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November 15th, 2010
We have all heard about giving away your power to someone else and we take it as a real possibility and something to watch out for in case we just inadvertently give away our power to someone. It’s nonsense. You cannot give away your personal power any more than you can give away your breathing or your digestion to someone else. You have great power all of the time. I repeat -YOU HAVE GREAT POWER ALL OF THE TIME. You can’t give it away or throw it away or walk away from it. All you can do is use it or ignore it. If you decide to ignore it you will gravitate towards those who are using theirs and you will follow them. If you decide to use it you simply decide to follow your own intuition and the more you use it the clearer it will become. Will you be right 100% of the time ? Of course not but better to suffer your own mistakes than to suffer another’s. If two people in a relationship, whether it be family or marriage or friendship or work, decide to operate from person al power and follow their own intuition tempered with love and compassion for the other person, how can there be anything but harmony and growth for both? If we have been ignoring our personal power how do we start using it? Slowly is the key. If you suddenly try to use your considerable power when you haven’t been using very much of it, you will feel overwhelmed and you will rush right back to the comparative safety of someone else’s power. Affirm often each day that you are powerful and capable. When you feel indecisive, force yourself to choose and accept the victory or defeat as another step forward in using your power. Make decisions. Act! Follow your heart. Forgive your mistakes and don’t look back. You have always had the power that you have been searching for. It’s time for you to start using more of it. Today.
November 1st, 2010
If you were cold and uncomfortable sitting inside a very cold, dark house and you looked out the window and saw that it was bright and warm and sunny out there, what would you do? You would go outside as quickly as you could! In other words, YOU WOULD TAKE ACTION! We have all been blessed with the knowledge and vision of a better life for ourselves. That might mean more money or better health or following our dreams. Everyone has these visions but only a very small number will see their visions come to life for one reason. The one reason is that most people won’t act. You have always known that you are blessed and gifted. You have always had the feeling that someone was watching over you. All of this is true but what are you going to do with it? An inch worm could cross the country if he kept at it but a person who puts off acting upon their dreams will never progress. Right now decide what is the next step that you can take in a direction of happiness and fulfillment and take it! Can you send for a brochure, buy a book, sign up for a course, turn down a dessert, make a call, write a letter, write down a goal, plan a vacation, make a commitment to improve in any area of your life? Every one of those is action. Every one of those can get you out into the warm sunshine. Go ahead, take even the smallest step and you instantly make today special. It’s the day that you started to take the action that changed everything.
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September 27th, 2010
You are going in a certain direction right now. Good, bad or neutral it is a direction that you have been going in for quite a while. The speed might have varied over time but generally it is the same direction. Now this is all well and good IF where you want to be going and the direction you are going is the same. The problem is that most of us don’t know where we want to go. We generalize about happiness and security but we just haven’t gotten around to the details. Our perfect future has something to do with a lot of money, living well and/or being in a position to help others. The problem is we don’t know how to get from here to there. We can solve this problem if we will do just one thing. That one thing is ……..focus on where you are right now. Be honest. Stop kidding yourself for a moment. Is what you are doing right now conducive to your happiness and is it something that you really want to do? If it is, how can you make it even better? If it isn’t, how can you change your course? In the next moment and every moment after that, you are going to take another step. Is it going to be in the same old direction or is it going to be in a direction that feels better, that you know is better? Where you are right now is where you are right now. Where you are going to be is up to the next step you take. Take a step that feels better and then another and another. You deserve to feel better. Don’t you?
August 16th, 2010
There is a door up ahead. Behind that door is everything you ever prayed for, wished or wanted. It’s a plain looking door and all you have to do is keep right on walking until you get to it and like one of those super market doors, it will just swing wide open for you as soon as you get close enough.So why all the anxiety and worry about things not working out? It is because between you and that plain looking door, there are other doors on the sides. They are beautiful ornate doors with gorgeous entrances but behind each door is a very small room filled with promises and IOU’s. That’s it, nothing but promises and IOU’s. So why don’t we just leave those little rooms and continue towards the plain door at the end? Because we are dazzled by what glitters. We believe the promises and the IOU’s because there just has to be something of worth behind such a beautiful door and so we stay in the little room waiting for the promises to come true and the IOU’s to be redeemed.
If you find yourself with a bunch of empty promises and nonredeemable IOU’s, it’s time to make a change. You know where you were going before you got side tracked. You know the way back to the truth, your truth. You know that you really can have it all and not settle for empty promises. No one is stopping you . Make the change. It’s time and you know it.
August 9th, 2010
Keep saying carrots, carrots, carrots and surround yourself with pictures of carrots and paint every room in your house carrot orange but actually plant watermelons and guess what? You’re going to harvest watermelons!!
No matter what you are saying or wishing for, what you are DOING is what gives you the results. You can want all to be well in your life but if you constantly entertain thoughts of doom and gloom, that’s what you are planting. You can want your children to abide by higher standards but if you do not, that’s what you are planting. You can want to boldly go into the future but if you are stuck in the past, that’s what you are planting.
Every moment of your life you are harvesting what you have planted and planting the new seeds that you are creating. Take a long, honest look at where you are in several areas of your life. Do you like the harvest? If you do, keep planting the same seeds but if you don’t like the harvest, get some new seeds. They won’t sprout right away. Don’t be discouraged if nothing changes for a little while. You’ll still be harvesting the old plantings. Have discipline, faith and patience and keep planting the new seeds and soon what you want and what you harvest will be identical.
July 19th, 2010
We crave stimulation. Good, bad or indifferent, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s stimulating. If we can get emotional about something terrible in our past then bring it on. Anything is better than feeling bored. Sure we want to feel happy but if it’s not here right now we will find something that we can feel right now. We want to FEEL SOMETHING. To the non discriminating person, any feeling will do.
When we were very young the NOs were a lot more stimulating then the Yeses. The Nos made us get upset and even cry but , by God, we were alive and learning. Now all these years and learning later, we still gravitate to the Nos. They are still very powerful but it doesn’t have to be like that any more for you. Starting right now make a commitment to focus on the Yeses. Focus on what is going right. Focus on the blessings. Look ahead and not backwards. Find your strength and stimulation in love, gratitude and positivity. Let helping others be your stimulation too. Look in the mirror and see yourself as God sees you, wanting the best for you, wanting you to feel loved and happy. Let this be the day that started you on the YES path. Say YES to life and to unlimited possibilities. A smile and a YES and you are on your way. You can do it. Right? YES!
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