Acting As If...Is Oxygen For Your Dreams
This is a story about an unspoken force - a force that not many speak of. It is the power of DECIDING and committing to a goal, when combined with the bold genius of acting as if it will happen. By acting as if, you are making your decision right. By acting as if, you are demonstrating to the universe your commitment to your DECISION, that your goal WILL be realized, not because it’s a goal, but because you have DECIDED that it’s actually going to happen. The story begins with a woman who love, love, loved the saxophone...playing the saxophone. It made her feel alive...like it was her oxygen. But she had gone years without her saxophone. It had been taken away years ago. Years without this joy and feeling of aliveness that came with playing the saxophone. One day she caught herself admitting to herself that not only did she want a saxophone, but in a moment of bold knowing, she DECIDED that she would have her very own tenor saxophone. She didn’t know how she would get one, but she was committed to making it happen. So she applied for a scholarship that gave grants to musicians in hopes of winning the money to buy the saxophone. And she was awarded the scholarship! She was elated to receive the scholarship money. But now she had to find a tenor saxophone to buy. She didn’t know where to get a saxophone, especially a used one. She realized it would take a couple weeks, even if she acted quickly before she would have her hands on her saxophone. And then it would need to be taken into the music shop to be refurbished and brought into working order. So actually, it would really be about a month before she could PLAY her new saxophone. And here’s where she tapped into that unspoken force of acting as if. A mentor challenged her to contact a saxophone teacher immediately and schedule a lesson for the earliest possible date - ideally in the next 2 weeks. She was confused. “But I don’t even have a saxophone yet. How can I schedule a lesson if I don’t even have my own saxophone yet?”, she said.