May today you be a model of peace, forgiveness and gratitude. Say the words AND be the words.
Peace – because we thrive on the harmony and joy that emerges from peach.
Forgiveness – because it’s never anyone’s fault. We are all in this together.
Gratitude – because it’s beautiful world, a spectacular planet and incredible opportunity to be part of this brilliant experiment in living as human beings.
Embrace it all. Today … be love.
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There is nothing more you need to do to justify your being here. You are already enough.
This holiday season when ‘more’ dominates the world around us, please remember that when the dust settles, and you are about to close your eyes at bedtime, you are enough because you are here. Well done. You showed up!
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Start over. Begin again. Get up off the floor, dust yourself off and embrace all that’s possible from this present moment of power.
Mary Pickford says “failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Whatever you have done that you now regret, that you now wish you could change or that you are beating yourself up for … begin again. Start over.
This is your new starting point, your new beginning. You have the power.
If you haven’t already figured it out, you are leaving a legacy. Imagine if that legacy was giving people a sense of personal empowerment, healthy self-esteem, self-awareness, purpose and love. Imagine if what people learned from your life was how to live with full-on excitement and curiousity and passion. Imagine if your legacy was that everyone matters, every life has value, every opportunity has meaning.
So often, children are left with a legacy of self-doubt, unworthiness, under-achievement and disappointment. Some take on their parents anger and frustration and lack of self-appreciation. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can choose differently. You can make sure that your legacy is one that reflects the truth of who you are – a divine being dancing through an incredible human experience. And that will last many more lifetimes that your numbered years.
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What possible benefit could it serve me or anyone else to hold onto resentment? It doesn’t change what happened. What it does, is stop us in our tracks; our forward movement in life slowly (or sometimes abruptly) comes to a halt. A piece of our hearts and minds is in limbo, waiting for something to change what is; hoping somehow we can make it right. And sometimes we just can’t. It’s over.
And if we hold on, the open wound starts to fester and rot. The edges get crusty and the infection spreads out deeper into our bodies. We are the ones who get ill and die from the effects of holding on to anger and resentment. God, don’t let that be you. Don’t walk through the days of your life clenching your teeth or lie on your deathbed glaring at anyone. It’s not worth draining your life of the incredible joy and love that is available to you.
Liberate yourself, today. Let go. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Move on. It all gets sorted out in the end. This is your life – live it now.
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Today, take the time to notice your breath. And when you do … try to imagine a life without it. Most of us take it for granted that when we need breath, oxygen, it will be there. We don’t notice how our body draws in life through our breath. But today, let’s do that. For the sake of all those who struggle and gasp, let’s appreciate the seemingly effortless flow of life giving breath into our bodies. What a gift.
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I am deeply grateful for the work of Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements. From him, and others, I learned not to take things personally … and most of the time I don’t. And when I do, it’s usually only for a brief time until I reorient myself.
You see, I was raised to feel a disproportionate sense of responsibility for other people’s unhappiness or discontent. So it’s only ‘natural’ that I would immediately absorb other people’s feelings and hold myself accountable. But it’s not true. We all choose from wherever we are. We choose from an accumulation of our history, our biography, our present moment needs and our perspectives on ourselves and the world.
To take things personally is to see myself as a victim, powerless over the opinions of others. Instead, I own my feelings and emotions and release others to do the same. In the end, it opens a space for acceptance and love. And that’s all that matters.
I don’t believe that I (or we for that matter) have the right to squander the life we have been given. It’s not that we need to be inhumanely driven to succeed. It’s more that we must recognize how precious the moments of our days really are. It’s that we find the extraordinary in the ordinaryness of our lives. And we do this because we are here, living our lives on purpose, whether we know it or not. And that matters.
