Line of the Day...

I was reading for a fairly regular client today.  She is a wonderful person. She's highly educated. She's kind and giving. She also has one of the most negative attitudes I have ever encountered when it comes to her love life / romance. She sets up land mines for herself left and right.  She is a really good example to me.  Every time I read her, I am shown in yet another way how fear can prevent us from having so much good in our lives and relationships.  Today she was in a particularly argumentative mood.  I would answer her questions honestly and she would come back at me with some fear based reason why she thought that what I was saying was wrong. This went on and on and on and on and on .... so I finally said:

"You know you're arguing with everything I say today."  She responded with, "I am not!"

I love my job!  I love my clients!  I am thankful for the lessons that I learn while doing my job on a daily basis.

Gratitude Time

It's a cloudy, chilly Sunday morning in my world.  Everyone is healthy in my house and I'm feeling good about this day.  We are having a fish fry later to celebrate the birth of one of my children.  I love other people's birthdays!!!  So I have quite a bit to be thankful for today.  Here goes:

1. Birthday celebrations


2. Perfect health


3. Cloudy days


4. Warm slippers


5. Catfish

Your turn !!!!

A really good blog by James Van Praagh (Poet and didn't know it)

This morning I was reading one of my favorite sites - Heal Your Life - and I came across a new blog by James Van Praagh.  Check it out RIGHT HERE and check out the whole Heal Your Life site as well while you're over there.  It's free and loaded with lots of goodies for the soul!!

 

Change... resistance...

There are a few "Teachers" that I use, listen to, read on a daily basis.  One of those is John Assaraf.  He has programs out that make sense to my "Virgo" brain.  He presents his information from a standpoint of science first.  His new program, "Winning the Inner Game of Money" ( a repeat Webinar is coming up soon if you want to see it:  Click here ) is teaching me LOTS and LOTS of new things.  He includes a manual with the program and this morning, while re-reading the manual, I read the following:

Sometimes when you strive to achieve something you have not yet experienced before, you  encounter resistance from other people, your environment, and yourself— often before you have even started. A deep desire for change starts from the inside out.

I think that's why so many people start off on new programs and new paths and then just stop dead or fizzle out.  Rhonda Britten tells us that fear's job is to keep us safe and change is NOT safe...even positive change.  Another thing that John Assaraf said that I "heard" on deep levels was "Are you interested in or committed to real change?"

If you are committed to any type of change in your life be it spiritual growth, weight loss, new exercise program, whatever .... you may want to ask yourself the above question.  Are you interested or committed?  Are you willing to do whatever it takes to keep the program going?  There are going to be times that you just do not want to continue.  The biggest resistance in any change comes from ourselves.  It's natural.

Be loving to yourself, pick yourself up, and continue on with your program because you are, after all, committed to change and not just interested in it.  Right ? :)  Onward and upward my friends!

 

Day after Thanksgiving.....

 

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There is no commercialism involved. I don't walk through stores listening to Thanksgiving music. I am not inundated with Thanksgiving commercials. I don't have to buy anything. I don't have to dress up or show up anywhere. I am NOT expected to go to church. It's just lots of food, family, friends, and football. What a GREAT day !!!!!!

I love the day after Thanksgiving as well.  There is this peace and calm that comes over my world.  I do not do Black Friday shopping.  I stay home, work, eat left overs, take a nap and enjoy the peace of the day.  I also bask in the things for which I have to be grateful.  So here is today's gratitude list:

1. Rain!!!


2. My clients


3. My children being home together


4. The animal friends who choose me to live with


5. My perfect health

What are YOU grateful for today ?!?

Gratitude check .....

This morning the coolest thing happened .... but let me back up some first !  My cousin bought a house VERY close to my house.  She started remodeling and has not had a kitchen.  I have to cook for my house anyway so she's been coming for dinner, cooking what she needs at my house, etc.  It has not been a problem or an issue in any way for me.  I'm sure that you can imagine how she must have felt though.  I'm sure it was hard depending on someone else's kitchen.  Granted...we're kin and we're close but it was still hard on her.

 

She got her kitchen installed this past week and last night was the first night that she was able to cook in her brand new kitchen.  She made homemade pizza.  Awesome!!  So now we get to this morning .... she sends me an Instant Message and tells me that she has homemade buttermilk biscuits, sausage gravy, eggs, bacon and coffee all going...and get this part...IF I wanted some.  IF... I laughed out loud.  Free breakfast on a Sunday morning!?!?  I was so there.  I actually got there before the biscuits came out of the oven.  Chuckle!!!

 

So today I am grateful for:

 

My cousin's completed kitchen

Open windows and a great breeze on November 21st

Cats in the windowsills who look SO happy

The ability to hear the sounds from the outside

Thanksgiving week !!!!

 

What are YOU grateful for today ?

Authentic conversations......

Yesterday I made a phone call that was 10 years in the making.  From Point A to Point Z, someone wronged me GREATLY and it has taken me this long to forgive and prepare for the conversation that had to come as a result.  Yesterday was that day.  I made the call, heard her voice, hung up promptly.  I walked around, talked to myself and God, redialed, heard her voice, wanted to hang up.  I did not hang up.  I said her name.  I could go on and on however, I will not.  The bottom line is that I spoke my truth, and I listened to her truth.   Her truth is NOT my truth so my ego and fears and angers wanted to jump up to defend me.  I took lots of deep breaths and kept reminding myself of my tools and that I had a "center point" and to keep going there to that place of balance.  I stayed centered and balanced.  I only made one jab and for those that know me, you know that's HUGE!!!!  (grin)

The fact that I carried this around for ten years is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT my fault.  I wore it like a wet, wool blanket.  I realize now that I can choose to forgive at ANY time.  One day or one decade.  It's my choice.  I also realize that her truth is not my truth and never will be.  I also realize that my truth is something she has never been able to hear and, more than likely, will never be able to hear.  That does not matter any more.  I spoke my truth.  I did it in a calm manner with no intentions of anything other than to speak my truth.  I listened to her.  I was given the opportunity to say nine of the most important words I have ever said to that woman.  "I am sorry. Please forgive me.  I forgive you."   There is a part of Travis Tritt's song "No More Looking Over My Shoulder" that says:

I could chill a room with reasons why I would not give forgiveness
To the people who had selfishly left me a wounded soul
I kept dragging 'round those memories
Like a ball and chain behind me
Wonderin' why my troubles followed me wherever I would go
Oh, but one night, sick and tired of being sick and tired
I realized forgiveness was the only open road
I swear I heard those shackles snap
The moment that I took that path
I never have one time looked back since the morning I arose

I can relate to that song.  I am also grateful beyond words for the freedom that those nine words that I was able to say, out loud have now brought me.   So my friends, who do you have to forgive?  Of whom do you need to ask forgiveness?

Rain ...... again ........

 

In yesterday's blog, I spoke about how I was going to just go ahead and be thankful for rain even though it was not here.  I could picture it falling on the flowers, plants, trees, grass, fields, etc. around my house.  Guess what happened?  That's right.  It started raining.  OK granted....it was in the forecast but I still choose to believe that I created that rain around my house.  You're welcome Alabama!  :)   chuckling ...........  SO with GREAT flourish I present today's Gratitude List:

 

• RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


• Awesome Webmasters who are great at their jobs


• Gator football


• Bread


• Pasta


• Sweet tea


• Salt and Vinegar potato chips


• Pine trees


• Fireplaces

 

What's on your list today ?

Gratitude list ......

It's a Sunday.  The sky looks like it could rain.  We are in what "THEY" say is a "drought situation".  I am seeing rain myself....lots of it.  I will hold that vision and give thanks for rain!!!  So that is the first thing on the list:

• Rain


• Eye glasses


• Animal friends...but today, specifically, CATS


• Directv


• Macintosh computers


• Electricity


• Slippers


• Fingers


• Gross Motor Skills


• Windows


• Screens


• Hearing


• Vision


• Ability to see color


• Ability to reason

Wow - that was easy.  What's YOUR list today?

Abraham Hicks .....

This morning I was tooling around listening to some videos and this particular one just kind of slammed me in the forehead.  I heard the below line very clearly:

But those of you who have decided that you have to earn it, you're in a whole different vibrational place.

So many of us, myself included at times, get stuck in that "I have to earn it or it's not coming!!" place about money.  Today, I would like to ask you to watch this video again at least one more time.  Really hear it.

I, for one, intend that I am allowing at all times and working MUCH less !!! :)