Tadpole Or A Frog: A Wish Or A Command

                                                                           

There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.  Charles Haanel

Often we speak our desires with little more strength than a wish. When our wishes don’t happen we wonder why. Well let me tell you what I have discovered in my own experience. In the past I have made statements and affirmations about what I wanted to have, do or be and they sounded like tingling brass, something that was shallow and void.

When we express a desire and an intention, we must do it with conviction. That means attaching much faith, conviction, will and expectation to it. In other words, feel it in the depth of our souls. Anything in the invisible soul is sure to be a reality and will be enjoyed or detested according to our positive or nrgative thoughts. In my own experience that which I merely wished for seldom came about.

I have always had this vision of my real desires having a flair of certainty as opposed to a wish which I would affirm but it didn’t go anywhere. Like a balloon without helium, it just wouldn’t go up at all. It was like there was a trailer on my affirmation with a tail of wishing that would not fly. The affirmation was a good one but it had a tail of wish rather than a command.

When I was a young boy my friend “Bubba” Hiller and I would go to this pond and sit for periods of time just studying the tadpoles. We simply thought that a tadpole was just that, a tadpole; a small fish with a tail.

Then one day this old man passed by as we were watching the many tadpoles flurrying along and he asked us what we were watching. We responded by telling him that we were just watching the tadpoles swim. He posed a question to us that we could not answer. He asked, “ Do you know what those tadpoles are gonna be?” Our innocent reply was: “Naw suh.” “Someday they’re become Frogs”, he said. We were amazed because we had seen frogs jumping around at night all over the place. That was a big “Wow” for us.

From that day on, “Bubba” and I developed a prophecy about the tadpoles. As we watched them swim in the past, we noticed that some tadpoles swam with much grace and strength, while others were less graceful and appeared weaker as they wiggled their tails and moved through the water. From that observation we developed a boyhood prophesy that the ones that seemed weaker and lacking in the power of wagging their tails would not make it to be frogs. The wagging of their tails was too weak and so we made this prophesy, unscientific of course, but in our young minds anything was possible. So at night we expected to see the frogs who had wagged their tails with power and grace.

Yes, a silly boyhood story, but it occurred to me recently that some of my desires had weak tails on them just like the tadpoles that we predicted would never become frogs. They were great desires but they had only weak tails like some of the tadpoles. They swam, but in our judgment they were too weak to be frogs.

Ask yourself are your desires swimming with a tail of wishes or are they strong like the tadpoles who swam with power? Be assured that a desire with a tail of weakness we call wishing will never bring you to the point of realizing your desire. Attach power, will and commands to your desires and you will, like our prediction about the tadpoles, become what you desire, have what you want and live the life you want. Just remove the weak tail of wishing from your desire and you will become the real thing.

Wishing doesn’t build strong people and, in the prophesy of Bubba and me, it doesn’t make tadpoles into frogs.

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There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.  Charles Haanel

Often we speak our desires with little more strength than a wish. When our wishes don’t happen we wonder why. Well let me tell you what I have discovered in my own experience. In the past I have made statements and affirmations about what I wanted to have, do or be and they sounded like tingling brass, something that was shallow and void.

When we express a desire and an intention, we must do it with conviction. That means attaching much faith, conviction, will and expectation to it. In other words, feel it in the depth of our souls. Anything in the invisible soul is sure to be a reality and will be enjoyed or detested according to our positive or nrgative thoughts. In my own experience that which I merely wished for seldom came about.

I have always had this vision of my real desires having a flair of certainty as opposed to a wish which I would affirm but it didn’t go anywhere. Like a balloon without helium, it just wouldn’t go up at all. It was like there was a trailer on my affirmation with a tail of wishing that would not fly. The affirmation was a good one but it had a tail of wish rather than a command.

When I was a young boy my friend “Bubba” Hiller and I would go to this pond and sit for periods of time just studying the tadpoles. We simply thought that a tadpole was just that, a tadpole; a small fish with a tail.

Then one day this old man passed by as we were watching the many tadpoles flurrying along and he asked us what we were watching. We responded by telling him that we were just watching the tadpoles swim. He posed a question to us that we could not answer. He asked, “ Do you know what those tadpoles are gonna be?” Our innocent reply was: “Naw suh.” “Someday they’re become Frogs”, he said. We were amazed because we had seen frogs jumping around at night all over the place. That was a big “Wow” for us.

From that day on, “Bubba” and I developed a prophecy about the tadpoles. As we watched them swim in the past, we noticed that some tadpoles swam with much grace and strength, while others were less graceful and appeared weaker as they wiggled their tails and moved through the water. From that observation we developed a boyhood prophesy that the ones that seemed weaker and lacking in the power of wagging their tails would not make it to be frogs. The wagging of their tails was too weak and so we made this prophesy, unscientific of course, but in our young minds anything was possible. So at night we expected to see the frogs who had wagged their tails with power and grace.

Yes, a silly boyhood story, but it occurred to me recently that some of my desires had weak tails on them just like the tadpoles that we predicted would never become frogs. They were great desires but they had only weak tails like some of the tadpoles. They swam, but in our judgment they were too weak to be frogs.

Ask yourself are your desires swimming with a tail of wishes or are they strong like the tadpoles who swam with power? Be assured that a desire with a tail of weakness we call wishing will never bring you to the point of realizing your desire. Attach power, will and commands to your desires and you will, like our prediction about the tadpoles, become what you desire, have what you want and live the life you want. Just remove the weak tail of wishing from your desire and you will become the real thing.

Wishing doesn’t build strong people and, in the prophesy of Bubba and me, it doesn’t make tadpoles into frogs.