Live as who you are

 Some people will agree with you and some people won’t. And in most cases, there’s nothing you can do to change that.

Some people will like you, admire you, respect you, and others won’t. That will be the case no matter what you do.

Yes, you can strive to impress and accommodate people in an effort to gain their favor. But such overt desperation is unlikely to earn any agreement or genuine respect.

Your best option is to simply be your authentic self. You cannot force everyone to admire you, but you can enable people to see who you truly are.

Some people are never going to resonate with you. Yet many people will appreciate and admire you for being open and honest about who you are.

Do and say what’s real, what’s true, what’s in line with your values, your preferences, your passions. The most impressive thing you can ever do is to live as who you are.

It's for your favor...

Do yourself a favor and do the difficult, unpleasant stuff first. Get it out of the way so you can more fully enjoy the rest of the day.

Do yourself a favor and let go of your resentment toward whatever you have to do. Resentment hurts you, brings you down, serves no positive purpose, and you can easily do without it.

Do yourself a favor and forgive those who have wronged you, slighted you, or done anything to offend you. Forgive, and enable yourself to move on beyond the pain.

Do yourself a favor, and do something just because you love to do it. Express the joy of being alive in the most authentic way you can imagine.

Do yourself a favor, and let gratitude fill your heart. The more you can be thankful for, the more abundantly you will live.

Do yourself a favor, and seek new ways to be kind, considerate, generous, and genuine. Life is what you give it, so give life the best of what you want it to be.

Thankful

Be thankful for this moment, however it may be. Be thankful for the way you feel, whatever the feeling is.

Be thankful, and put yourself in the best position to respond. Be thankful, and enable yourself to see the positive possibilities going forward.

Yes, you could be resentful, but your resentment would not bring you anything of value. Yes, you could be angry, but your anger would separate you from your best possibilities.

What’s done is done, what’s happened has happened, the reality of the moment is as it is. Fill your heart with gratitude and open your eyes to the value that’s now yours.

Be at peace with the past and the present. Allow yourself to focus all your energy on creating a bright future.

Be thankful for this moment and be empowered to make the most of it. Let your sincere gratitude for right now fill you with positive energy and illuminate the best way forward.

Postive Mindset

Positive action

Positive action is only a single, momentary choice away from a negative mindset. Make that choice and suddenly you are free of the negativity.

When you are feeling cynical, dismayed, angry, frustrated, decide to abruptly interrupt that pattern. Point your considerable amount of energy in a positive direction.

Whatever may have already happened, there is nothing at all that says you have to continue on a destructive trajectory. You have every reason in the world to turn it all around with positive action.

Imagine how great that transformation will feel. Know that it is absolutely within your power to make it, immediately.

When you’ve sunk into the deepest depths, even a tiny positive change can feel like the best thing ever. Make that change, feel its goodness, its rightness, and build on it.

Activate the control you have, utilize the choice you have and transform a negative perspective into positive action, positive power. Take the energy you’ve paid dearly to generate, and turn it all toward something beautiful.

It's Not About You

When you make everything about you, it limits you and keeps you frozen in place.  

If you feel stuck, you’re probably too focused on yourself. Step back, let go, widen your awareness.

From a self-centered perspective, your problems can seem so massive as to be overwhelming. Expand your perspective, and the problems begin to look more like opportunities.

Surrounding you is a whole universe of possibilities, energy, resources, goodness and beauty. Turn your attention outward and vastly expand your options.

  It drains your energy and creates unnecessary conflict.

Choose instead to mentally step a little bit beyond yourself, beyond your own concerns. Discover how energizing and liberating it can be.

One of the most powerful things you can do for yourself is to get past your concerns about yourself. Let go, focus your awareness on all of life, and replace those limited concerns with grand achievements.

Good Use

Value that is hoarded, hidden away, forgotten, loses its value. Value that is put to use, gives birth to new value.  Just like your muscles quickly weaken if they are not exercised, so do your hopes, your dreams, your values, intentions, possibilities.

You are blessed with knowledge, abilities, resources, connections, experience and unique purpose. I encourage you to continue to put all that to good use, or the strength and resources you have will soon begin to wither.

Gratitude enables new abundance to stream into your life. The highest, most powerful form of gratitude is making good use of what you have.  Choose to make good use, and your strengths grow stronger, your resources gain value. Choose to make good use, and you can even transform shortcomings into advantages.

Choose to make good use of the good things in life and you’ll make them even better.

Your Life

Do you want life to work for you? Then you must work for you.

Wishing, hoping, sitting around waiting for good things to arrive in your life, doesn’t work well. What does work well, is when you do the work to bring about the kind of life you desire.

The more responsibility you take for your own life, the more satisfied you’ll be with the way life unfolds. The more you invest your time, effort, imagination, creativity in life, the richer your life will be.

It might sometimes seem that a free ride, no effort, no responsibility, would be nice. But that’s not the case at all.

What truly makes life good is knowing you’re deeply involved in making life good. What brings real fulfillment is when you are working, with commitment and persistence, to create that fulfillment.

Give up any fantasy of a fairy-tale life simply dropping into your lap, for even if it happened you wouldn’t like it. The very best life for you is the life you’ve worked to create for you.

Changes

Changes, no matter how small, can make a big difference when applied over time. When you make a small positive change, and decide to stay with it, you will find that time works in your favor. 

Changes, no matter how small, are easy to implement, and just as easy to abandon. So when you make a change, you must also make a commitment.  The size of the commitment should not equal the size of the change that you desire.

Most of the progress you make in life is not made in big, highly consequential leaps. Achievement most often comes from taking one small positive step, then another and another.

There is some small change you can make today that can make your life significantly better a day, a week, a month or a year from now. I challenge you to make it, and most importantly, stick with it.

Stick with it by constantly reminding yourself why. Stick with it by staying focused on your purpose.

You have the ability right now to make a change, no matter how small that will eventually lift your whole world. So choose to make a positive change, stick with it and stay focused, reaping more and more benefits as life unfolds.

~Angelic-1

Make a Choice

Imagine it is tomorrow and you’re looking back on today. What would you like to see?

Whatever it is, now is your chance to make it happen. You have one opportunity to determine how you’ll live this day, and that opportunity is right here, right now.

Every moment is a choice. When making each choice, consider how it will play out tomorrow, or a week from now, or next year.

The actions you take, and the actions you fail to take, have real and continuing consequences. Today, you can choose what those consequences will be going forward.

The way you live today determines how your life will be when you arrive at tomorrow. Make the choices that will make you thankful for your good sense.

Though this day will be over soon, what you do with its moments will echo far into your future. Realize what a powerful opportunity that is, and make something grand out of it now, while it's here.

What is your Vision....

What are you doing?  Are the things you are doing today moving you in the direction you intend to go?  Are your actions drawing you closer to fulfilling your dreams?  Are you making moves toward your vision?

If so, be thankful, very thankful, for the choices you have made.  Take the energy of your gratitude and add to the efforts you are already making.  If not, stop whatever you are doing right  now, and turn yourself around toward the direction you wish you were going.  It is all a choice.  The direction you are headed is based upon the choices you make.

Take a hard honest look at where your current actions are taking you.  Is it headed where you want to go?  If not, now is the time to make the necessary changes to start toward where you want to be.  

Having a vision is crucial but fulfillment is more than just having a vision.  Fulfillment means working until you can make that vision into a reality, day after day, task after task, without fail or without letting up.  

Your dreams and visions can be yours.  They will not just come to you.  Why not?  Because the value of those dreams and visions is not in having them, but in creating them.  

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.