Imagine that you’re receiving 10-15 pieces of mail every day. You live in an interesting country where your mail happens to be color-coded.
Most of what comes to you is junk mail and routine announcements (e.g., bill payment reminders, etc.). These are in grey envelopes (junk mail) and white envelopes (routine announcements).
Most of what comes to you is in white and grey envelopes, and most days you don’t bother to open them. In fact, most days you don’t even take them out of the mailbox. You’re somewhat embarrassed to admit that you are actually in the habit of ignoring the mail that comes to you.
Recently, however, you joined two special societies. One is a prosperity society that gives people many great tips for investment and growing wealth. It works and most of the people who are able to join achieve great wealth in 1-5 years by following the tips and advice. The other society you’ve joined is a Lifestyle Design society. They share life hacks, resources, and mutual support and, similar to the first group, people tend to emerge 3-5 years later really loving life.
It took you a while to locate and successfully apply to these societies, but you’re in now.
They communicate with members by mail.
For the first year or so, it’s like a correspondence course. They send a letter, you take the advice, write back with your results, and then they send more advice that’s tailored to your own situation.
Pretty convenient.
The financial letters come in red envelopes. The lifestyle letters come in golden envelopes.
Well, now you’re motivated to check your mail.
So, you set up some boxes at home and you start to go through your backlog of 5000 accumulated letters. haha.
It takes about a month to clear all of that (you’re a busy person).
And once they’re all cleared, you stay on top of it. You check your mail each day. When announcements come, you read them quickly and then throw them in the white box. When junk mail comes, you confirm that it’s junk and then throw it in the grey box.
As a result of this, when the first red envelope comes (yay!) you’re able to see it within 1 or 2 days. (You weren’t quite done clearing away all that backlog, but you had cleared enough to glimpse the red envelope.)
Excitedly, you open it up, get your first piece of basic financial advice and, yes! You’re in business.
As the months go on, you’re pretty active in going through the financial and the lifestyle courses. As a result, over time you’re getting a lot more red and gold envelopes, and actually, it almost feels like you’re getting much less of the white and grey ones.
Nice!
This to me is like results from subliminals.
Journalling and expressing your thoughts and observations is like going through your old mail.
As a result of airing out my thoughts, I’m more easily able to recognize when a new potentially useful change, insight, or influence is coming in. Then I can make use of it. This tends to lead to an increased flow of results.
Anyway, that metaphor was in my head, and I wanted to get it out.
(Get it out!!! Get it out!!!)
the q store website is probably my most visited site lol