What’s It to You?

Stories about other people achieving and overcoming odds may be inspirational, but until you consciously experience how you are supported by your own connection to the highest goal, it is difficult to comprehend and make a part of your life.

So take a few minutes right now to think about, contemplate and even relive a situation in which you experienced resonance with the highest goal. Concentrate on one of these situations, whether it happened recently or a long time ago.

The situation you pick can be simple, even commonplace. You can experience the highest goal when you look into the face of a newborn baby (particularly if it is your baby), when you hit a perfect golf or tennis shot, or say just the right thing in a meeting or to a friend. You get this kind of rush of energy and peace when you execute a series of perfect dance steps, get absorbed in a sunset, experience love for someone, or feel at one with the water while swimming.

You connect with your highest goal when you awaken full of enthusiasm for the day and when you know you are making a contribution. It is synonymous with being in the flow,—periods in which you are so totally absorbed with what you are doing that time stops and fulfillment comes naturally. It is making your life itself a work of art. It is working at something that you’re getting paid to do that you would secretly be willing to pay someone to be able to do.

It is the experience you have when you first fall in love. Problems at work don’t seem to be such problems anymore. You can handle them. You can work productively with people you may have considered enemies. You see their goodness underneath the tough exterior. You’re in love. Everything looks, feels, is different.

This kind of resonance is catalytic. Similar to a chemical catalyst, which causes reactions without being diminished, it is endlessly generative. Once you realize that it has been there for you a number of times in your life, you begin to see the enormity of it. You see that you are operating in a world in which you can draw on grace. Once you see that possibility, you can begin to act with intention relative to the highest goal and better align your efforts with this generative process.