One Apple A Day #432 - With a little help from the universe
In his book Do the Work, Steven Pressfield says that "The universe is not indifferent. It is actively hostile." He called this hostility Resistance but he also explains that we can transform this Resistance into Assistance if we act.
My experience is that the universe is not a positive or negative force in itself. The real resistance is within us. The universe just follows our action. It doesn't drive them.
If you sit waiting for things to happen, the universe will sit over you. It will squash you down with its infinite weight. Like the force of gravity, it creates a resistance making hard for you to stand up and move. After a while, your muscles will shrink, your energy will fade and you will crumble.
But when you take action and you move, then the universe becomes an amplifier. Like a wind blowing on your tail. Step by step the force of the universe compounds and grows until you get momentum and you become unstoppable.
If you want abundance in your life, don't sit waiting for the universe to serve it to you. Stand up and begin something. Act toward your dreams and draw the force of the universe on your side.
“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute: What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated; Begin and then the work will be completed.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe