I recently spent a month working on a piano composition.* The process wasn’t arduous, though it did take awhile. In fact, I worked on it in between doing other things. I wasn’t on a deadline. I did it because I wanted to. I was content to creating something new.
At the same time as I was writing this piece, I was also working on a 1000-piece puzzle. At some point I noticed something interesting: I felt similar about both projects. That is, I felt calm, curious, and confident. I worked on them in a similar way, too. I worked on each a bit at a time, calmly focused and absorbed.
With the piano composition, I had the awareness of musical problems to be solved, but there was no real stress about it. For instance, while the opening theme came to me quickly, the middle section took more than two weeks to get right. The music would play continually in my head. It was like a math problem I was working on.
The project absorbed my mind. I worked on it continuously so I made progress. As with the 1000-piece puzzle, I believed success was inevitable. In both cases, I just kept putting the pieces together. The end result of both was satisfying.
I bring this up because I think this is a good example of what Abraham-Hicks calls “being in alignment.” You might call it having a positive attitude, when your desire for something lines up with your belief that you can have it. When you expect success, it’s yours.
From thinking deeply about the topic of what we expect, I know I have different expectations on different topics. When it comes to piano compositions and 1000-piece puzzles, the evidence suggests I expect a pleasant ride to success. And so, it happens!
*The piano composition is called “Break of Day,” and at some point I will share it.