Welcome everyone. I’m Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene doing a guest post for our wonderful Story Telling Ape. I’m here to encourage you to thrive.
Thriving Thursdays: Willing Instead of Wishing
Did you ever throw a coin into a fountain? Make a wish when you blew out the candles on your birthday cake? How about wishing on a star? I honestly do hope your wish came true.
Wishes are akin to dreams, so I’m all for them. Keep wishing. As someone once said, don’t just dream (wish) big — dream even bigger!
However… for many of us, wishes just don’t come true. “Willing” is a different matter. Whatever your wish is, will it. Focus. Be definite. Be persistent. Will it into existence with every last little gray cell in your brain.
“Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.” Napoleon Hill
So whatever “riches” means to you, don’t wish for it. Will it.
Wishing you a Thriving Thursday.
Mega hugs,
Teagan
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thanks for reblogging, Michael 😃
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You are so kind to share, Michael. Have a thriving Thursday!
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Thank you Teagan, wish you the same. Wonderful postings. Michael
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Dreams require lots of hard work, Teagan. They are 10% talent and 90% hard work. The Americans say “there is not such thing as a free lunch”.
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I see what you’re saying. It’s sort of a coming of age perception. I’m certainly glad you grew up to make wonderful recipes! 😀 To me, “willing” is a lot like the “manifesting” many people talk about. Something more detailed and intense than wishing. I really appreciate you taking time to comment. Have a thriving Thursday!
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Makes a lot of sense Teagan. When I was younger I threw a penny into Trafalgar Square fountain and made a wish (don’t remember it), always a wish with each birthday cake because they told you too and yes “wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight”. Things just don’t happen, you have to work at it and make it happen – I grew up 🙂
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Thanks, Teagan. You are right. Although sometimes our wishes can just be unrealistic things we dream of but could never come true (and then we can write about them, I guess), for all the rest, we need to be ready to work hard. I hope you have a good day. 🙂
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Hi Olga. Thanks so much for taking time to visit. I agree that most of us have to work hard for our wants and needs. I know I sure do!
Yet most of know at least a couple of people that everything just seems to come to them, effortlessly. I have to think those people are extra good at “willing.” LOL, but I wish I knew their secret! Have a thriving Thursday!
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Nice one, Teagan. A nudge toward an active versus passive approach to life. Have fun willing your wishes into being. ❤
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That’s true too, Diana. We can be complainers who are content to coast. (They complain the entire time, but refuse to try and improve the situation or even go somewhere else.) Or we can try to make things into what we need. Or make our own new situations… Thanks so much for visiting. Have a thriving Thursday!
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So true, Teagan. We can wish all day long, but when we take action for our wishes miraculous things happen! Thank you, Chris, for sharing.
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Many thanks for visiting, Jan. Sometimes miracles do happen — or so they say! 😀 To me, “wishing” is something vague and momentary. “Willing” is intense and focused. When someone is that focused, they will usually take some kind of action as a result. It doesn’t mean they’ll be successful at bringing it into existence, but there’s a better chance than just wishing. Have a thriving Thursday!
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How true. I wished for a horse at the wishing well at the zoo when I was a child. I have often thought it would be funny if I woke up and found one in my small back garden – my wish has come true at last! But I don’t think I would be so pleased now. If I had willed myself to to a work and living situation where I might have aquired a horse perhaps my dream would have come true. Other dreams have eventually come true, like living by the sea – only with a lot of will and planning…Most things don’t just happen, you have to make them happen.
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Ahhh… to live by the sea…! Welcome, Janet! In my experience relocating (as you describe) is the most difficult of all to achieve. So I know for a fact that you worked, willed, and planned — and did it very well.
I had to laugh at how I’d react in that situation. Suddenly all the expense, work, and responsibility of owning a horse. 🙂 Have a thriving Thursday!
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