What You Desire Already Exists

You are a Badass Deck, by Jen Sincero — It’s time to get mighty clear about what makes you happy and what makes you feel the most alive, and then create it instead of pretending you can’t have it.

The cards in this deck were created from a book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.

Happiness is alive and well in my life

And I really can’t complain of any strife

Pardon me if you are experiencing rife

Perhaps you have a loved one going under the knife

Your day will be better tomorrow sir, when you can see your wife!

Hubby and I were talking about having a rough day today and then we saw a man struggling to walk on the sidewalk. Hubby said, “You know it could be so much worse!” He was right as there is always someone who has more difficulties than us.

FIND A TEMPORARY ROLE MODEL — Get clear on why this person is impressive and inspiring to you, and when faced with a challenge that leaves you guessing how to react, ask yourself, What would my hero do? Not caring what others think is a muscle that can take some time to build up, so use this trick while you’re still getting strong, and before you know it, you’ll be able to ditch your hero and start asking yourself, What would I do? Jen Sincero

So many authors impress me. I do not know many personally. I have bought different authors' books that were newly published from Vocal Media primarily. I have poetry books published by a few authors in the writers’ group I have on Facebook.

A role model I would like is an author of several published books. An author that has a following. Then I would feel comfortable saying, what would my hero do? Because I am putting effort into writing a book for publication, I can start to look at who this could be for me.

Several years ago now I met with an author friend and we talked about her publishing experience. She was sitting in a bookstore about an hour away from me and I decided to attend to support her. When she took a break, we talked.

She made it sound like it was a lot of work to get published. She had been working with the same publisher at the time but she didn’t start there. She has had a few different publishers. She talked about how she had finished her next book but that it wasn’t coming out until Christmas. We met in May.

It was easy to get the impression that once a publisher is involved the project is no longer yours. Then there is a team of at least two. I met Linda several years ago now. I was just barely starting to write books. I know she published in 2023 and don’t know if she is publishing this year or not.

We lost touch. Then the women in my writers' group are newer authors, that I believe self-published through Amazon.

Being in gratitude for the not-yet manifested informs The Universe that you know what you desire already exists, and puts you at the right frequency to receive it. Jen Sincero

It was important in early recovery for me to write a gratitude list every day according to my sponsor. At first, the only two things on my list were my two children were healthy. I told her I wasn’t grateful for much. She said it would be important for me to work on that.

Soon after I was in the habit of a gratitude list, I was with other women and was told by one woman in that group that her sponsor wanted her to write a gratitude list as she was feeling sorry for herself all of the time. Is that why? Self pity? I checked and yes that was why.

Well, I suppose it made sense as for the first six months when talking to my sponsor I cried.

Most of the time I am at the right frequency to receive my desires. I have received the promises of recovery by doing what I was told to do in recovery.

The promises that are fitting for me are:

To know a new freedom and a new happiness.

To not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

To comprehend the word serenity.

To know peace.

To know that no matter how far down the scale I have gone, I will see how my experience can benefit others.

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

To lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

Self-seeking will slip away.

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.

We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us.

We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Adapted from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

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First published by Mercury Press on medium.com