Life's Challenges

Life is full of challenges.  You spend a lot of time fixing things when they go wrong. Make sure you put just as much time and awareness into enjoying life when things go right.
Strive to work with focus and diligence as you tend the garden that is your world. Take the time to spend some peaceful, quality time in that garden, even if it's just simply taking in its beauty.
There will be plenty of challenges that will come into your life. Make sure that you don’t view life itself as a struggle.
Choose to reflect instead on the miracle of your existence. Take the time to feel the beauty and wonder that you’re able to know, simply because you are.
Especially in the complicated, challenging efforts, make sure you find and revel in the joy that is there. Remind yourself often just what a privilege it is to be.
Choose today to breathe in the fresh, cool fragrant air and relax in the wonder. This is life, your life and it is truly amazing...challenges and all.

Everyday Problems..,

Everyday problems should not stress you out.  The solutions to most of your problems already exist. All you have to do, is open yourself up to their possibility and you will discover them.
Whatever you desire is already connected to who you are and what you now have. You must strive to bring that connection to life with your thoughts, your feelings and your actions.
Your worries, complaints, anger and resentment will cast a dark fog on the world that appears in front of you. This prevents you from seeing all the good things already available to you.
Choose to accept that anger, resentment, and worries, and then quickly let them go. Allow yourself to enter fully into this moment that is now, with a clear mind and a peaceful heart.
Allow the joy, allow the sadness, allow the triumphs, the disappointments, the rich texture and fullness of life. Allow it all to work for you, and to carry you steadily toward the ever-increasing fulfillment of your very own special purpose.
Everyday problems should not stress you out.  Make loving use of this day to do what you can do, from where you are, with what you have. Trust that it will move you quickly forward, and it surely will.

Honesty is the Best Policy...

Honesty is far from easy sometimes, yet it is much easier than dishonesty.
When you are dishonest,it is never worth the price you must pay. It is impossible to be truly at peace when you are living a lie.

With each bit of dishonesty, you narrow your options. The longer that it continues, you will find that eventually, you squeeze yourself into a corner from which there is no escape.
When you choose to  commit to honesty,it puts the power of truth on your side. Honesty allows you to expand your options and gives durability to all your relationships.
When you choose to be honest with others,it compels you to be honest with yourself. It is only when you are honest with yourself that you can fulfill your awesome positive possibilities.
Honesty is far from easy sometimes, yet it is much easier than dishonesty. Deceit can often be tempting, yet honesty is always the best path. Live with truth and you truly live.  Honesty is the best policy.

The Big Picture...

Never lose sight of the big picture.  Most of the things that annoy or frustrate you are not really that important. When you stop, step back, get your bearings, and look at the big picture, you will have a whole different perspective.
Much of what you think you need, you don’t really even want. Choose to free yourself of all that unnecessary needing.
In each moment, in every situation, you can feel deep and genuine love. You can find spectacular beauty in the smallest, simplest things.  It's your choice.
You can experience the joy of being. You can think, act and express your unique vision in countless ways, no matter what the circumstance.  It's your choice.
No matter how painful or difficult the moment may be, there is always something to truly treasure. You have to choose to turn your focus toward the treasure, toward the beauty, toward the joy of simply being. Choose to never lose sight of the big picture.
Allow joy, and notice how much stronger it makes you feel. No matter what else is going on, now is a beautiful time to be alive.  Now is a beautiful time to be you.  Just keep your focus on the big picture.

Don't stop...

Only you can stop you.  Though your responsibilities and obligations are very real and pressing, they do not have to stop you. When you are willing to accept responsibility for something, you put yourself in control of it.
Your frustrations may be deep and numerous, but they do not have to stop you. As you choose to start working your way through those frustrations, you are building valuable achievements.  So don't be frustrated.

Even when profound sadness comes down upon you, it does not have to stop you. The sadness is only because you care so much, and you know without a doubt how beautiful life can be.  So don't be sad.
You may find darkness all around you, but it does not have to stop you. Darkness only makes your own light more brightly visible.  So don't stay in the dark.
Your problems and distractions may seem to have no end, but they do not have to stop you. As you find yourself moving through them you will be moving toward your dream.  So don't be distracted.
Your life may be difficult, it does not have to stop you. Choose to live moment by moment by moment, joyfully making the most of each and every one.  Only you can stop you.

Within Yourself

Before you are critical of someone else, you must first look within yourself. The weaknesses and shortcomings that you perceive in someone else may very well be indicators of improvements that you need to make in your own life.
Don't depend on others to change, or try to attempt to force them to do so, instead you should look for positive changes that you can make within yourself. Here's the key, you’ll always have much more success controlling your own life than you will have controlling others.

If you strive to live in a positive world, you must be a positive person. If you desire peace, then you must be completely at peace with yourself.  You get what you give in this universe.
Life is a mirror that reflects your most authentic self back to you. It flows from the inside out.  Allow peace, love, joy and fulfillment to flow from the inside out. Make your world the best it can be.
The values and priorities that you live by will greatly influence the world that you live in. The thoughts and feelings you have within most consistently will determine how life unfolds for you on the outside.  So the next time before you are critical of someone, stop and look within yourself.

Be Persistent...

You should always expect the best.  If it does not come, continue to expect the best. Your positive expectations will eventually pay off.  You just have to be persistent.

You will make mistakes, we all do.  Choose to learn from them, and if that leads to more mistakes, learn from those as well. This is the only way you will find out what works.  If you are not persistent, you will never know just how far you can go.  Strive to give all you have to the effort, and if it doesn’t bring the results you want, don't be afraid to give all you have again. The achievement you seek is going to happen, you just have to be persistent.

Persistence is not a sometime thing, on one day and off the next. The persistence that gets you where you want is the persistence that continues until the goal is reached. Nobody can say before you begin just what the measure persistence needed must be. Yet it’s proven that what truly works is when persistence persists as long as it takes.

You should always expect the best.  What you seek is yours when what you contribute is the will to keep going. Choose to reach for your dreams and see them come true by being persistent.