Heat and Light: Taking it for granted?

Huge snowstorm in the northeast...power lines down, Halloween canceled in some towns--oh no!  

Don't shoot me, but my power lines are back up.  Yep, came on yesterday.  And I have to say, that with each light I flick on, with each gust of heat from the old radiator, I am so grateful.  I am extra appreciative for something I usually take for granted.  It's kind of like when you injure a part of your body or have dental surgery. Suddenly, that toe or rib or tooth or elbow becomes inflated, with the rest of your body miniscule in comparison. All you can feel is "the pain, the pain!"  And when you're healed, the appreciation for the lack of pain lingers...until you get busy with life again.  

My life is super busy and I take a lot of granted.  Hey, we can't think about every small thing during the day.  And yet, thinking about the small things--and having heat is pretty big right now--can make a startling difference in the way we perceive life around us.  Appreciating all aspects of life is part of our choosing to be positive.

Halloween?  My dog is going to be Robin Hood.  But I've a sneezy, sinusy virus and am stuck at home giving out candy. Ahem. I mean, I'm lucky to be home, in a warm, lighted house, giving out candy to cute little kids who are having the time of their lives.  Have a happy and safe Halloween! And find something to appreciate.

“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”--Irish Quote

You are like an acorn.

An acorn, if placed in the right environment, can grow to be a big, gorgeous oak tree. With the right nutrient, water, soil, sunlight, and when planted near other oak trees, the acorn can flourish.  

But an acorn dropped on a cement block will not grow.

Every acorn is a potential oak tree. And you, too, are a potential ____________ (fill in the blank.)

We each have so much potential power. But to thrive,  we must be in the right environment, feeding our minds and surrounding ourselves with like-minded people who want to improve in all areas of life.

Read empowering books, listen to audio cds and take seminars that will challenge you to grow and improve. Spend time with mentors, role models and people who are also thriving. 

Flowering is empowering.

To thine own self be true

To have success, you must be loyal to yourself. Everything develops and grows from the inside. You first must take care of you before you can help others. Anyone who has flown on an airplane has heard that you must first put on your own oxygen mask before you can save someone else.  It works that way in daily life as well.

Show loyalty to yourself by working at gaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Health isn’t defined just by your physical body. Certainly, by drinking bottled water and wild green tea, eating vegetables and fruit, and exercising will help develop a vital body. But building your character is integral as well.  

Create harmony within your mind and understand that your mind is the most powerful muscle you have. Your mental muscle is what helps you see situations more clearly. This mental ability allows you to see things from another person’s perspective, which creates harmony between two people.  This mental muscles allows you to persevere when others would quit.  Your mind is stronger than anything that can happen to you.  

You Go, Girl! (or Guy!)

Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

Whatever you can imagine, you can manifest into physical form. If you can bring up the image of yourself as a millionaire, living in a beautiful home, driving your dream car, in the most fulfilling relationship imaginable... then that's what you can have. Everything in physical form was first a thought. The clothes you're wearing, the car you drive, the house you live in, this message of ours…all of these began as thoughts.

It cannot just be a thought or desire though.  You must have (to use a cliché) a burning desire in order to achieve your dream. The very fact that you have that desire means that you have the ability to fulfill it. So many people have the ability to achieve successes, yet they are not willing to do what it takes.

How far can you go? As far as you LET yourself go.  Make a list of everything you would like to accomplish in your life, realistic or not.  List 50 or 100 ideas.  Then, prioritize.  Perhaps you want to hike through the Rocky Mountains or the Himalayas.  Maybe you want to teach in Peru.  Or purchase investment property.  Start a business. Write a book.  If you have an ardent desire to reach your goal, you will do it!

Life-long Learning

Learning is a life-long process. If you’re not growing, you are dying.  Be always a student. Some of our best teachers of all time, including Confucious, Buddha, and Gandhi, were also life-long learners.

When you learn, you open yourself to wealth, health or any success for which you are searching.  If someone believes that “money is the root of all evil,” or “I can never achieve that,” or “I am not good enough for that,” that person will not be open to success.

We call these non-supportive beliefs paralizing paradigms.  Paralizing paradigms hold you back from achieving what you truly desire.  Don’t let them!  Take yourself to seminars, read books, hire a coach, find mentors and surround yourself with successful people who will support the new belief system that you want to install into your mind.  Let Empowered Mastery help to bring the positive back into your life so that you can fulfill your dreams.