HABITS

A habit is a decision you make once that is carried out again and again.
You are making decisions all the time and those decisions directly affect the way your life unfolds. Your level of success and fulfillment depends on how often and how well those decisions line up with your dreams.

Certainly when you’re contemplating the big, noticeable decisions, you make sure they align with your values and purposes. But what about all the little momentary decisions you’re constantly making?

Those seemingly small decisions have great power because there are so many more of them. And they’re decisions you can often make without even thinking about them.

Those unthinking decisions are known as habits. 

Remember, a habit is a decision you make once that is carried out again and again.

Though each action done by habit may be small, the cumulative effect on your life can be enormous. The way to move your life in the direction you choose, is to make sure that all your many habits are working with you rather than against you.

Take the time and make the effort to align your habits with your goals and dreams. Improving those little habits can truly be the biggest decision you make.

New Day, New Month, New Opportunities...

Today I challenge you to open your mind and your heart to the newness of life that comes with each moment. There is always more to learn, experience, appreciate and enjoy, no matter how much you’ve already done.

In order to learn something new you must first accept that you do not know it. To fully understand another person, you must let go of your desire to make blind assumptions and judgments about that person.

If you would turn down the volume and intensity of your own chattering thoughts, you can hear the music of life. If you stop expecting to see what you’ve always seen before, new and wondrous beauty will appear in front of your eyes.

When you continue to perform a task the exact same way you’ve always done it, your effectiveness cannot improve very much. So today choose to be open to new ideas and techniques, and you can vastly accelerate your performance.

If you cynically think you’ve experienced it all, you’ll close yourself off from much of life’s richness. If you consider yourself smarter than everyone else, you’ll be supporting and advancing your own growing ignorance.

As today dawns, you have been blessed with a whole new world of possibilities.  Choose to allow yourself to know and acknowledge their newness, and bring the best of those possibilities to life.

Your Intentions...

Imagine for a moment what would happen if you could do away with all those negative, self-defeating intentions. Imagine the spectacular results of giving free reign to your positive, creative, productive intentions.

Intention can be a powerful force. For it is with intention that thoughts are transformed into results, that goals are achieved, that dreams are brought to reality.

The intentions you are following are the ones you really, truly have adopted and empowered with your commitment. What matters are not the intentions you merely talk about, but the ones you actually bring to life with your actions.

Every genuine intention leads to a result. Every intention puts you solidly on the path toward whatever you intend. The trouble is that your intentions so often are contradictory, and end up working against each other. For doubt and fear are intentions just as surely as are confidence and desire.

In fact, you are completely free to choose your own intentions, and the ones you choose will determine the results you get. So choose those intentions that truly move you forward, and leave all the rest behind.

Make a Good Impression..

The key to making a good impression is to live with authenticity, honesty, genuine compassion and generosity. People form their impressions not on how you appear, but on how well you treat them.

People will remember what you do much more vividly than they remember what you say. If you seek credibility, seek to establish that credibility with your actions and not just your words.

Relationships are not built on mere pronouncements. Valuable relationships grow from shared experiences, reliability, consistency and truthfulness.  The way to be believed next time, is to do what you say you’ll do this time. The way to gain trust is to earn it by being always trustworthy in matters large and small.

Remember, the key to making a good impression is to live with authenticity, honesty, genuine compassion and generosity. 

I challenge you to be valuable, be useful and be original. Be truly interested and willing to make a difference.

The way to consistently look good is to be good, and honest and helpful. Love life and all who live it, put that love into action, and you’ll always make a great impression.

No Negativity...

Limitless abundance and great value are here to be found in this moment. What a shame it would be if any little bit of useless negativity were to block that abundance from your awareness.  Negativity is a waste of your precious time. You deserve much better, so give the very best of life to yourself.

When you catch the slightest bit of negativity creeping into your thoughts, I challenge you to visualize yourself taking hold of it and then simply letting it drop to the ground. Feel the spark of energy that comes from your newly gained freedom, and step positively forward.

Worries are worthless, so don’t bother with them. Resentment over a difficult situation actually makes that situation worse, so remind yourself there’s no point in it.

Remember, limitless abundance and great value are here to be found in this moment. What a shame it would be if any little bit of useless negativity were to block that abundance from your awareness.

Joy and fulfillment are your destiny, so let them flow freely from you. Rise above the pettiness that often threatens to draw you in, and give your focus to the good things that truly matter.

From this day forward, give your precious time the respect and appreciation it so richly deserves. Fill it with beautiful, meaningful, positive purpose.

WHAT IF....

If you could choose the life you live, how would it be? If you could choose your surroundings, what would they look like?

If you could choose the people with whom you associate, who would they be? If you could choose your activities, what would you be doing?

If you could choose your thoughts, what would you think? If you could choose your feelings, how would you feel?

If you could choose your priorities, what would they be? If you could choose to commit your time, your energy and your skills to something, what would it be?

If you could choose how to spend the next moment, what would you do with it? What would you do if you knew that all your choices, in each moment, in each circumstance, would mold and shape the life you live?

The good news is, you can choose, now and in every moment to come, and those choices add up to the life you live. So remember each time to choose the best.

Priceless Possibility...

Don’t be afraid or ashamed of what you truly desire. That desire is a window into the valuable and unique purpose that is at the heart of you.

Possibility can be a frightening thing because it is so vast. There are so many choices available to you, it’s difficult work figuring out which ones to follow.

One of the most important things you will ever do is to understand exactly what you wish to do. It may seem intimidating, and yet it can be easy when you simply let yourself be you.

Remember don’t be afraid or ashamed of what you truly desire. That desire is a window into the valuable and unique purpose that is at the heart of you.

A mere machine is able to follow instructions, and can do so very well. Your job is to follow your heart, and that’s a much more important job.

You are a living expression of truth. There are gifts you have to give that cannot ever come from anywhere else.

Feel those urges that come from the heart of you, and give them life. Create the priceless beauty that is yours alone, right now, to create.

It's All About YOU....

There is great treasure in your authenticity. There are beautiful possibilities that spring from the genuine person you are.

Did you know that your most important job is to be you? There are contributions you can make, and gifts you have to give, that no one else can duplicate.

You have a perspective that is unique and valuable. Share the insights and energy that come from that perspective.

You have feelings and longings that flow from the core of who you are. Express those feelings and fulfill those longings in your own special way.

Remember that there is great treasure in your authenticity. There are beautiful possibilities that spring from the genuine person you are.

Through you, life experiences itself in a way that is unique and special. Live true to the best of who you are.

Let your own bright and distinct light shine. Use this opportunity to make a difference in a way that only you can do.

Everything is Connected....

Everything in your world is interconnected. When you create value in one place, that value casts its light in additional places as well.  Everything in your life has an influence and an interaction with everything else. When you make an improvement in one area of your life, watch many other areas begin to benefit.

Your positive thoughts and actions often have immediate and direct results. They also have indirect results that can continue far beyond the obvious.

A small kindness offered to just one person can end up benefiting countless others. The love you give will always, in ways that you may never even realize, come back to you.

Success and fulfillment do not occur in isolation. You’ll receive no great benefit from being positive about only a few things if you take a negative approach in other areas.

Today I challenge you to focus all your awareness and intention in a positive, fulfilling direction. Then, all the many connections will organize in such a way as to move you quickly forward.

Your Happiness....

Your happiness does not come from the moment, or the surroundings, or even from the people around you. It comes from you, and from your decision to feel its positive power.

It is simple and easy to be happy. The hard part is convincing yourself, and getting past your own resistance to happiness.

Don't assume that just because things are one way or another, there is no possibility of happiness. You know precisely how to be happy, how to create the feeling of happiness within yourself and how to express it within any context. You’ve done it many times in a whole lot of different situations.

Remember that your happiness does not come from the moment, or the surroundings, or even from the people around you. It comes from you, and from your decision to feel its positive power.

Today I challenge you to go ahead and skip right over all those reasons why you can’t be happy. Instead, think of the times when you have been happy and recall the strategy you’ve always used to bring that happiness to life.

This is your day, your moment.  Choose to activate that very same strategy right now. Choose to bring the positive power of your own happiness to this very moment.

It ALL matters....

Your attitude and your outlook on life truly matter. They have a powerful influence over what kind of difference you are making, in the big decisions and the small ones too.

Every little thing you do makes a difference. Each action, each word you speak, each thought you think will in some way change things for you and your world.

As you move through life, you are constantly leaving consequences in your wake. The nature of those consequences is what makes up the quality of your life.Even the smallest things make a difference. And those small things can quickly add up to a big influence.

Remember, it your your attitude and your outlook on life that truly matter. They really do have a powerful influence over what kind of difference you are making, in the big decisions and the small ones too.

Today I challenge you to see the world as a beautiful place, filled with positive possibilities. If you do, your actions, your thoughts, your consequences will take on the color of that positive perspective.

I want you to get your spirit that everything, every moment, every person, every stirring in your heart matters. Let yourself love and value life, and be overjoyed at the positive difference that each of your moments can make.  

Raise Your Expectations...

If you’re disappointed with the results you’re getting, it’s not because your expectations are too high. It’s because those expectations are not high enough to pull you forward.

It can be tempting to lower your expectations when things are not going your way. Yet the most realistic response is not to lower your expectations, but in fact to raise them higher.

It may seem that lowering your expectations so they’re more in line with your reality would protect you from disappointment. Yet lowering your expectations is sure to bring on even more disappointment.

Chose today to raise your expectations to the point where they become so meaningful and compelling that you cannot help but fulfill them. Choose those expectations that will drive you in each moment to do what must be done to reach them.

Remember today that when the going gets rough, the answer is not to give up on your dreams. The answer is to grab on to those dreams, and to put them front and center in your life.

Today is the day you begin to set your expectations high, connect solidly and consistently with them, and those expectations will give a positive, effective direction to your life. Choose today to expect the very best, and let those expectations drive you to live out your most cherished dreams.

Choose to Encourage...

It has been proven over and over that you cannot force other people to do the right thing. What you can do, and what has been found to be extremely effective, is to encourage them. 

If you offer threats, intimidation and low expectations, you’ll get resentment and poor performance. When you assume and expect the worst of others, you’re very likely to get it. 

I challenge you today to choose to expect the best, and to offer opportunities for those expectations to be met. 

People won’t always live up to your positive expectations, in fact most people would prefer to do what’s best for everyone concerned. Just about everyone responds positively to positive, genuine encouragement. The key it to let others know, clearly, precisely and in positive terms, what you expect, and let them know you have faith that they’ll meet those expectations.

Today I challenge you that instead of looking for ways to control, that you look for opportunities to support and encourage. Instead of conducting detached transactions, seek to build ongoing relationships.

If you offer the encouragement to do what is right, what is good, what is valuable and positive, you should not only expect but get the best.

Happy New Month

It's a new month so wake up, open your eyes and look around you. Today is full of opportunities, they are everywhere. There is plenty of work to be done starting today. There are all sorts of effective, fulfilling ways to do it.

The world is alive with all kinds of challenges. I challenge you to pick a particularly difficult and meaningful one, creatively work your way through it, and bring new prosperity to yourself and others. Today,  challenge you to jump into the real-life adventure that sparkles beneath the rising sun each morning. A new day filled with richness is ready to be lived.

Fortune favors those who choose to see it coming. Prosperity belongs to those who work to bring it to life.  Choose today to report for duty in the service of your highest vision. This is when life gets good. Happy New Month.

VALUE OF CHANGE...

You are fortunate to live in a world where there are things you can change and things you cannot. Both have much value.

The things you can change can enable you to create, to achieve, to express yourself, and to improve the world in which you live. The things you cannot change give you the opportunity to grow stronger, to develop real wisdom, patience, acceptance, flexibility and effectiveness.

There is much you can learn from the things you cannot change. And there are countless ways to positively apply that learning toward the things you can change.

Remember there will always be things that you can change, and there are things that you cannot change. 

The things you cannot change give you a base from which to work. The things you can change give you an ever-increasing world of possibilities.

When you accept what you cannot change and find positive ways to deal with it, you lay the groundwork for success. When you understand what you can change and find positive ways to put that change to work, success and achievement are yours.

You are fortunate to live in a world where there are things you can change and things you cannot. As each moment arrives, you’re in a position to make the best of it all.

Perspective of Potential...

Life is often described many ways.  Did you ever stop to think that life is biased?  Yes, life is biased toward the positive. Just think, you can only fall so far, but there is no limit to how high you can soar. There are points at which life cannot get any worse, but there is no point at which things cannot get better. It is true that you can only lose so much, but there is no limit to what you can gain.

With every setback that life gives you there comes a real opportunity to grow and move forward. The same with every triumph, further triumphs become more likely. You have to realize that in every situation there is positive potential.

Yes, the risks are there. Yet the risks are finite. Possibilities are infinite. Consider the incredible upside potential of your own life. No matter where you are, no matter what circumstances you find yourself in, your possibilities always outweigh your problems. It is your perspective that will unleash your potential.  Realize that those positive possibilities are yours for the living.

EMBRACE TODAY...

Today don’t get bogged down attempting to resist or deny what has already happened. Put your energy into using what you have to make life better than ever.  Spend the day embracing the beauty, the joy, the wonder and the abundance of life. At the same time, embrace the challenges, the setbacks, the disappointments and the difficulties.

Run joyfully toward life and embrace it with open arms. Each day brings its own treasure in the flavors, aromas, sights, sounds, situations, experiences and interactions that come your way.

Be genuinely thankful for every moment, whatever it may contain. For in each moment is your opportunity to fully live, to grow, to learn, to experience, to share and to create unique, lasting value.

Welcome the ever-changing richness of life as it dances before your eyes in ways you’ve never seen before. Join passionately in that dance and be a part of the richness.

Follow the winding path as it moves up, down, over and around through the steadily increasing abundance and fulfillment of your life. Know more fully, as each moment passes, the profound joy of being.

PEACE....

Peace asks nothing other than your willingness to allow it, to accept it, and to experience it.  The peace you seek is always there. It sits quietly and calmly beneath everything else that has been piled on top of it.

I challenge you to let go of the anger, let go of the fear, let go of the anxieties, the arrogance and resentments. What you are left with is the peace that has been there all along.

Remember, peace asks nothing other than your willingness to allow it, to accept it, and to experience it. When you release all else from your awareness, peace is what you will find still remaining.

Peace does nothing and yet it enables so very much. Peace allows you to solidly connect with what is truly meaningful and valuable in your life.

When your efforts come from a perspective of peace, they become much more effective. Peace gives great clarity to your thinking and immense depth to your understanding.

Peace is there, waiting to be uncovered. Let go of all the negativity that serves no purpose, and let the quiet, calm power of peace fill your day.

Little Problems...

If there’s some little problem that’s been nagging you and slowly draining you, now is a great time to do something about it.  The big, urgent problems get your attention, as well they should. Because they are so serious, you’ll naturally take them seriously and quickly do something about them. The smaller, nagging, everyday problems don’t have that same sense of urgency. They don’t usually grab your attention and demand to be solved.

Yet those little problems can wear you down over time. They seem almost too trivial to do anything about, so you can be tempted to just let them continue draining your energy and resources, day after day.

For example, a slow drip from the faucet in your bathroom sink doesn’t seem like much, and yet it can end up wasting hundreds or thousands of gallons of water. Eventually, even the little problems can have a big impact.

Fortunately, the little problems don’t take much effort to solve. It’s mostly just a matter of taking them seriously and taking the time to do it.

Remember, if there’s some little problem that’s been nagging you and slowly draining you, now is a great time to do something about it. Free yourself, one by one, from the little problems, and it can make a big positive difference in your life.

Be Different....

If you don’t like what you see, you have the opportunity to change it by changing the way you are. If there is darkness all around you, that’s an opportunity for you to shine your own special light.

When things around you seem too noisy, hectic and out of control, be extra calm, peaceful and patient. If the people in your life seem too greedy and selfish, that’s the time to be extra loving, giving and sincerely compassionate. 

When the world seems a bit too confused and aimless, be extra focused and purposeful. For the world outside will soon reflect back to you the energy you give it. 

Even a small beacon in the darkness will shine for a long, long way. Choose to be the difference that makes a real difference, and your efforts will bear abundant fruit.

When things around you seem to be at their worst, that’s when you can accomplish the most by being your best. That’s when you can truly make a valuable, much-needed positive difference.

When trouble and confusion surround you, see the situation as the opportunity that it is. Shine your positive light in the face of negativity, and you will change your world.

ALL WE NEED IS LOVE...

When your mind is tied in knots with anger, frustration or anxiety, let love wash those negative thoughts away. Feel love, and feel much better. 

Choose to let love touch you and heal you. Choose to let love lift you and inspire you.

Choose to let love ease your worries and calm your fears. Choose to let love give you a reason to persist. Chose to let love fill you with courage and confidence and positive purpose. Chose to let love fill you with peace.

I challenge you to feel love, and feel an empowering connection to all that is. I challenge you to give love, and give the best of who you are. 

Let love be, in all its splendor. Let love live and grow in you always. All we need is love...

WORRIES ARE WORTHLESS....

Worries are worthless, so don’t bother with them. Did you know that resentment over a difficult situation actually makes that situation worse?  Exactly, so remind yourself there’s no point in it.

Limitless abundance and great value are here to be found in this moment. What a shame it would be if any little bit of useless negativity were to block that abundance from your awareness.  Negativity is a waste of your precious time. You deserve much better, so give the very best of life to yourself.

Remember, worries are worthless, so don’t bother with them.

When you catch the slightest bit of negativity creeping into your thoughts, visualize yourself taking hold of it and then simply letting it drop to the ground. Feel the spark of energy that comes from your newly gained freedom, and step positively forward.

Joy and fulfillment are your destiny, so let them flow freely from you. Rise above the pettiness that often threatens to draw you in, and give your focus to the good things that truly matter.

Choose today to give your precious time the respect and appreciation it so richly deserves. Fill it with beautiful, meaningful, positive purpose.

No excuses...

Value is built not by speculation or by wishing or wondering. Value is built by solid, committed action and persistence.  So don't spend your moments wondering whether or not you can do it, find out for sure. Choose to give it a shot, and give it your best.

Don't worry about looking foolish, just focus on being creative, productive and effective. Choose a plausible way forward, and then go for it.

Here's the thing...you might succeed or you might fail. But either way, I guarantee, that you’ll end up much better off then just doing nothing.

Remember, real value is built not by speculation or by wishing or wondering. Real value is built by solid, committed action and persistence.

You have it in you to create much more great and meaningful value in this world. What a shame it would be to let that potential go unused.

So go ahead, decide right now in this moment to let go of the complacency and leave the excuses behind. Give it a shot, and make it happen.

Choose to be Happy....

You’ll never be happy by wishing for what you don’t have. But I guarantee that you can always be happy by accepting and seeing the goodness in what you do have.

Happiness is being where you want to be and doing what you want to be doing. True happiness requires nothing more than an adjustment in your attitude.

Wherever you may be, can quickly and easily be where you want to be. Whatever you’re doing, can immediately be what you want to be doing.

Remember that you’ll never be happy by wishing for what you don’t have. 

It’s essential to have dreams and goals for the future, yet your dreams will not make you happy in the present. Actually, it is your happiness that will bring the reality of your dreams into the present.

What you have is what you have, so make the very most of it. Be happy, be thankful, and you’ll be living at your highest level of effectiveness.

Look for the goodness and the value in your very own experience of here and now. Choose to be happy now, and in your happiness you’ll find and fulfill the best of who you are.

THOUGHTS ACTIONS RESULTS

Did you know that what you do makes you better at what you think? Did you know that what you think makes you more effective at what you do? True excellence results from the synergy of thought and action. Both are vitally necessary, and neither one is very beneficial without the other. 

Today, choose to take action, after thinking through the consequences that are likely to come from that action. Take the time to put some thought into what you intend to do, and then get busy doing it. 

Choose to express your best, most authentic thoughts with your actions. Focus and empower your actions with your thoughts.

Balance the informed intelligence of your thoughts with the practical effectiveness of your actions. Thought without action is not worth much, and action without thought can be even worse. 

Remember, true excellence results from the synergy of thought and action. Both are vitally necessary, and neither one is very beneficial without the other. 

So today, consider, question, observe, evaluate, intend, plan, and then do. Think about what you’re doing, and then get busy doing what you think.

Impossible Possibilities....

How many times has someone told you that could not do it.  There will always be people that will tell you it’s impossible. Even so, you can find a way to make it possible and to make it real.  The odds may not be in your favor, but you can do it. Though the challenges are great, you can make it happen.

When it means enough to you, then you can do it. When you are willing and committed and persistent, you will get yourself there.

Look within yourself and find those values that you most earnestly desire to express with your life. The things that are most genuinely important to you are the things that will power your achievements.

When you can put the power of your passion behind it, you will create it. Make the effort to find and to know that passion, and there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Be utterly true to who you are. And fulfill your greatest possibilities.

FEEL THE SUCCESS...

Success comes in doses.  I encourage you to use each small success as motivation to create more success. If you are truly thankful for what you’ve done, you will find that you are compelled to do much more.

Celebrate your achievements, no matter what their size. Feel how great it feels to take focused, disciplined action and to make something happen.

It feels so good to know you’ve made a difference. Get yourself addicted to that feeling.

Get yourself hooked on positive, meaningful success by treasuring and valuing and celebrating every accomplishment. The more thankful you are for what you’ve done, the more motivated you’ll be to do it again.

Let yourself feel great about it, and enjoy that delightful feeling. You’ll be well on your way to making it happen again and again.

Stop and Think...

If you’re faced with an emergency, then by all means take action right away.  However, in reality, emergencies are relatively rare.  You will fin that in most situations you’ll be far better off when you take the time to get it right.

There are a few things that you must respond to immediately. Often an immediate response, without taking the time to think it though, can be worse than no response at all.

Choose to give yourself some valuable space between what happens and what you choose to do about it. In that space, use your powerful mind, your experience, your perspective, and your intuition to craft a positive, effective response.

It is a gift to learn to lean toward under-reacting rather than overreacting. You will find that you not only will you reduce your levels of frustration and anxiety, but you’ll be able to more effectively handle the challenges that life brings your way.

Learn to be ok with the fact that something will not be immediately resolved. Then proceed calmly, thoughtfully, carefully and diligently forward to obtain the most positive, yet valuable outcome.

Remember a smart response will almost always take you further than a quick, ill-considered response. Choose to invest the time to think it through, and that investment will reap great rewards.

Your Gift...

This day is a gift that you’ve never had before. Jump in and explore the exquisite treasure that is right now at your feet.

I challenge you to give for the sake of giving. I challenge you to love for the sake of loving.

I challenge you to live for the sake of living.  challenge you to learn just because you can.

Don’t fill the future with ambiguous motives or imagined fears. Choose to fill the moment you’re in with the extraordinary richness of ordinary life.

Remember this day is a gift that you’ve never had before. Choose to jump in and explore the exquisite treasure that is right now at your feet.

Life’s beauty appears at exactly the place where you choose to see it. Choose to see the beauty and value of whatever situation you find yourself experiencing.

Listen to the part of you that resonates with life’s true and never ending goodness. Experience again and again, in a new way each time, what it means to be alive.

Make the Difference....

You can make a difference, so get busy making that difference. There’s no sense in wasting your energy on avoiding the inevitable. The difficult choices become even more difficult when you persist in avoiding them. Don't run away from those difficult choices.  Choose to face them and make your decision. 

As difficult as it may be, the sooner you decide, the sooner you can begin to create positive value. Go ahead, and get started transforming a difficult situation into an opportunity to move forward. 

Hesitation and indecisiveness will only enable things to get worse. Make the decision, get started taking action, and get moving in the direction of making things better. 

Remember, you can make a difference, so get busy making that difference. There’s no sense in wasting your energy on avoiding the inevitable. 

Choose to put your fate in your own hands by choosing to quickly deal with life’s difficulties. Feel how good and right it feels to be decisive and persistently effective. 

Say what must be said, decide what must be decided, and do what must be done. The sooner and more willingly you face the difficulties, the sooner you’ll get beyond them.

Comfortable in Fear...

It’s great to appreciate and value where you are. But life will surely and eventually insist that you continue to move forward.  Sometimes it is useful to remind yourself that there is more to life than just being comfortable. Sometimes a change, though it may be intimidating, can do you a whole lot of good.  

Would you believe that sometimes fear doesn’t really feel like fear, but it actually feels very comfortable.

Sometimes the desire to remain comfortably where you are can prevent you from being the best you can be. Sometimes you might live with unacceptable pain just so you don’t have to make any changes. 

Remember it’s great to appreciate and value where you are. 

But today choose to make the choice to get a little bit beyond what you’re comfortable with. Choose to feel true gratitude and appreciation for life’s richness, and know that there is even more beyond the horizon. 

Don’t let your comfort shield you from your best possibilities. Go beyond the good life, and make it even better.

Life's Treasures...

Every day is filled with treasures yet to be discovered. But if you go through the day filled with resentment, anger or envy, you’ll walk right on past those treasures without even glimpsing at them.

There’s no need to be stopped by what you cannot do. Instead, move yourself ahead by doing what you can do. Sure, you have limitations just like everyone else. But your possibilities are far greater than your limitations.

Focus on the positive possibilities and you’ll find a way around those limitations. Stop worrying about what you don’t have and do what you can, where you are, with what you do have. It is more than enough to take you anywhere you desire to go.

Remember, every day is filled with treasures yet to be discovered. But if you go through the day filled with resentment, anger or envy, you’ll walk right on past those treasures without even glimpsing them.

So instead, I challenge you to seek to add value to each situation in which you find yourself. Make a genuine effort to make a real difference. Rather than lamenting what you don’t have, appreciate and make full use of what you do have, and the best things you can imagine will fill your life.

LET GO OF THE PAST...

We all have people, places and things that have disappointed us.  However, just because we've have been disappointed in life a hundred times before doesn’t mean we must be disappointed again.  Today is a new day.  In this day, beginning a new pattern is just as realistic and accessible as continuing the old one.  

Every burden that we carry was created in the past. This moment is a good time to choose to leave them there.  The only way our past or anything else can hold us back, is if we let it. 

By choosing to hold on to resentment, we are continuing to punish ourselves for the wrongs that others have done. There’s really no good reason to do that.

Our future depends on our expectations, our choices and our actions. Refuse to fill it with useless and burdensome negativity from the past.  Instead, choose to look forward, and look at the best within us as we set our expectations. Choose to create a new, shining story of achievement and fulfillment.  Choose to get busy living that story.

Remember the only way the past or anything else can hold us back, is if we let it. Choose instead to allow the highest vision within pull authentic fulfillment into our lives.

HAVE A FANTABULOUS DAY!!!!!

LOVE ME SOME U!!!!!

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Life's Richness....

Life’s richness is yours the moment you allow it. The only way you’ll ever be happy is to be happy with what you have. It's that simple.  You can be happy this very instant if you’ll simply be happy with what you have.

Being happy with what you have doesn’t prevent you from creating more. It actually puts you in a powerful position to add new value to your world and your life.

When you’re happy with what you have, you’re deeply in touch with life’s abundance. Within that abundance you can find every good possibility.

So I challenge you to be happy, and thankful, for the way life is. It will open your eyes to the best possibilities for the way life can be.

There is great value in whatever you already have. The way to see that value, and to make full use of it, is to be happy with what you have.

Remember life’s richness is yours the moment you allow it. Be happy with what you have, and nothing can stop you from having it all.

Get on with it....

Life is unpredictable.  It doesn’t always unfold the way you would like. It can in fact be very messy, inconvenient and uncomfortable.  I suggest you to get over it and get on with it. That means, you should go ahead, deal with the bad stuff, and you’ll soon be enjoying the good stuff.
Don't waste your time wondering what you can do and how you will get through. Instead, grab hold of this moment and use it to take positive action.  It may require you to get up early and it may require you to stay late. You may have to get your hands dirty, and you may have to endure a little inconvenience and discomfort.  But it is not that bad.  It is actually worth it.  Especially when you compare it to the glorious opportunity to live your life.
Choose today to seize that opportunity every day, no matter what ups and downs you may encounter. Whatever may come, get on with it, and make life spectacular in your own unique way.

Happness vs Misery....

There is a thin line between misery and happiness.  Just as easy as it is to be miserable, it is just as easy to be happy.  When you are miserable, you will nourish and support your ego. When you are happy, you bring peace and fulfillment to your spirit.

Being miserable can leave you very dramatic, complicated and sophisticated. It can make you appear quite impressive to other people. Being happy, on the other hand, is an expression of simplicity, freedom and joy. Chances are, others could be suspicious or resentful.

Once you have chosen to be miserable, it will require a great deal of energy and effort to maintain that state of misery. But when you choose happiness, that happiness actually brings additional energy and positive passion to your life.

The choice between happiness and misery is one you make in each moment, over and over again, day after day. Whether you’re happy or whether you’re miserable is completely up to you.  What do you choose to be?

Life is Full of Setbacks...

Don't let your beautiful day be ruined by any setbacks you encounter.  Choose instead to take it in stride and quickly get back to being positive, productive and effective.  Choose not to waste your time being outraged or offended by someone else’s careless, inconsiderate remark or gesture. Choose to use the opportunity to strengthen your valuable sense of patience, and move on ahead to something that truly matters.

Life’s full of setbacks.  These little annoyances can quickly add up to have a big negative and destructive impact if you let them. The goos thing is, you don’t have to let them.  Choose instead to let them go. You can decide to see the small, relatively meaningless annoyances for what they are, and move quickly beyond them.

Don't let your attitude to be held hostage by rude, careless, inconsiderate people or random events beyond your control.  Remember, that within you is a positive purpose that is big and beautiful and filled with real meaning.

So each time one of life’s little annoyances comes along, let it just keep on going right past you until it fades away into its own insignificance. You have plenty of much more positive and valuable things upon which to focus your attention.

Practice Integrity...

How often do you practice integrity?  My philosophy is that if you practice integrity with those things that don’t really matter, your integrity will shine brightly in the things that matter most.

Integrity cannot be turned on and off. True integrity is indivisible.  In order for you to act with integrity in any area of life, you must live with integrity at all times, in all situations. If not, you are merely attempting to imitate integrity, and that is an exercise in futility.

So strive to practice integrity even when you’re sure that no one else will ever know. If you will do that, you will build in you a true, living integrity that does not need to be announced. I challenge you to be quick to forgive and slow to offend. Integrity has no use at all for holding grudges.

I challenge you to live each moment with integrity, and make it who you always are. For a real, living integrity can take you places you otherwise could never go.

What You See....

The way you see yourself is up to you. It doesn’t have anything to do with the circumstances you happen to be facing. The more time you spend feeling sorry for yourself, the more things you’ll have to be sorry about. If you insist on seeing yourself as a victim, you’ll end up experiencing your life as a victim.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Choose right now, and every day, to see yourself in a positive, empowering light. Remember that the way you see yourself is up to you. 

I want you to see yourself as the unique, beautiful, creative and effective person you know you are. I want you to see yourself as a bundle of positive, inspiring and meaningful possibilities that are well on their way to being fulfilled.

See that you are able to successfully handle whatever life sends your way. See that you are able to thrive and grow and make positive meaning out of the world in which you live.

See yourself as constantly moving forward through it all, with love and joy and purpose. It is up to you.  What you see, you will be.

What's Stopping You?

I had to stop and ask myself, what is stoping me?  I challenge you to do the same.  If you’re having trouble taking action, it’s probably because, just like myself, you haven’t fully convinced yourself that it must be done. Trust me, once you truly convince yourself, you’ll most certainly make it happen.

Perhaps you think it’s something that is important. Yet there’s a big difference between thinking it’s important and knowing that it must be done.   Don't be hesitant to take action, look within yourself for what is stopping you. 

If you’re not sincerely committed to achieving the results your actions are capable of bringing, stop and look within yourself. You can choose to either find that commitment or to move on to something else.

Your thoughts and actions are powerful. Strive to focus them in a particular direction.

Convincing yourself is indeed a challenge. However, when you truly convince yourself to do it, you have the power to make it so.

Life's Consequences...

If there were no consequences, there would be nothing that leads to desired results. Without consequences, true achievement would be impossible.  Every action we take has consequences. At first, they seem to be burdensome, but actually turn out to be very empowering.  Consequences are what make progress possible. It is in the consequences that we find life’s treasures.

Yes, I repeat, many of life’s consequences are burdensome. However, a life with no consequences at all would carry with it a far greater and unbearable burden.  Remember, without consequences, true achievement would be impossible.

Though some of them are painful, consequences ultimately point us in a positive direction. By experiencing consequences, both the positive and the negative ones, we learn which actions to take.  Though consequences can make life difficult, they also make it rich. For consequences give real meaning and value to the choices that we make.

Angelic Thoughts...

Be the Light....

Do you know that the darker it is around you, the more your light is needed? It just takes one light to make a big difference, when there is darkness all around. When you find yourself among others who are angry, hateful, resentful, discouraged, and cynical, that is when you can make the most difference by staying positively focused. Be the light. The more you are surrounded by negativity, the darkness, the more impact you can have by being positive, and shining through the darkness.

It is not easy.  We often find ourselves reacting to negativity by being negative. That just escalates the despair. Your reaction is a choice.  You can choose not to react or you can choose to follow your own course. Just because those around you are in darkness, does not mean that you too must be in darkness.  Focus on being the light.  The light reveals possibilities. It make obstacles less menacing. It makes the situation clearer and easier to understand.  Strive to be the light.

When those around you are frustrated and impatient, choose to be extra calm and composed. When those around you are angry, choose to be the voice of reason and compassion. When those around you are discouraged, choose to offer hope.  If there is negative energy all around you, choose to see it as an opportunity. Consider how much of a difference you can make with your positive thoughts and actions. Turn on your own light, and those nearby cannot help but see. Remember the darker it is around you, the brighter your light will shine.  Choose to be a difference, and you will make a difference.