Yesterday I took an hour long bike ride instead of going to the gym. The sun was shining. The temperature is perfect. We slept last night with all the windows open, luxuriating and enjoying the crisp desert air. I love this time of the year in Arizona. After 5 months of temperatures over 100 most days, the air conditioners got turned off, the convertibles are cruising with the tops down and the kids can go down the slides without getting burned! Sometimes, it’s the little things that make a difference. Life is good!
My husband, Bub, accuses me of being an ostrich and tells me I should be worrying about the collapse of the economy and our way of life as we know it. Hmmmm…I think: Would it serve anyone or anything for me to worry about it? I think not. Now, I don’t want to sound like a stupid Pollyanna who is entirely out of touch with reality, but I know from all the study and work I have done around The Law of Attraction, if I get sucked into the reactionary fear, I do not feel better, do better or get good results.
My truth is: Today, at my house, all is well and life is good. We woke up on this side of the grass and that sure beats the alternative.
When I keep my eye on building from where I am, I make steady progress. While my results may be different than I originally envision or may far exceed my expectations:
I find the conscious choosing of my thoughts>
leads to my expectations and that >
leads to what I get.
ALWAYS!
So many people spend lots of time choosing their wardrobe or their menu items, but totally neglect to choose their thoughts! You have that power each and every moment, each and every day and the use of it can create miraculous results.
I am refusing to participate in gloom and doom. Even if it is just at my house (or just in the room which is my office), life is good! I intend to keep expanding reality and thinking with every article I write and each coaching client I touch so that we can emanate good that gets gooder and gooder!
One of the exercises in this month’s Relax and Attract class is called Virtual Realities. During the day, you envision for 30 seconds a scene that brings you joy, makes you feel good. Talk about an easy way to shift when you are feeling frustrated or scared or depressed….just 30 seconds of get into a scene that brings good feelings, picture all the details, then get out. Try that a few times a day and see what it does to your mood :>) Please RELAX and ATTRACT!!!!! And have some fun this week.
Letting Go
Two weeks ago, I shared some of what I did on my summer vacation. I found stepping back from the busy doingness and choosing which activities truly gave me joy was really, really hard. Much easier to just get up every day and do what presents itself. Manage myself from the to do list and plug away. There is certainly a feeling of getting things done in all that activity, but the challenge I gave myself over the summer was to start to notice what makes my heart sing and creates a feeling of bliss and what is hum-drum living.
I can relate to the quote of wanting to be burned up completely when I die but I don’t want to feel burned out at the end of each day.
So, what’s a person to do????
I spent the summer evaluating as went each activity and if it didn’t fit the heart-singing criteria, I gave some thought to whether I should keep this in my life. I whittled down what I was doing to give me space to have room for new things to be added.
I mentioned Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek (some thought this was the 4 day workweek because 4 hours seems so ludicrous!). One of my coaching clients gave me feedback by saying there was some good, some useless and some thought-provoking. I thought that was a good assessment. I rarely find an author I BELIVE in 100%, but if they can make me think, I always find that valuable.
And, this made me think:
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