Stress

“Give your stress wings and let it fly away” – Terri Guillemets
One of the ways according to Terri to give your stress wings is to know and live your purpose. I had never thought before about how not living your purpose would be giving you stress, but it does.  
So make sure that if you are not living your purpose because you don’t know fully what that is, that you make it your purpose to find out. And if you do know what your purpose is, that you start fully living it today so that you let can that stress fly away. tell it to go south for the winter and then north for the spring, then east for the summer and west for the fall – keep it in flight far, far, away! You’ll exhaust it that way and it won’t have time to fly around your head and fill it with negativity. When it shows up you can say, don’t you have somewhere else you are supposed to be?

Become

This is so true. The only thing that can define me is what I choose to let define me. It is not my job to make everyone love me, my job is to be true to who I am. There will be critics and judges and that is ok. Some things they say will be true and that is ok too. I am not a blank canvas but a masterpiece in progress.

Change Fear

“The key to change . . . is to let go of fear” Rosanne Cash

Whenever your mind shows resistence, look underneath to find the fear.When you look beyond the excuse and uncover the fear, you have to find a way to figure out how to remove the excuse  and face the fear, because it means that your subconscious has already recognized that this choice will grow you and change you – that is what it really fears and that is why you have to do it. So that you can grow and change!

Control

“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration” – James Allen
The line that caught my eye was “as small as your controlling desire” – it appears to be a positive statement if you look at it by itself because we are taught to control ourselves. Control your temper, control your thoughts, control your behavior, and so on. But really it is a negative concept because that control (not lack of control) is keeping you small.
From here I thought about how you have that small (sometimes loud) voice that denies you, tells you you can’t do this or that – that small controlling desire – is what keeps you from growing, it keeps you small inside your comfort zone.
Don’t speak up for yourself, you don’t want to draw attention. It’s what keeps the addictions for food, drinking, drugs, and so on going, because those desires control you. Eating addictions are a desire to control your body because you can’t control anything else.
I think that if we look at ourselves we will see that we all have this small controlling desire that is trying to keep us small. But once you are aware of that desire, you can notice and then make a conscious decision to change that thought to something that helps you to be as great as your “dominant aspiration”!

Perspective

There is a story that is told about 3 men who were working on a project. Each was asked what they were doing. One said that he was hauling rocks; another that he was building a wall and the last man said that he was building a cathedral.

Each man was working on the same thing, building a cathedral, yet each had a totally different perspective and attitude about his job or employment. The first man who was hauling rocks had a job that paid the bills, that was his whole interest and attitude about it. The 2nd man had a job putting up with things, and the last man was the only one who had a real objective to which he was working – he was building a cathedral. He may have hauled rocks and built walls, but he knew his real objective.

Thinking

“Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.” – From A Course In Miracles
It is amazing how the reticular activator works – you are thinking about a new car and all of sudden you start seeing that car everywhere. You find out your pregnant and you start seeing pregnant women everywhere.
The same thing is true about how you see your world – is it abundant? is it happy? Is it full of snychronicity? Isn’t is amazing that we have the “choice” to how our world works?

Believing

“Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.” – Josh Hinds
Most of us are in denial about our genius, our gift that we bring to the world. We devalue it as not being important. But deep down inside we know it for what it is and we are terrified that it isn’t good enough and so we bury it under unimportant.
Believe in the gift for it is truly amazing. And the only thing that you will regret at the end of your life is if you don’t use it; because it is the “one thing” that you have that will make the world a better place by your living in it today.

Security

“When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.” Harry Browne –
I thought that this quote was so interesting. I always wondered what the attraction was or how people knew that a certain person would be able to help them sort through the issues in their life to bring it back into balance. I think that you subconsciously sense when someone is totally grounded, and that is what I believe makes you capable of dealing with whatever comes.

Before

Positive or Negative

“If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways to catch it – by the blade and by the handle” – Oriental Proverb
I hadn’t heard of this proverb before but it is all about choice. The choice to see the positive and catch it by the handle or the negative and get cut by the blade.

Aid

“It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you – religion, pride, anything – it’s when you realize you don’t need any aid.” – William Faulkner
This speaks to me of the dark night of the soul, when your life experience has taken you down below the foundation of your life. You are sitting in the ashes of your choices, and you know that there is no way to “make it all better”. It is at that moment that you realize not only is it up to you alone, but also it is you alone that has the strength and ability to in fact make it better than it was before.

Targets

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” – Nido Qubein