For sixteen years I have struggled to achieve my childhood dream of being a pianist. During the last eight years I have been studying the Abraham-Hicks material, and from that time on all my life changed into a beautiful dream-life, the life I dreamed of as a child. The only thing I didn't manifest was the thing I put most of my effort into.

While I was torturing myself and trying to find a way into manifesting my dream, other areas of my life really flourished. So I am starting to think that the easiest way into getting something is not to care much about it. The problem is to find out a way of not caring about something that is really important for you.

Because I was so focused on learning the piano, and not focusing on my financial situation, for example, the financial situation improved, but my "talent" didn't. Most of the dreams I had are now manifested, except for the thing I considered to be my personal mission and goal in life. So now I am inclined to believe that effort is really not the answer. Now that I have finally started to open my mind to the idea of acting on my highest excitement, I realize that sometimes we don't give the universe time enough to prove that acting on our highest excitement is the key to get other things manifested. I mean by that that if the thing we want don't manifest immediately, we go back to effort because it is the way most people do things.

Now that I have posted my question and got some answers and insights from the experience, I am willing to try. I am fully aware that I may not get exactly what I want, but I am also sure that great things are going to happen in the areas of my life that are not engraved in my mind as big problems, missions and goals.

I hope this helps you to find your own answer.

what if all goes in cycles,
as is seen in nature where
opposites take turn being,
are we not part of this

I wasn't too much in your shoes, @spacemetalfantasy: my life has been working in such a way, that if there was some project bursting within, not aligning about it was always torturing enough to make me want to do some aligning work about it, in its stream, too.

So when AH say, "focus completely in the areas that work, and then it will bring alignment in those other areas, too" - I never really got to experience it, because I didn't feel possible to focus entirely out of that project that demanded attention.

So my road was kind of simple - to do the aligning about the project. Not the distraction way, but the focus wheel way: finding thoughts that feel better in this exact stream. This way I didn't even need to know the clear goals of where I want to be coming - I just did step after step after step after step after step, ... , and it brought me to surprising amazing heights by itself.

AH, too, recommend "bridging". You could do bridging the way Stingray offered you, or you could just freely seek any thought that feels better, on the subject of your business - for example, are you sure it must come through that site? Are you sure it must be a business? Are you sure you must do for it those chores you set up for yourself? Can you allow yourself to imagine that people who find you are interested in what interests you? Are you sure you must wait for the highest excitement on that subject and cannot just build it? What if it all could come easier? What if there is something interesting there? etc.

You could do some thinking - not trying to find the right answers, but feeling for the answers that feel better.

Even to the question you asked here now, you can reach for the answer you would think your Inner Being would give you, or just - a loving entity would give you, or simply - what answer would feel better to you? And better still? And a little bit better yet? etc.

Good feeling to you :)

As someone who until only a few years ago would've snorted with a roll of eyes about this kind of stuff, but in recent times found myself drawn towards it...

I have lately tried to apply close attentive focus on the excitement thing. Took awhile to start to get it. But at this point I am a believer in it. Where it can get a bit tricky is sometimes the most exciting thing in a given moment might not seem like such a big deal or completely unrelated to what you believe to be your more major issues/interests. But I will now vouch that the seemingly small thing often leads to the next, and the next, and you can look back and see pretty clearly why that one little thing was calling.

I find the evidence for this to be more vivid when faced with an option of what feels most exciting but instead choosing something else, maybe something I believe I am 'supposed' to do. And every time, the vibes dip and the road gets quickly more tumultuous. It also seems to bring an excitement in itself, just the anticipation of where the excitement trail will go tomorrow. Seems to give the journey itself an extra spice of excitement.