Drop achor & set sail

Certain mindsets and ideas may hold us down like an anchor keeps a ship in one place.  Do you feel like a prisoner in shallow or stagnant water? External influences might orient your focus, and prevent you from realizing different ways you can value and expand yourself.  Learn to make choices that enable you to energize.  Find ways to see through reasons that impose guilt or fear.

Did you know that you can free yourself from the mindsets and attitudes which hold you back?  Sometimes, its hard to gain a sense of your true bearings.  Yet, until you discern for yourself how, where and why you're caught in a bind, you will be unable to free yourself.  You won't see a need to free yourself or change your point of view.  Decide you wish to move ahead. Open your eyes.  Unleash your senses. 

True knowing goes beyond your perceived projection, impressions or expectations.  You direct your own pace and timing for self-disclosure.  You can decide anything is possible.  As you reflect on your attitude and choices, you can discover how instructive it really is.  What have you learned from your decision-making and the results it has brought? Its never too late to learn more.  Its never too late to uncover ideas that cage you, or to break free of your limitations.

If you hear nothing, you may notice nothing.  Imperceptibly, you may close yourself off from your potential.  Adopt a more positive attitude.  Begin to see the appeal of learning and rediscovering new aspects of your true self.  You build your own walls. You can tear them down.  You are captain of your ship.  This means you can choose to raise anchor and set sail at will.  Awaken to the mystery of being truly alive.

Rich or poor: true wealth

Why do we judge and make assumptions about the rich and the poor? Consider this story to step back and reflect about who may truly be living who's dreams...

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing his son how the poor people live so he could be thankful for his kind of wealth. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what the father saw as a very poor family.

During their return journey, the father asked his son, "How was the trip for you?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked. "Oh, yeah" said the son.   The father was curious.  "So, what exactly did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered, "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end." "We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night." "Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon." "We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight." "We have servants who serve us, but they serve others." "We buy our food, but they grow theirs." "We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them." With this the boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are."

This story shows us how different perspectives and perceptions exist.  Rather than ask yourself why you aren't living someone else's dreams, why not focus on why you aren't living your own? You would benefit from discovering how you think and why.

Directions you're moving

You are here because you choose to be here.  From birth, you decide to learn or you would still be in diapers, you wouldn't move and you wouldn't communicate as you do now. From the cradle to the grave, you discover many ways you could evolve.  You never exhaust all the possibilities.  Where you go from here and how is up to you. Which tools and wisdom will you decide to gain? It all begins and ends inside you.

Dreams ground your sense of life. Your thoughts, feelings and personal choices bring you closer to understanding why you're here. Its a process to begin to sift through all the details. What do your instincts and feelings mean? What is worth listening to? What is worth ignoring? You may benefit greatly from constructing a dream vision board. This strategy will help to organize your mental process, action and results.

Every experience you sense or don't sense is earned by your effort and understanding. Each decision you make is associated with a potential lesson. How many have you missed? Are you quick to grasp or slow to learn? What can you do to affect the pace and nature of your personal growth?

"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." ~John Maxwell 

Re-align your energy field

Who doesn’t dream of being more true to oneself? Its not as hard as you might think. The law of attraction reminds us that we can intuit a lot about ourselves from our feelings.  We can learn to read them more accurately.  Each one is a sign of something acceptable or unacceptable to you.

How we react to people and situations, whether we're confrontational or more reclusive, or whether you feel indifferent, are all helpful.  It’s like a health gauge and also a soul gauge. How well you know yourself influences how fulfilling your life choices will be. The good thing is, if things don’t feel right, something else will.  You simply need to figure out what that would be.

1) What is your baseline?   Identify your typical temperament. Are you usually moody? Angry?Enthusiastic? Lethargic? Sad? Frustrated? List those feelings that you experience regularly. What do they tell you about your state of mind and expectations? Your feelings reflect your true self. How you react to events that unfold are clues to your identity and what enables you to feel good about yourself. Positive feelings are like a push in directions that work for you. Negative feelings suggest the opposite.  Which feelings do you listen to? Which ones do you ignore? 

2) Why would you like to evolve?   You may decide it’s desirable to change somehow. Why would this be? If you’re not feeling completely comfortable where you are in your life, then realize you have options.  Reassure yourself to believe you can tap into sources of energy. Understand reasons for fear and discomfort.  To sense imbalance is a step toward re-aligning. 

3) Which ways can you visualize? If you desire to feel differently than you do now, visualize which feelings you would like to experience. List those feelings you would like to become your reality. Call it your ideal, yet make it realizable. What life choices could assist you to expeirence these feelings? Utilize all of your senses. Imagine.  Write it down. Describe it. Hear it. See it. Evolve into it. What sorts of things will you do to realize these desirable feelings? What choices will you make to eliminate the feelings? In general, pursuing those things that motivate and uplift you will lead you to realize passions.  Focus on them, and you'll find a sense of balance.

Live Earth -make a difference or not?

Due to the July 7 global Live Earth concerts, and the recent U.K-based concert to commemorate what would have been Princess Diana's 46th birthday, people are reminiscing about "Bandaid," "We Are the World" and other large-scale musical fundarisers of the past.  You may have even been physically-present for such events.

The point is efforts raised awareness about specific humane and environmental causes.  Why is it that after a given event is over and money raised by selling tickets, CDs downloads, or whatever, that people tend to forget about the reasons why they supported the cause in the first place? Does this mean people don't take causes  or their recent reactions very seriously?

Madonna, who performed at Wembley Stadium as part of the Live Earth, thanked Al Gore "for giving the world the wake-up call it so badly needs and for starting an avalanche of awareness that we are running out of time". She added: "Lets hope tonight's concert and the concerts going on around the world are not just about entertainment but starting a revolution around the world."

You and other people see images of environmental and other and crisis fly by on tv screens or broadcast on radio. Ask yourself how can people become so desensitized and still go about their lives as they always have? Ask yourself how your choices have changed as the result of high-profile musical fundraisers.

Which personal habits, patterns and lifestyle choices have you noticed in yourself that contribute to a bigger global problem? How would you desire them to change? What will you do to make a difference? What are you already doing that is measurable and benefits others toward positive change?