Good Monday Morning!!!

I’ve been staring at the screen waiting for inspiration. So far the only inspiring thing I’ve come up with is that I not getting any inspiration. So, here I sit, wishing, and hoping. and …

How many of us do that. Wait for something, anything to be given to us. Serendipity might happen, but I’ve observed it occurs most frequently when we have a purpose for it. Therefore, it may only be serendipitous when applicable to our situation and goals. This also seems consistent with the saying “that we make our own luck”.  

When we have established a plan toward a specific accomplishment, all our thinking, actions, and impulses are directed by our desire to reach that goal. Our intent builds in us the fervent and consuming hope for success. All our mental faculties, conscious or unconscious, begin to attune to what is the hoped for. The conscious decisions made are directly related to the project. The unconscious plays in a different, more expansive arena, where by influence it manipulates the indirect relationships and events in the process. Things like a simple hello to someone on the street, who unbeknownst, is involved later in a professional capacity and more inclined to a positive view of your project. We’ve all seen the commercial on TV where a series of small considerate acts loops back to positively impact the originator of the chain. Can this be equated to predestined serendipity?

There are no research papers on self-willed Serendipity that I know of. Maybe it is called something else by esteemed researchers. The fact that your actions, thoughts, desires, hopes, impulses, and dreams all have a significant effect on your situations, guiding you in a direction where happenstance and luck can alter and shorten the path, is rarely part of a plan even when it can be the difference between success and failure.  

What if we planned for serendipity in every endeavor? Not as a means to avoid hard work, as a reward for working hard.

Have a rewarded week.  

  

Steven L. Johnson