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When you think of a leap of faith what’s the first thing that comes to mind? When I think of a leap of faith I think of something you feel you must do, almost something you think you have to do to grow as a person or to better yourself.

Leaps of faith always pay off. A member of my Marketing Mastermind group shared how moving to a larger office was her ‘leap of faith’. By moving she was making a powerful statement to herself and the universe that she was ‘ready for bigger and better’ and sure enough, the universe responded with more clients, and more opportunities.

But I’d like to explore this further, because I also know of people who have taken similar ‘leaps of faith’ and it apparently hasn’t worked out for them. I also know, from my own experience, that there are times when I’ve taken, what I convinced myself at the time was ‘a leap of faith’, and it hasn’t paid off.

So what really happened? Well, here’s my take on this.

The operative word here is faith. Sometimes, when things aren’t going the way we’d like them to, we’ll latch on to anything in the hope that it will make a difference, turn things around.

This need to turn things around makes us vulnerable. I’m sure we’ve all got plenty of examples, business and personal, where our judgment was clouded by a pressing need, or frustration with a current situation and an overwhelming desire to make a change.

So, from this position of weakness, we took what we convinced ourselves and those around us was a leap of faith……

….. and landed flat on our faces.

Do that once or twice, and you’ll quickly turn yourself off taking ‘leaps of faith’. You’ll stick to playing safe, staying small, keeping your head down. Living a quiet life.

But can you see that on closer inspection we weren’t actually taking a leap of faith, we were taking a leap of compensation: an attempt to avoid a painful and difficult situation by grasping at the first passing solution. In A New Beginning, Abraham-Hicks explain it this way: ‘There is not enough action in the world to make up for that powerful feeling of lack. That is the reason that you see so many struggling, working very hard, putting in long hours but receiving insignificant or no progress, while others, who seem to be offering very little work – or action- often move forward in a seemingly effortless manner.’

So what am I saying here? Actions that you take from a position of fear, lack, frustration will not get you the results you crave. It defies the law of attraction. Actions that you take from a position of trust, confidence and faith will attract the results you want. You can’t fake this. The results will mirror back to you your true feelings in precise detail.

Now, because most of us are very good at denying our feelings even to ourselves, this is where we can come a cropper. We convince ourselves that we are taking a leap of faith, when what we are actually taking is a leap of fear.

So assuming …

1.Think back on times in your life when you took a leap of faith and it paid off. Notice the feeling you had just before you took action. Where in your body did you have the feeling? What words describe the feeling?

2.Now think of a time when you took a leap of faith and it didn’t work out. Once again, notice the feeling you had just before you took action. What’s the difference between the two?

3.This first exercise will help you to start noticing the messages in your inner guidance system. Notice how in order to start noticing the differences between the two, you had to have a couple of experiences of ‘getting it wrong’. In other words, even the ‘leaps of fear’ have been helpful.

4.If you find yourself feeling lack or fear, know that the time and energy you spend bringing yourself to a feeling of trust and confidence will do more for you than 1000 external actions taken from this position.

5.My favourite method of doing this also comes from Abraham-Hicks. (www.abraham-hicks.com) Whatever situation is troubling you, get a sheet of paper and write out one statement at a time which describes how you feel about that situation. Keep your pen moving. You will notice, that as you do this, the statements gradually change from desperation to acceptance (you might need a few pages!) This is such a simple exercise, but it has transformed difficult situations for me very quickly.

Try it!

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