Interconnected!

Everything in your life has an influence and an interaction with everything else. Make an improvement in one area of your life, and many other areas will benefit.

Everything in your world is interconnected. Create value in one place, and that value casts its light in additional places as well.

Your positive thoughts and actions often have immediate and direct results. They also have indirect results that can continue far beyond the obvious.

A small kindness offered to just one person can end up benefiting countless others. The love you give will always, in ways that you may never even realize, come back to you.

Success and fulfillment do not occur in isolation. You'll receive no great benefit from being positive about only a few things if you take a negative approach in other areas.

Instead, focus all your awareness and intention in a positive, fulfilling direction. Then, all the many connections will organize in such a way as to move you quickly forward.

Make yourself a Promise

"I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

Dawna Markova

Life does go on!

It's good to live our lives with a "life goes on" attitude. I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of injury, death or tragedies, but it's important to realize that things happen in this world that are out of our control.

Sometimes they are flippant things that don't really matter, other times they are life changing.

We can go on. Human's have an amazing ability to adjust to given situations, and we really can go on. Life goes on - how true that is. Often we don't know why bad things happen, we don't know why we have been put in situations that just aren't fair. When a child dies, why is that?! It's so devastating for everyone involved.

Life goes on.

Life goes on.

We are all here for a reason, and it may not be until 20, 30 years down the road where we can reflect on what has happened and truly make more sense of it all.

I'm sorry if you have had things happen in your life that are unfair, or tragically devastating. Certainly I've also had things happen that are unjust, unfair, sad. Don't give up!

You are an important part of this world, and you are here for a reason!

Yours to Give

The way to be respected is to be respectful. The way to be heard is to listen.

What do you wish to experience? Give it to others, and you will surely find it appearing and growing stronger in your own life.

To make a positive impression, find the qualities that are positive and valuable about every person you meet. What you send is amplified through the lives of others and comes back to you without fail.

Every day is filled with opportunities to offer genuine and meaningful kindness. The more of those opportunities you follow and fulfill, the richer your life becomes.

Advantages built on brute force and deception will crumble quickly. Achievements built on kindness, respect, understanding and love will continue to grow in value and influence.

Give, and as you do you'll be able to give more and more. The life of your dreams is now yours to give, and to fully experience.

What begins your mind?

Your worries create their own fulfillment. But you don't have to worry about that, because you can let those worries go.

Your fears bring you closer toward whatever you fear. But do not fear such a scenario, because you have the ability to let those fears go.

Your thoughts do not end when you finish thinking them. They continue to echo through your life in ways you may not even realize.

So fill your mind with thoughts of gratitude for the abundance you already enjoy. That abundance will most certainly grow as a result.

When you feel doubt, or fear, or anger, or frustration, know that you can let it go just as surely as you can pull your hand away from a painful sensation. Keep your life focused on the goodness, on the positive possibilities and on your most treasured dreams.

What begins in your mind ends up in your life. Think continually of the way you most would like to be, and your reality will reliably fall in line.

Your Power to Choose

While your character is formed by your circumstances, your desires can shape those circumstances.

The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts.
It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Nature is constantly at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.

At any time you can decide to alter the course of your life.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

Your greatest power is the power to choose.

The Best Day Ever

A new day has dawned. And with it, countless new positive possibilities have been born.

Certainly there are difficulties and obstacles in your life and in your world. Yet they are always outnumbered by your blessings.

Focus today on those blessings. Give your attention and your awareness to what's right with life.

Those who wish to control you and to take advantage of you will seek to fill your thoughts with fear and discouragement. Yet there is really no reason for you to be fearful or discouraged.

For life is not what someone tells you it will be. Life is precisely what you make it.

By focusing on the good things, on the positive possibilities, on your blessings and opportunities, you can make life truly magnificent. A new day has dawned, and you can choose to make it the best day ever.

Feel what it is to be you

Have the courage to feel. Feeling connects you with who you are.

Experience your own authentic feelings. There's nothing to be gained by hiding from your feelings or borrowing the feelings of others.

Your feelings will ask much of you. In return, they give you access to immense power that can be directed toward positive and meaningful purpose.

If you run from your true feelings, you will just end up making them stronger. And they will eventually catch up to you anyway.

Acknowledge your feelings, dive into them and explore their rich abundance. Certainly you will find some pain there, and yet if you are honest you will also find much joy.

Your capacity to feel opens the door to a whole universe of magnificent possibilities. In each moment, feel what it is to be you, and you'll work your way toward the best you can be.