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What’s a Thursday Sandwich? When my clients come to me worried about how hard they are struggling, worried about the future, worried about achieving their goals, and worried about how and when they will achieve them, I have a tendency to talk to them about what I have come to call a Thursday Sandwich.
To understand what a Thursday Sandwich is you will have to be familiar with Deepak Chopra’s “7 Spiritual Laws of Success,” one of my favorite personal growth books. I refer to it on a regular basis. If you haven’t read this wonderful little book yet, please do yourself a favor and do so at your earliest convenience.
The seven chapters of this amazing book each discuss one of the seven laws referred to in the title. Since there are seven days of the week, many of the readers of this book have taken to referring to each of the laws by the name of a day of the week.
- Sunday’s Law is the Law of Pure Potentiality;
- Monday’s Law is the Law of Giving;
- Tuesday’s Law is the Law of “Karma†or Cause and Effect;
- Wednesday’s Law is the Law of Least Effort;
- Thursday’s Law is the Law of Intention and Desire;
- Friday’s Law is the Law of Detachment;
- Saturday’s Law is the Law of “Dharma†or Purpose in Life.
So, on Sundays, I tend to dwell upon my potential and the potential of others around me; on Mondays, I tend to dwell on giving and receiving and to marvel at my experience that the more I freely give of myself and of what I have and know, the more I seem to receive in abundance;
On Tuesdays I particularly remind myself of the Law of Karma and dwell in the knowingness that we reap what we sow, everything that we do or do not do has its consequences, often unintended and unforeseen, but consequences, none-the-less. I think that it is important to acknowledge that, accept that, be OK with that, take responsibility for that.
On Wednesdays I like to remember the Law of Least Effort, to remember that life was meant to be effortless and if I am really struggling with something, then maybe it just isn’t the right time for me to be doing what it is that I am struggling to do, to achieve what I am struggling to achieve, to have what I am struggling to have.
On Thursdays I tend to focus on the Law of Intention and Desire, goal-setting. What is it that I intend to accomplish this year, this month, this week, this day, this moment? What can I do to clarify that intention?
On Fridays, I think of the Law of Detachment and remind myself not to be so caught up in the how and the when of achieving my goals, but rather to allow the Universe to assist me in those areas.
Of course Saturday’s law, the Law of Dharma or Life’s purpose, provides me with the ideal context in which to place and use all of the other Laws of the week. This leads me to the Thursday Sandwich.
I have come to believe that Thursday’s law, the Law of Intention and Desire, is used to best effect when consciously sandwiched in between Wednesday’s Law, the Law of Least Effort, and Friday’s Law, the Law of Detachment.
It is good to have clear goals, intentions and desires, but I am convinced that I will achieve my goals most effectively, freely and effortlessly, when I sandwich them between the delectable slices of nutrient-rich bread that are Wednesday’s Law and Friday’s Law, a commitment that my goals be achieved effortlessly, without struggle and a detachment as to how or when they will be achieved.
Hence, a Thursday Sandwich: Set forth your goals with clarity, being committed to achieve them effortlessly without struggle and being detached as to the when or how that they will be achieved.
Let the Universe determine the how and the when! That’s what’s a Thursday Sandwich!