There are times when we’re busy taking actions to achieve our goal, throwing everything at it, but nothing seems to stick. That goal can appear as far away as ever, even if we spend hours every day rushing around taking action towards it.

On a spiritual level, this may be the time when you surrender your goal to the Universe. Now surrender doesn’t mean you wave the white flag and give up, rather it’s about letting go of the total control you have over your goal and asking the Universe to help you. That help can take the form of listening to your intuition to sense what actions to take. Or being in the space of allowing synchronicities to occur which can move you further towards your goal (because in essence you’ve asked the Universe for help).  

I sometimes see it as when we’re desperate for a goal to manifest and throw as much as we can at it, we keep the door to the Universe firmly closed so that it can’t help us. But surrender is opening that door so that we start to co-create our goal with our spiritual self. 

Dr Michaal Beckwith explains it this way: 

“To surrender is to yield to the next stage of our evolution. It is saying, ‘I’m available to what wants to evolve and emerge through me and I’m willing to practice and embody what it takes for it to do so.’ “

What he’s saying is that you’re open to the Universe working with you to accomplish your goal or dream. It becomes your partner, giving you advice and guidance you may not have thought of. 

It can be scary when you’re in complete control of your goal, giving it over to the Universe. What if help doesn’t come? How can I be sure anything will happen? At this stage, you have to take a deep breath and step back and let the process unfold. You can affirm “I have faith and trust that I will be helped to achieve this goal” and then see what happens.  

Nowadays, we want everything to happen immediately and having to wait a few weeks or months can seem like an eternity. But isn’t it better for your goal to be achieved eventually through surrender and co-creation than never?

You may feel being busy taking continual action will get you there but sometimes that only leads to stress and burnout. But surrender is like “work smarter not harder”. So let your spiritual self help you and surrender your goal, having faith and trust that somehow it will be manifested. 

Listen to this on my podcast EnlightOne.