Choose Your Own Adventure

Are you making choices in your life or just letting life happen to you? Today, right now, it’s time to make your own choices, choose your own adventure. Watch the video for more.

Children Remind us to Enjoy our Lives!

Children remind us to be happy and have fun.

Sometimes adults forget to just embrace their own youthfulness and let go. That’s where children come in. They can inspire us to enjoy our own existence.

An Inspirational Young Lady

This little girl is the one who inspired me to start doing videos. She is truly amazing.

A Quick Gratitude Trick for You

Instead of making a wish on your necklace clasp, try stating something you are grateful for. Focus on what you do have instead of what you don’t. Shift your perspective and life changes.

You and Your Perception

Your own perception of reality is skewed by the experiences you have had during your life. Every experience forms a belief of some sort, either for the positive or negative of a particular situation. The next time you encounter that situation your past experience carries over into it and gives your mind an image of the likely outcome.

We were created to think like this and react in this fashion. No one person can hold all the knowledge of the universe or experience all there is to experience. However all of us together can. We each live unique lives and are able to have unique knowledge and experiences that we can then share with others in order to have a fuller picture of the universe and life itself.

All experiences, both the good and the bad, are an important part of that picture. All perceptions are an important part of learning and understanding.

The danger comes when we begin to assume that our perception of reality is the only one or the “right” one. When we close our minds to other possibilities we do two things. First we cut off our own opportunities to learn. Second we cut off other people’s opportunity to learn from us.

If part of our purpose here is to grow and learn and share with each other and from each other, doesn’t it make sense that we have to remain open not only to each other but also to other possible realities and perceptions?

Each of us is the center of our own universe. Our day begins and ends with ourselves. Our day revolves around ourselves. However every action we take and every word that we speak has an impact on someone else’s universe.

In the past I’ve written articles about how a smile to the local cashier might change their whole day or how a foul word might do the same. For ourselves it might have been because we ourselves may have been having a particularly bad or good day, but the impact that our inadvertent actions or words might have on someone else’s unsuspecting universe could be anything from mild to major.

We share ourselves with every person we come into contact with. We may do this by becoming friends with someone and sharing a lot of time talking or doing things. We may do this simply by being a being that passes through very quickly across someone else’s universe. Either way we have an impact.

I won’t try to tell you today that it is important to go out and put your best foot forward in every interaction you have because as much as I believe it IS important to try to have a positive impact on the world around you, I believe even more that it is important to be honest and be yourself.

There is a fine line here and it takes a lot of self-reflection to determine who it is that you truly are. You have a role to play and lessons to both share and learn in all your interactions. If you are not being the honest you then you rob yourself and others of the experience.

It seems to me that the way of the world has become one of dishonesty. We tell little white lies to avoid difficult situations without hurt feelings. We tell big lies to make ourselves feel better or to impress others. But by doing this we sometimes rob another of truly becoming connected to us on any real level. We rob ourselves of true friendship. We do nobody’s universe any good. And we skew the perception of reality for everyone we come into contact with as well as ourselves.

My husband once told me that the people who are the most jealous and possessive are often people who have done something themselves so they believe everyone must do it as well. This is not always the case but it often can be. This is because by being dishonest and disloyal to another they have skewed their own perception of reality to the direction of all people are dishonest and disloyal. By doing this they create an atmosphere of mistrust and continued dishonesty which then creates a reality of it.

Often by living from a skewed sense of reality we then create the reality we feared was real all along, at least within our own lives.

So today instead of telling you to go out and spread love and smiles, I will ask you this. Go out and drop your old perceptions. Allow yourself to see the world with fresh eyes. Be your authentic self. Our authentic selves without the baggage of old perceptions is like a child who sees the world full of beauty and potential. See the world from the eyes of a child and enjoy the wonder of it.

By changing your own perception of reality you may just change your own reality. By changing your perception of reality you may help another to change their reality. So go out today and give it a try. Take baby steps toward this goal if you need to but take steps.

Be honest with just one person today that you were not honest with in the past. Be honest with yourself. Take responsibility for your actions both past and present. Rebirth yourself today and become new.

Leave Expectation Behind

Train your mind to leave expectation behind

Dropping Expectations

How many of you right now are 100% happy with your life?

I’m sure some people will be able to say they are but in reality most of us cannot claim 100% happiness with our life.

The dream or picture we had in our mind of what life should or would be like has not been met.

Our expectations of people or things has fallen short.

So now what do we do? Train your mind to leave expectation behind!

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How do you remain positive when bad things happen?

 

Someone asked me today how I manage to continue to have so much love for life and such a positive attitude with all that I’ve been through. I wanted to share some of what I told them.

First, I don’t know ‘how’ to do it, I kind of just did it. A lot of it is about choosing. Life isn’t always easy or kind. People can be horrendous. Things happen that are traumatic and terrible. How we choose to move forward is up to us. I decided I wanted to live my life happy. I fully believe everything happens for a reason and in doing so what I really do is choose to put a reason on it.

For instance, we went to pick up the truck today and it broke down a mile from the garage. This means a possibility of no work camping in Missouri, however I haven’t given up hope. It means possibly being stuck in Florida for several more months (a place I have come to truly dislike). It means maybe not being able to save as much as I had gotten excited about saving if any at all. And worse it might mean giving up on my hopes of finishing my degree through UMS because I simply can’t afford it right now.

I was devastated most of the day. I cried. I became very depressed. And then I realized there is a reason. I cannot publicly share this reason that I have found, but I accept that the universe has greater plans for me than I often have for myself. These plans don’t always benefit me financially but they do spiritually, which is how I lead my life. So I’m accepting this.

That’s really the first step, acceptance. And now I will adjust to the new plan and do my best to work within it’s confines. It’s not easy but I can’t change it. So, if I want to be happy, I have to find a way to work with it instead of fight against it. That’s another aspect of this all, learning to go with the current and stop trying to swim upstream.

I don’t want to suffer so I choose not to. I avoid situations which make me do so. Now, that’s not to say that I don’t have moments of suffering. We all do. That’s life. I simply choose not to dwell within them.

Also remember that even in the toughest of times things can and will get better. Change is inevitable, suffering is truly optional. Right now you might be going through something extremely difficult, but it can and will improve with the right help and with time.

Maybe something is missing in your life. You pictured it to be one way and that has not happened. You envisioned it as a picture in your mind but your reality is not matching that picture. Change the picture. If you can’t change the picture in the world, change the one in your head to more closely match where you are. Find the purpose. Create a new dream. Make new choices. You can do many things that will bring you great rewards and joy if you allow them to and let yourself.

And in all of this writing I know that you don’t want to hear any of it. Right now you are in pain. So let me tell you that beyond any of this I give you 100% of my unconditional love and understanding. Life isn’t easy. Nobody promised us it would be.

As for me, I’m done living in spiritual and emotional pain. My body has plenty of that. I prefer to try to live in peace and harmony. I prefer to enjoy my days and do my best to do so. Life is a journey over many hills and valleys. Try to enjoy the scenery a bit and hold your nose when you hit a field of manure.

Remember you are unique and wonderful. Love yourself and allow others to love you. The special gifts that you brought into this world are yours alone and nobody can share them quite the way you can.

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