Use everything

Each of you will have goals that are harder to reach, and evident strengths and weaknesses to bring to bear or mitigate to get there.

Some of the weaknesses are resource needs that are critically limited.   This means, in connection with your goals, it is the absence of these resources that stops you dead.  For resource here I mean anything useful: people, thoughts, money, tools, anything.

Have you ever felt though, that things you might need seem to turn up just when you need them?  Often things that have been there all along and then a need arises and you recognise the resource.

This has to do with mental priming.  You've heard that you cannot tell the mind "not" to think of something (usually we are asked not to think of an elephant :-)).  Similarly if you decide to focus on anything, a particular colour or number for example, the mind immediately starts to find it and it can seem to become suddenly abundant.  It's not changed in fact, but your attention has.

If your motivation for your goals is high enough for it to get your full attention, don't let that be sabotaged by the absence of a critically limited resource need.  Try working on the problem, for example using a forcefield exercise or CEDAC.  As you do so, firstly sift through all your existing resources and resource combinations,  work thoroughly through it and use everything to start with.

"If I used anything and everything around me and in me, what ideas do I have that will move me forwards?"

Only after a full review do you then choose two or three pathways to try.

Use everything.  Milton Erickson called it "utilisation" in a slightly different context, but it's a great idea to use everywhere.