True Self
I think that we have all worried that if we let ourselves be who we want to be that everyone would judge us in some way. We have all dimmed our lights thinking that this would keep them safe.
The reality is that if you keep lowering the flame of your brilliance you run the risk of losing your light altogether.
So cut loose all of the bindings and let your passion flame high – we all know how brilliant you are, and we are tired of waiting for you to acknowedge it!
Regrets
This is a list of the most common regrets that we as humans have when we leave this mortal body –
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Most people don’t honor even a half of their dreams and it is really sad because our dreams are why we are here. We came to be the best at something and, because of others expectations or our own fears of failure, we make excuses for how we will do that dream at a more convenient time, and that time never arrives.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
What are you missing out on in your life by working long hours at a job? Family, Friends, a “real” life?
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
When you don’t express your own feelings, you condemn yourself to a “so-so” life, because your life becomes full of compromises and this feeds in to #1 – never becoming who you came here to be.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
We become so caught up in the daily routines of our lives that they we let golden friendships slip by over the years. I am always telling my friends that at least FB lets us keep up with each other, even if it is just the occasional im when we see them online. This is much better than the lets call each other tomorrow and tomorrow turns into the next day and so on, until we lose touch completely.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Happiness is a choice that we make every day of our life to have, or to sabotage by staying stuck in a rut of bad habits or victim mentality or just plain fear of change.
Why don’t we choose “today” (don’t go to bed until you have done it) to make sure that at least one of the top five don’t pass us by today?
Nails
Pounding In and Pulling Out Nails
The parable of Will, a nine-year-old whose father abandoned his mom two years earlier. Will was angry, and he often would lash out at others with hurtful words. He once told his mom, “I see why Dad left you!”
Unable to cope with his outbursts of cruelty, she sent Will to spend the summer with his grandparents. His grandfather’s strategy to help Will learn self-control was to make him go into the garage and pound a two-inch-long nail into a four-by-four board every time he said a mean and nasty thing. For a small boy, this was a major task, but he couldn’t return until the nail was all the way in. After about ten trips to the garage, Will began to be more cautious about his words. Eventually, he even apologized for all the bad things he’d said.
That’s when his grandmother came in. She made him bring in the board filled with nails and told him to pull them all out. This was even harder than pounding them in, but after a huge struggle, he did it.
His grandmother hugged him and said, “I appreciate your apology and, of course, I forgive you because I love you, but I want you to know an apology is like pulling out one of those nails. Look at the board. The holes are still there. The board will never be the same. I know your dad put a hole in you, but please don’t put holes in other people; you are better than that.”
Break Free
It really is all about changing yourself from the inside. When you change an amazing thing happens, the whole world changes too!
Break free from the past and start a new life today.
Compassion
In the past month two young girls took their lives because they couldn’t stand the torment from their peers any longer. They lost hope. They both expressed the thought that the attacks would never end. They put a bright face on and said they were fine, but they both posted to the internet images that told you they were not fine. The teenagers involved in the torment seem to have the pack mentality of hyenas where they locate the wounded animal and attack relentlessly until the animal has died from their injuries.
As parents we need to wake up to what our children are doing. Who their friends are; how they talk about others; how they treat others. Open up the compassion that they are expressing after these girls have taken their lives, to being expressed every time they see someone being bullied, whether it is physical; emotional; verbal – online or offline. Give them the courage to stand up and protect those less fortunate than themselves. Teach them how to lend a helping hand instead of a stomping foot.
We need to teach our children that love and respect are not just shown to those who are like us; it needs to be shown to every living being.
The Top 10 Signs A Really Huge Dream of Yours Is About To Come True
“The top 10 signs a really huge dream of yours is about to come true, are:
10. You regularly visualize the end result, the after-party, or beyond.
9. Every day you “show up,” doing something about it.
8. You’re not attached to how it will come true.
7. It really matters to you; you really care.
6. You know who the first 3 people are that you’ll call with the news.
5. You’re smiling and winking way more than normal.
4. Sometimes you speak and behave as if it already has.
3. It probably doesn’t depend upon specific people.
2. You already know what your next goal is.
1. You keep whispering, “Sweet! Thank you! Yes!” with clutched fist.
Sweet! Thank you! Yes!” The Universe
The only thing they forgot was the Snoopy Happy Dance!
The universe is amazing in how it reminds you to never let one day pass without making progress with your goals!
Adversity
When faced with adversity, do you lie down or do you fight?
I thought about this line for some time in the back of my mind. Then I read an excerpt from a book about wolves and I thought that they were really the object lesson for this question. They have a life of adversity, and they make it through because they have mastered how to focus their energy. They don’t run around aimlessly, but instead have a strategic plan and they execute it through constant communication with others of the pack. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity and when it happens, they are ready to act. They each understands their role and understands exactly what the pack expects of them.
The wolf does not depend on luck. Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. The wolf’s attitude is always based upon the question, “What is best for the pack?”. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.
Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf’s expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf’s attitude is always that success will come—and it does. (excerpts from Simple Truths)
When adversity strikes, it’s not what happens that determines our destiny; it’s how we react. The thing to do is to create a wolf pack around you now, before adversity strikes. This applies both to our employment situation and our personal lives. Do you have friends, family or work associates who form together a cohesive union, each fulfilling a role, and each looking out for each other? Do you know all of the dreams and aspirations and goals of each member of the pack, so that you can help them achieve their dreams as they help you to achieve yours?
The answers to these questions will determine not only how successful you can be, but also how much you are really there to help others be the same. It helps you to formulate that winning expectation of success for both yourself and the members of your pack. It helps you to finish strong because you were prepared for adversity and made the most of each day to make it a success.
Winning at all cost is not the right answer. Even if you succeeded, at all costs indicates that you are alone. But winning in tandem with your pack, having fun along the way with the jokesters, taking care of those who need extra care from life’s adversities, whatever our role – this winning brings everyone along and that makes all of the difference.
The Top 10 Ways People Give Away Their Power
When I read this today, I thought I am printing this and sharing it with everyone, because on a daily basis, I find myself doing at least one, if not more of these. I love reminders, because they shift and shake up my mind, my mental attitude, and strip these foggy illusions back out of my brain. Once you are aware, you can clear the fog out and make a different choice.
How many of these do you see that happened to you in the past week? And what are you going to do about it?
“Here are the top 10 ways people give away their power:
1. Asking others what they should do.
2. Thinking God decides who gets what.
3. Worrying about how their dream will come true.
4. Thinking they have dues to pay.
5. Attaching to unimportant details and outcomes.
6. Believing in soul mates.
7. Thinking karma or spiritual contracts are absolute.
8. Fear of anything, especially falling in love.
9. Waiting for their ducks to line up before acting.
10. Choosing to be unhappy.
Understand the truth, little bird, and you will soar.
Caw-caw, The Universe”
Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect says that a butterfly flapping his wings in the jungle can affect something the other side of the world. It you were to look at this as a matter of perspective, it would mean that an act viewed by yourself as inconsequential in fact has consequence.
They have made a number of science fiction TV show episodes and movies that play off how a seemingly random act, in fact has purpose and results in an action of consequence. So if you were to look at the actions that you take in a day and place them in order of importance, what you would learn is that in fact all actions have importance. When you really know and understand this simple fact, then everything in your life will change. You will begin living a life of “permanent purpose” according to Andy Andrews.
When you live a life of permanent purpose, you realize that everything you do is important, and that you do in fact effect everything that you come in contact with. Like a butterfly flapping his wings, each action affects the next one. Have you seen the television commercial for Liberty Mutual insurance were a person sees an act of random kindness, and then that person does an act of kindness, which is repeated by another person and so on? This is what happens when you live a life of permanent purpose. The commercial calls it living responsibly.
It means that you realize that no one that you come into contact with during your day, no matter how random, is unaffected by the fact that you became part of their day. Therefore there is no act that doesn’t matter. The commercial started with a woman leaving a coffee shop and moving the cup at the edge of the table in, so it would drop off. A simple act that through being repeated in the commercial ended with a woman saving a man from injury when a stack of heavy boxes almost topples on top of him.
If you begin today living your life of “permanent purpose”, it will make you a better friend, a better spouse, and a better parent. It will make you more successful in any endeavor in your life, because all decisions that you make will come not from the place of what’s in it for me, but from what’s in it for we?
A Prosperity Blessing
A Prosperity Blessing
By Veronica M. Hay
“May you be blessed with an amazingly abundant day today!
May the clouds break and the heavens pour down upon you more joy, more love, more laughter and more money than you could have ever dreamed of.
May the sun shine its golden light of prosperity through every cell of your extraordinary body.
May you be cleansed today of any resistance or feelings of unworthiness that you may still be holding onto.
May your false illusions of doubt, fear and scarcity gently fall away like soft white feathers on a gentle breeze.
May you be willing, simply willing, to allow the Universe to shower you with miracles today.
May the Angels wrap you in their shining wings of opulence.
May the fairies deliver you to their pot of gold at the end of a majestic rainbow.
May your eyes shine with the glorious truth of who you really are and may that truth uplift others in your presence to their own inner knowing.
May your ears hear the sound of perfection ringing in your soul.
May you taste the deliciousness of every precious bite of life as your day unfolds moment by moment with amazing grace, heartfelt love and a bounty of magnificent money.
As this day ends, may you slumber wrapped in an exquisite blanket of enduring peace and profound gratitude.
And may the last words you speak today be Thank You!”
Wishes
“Your wish” is the star hanging high in the night sky. Whether it comes true or not depends on one thing and one thing only: how faithfully you keep it in sight. In order to achieve your wishes you will need to learn to think outside of the box. Here are some ideas on how to do so:
• To think outside of the box it is necessary to turn off your internal filter that says this idea is a bad idea. When you are thinking outside that box all ideas are good ideas.
• Create now, criticize later.
• Go off in tangents. I have found the best websites when surfing on the internet and I could not even begin to tell you how I got there. This is what you have to when thinking outside the box. Just follow the wave and don’t worry if you don’t think that it is going where you thought you had to go. Go along for the ride and see where it takes you.
• Create time and space for creating. Innovative companies such as google allow their developers 20% of their work hours to create ideas that could become products. You need to schedule time as part of your daily or weekly work load time to sit and generate creative ideas for your business, as well as things you want to accomplish at home.
• It is best to collaborate with others and create the group genius effect. Then you can separate out aspects of the ideas for each person to work on and meet back weekly to check in with each other to see how the ideas are evolving. As you develop the ideas you will see areas that should be developed further and what areas are in fact dead ends.
• Expect it to take time to bring the ideas off the paper and into the working world. The Wright Brothers – if they hadn’t experimented hundreds of times with the wings, they never would have realized how the concepts of pitch, yaw and roll could be controlled with a moveable rear rudder and not crash the plane. It took several years to actually take a flight going from a few seconds and feet with their gliders to adding power and being able to fly for an hour with 40 miles an hour as speed.
Motivation
“Intention is …, the difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don’t let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse- when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you’re no longer in charge, that there’s a driving force inside you that can’t be stopped. Look at the great athletes, musicians, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
Intention is noble, but it is not heroic. I always think of the saying “good intentions pave the road to hell” – it is where a lot of regrets live. Every day I have good intentions that don’t get done. I will think about the phone calls I need to make to connect with good friends, and then I get busy and they don’t get made. I have the good intentions to do so many things around the house that somehow don’t get done.
Adding execution to intention puts a feedback loop into the process, with one feeding the other. It speeds everything up, it is what we call being in the flow. It is synchronicity. Everything we see, hear, feel – it all feeds into this feeling of being inside that zone, tapping into the source of everything. Life becomes a fast moving river, instead of a slow meandering stream.
I go through spurts where I am really good about drinking lots of water. I find that when I am in this zone, that I am naturally more thirsty. I start craving more water and so it becomes easy to drink the 8 – 10 glasses of water a day. I feel better because I am hydrated. It becomes a feedback loop to better health. I think that this concept applies to everything we do when we execute our good intentions.
I love it when I get in this zone creatively. It is like everything I reach out my hand to is just perfect for what I need next. If we follow through with this quote, the reason why we don’t quite get into the zone could be because we were motivated and not inspired? Motivation will not take you into the zone. When you are motivated you are “forcing” what you want to bring into the world, into reality. When you are inspired it is like giving birth. Once you start there is no turning back, no stopping what is being created from being born.
Interesting that being inspired is actually handing over your being in charge to the universal source, to bring forward into reality what you can only see inside your head. Another point of reference to indicate that we are either being motivated or inspired. So if we are in charge, or forcing by our strength of will to bring something into reality, lets step back and see how much easier life can be by letting go and being inspired. Take the good intentions and execute them through inspiration and we will become a raging river that no one can stop.