, mortal mind, the ego whatever, something apart, something that doesn’t know, something not complete, flawed somehow and on and on a whole spectrum of possibilities, infinite images I mistake for I reflecting the possibility of God and ……something ELSE. And I say now it (Salvation, Unity, Heaven, True Being,) is CERTAIN because it ( Separation from God/ Love/ Life my own Self!) is IMPOSSIBLE. And I watch the assertion of something ELSE and determinedly repeat the Light HAS come, I will forgive and this will disappear. Nothing else makes sense at this point. Except giving more devotion, attention, priority to receiving God’s Word and loving.
When are you coming to visit NY? I think Axel will be here for a little while in August.
I Love you,
Kim.