AHHHH…Sweet Inspiration! Remember that song from the 1960s? Inspiration is indeed sweet. It’s the wellspring of our hearts, the gateway to our unique and fulfilling future. It is the manner in which we create what is distinctly unique about ourselves.
So here are some important questions to ask yourself:
Inspiration is the great problem solver. It is where the ideas come from to change and correct our lives when they aren’t working. It’s the artistic expression when our souls are yearning to communicate or release our emotions and extol our love of beauty. It’s that connection to the Universe that brings forth newness—something breakthrough and amazing! It’s you co-creating with the Universe.
Where can you see Inspiration at work in your life?
Inspiration is an imperative for a healthy life. Each of us needs both the influence of it in our daily existence and the expression of it.
So how does one inspire more inspiration?
Don’t overlook the role of inspiration in your life. And remember that as you are inspired, you inspire others! Let your inspirational light shine!
Power Pronouncements
So many of us live in a place of hesitancy about our lives. We’re not exactly sure we are who we want to be. We’re not really clear on what we want or where we want to go. We’re not convinced we really deserve what we desire. We might be beaten up by childhood experiences or failed relationship so we are afraid to go boldly into the world. We often do the shuffle and the two step so that we don’t have to really make a stand. That might be risky and terrifying. People might figure out we’re a fraud!
Aha! But let me clue you in….Hesitancy is a curse. Remember: He who hesitates is lost! Being neither here nor there means that you are not fully alive. You’re in a state of limbo that doesn’t allow you to grow. To grow means that you must throw off the fear and the reluctance, and actually take a stand!
Even if you are not yet sure of where you are headed or what you have to do to advance or who you yet want to be, you can begin to grow by declaring what you know to be true and what you want to be true! These are called POWER PRONOUNCEMENTS! And they are like affirmations on steroids!
It’s time you shed your cloak and come out into the light. Declare yourself!
POWER PRONOUNCEMENTS BEGIN:
Getting the idea? Sit down and make a list of the Power Pronouncements that resonate with you and address the areas that you do indeed feel “weak” or “unfulfilled.” These are the areas that need shoring up! Break these declarations down into each of these five categories based on what you aspire to be, do and experience.
Now here’s the thing once you do that.
Step One is to say these into the mirror or yell them out loud in your backyard. Step Two is to declare them boldly and courageously to a friend, a spouse or a partner. Yes, this means you have to abandon your anonymity and really risk embarrassing yourself! But here’s the good part, by stating these things before others and God, you are more than halfway committed to believing them and making them come true! You’re increasing the odds that you can in fact manifest what you have stated! Begin believing that you are what you declare.
Step Three …Now when you’ve practiced and gained your confidence, you are truly ready to reveal your new and powerful self: GO SAY THESE POWER PRONOUNCEMENTS TO A CROWD!
You can do it…You really are who you declare yourself to be…or you are at last on the way there!
Frequency Matching
As we look to manifest and Consciously Create our lives, we have begun to understand the power of raising our frequency, and carefully and fully crafting our vision. But one of the most important –and forgotten—elements of attracting and manifesting our desires is the concept of FREQUENCY MATCHING.
We know that energy attracts or repels. The fastest and most effective way to bring something to you is to match the energy of the thing that you want to attract.
For example, if you desire to become wealthy, you must project the energy of wealth and prosperity. If you want to attract love, you must project the energy of love, acceptance and compassion. If you desire to experience companionship with supportive new friends, than be a supportive and caring friend.
In order to bring it to you—whatever it is—you must already be emitting that energy, in some either tangible, thoughtful or emotional way.
Thus doesn’t mean that you must already be wealthy. It isn’t just that the wealthy get wealthier, although that is certainly likely if they exude joy and gratitude over their prosperity. It’s more about how you FEEL! If you are a person of little means, but you feel wealthy in spirit, love and whatever you DO have, than you can attract greater means. So here are ways you can Frequency Match:
Your job—if you choose to take it (remember Mission Impossible?) is to match your frequency with whatever you desire to draw in.
So sit down and make a list of the top three things you wish to experience. Then create a corresponding action, thought and emotional expression for each one of those desires. Now go out and live it! Rev up those vibrations so that you can become a frequency broadcaster like no other! Call forth your future by energizing it and Matching Your Frequency!
Most of us are a paralyzed at the fear of making change, of letting go of what we know, of taking a risk. It is the nature of our ego to hang onto to what’s familiar…what we can be sure of. Why let go of a sure thing for something far less sure? And when we reach the precipice that requires us to jump, we fall back, afraid of that unknown future. Noted motivational coach and speaker David Nagle calls this The Terror Barrier.
Now you can waffle all you want. And just not decide. It’s OK to assuage yourself with a life lived in fear, complacency or downright misery. Whether it’s only one aspect of your life –relationship, career, addiction, personal development, etc.– or all of it. And you can feel alone and stuck.
Or you can MAKE A COMMITMENT and watch the magic happen!
Here’s where the ride gets fun! The Universe Rewards Commitment. Once you make a Commitment, all of the doors will open in your favor–in sequence! You may not know exactly how you’re going to get where you’ve planned to go, but once you make The Commitment, you will be guided to the next step. And then the next. And the next one after that.
It’s like that scene in just about every Indiana Jones or jungle adventure you’ve seen in the movies. The hero arrives at the chasm with no means across, and some wizened character says, “Trust—Just take the first step.” And sure enough, a hanging bridge appears just as the hero’s foot steps forward and with each step, more of the bridge appears.
That’s the Power of Commitment. I’ll bet that if you look back on your life, you can see this Universal Law in action. When you were passionate about something and you made the Commitment to move forward, all of a sudden the doors started to fly open, people you needed showed up, synchronicities appeared, everything just fell into place.
So what Commitment are you avoiding? Is it a big one or a little one? Does it involve habit change, career change, financial investment, home change, relationship change, releasing a co-dependent person from your life, addressing an addiction, or avoiding confronting a health challenge, for example.
So here’s a good exercise to start getting you comfortable with the idea of Commitment. Write your Commitment at the top of a page of paper. Then make a list of pros and cons. Make sure to add on the “cons” such things as: “I’m unhappy. I’m afraid. I can live with what I’m making even though it’s poorly paying and I hate my job. I don’t feel well, but if I have the operation, I could be worse.”
Then on the pros, write the upside: “I am so happy. I feel free. I have more money. My kids are benefiting because I feel radiant and can give them more of my time. I’m loving life. I have a great new home that I love. I’m living addiction-free. I don’t have to worry any more now that I’ve had the operation.”…. you get the picture.
Most of us focus on the risks, but hopefully this exercise reminds you of the extraordinary upside—and how could you miss when the whole Universe is lining up to help you once you Make The Commitment!
So stop waffling! Engage the Power of Commitment to create your dream and free yourself to move forward!
Just remember however, that once you reach the next level, you will likely again find yourself at a crossroads. You can fall back to fear, or Commitment and trust again because you know the exhilaration of succeeding through Commitment. Take that first step!
Life is tough. Especially now when finances are strained for many and job security is non-existent. The pressures of securing a steady stream of income, holding onto a home, fulfilling family responsibilities, taking care of commitments and just dealing with the pressures of daily living are oftentimes overwhelming.
Each of us can feel alone, harried, and frazzled. We feel resentful, angry, bitter, exhausted, moody, irritated, and lost. Our soul cries out for relief, for Sanctuary! Where is your Sanctuary?
Most of us cannot take the time or may not have the resource to run off to an ashram in
So where do run to rest, recover and connect to God and your higher self…the place where you can just breath and feel safe?
Where is Your Sanctuary?
· A quiet place in your home where no one will bother you, where you can meditate and just become peaceful?
· A yoga, qigong, tai-chi class?
· Outside in nature–a special little area where you can sit, or a place you can walk?
· A house of worship or spiritual center?
· By the ocean listening to the soothing waves. In the mountains surrounded by the all pines. In a meadow blooming with flowers?
· In a place that offers quiet meditative music?
· A spiritual retreat guided by a spiritual leader, yogi or other wise person?
· With animals that lighten and delight your heart?
· In the garden?
· On the table at your masseuse’s?
· At a Day Spa?
· In the bathtub, surrounded by candles and quiet music?
· Inside You…wherever you are!
Create time for and a regular place of Sanctuary where you can go when life just gets overwhelming, or to simply distress before it gets that way. You can do this alone or with a friend who shares your need for quiet relaxed communion with yourself, your higher self and the Universe. Perhaps you can mark certain days on the calendar just for self-Sanctuary, perhaps every other Sunday!
But make sure you commit to do this self-Sanctuary before stress effects your mental and physical health.
May you find peace, joy and deliverance from anguish and stress in your place of self-Sanctuary!
A couple of years ago, one of my close friends, a woman I mentored for many years, sent me a plaque for my kitchen wall that she knew I would appreciate. It says “No Kvetching Allowed Here!” Kvetching is a wonderfully expressive word in Yiddish (the Jewish cultural language) that means COMPLAINING. Doesn’t the word “Kvetch” even sound like a whiney complaint?
You can be a Kvetch (a complainer) or you can Kvetch (the act of complaining or kvetching). Noun or verb, it doesn’t matter which—it means you’re an emotional drain on yourself and everyone else around you!
Complaining—or kvetching—is an habitual glass-half-empty approach to life. And complainers aren’t content to stew in their own misery, unhappiness with the world around them, and all the people they judge to fall short. They feel compelled to share it with the world! But does everyone else want to hear it? Not likely. I remember, when people would ask my grandfather how he was, he would say: “Fine! What’s the use of complaining? No one wants to hear it anyway.”
Whether a Kvetch wants to build support to justify his or her point of view, just desires to feel “heard,” or wants to make someone else bend to their will, it’s a dead-end tactic. The noisy wheel seldom really does get the grease. Whining and complaining usually achieves just the opposite tack, it stymies real change because people don’t like or want to accommodate a person who is an unpleasant annoyance. “You get more bees with honey” is a far better strategy than “being a noisy wheel.”
And worse, the negative energy continues a pattern of unconsciously attracting more of what the Kvetch doesn’t want. Remember, you attract that on which you focus your attention!
Most of us are not even aware of our own Kvetching. We’re just commenting on things we don’t like. And we may even surround ourselves with other Kvetchs for comfort. Kvetches tend to reinforce each other’s negative views on life.
But what if you made your sphere of influence—your home, your work, your social environment—a Kvetch-Free Zone? How might your life change?
· You’ll be happier, no longer weighed down by all those negative words and thoughts
· You’ll raise your personal frequency and may begin manifesting more positive experiences
· You’ll have more upbeat, positive friends
· Your family and friends will notice a new lightness in you and may even follow suit
· People will more likely do what you recommend or suggest since you aren’t being critical
· You’ll become a more endearing and lovable person that creates light wherever you go!
How do you break yourself of the Kvetching habit?
· When someone asks you how you are—tell them all the good things and skip the bad!
· Start a little daily journal and write down every complaint or negative comment that comes out of your mouth. (OOPs, was that me! Did I say that?) This will be illuminating because you’ll realize how much of your daily conversation is complaining!
· Punish yourself for every complaint. Put a dollar in a jar for charity or give another dollar tip to the next waiter or waitress that serves you.
· Make a pact with someone you love (a spouse, sibling, parent, close friend) to have them gently point out when you are complaining again.
· Note when other people are Kvetching, but don’t correct them and don’t commiserate. It’s your little wake-up call making you aware that this is what you sound like.
· Post signs in your home “No Kvetching Allowed Here” wherever you spend time talking to others—near the phone, on your computer, on your mirror where you start your day, in the kitchen when you are making dinner for your family, spouse or significant other. You can substitute the word “Whining” if you choose.
· Set an intention to stop complaining, and ask your guides and angels to tap you on the shoulder before you say something negative, so that you can reframe your thought. You then have a choice to either say nothing at all or to say it differently.
So I encourage you to break the habit of Kvetching before it costs you friends, a job, clients, a relationship, or a peaceful, joyful and prosperous life! You can become a Kveller instead—someone who Kvells or speaks effusively about how wonderful things are!
It’s a Re-Direct!!!!!!!!!!
Tired of making or encountering MISTAKES? Hitting the wall? How about running into Murphy’s Law? You make plans and God laughs? Then there are “problems,” “challenges,” “issues,” “dead-ends,“ “failures,” “disasters,” “disappointments,” “hiccups”….we can go on and on…
But now hear this! These are not what you think they are. Forget those old labels. What you are experiencing are Universal RE-DIRECTS!
How many times have you obsessed over what went wrong, perhaps blaming others or blaming yourself? How often do you keep trying to work through something that isn’t working? How much time have you wasted pushing a rock up a hill? How long have you hung onto problem clients or miserable relationships?
These are all symptoms of someone who has not yet realized that the Universe is offering you valuable information—Try something different! Change your attitude. Change your actions. Change your expectations. Change your team. Change your route. Change your job. Change your intention. Change your partner. Let go of this course of action!
Many people ignore the gentle nudges that the Universe offers until they get hit with a sledge hammer. But all along the way, you’re being re-directed to new more life-enhancing choices. But if you don’t do it, the Universe will do it for you.
I experienced this about 12 years ago when I was running my $2 million bi-coastal public relations agency. It had become a burden; the fun had gone out of it. Instead of doing creative PR for my clients, I was chasing money to pay my enormous overhead. And furthermore, my heart was elsewhere, loving a hobby business that I had created in the sale of mineral spheres. I saw the signs, but just kept trying to juggle clients, vendors, employees—with challenges everywhere. The business was imploding on itself, and I couldn’t cut the cord. Finally, three clients all went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the same month, owing me $150,000! That was a very big OUCH, and it was the final straw. I finally closed up the business, found another opportunity for myself immediately, and finally relaxed to enjoy life again after finding a way to settle with my creditors. The Universe was re-directing me to something far more life-enhancing than that stressful, meat grinder that I had suffered through for those last two years.
When you hit a roadblock, instead of railing against fate, ask yourself: “What is this Universal Re-Direct all about? How can I look at this objectively, step aside and think differently?” You’ve heard the phrase “everything happens for a reason.” Apply that to your Universal Re-Directs and you will begin to see that each one is a blessing in disguise. There are NO mistakes, NO errors, NO Accidents, NO missteps, NO faults…There are ONLY Universal Re-Directs!
Use these wonderful nudges as your guide early on, and you will find your life being easier and more effortless. Tune into the Universal language of course correction and you will be rewarded with greater and quicker success, more peace and joy, less struggle and greater abundance.
Just remember, if it’s too hard, you’re being called for a Universal Re-Direct!
It’s a Re-Direct!!!!!!!!!!
Tired of making or encountering MISTAKES? Hitting the wall? How about running into Murphy’s Law? You make plans and God laughs? Then there are “problems,” “challenges,” “issues,” “dead-ends,“ “failures,” “disasters,” “disappointments,” “hiccups”….we can go on and on…
But now hear this! These are not what you think they are. Forget those old labels. What you are experiencing are Universal RE-DIRECTS!
How many times have you obsessed over what went wrong, perhaps blaming others or blaming yourself? How often do you keep trying to work through something that isn’t working? How much time have you wasted pushing a rock up a hill? How long have you hung onto problem clients or miserable relationships?
These are all symptoms of someone who has not yet realized that the Universe is offering you valuable information—Try something different! Change your attitude. Change your actions. Change your expectations. Change your team. Change your route. Change your job. Change your intention. Change your partner. Let go of this course of action!
Many people ignore the gentle nudges that the Universe offers until they get hit with a sledge hammer. But all along the way, you’re being re-directed to new more life-enhancing choices. But if you don’t do it, the Universe will do it for you.
I experienced this about 12 years ago when I was running my $2 million bi-coastal public relations agency. It had become a burden; the fun had gone out of it. Instead of doing creative PR for my clients, I was chasing money to pay my enormous overhead. And furthermore, my heart was elsewhere, loving a hobby business that I had created in the sale of mineral spheres. I saw the signs, but just kept trying to juggle clients, vendors, employees—with challenges everywhere. The business was imploding on itself, and I couldn’t cut the cord. Finally, three clients all went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the same month, owing me $150,000! That was a very big OUCH, and it was the final straw. I finally closed up the business, found another opportunity for myself immediately, and finally relaxed to enjoy life again after finding a way to settle with my creditors. The Universe was re-directing me to something far more life-enhancing than that stressful, meat grinder that I had suffered through for those last two years.
When you hit a roadblock, instead of railing against fate, ask yourself: “What is this Universal Re-Direct all about? How can I look at this objectively, step aside and think differently?” You’ve heard the phrase “everything happens for a reason.” Apply that to your Universal Re-Directs and you will begin to see that each one is a blessing in disguise. There are NO mistakes, NO errors, NO Accidents, NO missteps, NO faults…There are ONLY Universal Re-Directs!
Use these wonderful nudges as your guide early on, and you will find your life being easier and more effortless. Tune into the Universal language of course correction and you will be rewarded with greater and quicker success, more peace and joy, less struggle and greater abundance.
Just remember, if it’s too hard, you’re being called for a Universal Re-Direct!
Dress As If…
Let’s say you don’t feel very attractive this week. And you’re used to going around in a ratty old pair of jeans and a decade old top. You’re in the dumps and life doesn’t seem real abundant right now. How to dump the funk? Dress As If…You’re a Million Bucks! Don’t leave the house without putting on appealing clothes, full make up, jewelry, a jaunty hat, a sexy scarf, your nicest boots…whatever makes you feel fantastic! It doesn’t matter if you are just going to the mall, a mixer or the mailbox. Dress up and Consciously Create a feeling of being wealthy, well-cared for and charismatic. As you feel better about the face you are showing to the world, the more the world will show you the face of welcome, opportunity and love. Strut your stuff!
FEAR, The Siren Call to Change
When most people think of FEAR, they conjure pictures of screaming women in slasher movies, horrible mindless villains, or heroes chased by zombies. But as we approach Halloween, it is a particularly opportune time to remember that FEAR is much more real for most of us as an insidious virus that our minds and emotions create to stop us from moving forward.
FEAR is the mind/ego’s way of saying “I’m not going there! I like being right where I am. I’m familiar with my current state. If I plunk myself right down here, nothing can hurt me because I already know this territory. I’m not worthy and if I stretch myself, I might get rejected.”
FEAR is not willing to venture into the unknown, not willing to take risk, not willing to accept and adjust to change. FEAR is about ignoring imperatives to change, putting one’s head in the sand and expecting the problem to go away, allowing others to control your life because you may not have the courage or confidence to control your own. And FEAR always leaves your life messy, miserable and myopic (limited in scope.)
You may not even be aware of the grip FEAR has over you. And even if you are, you sometimes feel powerless to change because of past tightly-held beliefs.
But FEAR can be your ally. If you feel it, it is a siren call to change!
When you bump up against FEAR, you know you are called to move forward, be bolder, take a well calculated risk, flow with the change imposed on you, make the course correction you’ve been resisting, cross the seemingly impenetrable barrier, strike out on your own, act in your own self-interest, or reach for freedom!
So what can you do when FEAR is at your door to move beyond it to something better?