SYNCHRONICITY

Avoidance only delays the inevitable.

There is no such thing as overnight success and chances are if you truly studied the people that you envied, you already know this to be true. Anyone who is one, or perhaps many, steps ahead of you likely started first and worked, often for years, to get to where they are today. We have been conditioned to seek instant gratification and while life often moves fast, moving in the directions of our desires and ideas rarely, if ever, happens quickly or in one fluid motion.

In many cases the thing you desperately want is standing just out of your reach and the road from here to their feels daunting, if not impossible. If you happen to find the strength to move in the right direction, you will likely be faced with roadblocks and detours that you weren’t expecting. Should all things happen to align these things still take time. And I have found that it is often in the waiting that we lose trust, this is when we give up. We get so close to where we ultimately want to be, but upon reaching the one yard line we quit.

This is where synchronicity and trust come in. Synchronicity is defined as the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no understandable connection. Synchronicity can be found in unexpected conversations, in words we repeatedly see or hear, or just about anytime our thoughts or ideas are reinforced out of thin air. Synchronicity is how we know and begin to trust that the life we want is just ahead of us.

If you are wanting to quit your job and your friend who you haven’t talked to in years calls to tell you they just quit theirs, this is synchronicity. Or if you are wanting to launch a business or tackle a creative project and suddenly receive multiple email newsletters from other female entrepreneurs that specifically speak to this exact desire, this is synchronicity.

Reflection Questions

What are your roadblocks and obstacles trying to tell you?

What are the hurdles and closed doors trying to get you to do?