Ever Feel Like Ya Gotta Do It Alone?

Do you ever feel like you've gotta do it all by yourself? and you are up against odds that you had no idea were this hard?
I like what Madonna said once before a concert of hers, "I never would have done this if I knew it would be this hard." the interviewer asked her "What? Done what?"
She said, "Be a rock star. Being a dancer was so much easier."

It does seem tough to keep going when every muscle in your body says 'STOP!" And you don't feel like you got enough sleep, and your eating too much junk food 'just to get through this last push', or exercise is some strange ritual your neighbors do, but not you.

In the beginning of any new venture, that is when the going is the hardest. Just like a great river that starts as a small bubbling spring, each rock or tree or hill seems to stop the flow and the water needs to find a new path, go around the rock or tree, but the river gets started none the less.

Like that spring you too will confront obstacles. It's almost like there is a hidden trickster tempting you to stop, give up and go back to your old ways. (That trickster remarkably has the sound of your voice down cold.)

But the purpose of a goal is to support you in expanding your awareness. It's to develop your consciousness through action.

And when you take on the expansion of your level of awareness it will feel like you are all alone pushing boulders.

That's when you call upon your inner core that is stronger than you have ever imagined. Your inner resource of strength, resolve, and purpose.

Purpose makes life worth while. Your purpose, what are you here to provide, or be of service to others? Find your purpose, or what Joseph Campbell says, "Find your bliss". Find that inner joy, that place of devotion, and all the rocks and trees, and hills or mountains will not slow you down.

Plant Seeds

Oh boy it's Wednesday!

Some people call it hump day. I like to think of Wednesday as the day for inspiring questions. Or planting seeds.

It has been said that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask.

So you could ask; how can I take 2 weeks off work and not lose any pay. And the level of thinking will be on that level. Fine thing to think about.

But what about the question being; how can I take a vacation to my favorite place and increase my income by 10%?

Kinda amazing when you think of it huh? Each question is perfectly legitimate, and acceptable, but the second one opens up possibilities of freedom not experienced in the first.

So I like to think of Wednesday as seed planting day. What questions can I start to ask that will pull me forward, that will put me in a kind of development unprecedented.

What can you ask today that will plant a seed for your dreams to become your reality?

Play Music

Today is Tuesday.

Let's play music today. Play music that inspires you, that makes you want to dance, sing. jump for joy. I love the song about "I can see clearly now the pain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way". That song just fills me with joy when ever I'm lucky enough to hear it.

A feeling of freedom washes over me like a warm shower.

What is your favorite song? Why not play it right now?

Then dance, sing or jump for joy.

Let the music move through you. Then let life move through you just like your favorite song. Let life sing through you, holding nothing back, using each note to it's fullest.

We can get stuck remembering all the nasty details of what we did do or didn't do, and forget the music of life.

Let's give ourselves more moments each day of music.

First Monday of January 2010

Annnnnnnd we are off!

Here it is the first Monday of the new year. This is when we really feel the beginning of a new possibility, new hope for a better year, new expectations of results.

The feeling in the air is excited, joyful, and optimistic.

But telling the truth, we all fear that time when resignation creeps in, when we having faltered to keep our commitments to lose weight or get in shape or to change behaviors, or make more money or whatever. We fear that time in 3 weeks, or 5 weeks when the newness wears off, and we are back to business as usual. Back to the new year being that same as last year.

So how do we practice awakening to our joy each day? What can we do to create that feeling of newness at each day, after each time we suffer disappointment?

The quickest fastest easiest way to feel good is to give thanks.

Take time each day to really give thanks. Give thanks for what is yours and give thanks for what you desire. Give thanks epically for what you have set as goals as if it is already present.

Trust me, I know how hard that can be. I've had the same bad 2008-2009 that you did. But I took on the practice of breathing in gratitude. Gratitude for a beautiful sunrise, for a laugh with the dogs, for a quiet moment with my loved ones.

Just this year I learned to give thanks for what I desire. Thanks the world, the universe, or God or whatever for what is coming, as if it is already achieved.

That's what I'm practicing each day. And 2010 will be the best.

A Perfect Day To Start

It's a perfect day to start.

Today I allow room for growth, expansion, and awareness.

Today I am grateful for not only what I have but for what's coming.

I see great things here for me.

A new job offer for more money than I expected.

My marriage is better than ever.

My friends and family are connected.

I write and finish my first best selling book.

I've designed new classes and workshops building networking groups of people willing to support and be supported in their vision, goals and dreams.

Today is the prefect day. This moment is the perfect moment.

What is the purpose of a goal?

Does it feel like sometimes a goal is there just to make you feel inadequate?

Or just to make you feel like you are failing?

Well, relax.

No really relax.

A goal is there to help give you enough incentive to grow in awareness.

You see you currently have the things you have in life because you are at that level of awareness. When you expand your awareness, you increase your ability to have.

And you actually get to the point where you don't need to have, you are free to choose what to have.

So a goal has you grow, expand your abilities, develop capacities that were dormant.

So choose goals that inspire you, get your juices flowing.

Oh yes and relax.......

2010! the New Year

It's the new year. To make this year better than ever, to have this year be a year of miracles, results, and deep fulfillment, here is a suggestion.

Spend about 10-15 minutes each day sitting quietly and asking yourself: What do I desire more than anything?

Allow yourself to dream, to imagine your deepest desire. A relationship, a feeling of vitality, and vigor, a new career path that is fulfilling, recognition for the job you do. Whatever, dream it.

Next once you see what you deeply desire write in your journal how happy you are that you have that desire. Spend time throughout the day feeling the feelings of joy and happiness now that you have accomplished your desires.

Next, let it go. Let go of all attachment to how it has to look, and appear. Allow it to come to you in the wonderful and miraculous way you never expected.

Allow 2010 to be wonderful, love every minute of this profound year. ALL OF IT. The ups the downs, the ins and outs. Love all of it.

You will be amazed at how it turns out.