If you knew the exact date and time of your death, how would that change the way that you live?
We are all born, and we will all die.
Yet when it happens, we seem surprised and ask WHY?
As human beings we all have one thing in common.
Time.
If you don’t ask, you don’t receive.
If you want to receive big, you must dare to ask big.
But sometimes you might ask and still not receive.
There is an art to asking for help and what you want.
In order to manifest your dream or vision, you will need other people’s support. No one did anything great alone.
It takes real courage to ask for help.
Pretending you don’t need it is a sure sign of weakness.
When you are truly strong, you can allow yourself to be vulnerable.
Vulnerability is not a weakness, rather it is a strength.
It takes a strong person to acknowledge they need help.
It takes an even stronger one to ask for it.
It takes yet a stronger one to accept and receive it.
It’s often easier at times to be the one giving to others rather than the one receiving. To receive requires that you open your heart and let someone into it. To receive is to allow someone to touch you deeply.
The secret to being interesting is simple: Stop focusing so much on yourself.
When you stop trying to be the most interesting person, and you become genuinely interested in others, you actually become more interesting.
The key to charisma is caring.
Much of our suffering happens because we get fixated on ourselves. It’s easy to get lost in your own emotions, thoughts, desires, wants and needs that we get so self-focused.
We all go through difficult times, when things don’t seem to work out.
It’s easy to lose hope and feel like you are facing bad karma or luck during these moments.
Your karma is the result of the sum total of your actions. For every cause there is an effect.
If you are going through tough times right now, remember that it is only a season, and no season lasts forever. Even your most difficult time will pass.
Trust.
Your challenges are gifts in disguise sent by the universe to strengthen your character. Your dreams chose you for a reason. And your dream will take you on a journey of having to become the person who is capable of fulfilling the vision.
You are allowed to outgrow people.
It doesn’t mean that you don’t love them. It just means that you are growing.
Not everyone will stay with you an entire lifetime and that’s ok. Holding back your light to make others feel comfortable is soul suicide.
The greatest gift that you can give the world is to be magnificent. You don’t need to make an excuse for your greatness. You don’t need to hide your light in order to fit in.
You attract people into your life because they were a vibrational match at that particular time. They reflected parts of yourself back to you.
However, as you grow and evolve, unless they grow and evolve, likely your connection will no longer be in alignment.
It can be painful to feel that you and the person that you love have gone in different directions and no longer connect in the same way.
We often hold ourselves back from growing out of false loyalty, over-responsibility and fear.
When you feel as though you have given so much to those around you, and you feel that it hasn’t been reciprocated in return, it can feel unfair.
Perhaps you feel disappointed, hurt or betrayed.
You can let it close your heart, shut you down and make you bitter.
But remember this:
You cannot cheat the universe.
Everything you give and every action of loving you have taken is seen by the universe. It is seen even if no one sees it.
When you give, it may not come back to you from the people that you gave to but rest assured it will come back to you, even if from a most unexpected source.
What if you didn’t need to know everything about your life’s purpose in order to begin living it?
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.
Often when we focus so much on trying to 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.
Go in the direction that moves you most deeply. Take a step. When you take a step, each step will reveal to you the next step.
You don’t need to know the entire map of where you are going to get to where you are meant to be. Your purpose will be revealed to you in the process of living.
Sometimes when you think you are most lost, you are actually much closer than you think.
As you face dark times, failure, or confusion, it’s easy to lose the faith and want to give up. It’s easy to feel alone and question yourself and the validity of your dreams.
In the midst of a difficult time, you may not always understand WHY things are happening. But TRUST that all things are happening for your good, even if you can’t see it right now.
The universe is cooking the blessings on your behalf.
So you must let go of the life that you have in order to embrace the next level of life that awaits you.
It takes real courage to ask for help.
Pretending you don’t need it is a sure sign of weakness.
When you are truly strong, you can allow yourself to be vulnerable.
Vulnerability is not weakness, rather it is strength.
It takes a strong person to acknowledge they need help.
It takes an even stronger one to ask for 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.
You 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.
Losing a loved one is never easy.
On September 27, 2017, my dear mother made her transition from her body.
My mother was the purest soul I’ve met in this lifetime. She was unconditional love beyond human understanding. Her only desire was to serve and do God’s work in all ways.
I was so close to her my entire life, but strangely in her passing even more so. I feel her everywhere now. It’s once she left her body that I understood who she really was now that her loving was no longer limited to a human form.
In the year she knew she was dying, I once asked her if she was afraid. She simply looked at me with unwavering conviction and kindness and said, “Not at all. I am not this body. The soul lives forever. I am ready for whatever God wants for my life.”
In her last months, I realized my mother’s true greatness was in her depth of surrender to the Divine.
My favorite memory (I have so many) was simply holding her in my arms one day, my heart bursting with love, looking her in the eyes, and sharing what a profound privilege it was to incarnate in this lifetime as her son, to have had the opportunity to be loved by her and know a soul as beautiful as her.
Love those that challenge you the most, they are your greatest teachers.
They are simply angels disguised to remind you to love bigger.
Thank them.
And learn the lesson for which you attracted them into your life.
It’s so easy to point the finger in judgment and blame, insisting that they change. But when you do that, you simply disempower yourself and give your power away to them.
No one is worth your happiness and freedom, but it requires taking full responsibility for how you feel.
You are free when you realize that you don’t have the power to MAKE another person change.
You suffer when you spend your time trying to control the lives of those around you to be what you want them to be.
People don’t change unless they really want to change. You only have the power to share your perspective, wisdom, and invite them to consider a different way of doing things.
When someone changes simply to make you happy, rest assured, it doesn’t last.
We have all done things that we felt bad about and judged ourselves for.
Whether it was:
Bad relationship choices.
The way you handled a break up.
Unwise financial decisions.
What are you still judging yourself for?
Maybe you have been holding yourself hostage, thinking you are a bad person or that God is judging you?
Consider this:
God doesn’t forgive.
Because God never judged you.
And if this is so, then why are you still judging you?
Judging what you did in the past keeps you stuck in the past. You can’t change the past no matter how much you judge.
Holding yourself a prisoner to your past only robs you of your present and limits your ability to create your future.
We all go through those moments when we feel like giving up.
Whether you are facing a tough time in your relationship, struggling financially, or repeatedly facing failures in the pursuit of your dream….. Life can be challenging, and we all have moments where we lose motivation.
But anything worthwhile takes patience, perseverance and effort. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. On the path of greatness everyone is invited, but only a rare few have the courage and dedication to stay the full course.
If you are going through tough times right now remember that it is a season, and no season lasts forever.
Even your most difficult time will pass.
Trust.
Negative thinking is a prison that leads to a limited life.
The more you focus on the negative, the more you give power to what you don’t want.
The more you give power to what you don’t want, the more what you don’t want will manifest in your life.
How you view a situation, person or place will determine your reality. Your reality is created by how you see it.
If you are not conscious, your mind will rob you of happiness and cause you suffering.
Negative thinking serves nothing other than to keep you from being open to possibilities and keeps you small.
Holiday season can be one of the most challenging and intense times of the year.
As much as you may love them, one of the most difficult things can be spending extended time with family members.
It’s sometimes those that you love and have the most history with are the ones who are able to trigger you the most and push your buttons.
There’s a saying, “If you want to see how enlightened you are, spend the weekend with family”.
Consider this: Your family members are also souls on a journey dealing with their own lessons in this lifetime. You attracted each other’s souls because there are certain lessons you have to work out. And that the family members who challenge you the most are actually your greatest spiritual teachers and growth opportunities.
We come together in relationship with another for our evolution and growth.
The people you attract are simply mirror manifestations in that moment in time that reflect who you are.
The friends that you attract to you reflect your current level of consciousness.
You attracted friends into your life because at that time you were a vibrational match and you had certain lessons to teach each other.
The success of a friendship isn’t about the duration that you stay friends with someone, but the degree to which you both grow, evolve, and become more authentically your true Self.
Staying in a friendship where you are both no longer growing simply because of obligation, guilt, or because you made a commitment years ago, is not success.
When things don’t go according to plan or work out how you intended, it can be a huge disappointment and let down, especially when you have invested so much time, energy, and money.
It’s easy to judge yourself as a failure and beat yourself up harshly. But this serves nothing.
When you try so hard and your dreams don’t happen, it’s easy to question yourself and even want to give up on the dream itself.
But what if there was no such thing as “failure”?
We all have moments when we feel lost and unsure of what is going on, where we are going or what to do next.
What if in your greatest darkness when you felt lost, you were actually much closer to where you needed to be?
It’s scary to sit in the unknown. It’s often easier to go back to the familiar comforts of your old life. But this only leads to more of the same.
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