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It took me a long time to truly understand the philosophy behind acceptance. Before I might have argued that if you accept ‘it’ then you are agreeing to ‘it’. Yes! it might mean that but it does not necessarily follow.
Situations present themselves to us every minute of the day and the most marvelous think is that we actually get a choice as to how we respond to the situation. Too often, however, we react in a way that creates more anxiety than is ever necessary.
This amazing thing we call breathing, which is our life force, is too often taken for granted and not used in the appropriate manner. Just one deep breath could save us from so many uncomfortable moments in time.
What if we paid more attention to the power we give to the energy that is all around us in the way of negative input? (“The economy sucks!” “This President is not doing a good job!” “This person is bad!” “This is the wrong way to do that!” and so on………)
When we recognize the amount of power we give to those conversations, We might find ourselves making different decisions regarding our involvement. Choosing to not give our power to those negative conversations can begin with simply accepting what has been said as the opinion of the speaker and nothing more. This way we free ourselves up for other, more important ways to use our energy.
Hey! I am all for conserving energy. I’ll accept what is and move on. Boy! I feel so energized I just might go and exercise! Or not! The sky is the limit. It is all up to me.
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Have you ever had a bad day? Have you ever felt you needed to question your feelings of self-worth? Have you ever felt that you could not handle one more negative thing happening to you?
If anyone said no to any of these questions – I want to meet you! It is my point of view that “It happens to all of us………..at some time or another. It is how we handle these situations that can be the difference between giving up or moving on. These powerful times occur when we least expect it and often blind side us with their power over us. It is my suggestion that their is a special way of handling these situations. There are 4 components I have observed that go into creating good out of all the bad. The first of these is acceptance. Whoa! Did I say acceptance? Yes! I did say acceptance, only when you choose to accept that this is the situation right at this moment can you begin to change the situation. The second is focus. Chances are that all that you are focusing on is the negative situation. What do you want? Focus on that! The third component is intent. When you are intent on having what you want you will bring about the object or subject of your intention. And the fourth and last of these words is joy. There is no-one in the world who has no desire to feel joy. Joy in experiencing success in any avenue of your life can bring about amazingly powerful feelings that may include peace, love and the ability to create great success in all you do.
Remember this. You are a human being. And when you are in a place of acceptance, focusing on your intention you are creating joy! It is all about how you are being!
So the next time you are having a bad day – simply check into how you are being and follow the recipe for success as stated above. Try it – you’ll love the results.
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Not even our thoughts are new! It is merely the way our thoughts combine that make, what appears to be, new. Even the so called “new inventions” are re-surged thoughts combined in a new way. Often you will hear someone say, as they view a “new invention”, “Oh! my Goodness! I thought about doing something like that years ago and quickly dispelled the thought as “impossible”! Well – did you ever?” This is why it is so important to be in the moment and pay attention to your thoughts – they all have meaning and as you have experienced, nothing is impossible. Remember to keep in mind the old adage “the gift is the present”.
We spend so much time re-living the past moments or worrying about the future moments we don’t get the ‘gift’. So often, when we are in conversation with a friend, we are contemplating our response and not fully paying attention to the information that they are relaying to us. And, if we are doing that to them, chances are that they are doing that to us! Oops! now that does not feel good. you know what they say, “What you are giving – you are getting!” Also the solution to every problem lies within the problem itself. We spend so much time blaming outside sources when sometimes we just need to stop, look at the ‘problem’ and recognize the ‘gift’!
As I write this piece, I am looking out of my window at the snow that has fallen, covering the limbs of the tree outside and it is glistening in the sunlight against the azure sky – what a gift! How picturesque this little scene is at this moment and in only a few hours it will be gone. It is not a new scene – only slightly different from the previous snow fall – but I choose to enjoy it in this moment. I am ever so grateful for this moment.
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I find it amazing that we (humans) get so caught up in history! That is, that every moment is new in time and we can create new outcomes. When we listen to the rhetoric of today’s conversation, which drags yesterdays conversation and the day be-fore’s conversation of a broken economy – then we repeat that conversation – we only cement the same result for this day! Shifting our focus to the possibilities of change and what we can do in our own personal lives, to alter this situation, is the difference between remaining stagnant in the broken economy and healing the economy.
So the next time someone tries to engage you in a conversation about the poor economy, say, “But that was then!” Needless to say this may invoke a blank stare. However, you might add a little information about what you are doing in your life to enhance the economy for you. If we each take responsibility for our conversation regarding this economy and make it our purpose – we, together, can effect huge change in the outcomes that we are experiencing.
Just think how this way of thinking and behaving can flow into all areas of ones life! We can get that career that we have always wanted, the home we have always wanted, the relationship we have always wanted, the body we have always wanted – Oh! the sky is the limit. Just remember – “but that was then!” and ” Now I am doing this….!”
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Everybody’s saying, “There goes another year!”
They wonder if you’ve made your resolutions
And I think to myself – “Yes…I did last year
And look where that got me…
You see – I am realizing more and more
That the year goes by long before
We’ve taken time to practice our intentions
So perhaps it would be the best idea for me
To make resolutions daily – to go through my life gaily
Giving all the best I can to please me and my fellow man
To be thankful for the gifts I have
And to share without reservation
It seems to me that so many times
When I give my smile, a listening ear
Or even write to someone dear
I find that I feel so much better
Than if I had just received a letter
Don’t get me wrong – I love receiving
But there’s so much fun in leaving
Someone with a smile instead of sadness
So each day in 2010
It is my plan to never wait
For someone else to say, “Hello!”
Or to cheer someone who’s feeling low
To be loving, good and kind
And to keep an open mind –
When I see things that may upset me
To be positive about each day
And know that no matter what
There is a reason I am here
And that is not to wallow in some fear
Of not succeeding
No-one can ever succeed
If negatives like fear and greed
Override the feelings of success
I say it very honestly
That for 2010 to be
A happy year for me
I’ll just live it for each day
So that I can truly say
Each night when I lay down to sleep
That I did my very best
Though it seemed to be a test
And tomorrow I will strive to do it better
Here’s wishing us all the best in 2010!
copyrightbest2010
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Why is it, that, when we say that what we want the most is peace, we act in ways that are not in line with our desire? We judge – we compare – we even ridicule and then we say we want peace? What is this all about? Now don’t tell me that you do not fall into any of these categories. Or perhaps I should say that if you do not fall into any of these categories – I would love to meet you and gain knowledge from you on how you can actually go through your life – being perfect.
Harry and I have recently moved to a wonderful town in Delaware. There is something that attracted us to this place and created a feeling for us that this is the place that we are supposed to be. And yet I am finding that, in so many ways, I feel that I have stepped back in time.
O.K. so now you are saying what does she mean? So here’s the deal! A ‘for instance’ might be this. We met a young lady, who owned a restaurant and invited us to join her staff. She made it clear to us that she, ultimately, wanted to own a “Gay Bar”. This, however, was an all inclusive restaurant. People of all races, religions and sexual preferences were made welcome at this restaurant. Yet, when a gay couple would be seated she would make it clear to me that she did not want Harry to wait on these people and actually said that it would be better if they were waited on by a gay wait person. Why is it? What kind of way is this to make peace?
Yet one more ‘for instance’ is this. The little town we live in shows, to me, a clear delineation, where Blacks and Whites are concerned and this is where I feel we have stepped back in time. People I have spoken to profess their openness to all but I see very little proof of this in the different social gatherings I have attended. In fact they still have a black Masonic Lodge and a White Masonic Lodge and they seem to be quite o.k. with this approach.
At a recent Holiday gathering, that was held in the town Fire Hall, I noticed that only one Black Artist was present. His work is amazing and I would find it hard to believe that he is the only Black person in this town who is talented and gifted with such great artistry. Harry and I spoke to this artists wife and made mention of the fact and how all this affects us. She shared with us a story of a recent involvement she had had, in this area, with discrimination. It broke my heart to hear her story and I was truly touched. Then she went ahead and spoke of her feelings about the gay people that are living in this area. Her conversation was not kind when it came to the gays. So, you see, she was also wanting peace but she was being anything but peaceful in her conversation. I am clear that this is a judgment on my part, and I take full responsibility for that. I am merely pointing out the fact, that if we are to experience peace in our lifetime, it is time for us to be accepting and tolerant of each other and mindful of our true desire for peace. Why is it that we say we want something – then we act completely differently to this thing that we say we want? It is time for us to take responsibility for our conversation and have it be in line with our true desire.
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No – I did not miss spell deer. You know they say, “always good comes from bad”? I am one of those who believe that this is so. However, here’s the deal, Harry and I were traveling home the other night and suddenly a herd of deer jumped into the road before us. We were driving at the regulated speed of 50 miles an hour and there was no way to avoid hitting one of those beautiful creatures. The positive news is that neither Harry or I were hurt in the collision. The automobile, however, was badly damaged – not to mention the fact that Harry and I were badly shaken up by the event.
It is almost 24 hours since the accident and I have to say I had been wondering what the “good” is in this scenario when it suddenly dawned on me – dah! there had been approximately 7 deer headed at full gallop across the road in front of us, there was a vehicle about 15 feet behind us (way too close), one deer made it across, the second one collided with the front end of our vehicle and miraculously the other 5 deer were safe and so was the vehicle behind us – he even passed by us right after the deer ran into us. We just witnessed a miracle! This is the good that comes from bad.
For all those of you out there who are wondering what happened to that deer. We believe that he was only grazed as there was no blood, only a little deer hair stuck in the side lights. It is now clear to me just how dangerous this scenario is or could have been. We were fortunate that we were not injured. It is definitely time for the Department of Highways to think about fencing those areas of the roadside where the deer regularly cross. Just thinning out herds will not do it. No-one, traveling at 50 miles an hour, could possibly have avoided hitting the deer. We were fortunate – but others are not. Oh! dear!
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Sometime ago, driven by Spirit, I agreed to go on a Retreat as part of a team involved in Success Coaching. I had no idea how I was going to fund this trip and that was o.k. because I knew that it was to be an important time in my life. As it so happens, when the time finally came to go, I received a credit card in the mail which more than covered the cost of the journey. I thanked God for this outcome and went to Italy to attend the retreat. I also took the time to visit my family in Spain, Germany and England while I was overseas.
I returned from my trip in a wonderful place of peace. I worked hard and began to pay off the credit card. At times I would pay twice the necessary minimum payment just to get closer to paying off the card.
My ‘come from’ about money, most of my life, has been that it would always be there when I needed it. Then something happened that brought question to this way of thinking for me. I was told by my employer that I would be receiving a $14,000.00 per year reduction in pay! At that time I made a decision about myself that would change my life. I put on a scarcity mask and my whole conversation about money changed from “there is always plenty!” to “there is never enough!”
Universe has shown me how that kind of thinking has defined my life since then and I now take full responsibility for that and all the debts that have surrounded me. However, it is now become important for me to be with my family. This means that I am charged with putting my appropriate thoughts together to make this happen.
To go back and beat myself up for the decisions I have made in the past regarding scarcity would be shear folly. I choose to come from abundance and begin to re-pay the debts I have incurred by my flawed thinking and take that trip to be with my beautiful, loving family, ideally, including my husband Harry.
So I am now leaving the door wide open to receive the new job that will help to bring all of my intentions to fruition. I am looking and listening for all the signs and sounds that will tell me that I am on the right path. All I can tell you is that it is working!
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Don’t you just love it when that call you’ve been waiting for comes in? Or that person you’ve been missing, shows up? Or that perfect fabric you’ve been looking for comes into view? Don’t you just love it when you suddenly discover that someone, you thought you knew well, reveals that they are just the exact person you’ve been needing to find after all?
The crazy thing is that these things are happening or have the ability to happen all the time. We are often the ‘thing’ that is in the way of the revelation. Why? I’d say that often we simply don’t believe that they are possible or that we are so busily trying to make them happen we don’t even notice that they already have happened. It is time for us to slow down and smell the roses.
I recently moved to “slower Delaware” from Maryland and things here don’t happen too quickly and there is a reason for that. No – it is not to drive the ‘Marylander’ crazy! I am clear that the reason is to create the opening for amazing things to reveal themselves. For example:
A short while ago Harry and I were doing some work for a restaurant in the area and we arrived at work one day and the owner asked us to go out and hand out menus, inviting people to come to the restaurant. Well I was really upset at having to do this on this particular day. First of all I did not feel that I could sustain an hour of walking around town and then stand on my feet for another 8 or more hours. Also I knew that Harry could not make any money wandering around town. So I felt impatient and truly p.o.’d. However, Harry was in a great frame of mind as he had quickly gotten back into the pace of Delaware (his home state). He turned to me and said, “Oh! come on – suck it up and let’s get on with it!
As we turned the corner on the board walk he almost bumped into this man and woman. So he gave them a menu and invited them to come and have lunch at the restaurant then took his time to find out where they were from and ask them what their interests were. This paid off – big time! By taking his time he ended up creating some other business for himself (not related to the restaurant) and this has given Harry an opportunity to relax into what he truly has a passion about! Had he not had this more laid back approach, chances are we would not have met and he might have gotten caught up in my drama and missed this whole opportunity. Don’t you just love it!
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In this past two weeks, Harry and I have been on a merry-go-round! We have moved into our new home. We have begun new jobs. I have done some entertaining. We have met some wonderful, new friends and begun new, and improved, relationships. We have said “Goodbye!” to relationships that no longer fit. We are exploring many new avenues. We are also investigating the possibilities of re-vamping old avenues of interest. People are coming into our lives that are making all these things become possible, sometimes, only seconds after we have discussed the different possibilities.
The other day, we were talking about how nice it would be to get a stereo system for our home. Within a few minutes I got an email from one of our new friends, stating that she was holding a yard sale the next day. We decided to drop by her yard sale and there, right in the center of all of her ’stuff’ was a perfect stereo system. We gladly handed her $10.00 and picked up a few other ‘treasures’, returned to our home and shortly after our return we were dancing around our living room to the sounds of our ‘new’ stereo system!
Believe me, I am truly aware that this ‘ride’ is exactly what we signed up for. There is a great excitement, with Harry and I, over this special time in our lives and we know, that although to others our journey may seem odd, we are clear that there are no accidents and we are doing exactly as we should in order to truly ‘live’ our lives. We have decided to let ‘Spirit’ guide us and we are clear that all we need to do is to hold on and get ready for the ride!
Try it – you might enjoy it! You have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Who knows? You might even find that old joy that has been elusive to you!
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