A management coach suggests that creating your own ‘reality’ can help you succeed

You probably have the model that the universe is a vast entity that does not know you exist and is indifferent to your wants and needs. Sometimes you might extend this to feel that occasionally the universe wakes up and makes it its business to frustrate you in every way possible. Most of us have some variation of this model. It’s not a particularly happy place to be at. How about we try a new mental model. The benevolent universe model. In this model, the universe is a conscious entity. It is aware of you and well disposed towards you. It is all powerful. It organises itself so that it always gives you everything that you need, everything that is good for you, at precisely the moment that you need it. Have you ever seen the Cirque du Soleil performance? There is a huge stage and every section of it is occupied. The aerialist goes up on her bar, leaves it, turns a dizzying array of acrobatics and just as she is about to fall, another bar is there for her to grasp. The universe is exactly like that. It knows what you need and gives it to you at…

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