Say for example you’re looking for a job and things aren’t going well. Conventional wisdom suggests doubling our efforts, pressing our nose even more firmly to the grindstone, pounding that pavement even harder. To me, this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. If what we’ve been doing isn’t producing results, doing twice as much, applying double the force, will only produce double the aggravation, anxiety and worry.
Here’s the thing. I think we need to do the exact opposite. We need to give the need to steer the situation a rest. Struggling, fighting, controlling is blocking the things that feel accidental from being delivered to us. You know that accidental thing that has you calling your most trusted confidant and shouting, “You’ll never guess what just happened.” The accidental thing that was aiming for us through effortlessness always comes with a gasp of “Holy Crap.”
It’s the supper cool thing that happens to us that we have absolutely no explanation for. The thing that arrives even more magnificent than whatever it was that we were struggling for. This is effortlessness.
We cultivate effortlessness by trusting, by letting go of control, by being grateful for the good in our life, and being present, right here, right now.
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