How Do You Start Your Day?
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most” Buddha
The first moments of our day are the very best opportunity to set our intention for the day and decide that this brand new, bright and shiny day is going to be our best yet. Often we rush into our days, without taking the time to decide who we are going to be that day, what we intend to create and how we expect our day to unfold.
Instead of starting out at the mercy of your schedule, your to do list, your obligations, take a few moments to bask; to realize that this unique day has never happened before and will never happen again. Make up your mind that you will make the very best of, and bring your best and highest self to, every moment of your day. Create a great day every day; this is how we create a great life.
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Do You Appreciate What You Have And Where You Are?
“Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more” Oprah
In Wallace Wattles book, “The Science of Getting Rich” he tells us that our power to create is only in the here and now. If we are looking for a different situation in order to achieve our goals and receive our ‘riches’, we must do the absolute best we can where we are in this moment. We cannot create in the future or the past, we can only create in this very moment.
Do everything as the absolute highest version of yourself. If you are in a job that you don’t like, do that job better than anyone. Give a greater use value to your employer than he gives you in cash value and the universe must deliver an opportunity to move on to the work you would prefer. Keep this attitude in everything you do, not just in your work.
Find every bit of joy and appreciation you can in your current situation and a better...
Are You Comparing Your Inside To Someone Else's Outside?
“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is that we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” Steven Furtick
The theme of comparing ourselves to others seems to have emerged this week. My meditation teacher davidji actually assigned homework on the topic this week. As he says, paraphrasing, we are all unique, so comparing ourselves to anyone else is like comparing “bananas to oranges to grapes to rocks to geodes to leaves to birds – how can you compare those?”
When we see the picture that other people present to the world, their “highlight reel”, we have no idea what really goes on behind the scenes. We can’t know what pain they may suffer or what trials and sacrifices they made to have what they have.
Don’t compare yourself with anyone. Simply make up your mind to be a better person today than you were yesterday. Be better in this moment than you...
Ate You Aware of How You Are Feeling?
Discipline yourself to feel good! That is the only ‘discipline’ you need.” Abraham
Our emotions are a powerful and precise guidance system, the GPS for life that we were born with. Many of us completely ignore the directions that are given to us by our emotions and live our lives based on external forces. We are so oblivious to how we are feeling that by the time we notice that we are off course, our jaws are clenched, our lives are no fun and if left long enough, we may even be sick.
Make how you feel the very most important thing, always. Pay attention to your emotions and when you notice you’re feeling contracted or restricted or negative, change something! Pay attention to your internal GPS and “return to the highlighted route.” Listen to the voice of your Most High Self and choose to be happy first. Be Happy Always!
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Do You Own Your Power?
“All the water in the world cannot drown me, unless it gets inside me.” Eleanor Roosevelt
The first lady said this in response to horrible treatment by the press during her husband’s time as president. She was a magnificent woman and had a tremendous impact on history; because she chose to stand guard at the portal of her mind and her self-esteem and not allow the negative words of the press and others to affect her.
No one can affect your happiness without your permission, so simply don’t give them permission. If you perceive someone in your life as “negative”, remember that they are doing the best they can, with what they know. Be a positive influence for them by standing strong in your own power to choose how you think, how you feel and how you respond. View them with love and compassion and hold tight to your own joy.
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Are You Choosing Your Perspective?
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” Elvis Presley
Things are not always going to go exactly perfectly. That is just part of being in a human experience. We only know about life, because we are aware of death, light because of darkness, joy because of sadness… All of the contrasts, conditions or “problems” that occur for us as humans are opportunities to strengthen our choice muscles.
When something goes awry or there are conditions that we don’t want or prefer, we have a choice of how we react. We can stomp and yell and pitch a fit, or we can step back and see that event as simply what it is, an event, that has no power over our happiness except that which we give it.
See challenges as a great chance to practice stepping back, seeing the bigger picture, changing your perspective, and choosing to be happy anyway.
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What If It Was Easy?
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” Warren Buffet
Many of us have a voice in our head that tells us that in order to succeed we have to fight and sweat and suffer. Our society praises “hard work” and we very often make things difficult for no good reason. If we would relax and focus on our thoughts and our vibration, BEFORE taking action, that action will always be more inspired, more fun and more fruitful.
We weren’t meant to struggle We were meant to live lives of joy and abundance. This is not to say that action isn’t required, but action performed with the idea that it can be easy and fun and lucrative always yields better results than when we struggle and go against the current.
My mentor, Mary Morrissey, recommends that when you face a challenge, ask yourself, “what if it was easy?”
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Are You Holding On to Old Hurts and Resentments?
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it” Mark Twain
Do you have someone to forgive? If you are breathing, you do. We all have had others who hurt or betrayed us and the act of forgiveness is a continuing one. If we remember that every action is an expression of love or a plea for love, often very unskillful, we can begin to see others with compassion, no matter how atrocious their behavior seems to us.
This is not about condoning behavior or in any way making it ok; it is about freeing your own soul of the resentment that lowers your vibration and steals your joy.
Who do you need to forgive today? When you can truly wish them well in your heart, you will be truly free.
You are creating your life! Choose your thoughts, your words and your actions and create a life you truly LOVE living!
Namaste’
Did You Know That "STRESS" Isn't Even Real?
“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.” Wayne Dyer
Isn’t it crazy that we blame so much of our troubles on something that doesn’t even exist? There are conditions in this world, contrasts that are a part of being human, but these conditions are neutral until we assign them a value. A situation is only “stressful” if our response to it is negative and harmful. Humans invented stress and we can just as easily un-invent it. We have conditions, but our conditions don’t have to have us, unless we let them.
Decide today that every event is just that, an event, and assign the value to it that best serves you. Look for the gifts in everything. See challenges as opportunities for growth, not as excuses to be upset or miserable or sick. Own...
Do You Give What You Want To Receive?
“A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.” Proverbs 11:25
If there is something that you want more of in your life, GIVE more of that something. If you want more money, give more money. If you want more love, give more love. Do this with an open heart, without expectation, but secure in the knowledge that you are in the limitless flow of abundance, and that everything you give will be given back to you multiplied.
Often we say to life, give me more of this and THEN I will give to others. This is like standing in front of a wood stove and saying, “give me heat and THEN I will give you wood.”
Make up your mind today that you will be a generous person, a person of increase, giving freely of your time, talent, compassion, love and money, in every moment of your day.
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