The End Implies The Means

People panic when things don’t go according to plan. They have certain expectations about how/when/where/ their desired outcome will manifest, and then, when those expectations aren’t met, they assume something has gone wrong.

We could define this as a lack of faith or as an inability to persist in the “state of desire fulfilled,” but both of those definitions imply a lack of willpower. Really, though, willpower isn’t the issue at hand here. If we just clear up one common misunderstanding, we can do away with 99% of “faith” issues immediately.

Imagine having a time machine that can transport you to an indeterminate point 12-24 months in the future. You step inside, press some buttons, hear some machinery whirring, and then step out to find yourself on the beach at a tropical resort. After this, you immediately return to the present day with the knowledge that, at some point in the next year or two, you will be on a beach at a tropical resort. Because your time machine never malfunctions, you know this with 100% certainty.

With this information and this information only, could you then go and tell somebody, “In exactly 18 months to the day, I am taking a flight to Bali for a two-week vacation that I’ll pay for using the extra money I made from my Christmas bonus?”

No. Of course not.

Just because you know with 100% certainty that some experience will come to pass doesn’t mean you can make whatever assumptions you’d like about how/when/where it’ll come to pass. Just because you saw yourself on a beach doesn’t mean you know where that beach is, when you’ll be visiting that beach, or how you will have gotten there.

It’s a blind assumption to say that your trip will occur in 18 months when it could occur at any point in the next 12-24 months. It’s a blind assumption to say you’ll be flying there and not arriving by cruise ship. It’s a blind assumption to say the beach is in Bali and not in Tahiti. It’s a blind assumption to say the trip will be funded by money you made and not something you won in a radio contest.

You just don’t know any of that information. But you also don’t have to worry about that information.

The end implies the means here. The fact that you saw your future self on a beach implies that somehow, someway, you’re going to end up there.

You should think of manifestation the same way. The end always implies the means. If you access a certain state with the understanding that you’re going to experience said state via manifestation at some point in the future, then you can rest easy knowing the details of how your desired experience will come to pass are unimportant.

If you panic because it seems as if things are not developing how they need to be, that means you must have certain expectations as to how your desired outcome will play out.

Those expectations are baseless, though. You didn’t choose to access the state of your desire being en route to fulfillment — you chose to access the state of it being fulfilled.

Having expectations about how/when/where your desire will be fulfilled is like ordering an entree and then expecting an appetizer. Why would that be your expectation when it isn’t what you ordered?

Manifestation is simple. You get what you pay for. The states you choose to embody are what eventually come to pass. Anything intermediary that occurs is not your concern. If I book a trip to Finland, I don’t have any right to melt down when my plane stops in Sweden and I’m told to board a connecting flight. I paid to visit Finland, not to not visit Sweden on the way there.

When things seem like they aren’t going your way, make sure to remind yourself that you paid for a very specific end outcome but not for a detailed path en route to that outcome. Just relax and remember that the end implies the means. You’ll get where you want to go so long as you don’t cancel your order.

As always, good luck.