Your life is your art.
Your heart is your paintbrush.
With each word, thought, and action you take, you are sculpting your destiny.
You are an artist.
Do you like what you see?
Creativity is not just for artists, singers, and performers.
Creativity is your birthright.
“The universe does not do do-overs, make mistakes or repeat itself, and it does not do meaningless acts. So who we are has meaning, value and is one-of-a-kind.”
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In This Episode You Will Learn:
We have all done it at some point.
Tomorrow. Another time. Next week.
We have put off until tomorrow what we know we must do today.
What have you been putting off doing?
What important things are you procrastinating dealing with?
We make excuses that sound reasonable.
We lie to ourselves.
We settle for our own seemingly rational mind games.
Yet, we must remember that nothing great was achieved by being reasonable or conforming to the status quo.
Gandhi didn’t.
Nelson Mandela didn’t.
Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t.
They were unreasonable in not listening to their fears or succumbing to their laziness.
Don’t let your fear or laziness highjack your dreams.
Your dreams have chosen you for a reason. You are the perfect person based on everything you have experienced in life to manifest it.
You have no control of what other people think about you.
The only control that you have is over yourself, and how you respond.
Your responsibility is not to make others happy but to be yourself fully.
People’s opinions of you reflect more about themselves than about you. So don’t take it personally. Just because they judge you a certain way, or have a negative opinion of you, doesn’t mean it’s true.
It’s just their opinion. It’s their perception, and perception is not reality.
Our perception is a projection based on our current level of consciousness which is determined by our conditioning and experiences.
So make peace with who you are, and who you aren’t. The more you love and accept yourself, the less you will seek it from others.
What if I told you that thinking positively and doing your affirmations were not enough to manifest your desires?
You don’t get what you want, you get what you are.
Your job isn’t to make or force something to happen, your job is to clear away anything within yourself that is keeping you stuck.
When you clear away whatever is not in alignment with your truth, you bring yourself into the flow of life.
Often we hold onto things that are not working or old relationships because we get comfortable.
Holding onto what isn’t working is your affirmation in the lack of trust in the universe. And you will attract more of what you don’t want.
Holding onto what is no longer working out of fear simply blocks the manifestation of what you do want.
So ask yourself these questions:
If something isn’t truly working, have the courage to let it go.
If a relationship is no longer a vibrational match, release it and make room in your life and heart for more love.
The universe is abundant, and if you want the next level, you must make space in your life for the next level.
You can’t receive the next level whilst holding onto the old.
When you let go of the old, you make space for the new to show up in your life.
Manifesting your goals is really about ALIGNMENT.
What is my purpose in life?
I get asked this question all the time at my live events and during interviews.
There’s often a myth that your life purpose is something that you need to figure out and find up front. That unless you are crystal clear you can’t live it.
But what if you didn’t need to know everything about your life’s purpose in order to begin?
Often when we focus so much on trying figure out all the details of our life purpose we can end up waiting and holding back our gifts.
If you want to live your purpose then stop waiting.
Simply begin by going in the direction that moves you most deeply.
No one is responsible for your happiness.
You are.
No one has power over you unless you allow them to have it.
The more you need other people and external events in life to be a certain way in order to feel free, the less free you will end up being.
When you take full responsibility for your inner experience you become powerful.
What are you making responsible for your current experience?
Who are you making responsible for how you feel?
Most people hide and never fully express their true gifts out of fear of being criticized.
“Do you REALLY love her?” I asked.
“Yes, but I am afraid, I just don’t know if I can commit to her”.
How many times have you heard this, or said this to yourself?
Many of my friends have recently expressed to me that they are afraid of committing to a relationship.
Ponder this:
The real commitment is to Love itself.
When you commit to love itself, it’s then that you are truly free. All forms will change. Your lover will change. They won’t be the same person that they were when you met them. You will change. You will grow, mature and evolve. The relationship itself will also change.
Everyone has their own unique soul’s journey.
You may not understand it, and you may not agree with it.
It’s O.K.
It’s their soul’s journey.
Perhaps, you love and care for your child, grandchild, spouse, friend so much that you don’t want them to suffer in any way. And so you end up doing way too much to help them.
Or feeling over responsible for them, where you have a tendency to take on and do for them what they should be doing for themselves. In doing so, you think that you are helping them, but you really are not.
Sometimes when things don’t work out the way you planned, it’s a blessing in disguise, even if it doesn’t seem that way at first.
We often have an idea of what we want and what we think will be best for us. We often want what we want when we want it.
It can be frustrating when things don’t go according to plan or you aren’t where you want to be in life. Especially when you try everything in your power to make it happen.
Your mind may want certain things in life, but sometimes your soul actually longs for something different, deeper and more aligned.
Just because you want a certain outcome doesn’t mean it’s actually the best thing for your soul’s growth and evolution. Your soul has an intelligence beyond the mind.
You incarnated into this human experience in order to learn lessons, to grow and evolve. There may be experiences that you need to go through in order to grow, so that you can become the highest version of yourself.
You may not be able to see it in the very moment, but if you are willing to trust, life will show you the reason why things didn’t work out the way you wanted them to.
Don’t mistake being kind, loving and spiritual for allowing others to walk all over you or treat you with disrespect.
When you know who you really are, a magnificent expression of the Divine, you won’t allow yourself to be treated like anything less.
Focus on your spirit and protect your true essence.
People treat you how you teach them to treat you based on what you accept.
No one can continue to mistreat you unless you allow it. You are responsible for what you accept. Allowing people to treat you with disrespect serves no one.
In life and relationships you get what you settle for.
So what are you settling for?
You can’t control people’s actions, but you can control what you put up with, accept and how you choose to respond.
Anger.
Just the word itself can sometimes feel scary.
In our culture we tend to shy away from it. Often from a young age we are taught to suppress our authentic anger. We are told that it is not OK, it’s not appropriate, it’s not spiritual.
So we learn to disconnect and suppress our anger in order to be loved, and accepted by those around us.
The problem is, what you don’t feel and express in conscious healthy ways will inevitably end up coming out and expressing in unhealthy ways.
Have you ever felt so stressed out and overwhelmed?
Perhaps you were dealing with so many things, handling so many responsibilities, or facing an important deadline.
The feeling of overwhelm happens in these situations:
It’s never an easy thing when friends or family you were close to or once loved grow out of your life.
It can be quite painful.
You might feel some guilt or false loyalty if you feel you have outgrown them.
Or you might feel abandoned, betrayed, hurt, sad, angry, grief. Or a combination of all of the above.
Understand that you initially attracted your friend into your life because:
A) You were vibrating at a similar level of consciousness and were a vibrational match at that particular time.
B) You had certain lessons to teach each other’s souls. Your friendship was an opportunity learn those lessons and serve each other’s growth.
Friendships last as long as both of your souls need, as long as your personalities think they should.
I was recently asked a very delicate question in one of my seminars: “How do I deal with my partner who cheated on me? What do I do?”
There is not always a simple answer.
If your partner cheats on you, it is deeply painful.
When you feel that your heart and trust is betrayed it can be a very difficult thing to recover from.
So does that automatically mean the end of your relationship?
Consider this:
Relationship is a profound path of personal growth and spiritual evolution.
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