Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. We'll see how today goes. I tell this to some of my clients. I usually just sit down and just kind of hit record. Sometimes I have like a theme. Sometimes I have like, you know, a few notes. Today I literally just have one word, which is miracle-mindedness, because it's been a topic of conversation for many of my clients. And I actually just got off a mastermind call talking about miracles. And this will be interesting because I haven't talked about it this way before on the podcast. With clients, I have.
And so this has been part of my work is like integrating the way that I talk with clients and the way that I want to talk here. And it's truly something that's been on my mind, along with the pivot that is coming. I talked a little bit about that in the Lightning Bolt Clarity podcast, and you will start beginning to see some of these changes integrating over the coming months, especially in the new year. But miracle-mindedness is something that I learned first from Marianne Williamson, who wrote the amazing book A Return to Love.
I also just read her book Mystic Jesus, which I also highly, highly recommend. Both phenomenal, phenomenal books. But she introduced me to the book, of course, in miracles. And then through other people, you know, and I consider myself a student of the course in miracles, and I read this book called The Way of Mastery, what it means to be miracle-minded. And some of the phrasing that I learned from the book that I talked about today with my mastermind, which is the prompt for this whole podcast. I'm going to be a little rambly. I'm sorry.
I'm still figuring out how I want to talk about it as I'm talking about it. So just bear with me. But one of the ideas that we were talking about in the group was like there, and like I said, this is from the book A Course in Miracles, which teaches that there is no order of difficulty to miracles, which basically means to me is the miracle that, you know, of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, it wasn't more difficult for him to do that than it was for me to, you know, start a business, as an example, or to sign a client or whatever miracles we're wanting.
And so I've been thinking about this a lot. I'm running a few different groups right now. One of them is called The Art of Impossible, where we're trying to create something we've never created before, right, which feels like a miracle. And one of the things I found myself saying in the mastermind was like, we are limited only by our thoughts of limitation, right? God is not limited. The universe is not limited. But we limit the divine forces that empower us to create miracles based on our thinking, based on what we expect.
And so to be miracle-minded, right, the theme of today, what does that mean? And I think part of it is an openness to things happening through us and not being attached, right? There's this element of like not needing it to happen and not self-inflating. So this is something that I've been thinking about a lot. We can't create miracles if we're like, look how great I am. Look how amazing I am because I worked this miracle. It's like, no, no, we have to keep things in the right order of mind where it's happening through us because of God. And that's a miracle.
Things are happening through us because of faith, because of alignment, because of our beliefs. But it's not happening because of us. We just let go of our limitations. We let go of our small-mindedness and embraced miracle-mindedness. And I think that that's a huge missing piece. And I was asked today on The Mastermind like what humility is. Is humility required for miracles? All of this. And so this is just on my mind. And I think humility, one of the things I found myself saying was humility is just remembering that you are created, not creator.
That God created us. We didn't create ourselves. And really understanding that puts you in the right relationship with your role in miracles. We don't make things happen. God makes things happen. This is an example that I was teaching this morning in The Creative Power of Faith.
It's like when you plant a seed, I might nurture it, and I might make sure that it gets the right amount of sunlight and fertilizer, but I don't make the seed grow. That's divine intelligence.
That's not me. And I think that is how miracles are created, like the seed turning into an oak tree or the seed turning into a corn plant. It's like our miracle-mindedness is the nurturing of the seed, but we don't in and of ourselves make the seed grow. Like I've had three babies. I didn't make my babies grow. They just did, according to divine intelligence. And so when we think about miracles that way, the miracle of birth, the miracle of having a baby, yes, I grew them in my belly and I ate and I went to my prenatal checkups and I took my vitamins, and I did give birth, but I didn't make that happen.
And so those are two powerful metaphors for me about what it means to be miracle-minded. It's like more about co-creation than making something happen. And I think most of you are listening are entrepreneurs, but even if you're not, to make something that has never happened before happen, there is this element of being miracle-minded where it's like you are opening yourself up to possibilities that you used to not be open to, but that doesn't make you this great person. It makes God amazing, right?
It just means that you're letting more of that power into your life. And I think that's how you maintain humility, because it's not my power. It's not like I am powerful. And I think that this is something actually that's been on my mind a lot, because I think sometimes in the coaching and personal development world, we make ourselves like little gods, right? Like, look at how powerful I am. Look at what I can manifest. Look at my business. Look at how much money I've made. Look how many clients I have. Look how many followers I have.
Look at all these amazing things I've done. And I've been there. I don't have a lot of judgment, because I get it. It's not really my place to judge. And I've been swept up in that line of thinking, where it's like, look how powerful I am. Look at what I can manifest. Look at what I've created. But that is a false sense of creation, because what's really happening is like the power of God is flowing through people. They just made themselves a bigger conduit.
And so actually, this is the quote that I wanted to read today, which I actually posted on my Instagram. If you're not following me on Instagram, you should be. @itsambersmith. But anyway, I posted this last, let's see, almost two weeks ago now. And this is from A Way of Mastery. It says, So you could say that God is like a wise gardener who is constantly trying to grow beautiful roses. He knows exactly how much moisture to put in the soil.
He knows how to make those nutrients rise from the soil through the roots, up through the heart of the stem of the flower to give forth radiant color so that everyone that looks upon it is touched by the mystery of beauty. And God wonders, well, it's interesting. These roses that I've created seem to have a mind of their own. As the elixir I tried to give them rises through the stem, they tie themselves in little knots. And only a little bit of the elixir reaches out, and so the petals never quite blossom fully.
Have you ever had that feeling that you're putting more energy into staying constricted than you are into allowing expansion? And the phrasing, that little story, is about desires and how God gives us our desires and we are meant to let them expand. But this is the same thing about the seed, right? We don't make things happen. When I planted my garden this year with Wesley, I didn't make the seeds grow. I don't even know how it works. I can't make it happen.
I just know that it happens according to my intelligence, and so much of life is like this, where things happen that we don't know how, and that's the miracle, that things are happening according to a divine flow, and I don't need to know how. I just go out to my garden and make sure that I know the principles, that the seed needs water, that the seed needs sunlight, and that the seed needs certain soil conditions, you know, fertilization and nutrients. And I can provide the environment for the seed to grow, but I cannot make the seed grow.
To me, that is miracle-mindedness in business, is I can create the environment for my ideas, my visions, my desires to grow and expand, but I don't make them manifest. I don't make them happen. I'm like a farmer. I create the environment for the divine intelligence to take root and grow, right? Just like God in that story about the roses, right? If we are the rose and God gives us these desires, we can put ourselves in little knots, and we can stop it from happening.
So many of us put energy into stopping things from happening because of our limited beliefs about what's possible, how easy it can be, how great we are. My favorite quote is from Marianne Williamson, which is like, our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, but it's not our power flowing through us, it's God's. And so I think that puts it in the right perspective of what being miracle-minded is. We are not great.
We are great because of who we are and who created us. And I think for me, that has just changed everything in my life. It's allowed me to be more successful than, honestly, I ever thought I would be. And it's not, I mean, by worldly standards, yes, but even more than that, it's like, by my own experience of life, and that's not because of me. It's because of who I'm in relationship with. And that needs to be said more because I think, like I said, especially in personal development, I think we learn about personal power.
And I believe in personal power, like free agency, free will, using our gifts, using our talents, but like I said, it's like the soil. And so the other thing that I was thinking about was the parable of the talents, where they created an environment for the talents to be multiplied. And we could say the same thing is true of all of us. We've been given seeds, we've been given coins, like in the parable of talents, right? Three workers get different amounts of coins.
One worker buries it, and then the two others, like they use it and they multiply it based on the environment that they put the coin into. That is true of all the talents that we have, whether that be in business, whether that be in motherhood, whether that be in our relationships and marriage, whether that be in our community or churches, it doesn't matter. We have seeds of potential in all of us. I know that that's a cheesy way of saying it, but it's true, right?
What environment are you putting yourself in based on your thoughts, based on who you surround yourself with, what information you accept or reject, what kinds of thoughts you're putting into your brain, all of that makes the seed grow or not. And so for us to align, to be miracle-minded to me means you're creating an environment where it can grow and expand. You put more energy into the expansion than contracting. So what that means to me, like if we use, you know, your life and your business as a garden principle, we take time to give it room.
We prepare for the expansion, right? So like one of the things that we did, we have garden boxes in our backyard, and so we prepared the soil. We got the mix from the store. We put it in the garden boxes. We made it moist with water. We used the hose. We made sure that the seeds were spread apart the right amount. We cleared the area of weeds. We prepared the environment. And so what this means in your life and business is like, are you preparing for expansion? Or are you trying to keep things the same?
Like the quote that I read was like, have you ever had the feeling that you're putting more energy into staying constricted than you are into allowing expansion? Like I said, we don't make the expansion happen. We just prepare the environment for it. So are you putting more energy into staying small, hiding, keeping things the same? Or are you allowing expansion? And to me, this is like, are you allowing your desires to guide you? Are you following your intuitive nudges? Are you trusting that the ideas are yours to steward? Or are you hiding, right?
And I think that most people do high level hiding, where we put ourselves in situations like we're doing the thing, but we're not really embracing the idea that expansion is going to be possible or that it's inevitable. I know I have done more, a lot of constricting in my life. I see this so easily in other people because I've been there, where it's like I had so much that I wanted to offer, so much that I wanted to say, so much that I wanted to do, but the energy of constriction for me is often consumption versus creation.
So I hid in listening to courses, showing up to coaching calls, reading books, listening to podcasts, and it felt like expansion, but it was like a counterfeit because what it really did was hide my own light versus me sitting here talking to you in this podcast, right? This is expansion for me. I had this idea, little seed. Here I am nurturing it and then I'm going to put it out into the world and it will take its own course. This is true of your Instagram. This is true of the coaching calls that you do. This is true of any content that you write, every conversation you have, right?
It will take on a life of its own and your job is just to create the environment for it to grow. We don't make it grow. That's being miracle minded. It's knowing what power actually is at play and it's not your own. The power that you do, right? Like me going out into the garden and preparing the garden boxes is my power, right? That's personal power, but I don't make anything happen of my own right. I don't make the seed take root. I don't even know how that happens. I don't know how the seed knows to start growing. I don't know how it gets the nutrients.
Like I really don't. And most people don't actually know how does the seed know to do that, right? God, because it has to be this divine intelligence. And so I think when we do use more of that principle in our lives, in our businesses, more miracles happen, more expansion happens. And so to me, being miracle minded means that you are opening yourself up to the flow of these ideas of love, of expansion. Then you are committed to staying where you're at. If you want expansion, that means growth. That means evolution.
That means doing new things, asking for new prices, asking for different clients, putting yourself in new rooms, saying new things, expanding your talent, expanding your capacity, expanding your responsibility. And that is the ultimate self responsibility is doing these things because you are committed to your own growth. That's being miracle minded. And so I wanted to drop this idea for you. It's like, are you miracle minded? Do you want to be? Are you preparing an environment for expansion? Or are you committed to staying small?
Are you committed to staying the same? And there's nothing wrong if what you want is to stay the same. I just don't think that's what you actually want because you wouldn't be listening to a podcast like this if you were. This isn't even about a judgment of people who don't want expansion. I think everyone wants expansion in their own way. It just might look different. An entrepreneur looks very different than someone who loves their job, as an example. Like I said, there's not a judgment between the two. It's just a different life experience.
And so knowing what you really want, this all goes back to your own desires. If your desires are how God communicates what you are meant to steward, I'm going to say that again because I need to hear this. Your desires are how God communicates what you are meant to steward. If that is true, you have a responsibility to prepare the soil of those little seeds, those seeds of desire to grow into whatever they will grow into. And that is being miracle minded. Another thing that, of course, a miracle teaches is that a miracle is a shift in perception.
And I've been practicing this for years now. Let's see, when was the first time I read A Course in Miracles? That was in 2021. You know, it's almost 2025, so almost four years of studying A Course in Miracles. My life will never be the same, but one of the things that means to me is that moment by moment, I can be miracle minded when I choose to see things differently. And so this is something I practice a lot. I put my hand on my heart and I ask a little prayer, like, help me see this differently. And we can make this very real. Help me see this consult differently.
Help me see this comment on Instagram differently. Help me see my bank account differently. And letting divine influence help you choose better thoughts. And this is not talked about in coaching because we talk about thought work in the form of personal power, right? What I can do, you know, beating my chest, like, I'm so amazing. I have all these thoughts. I'm so powerful. I can create things because of my thinking. And it's like, no, no, no. We're powerful because of who we are in relationship with. Our thoughts are where we meet God.
And God can change our thinking. God can heal our thinking. Doesn't mean that we don't have our own free will of thinking what we want to think, which is why one of my favorite quotes is by Arnold Patent. And he says, we don't create abundance. Abundance is always present. We create limitation with our thinking, right? With our thinking is my own addition to that quote. But that quote is so powerful because that is true, right? So God is an abundant minded being. If you put a seed in the ground, it will grow.
And then the plant will produce fruit that has thousands of seeds that will produce more plants. Like, abundance is in the divine DNA of life. Abundance is all there is. Abundance is life. And so we put limits on that. And that's like that quote about the roses, right? Have you ever had the feeling that you're putting more energy into staying constricted than you are into allowing expansion? We do this to ourselves with our own thinking. And so you can ask for a correction. You can ask to see things differently. You can put yourself in environments where you're thinking is transformed into something more powerful.
That's being miracle minded to me is like choosing a higher level of thought, choosing to see things differently, choosing to see abundance where other people see limitation, choosing to be an advocate for growth and expansion in a world that wants to limit. And I'm not saying that there is an injustice. There is. There are injustices. There are situations where there is literal scarcity. But if you're listening to a podcast like this, I think it's part of our responsibility to heal thinking in the world and to be a teacher of love and light.
And that's part of being miracle minded, too, is sharing it and allowing other people to shift in perception to have their own miracle. Which is why I love being a coach is like that's our whole job description is like offering people a different perspective that empowers them to create something different. Anyway, those are my thoughts for you today. Go be miracle minded. I hope this episode supports you and whatever you're trying to create.
And I just want to encourage you to remember who you are and what relationship you have to God, to your source, which is different than like, I'm going to do it. You don't have to do it like that. You don't have to do it all alone. You don't have to take it upon your shoulders and micromanage every thought you have to get what you want. Like there is a very different way, which is co-creation, which is being miracle minded. I hope this episode was good for you. And I'll talk to you soon.
