Paranoia got your goat?

If you do what you love, and this represents success, why has paranoia suddenly got your goat?  Dissatisfaction or fear may slowly seep in.  You feel a bit moodier.  People withdraw from you.  You feel underappreciated or resentful because of what you used to experience that is all gone. You start to wonder whether the grass must not be greener somewhere else.  Why can't you get there? What not now? 

1) Trust yourself.  Trust evolves as you realize your intentions, that you have your best interests at heart, and this feeling isn't dependent on external events.  What people say or do is separate.  Its your character that may desire the best for others and motivate you to do what you choose will be the best for you.  Can they be one in the same?  Intuition shapes your reality.

2) Relate to other people.  Read up on how other people feel about their own vulnerabilities.  Learn about the benefits other people have experienced as the result of examining perceived failures and occasions when their plans didn't turn out exactly as planned.  What did they gain? How can this help you to adopt coping models based on real people who kept on performing with a revised vision?

3) Accept imperfection.  Nobody always gets everything right.  This explains why we're human.  To make mistakes, admit faults and weaknesses is the first step to coping and managing anything well.  As you learn to combine fallibility with problem-solving,  you'll build strength to overcome things.  To recognize your strengths will reduce anxiety and enable you to gain a positive focus.

4) Don't lie, even if you think it helps.  You may promise yourself never to say things you don't mean, and then justify the exact opposite. Being real means you're brutally honest, no matter what the cost.  When people inquire about your success,  you may exaggerate in order to boost self-acceptance and avoid negative consequences.  If you accept reality, and admit it, you won't have a guilty conscience.  The results of deception are more destructive than telling the truth.    

Participate and prosper your way

Surrender to the things that direct your path.  In order to participate to the fullest in your life, you need to be willing to give up everything you thought you knew and thought you had. At which points in your life have you been touched by people and circumstances that made particular days seem very different than the others? How do you reach out to people? Who approaches you? How does it all fit together?

Nothing about your life is a pointless exercise. Are you the sort of person who would refuse to believe or adopt anything that doesn't fit with who you are now? Some people live in fear of their destiny and are reluctant to take steps to change or to influence how it unfolds. Although you have the ability to zero in on suffering all around you, its also within your power to focus on healing.

To be open to learning means you're also prepared to build courage and take stands in life. Its often easier to accept an insult or ignore it than to confront others and fight for your rights. You have the strength inside to create cheer and joy. Learn why participating in life is to recognize you have a hand in the evolution of things. They don't happen without you. There is no disconnect. You can actively and enthusiastically shape your life or permit attitude to define a less desirable path.

As you realize what you learn can influence how you think, and you're ready to revise thoughts, the choices you make will prepare you for what's next. How you felt in the past may not longer fit the person you are now. Live, learn and prosper your way.

Make the most of your life

Today is another day where you have the power to make the most of opportunities. You have the ability to strengthen "can-do" power. You can tap into the energy and enthusiasm inside yourself to be good to people and to respect yourself. Why not decide to make the most of your life? Of course, its up to you to decide which steps you will take and to shape the attitude to move ahead.

To take advantage of where you are right now, begin by thinking about the positive things you can you recognize already. Its your ability to focus on these things that influence your mindset. This helps you to isolate what aspects of your life you think require attention. Would it involve how you interact in certain relationships? Could it relate to how you nurture patience in a given situation? It may simply be to stop wanting to change everything. Learn to sense happiness now.

As of right now, you can access those answers you look for. Build faith in yourself. You can learn to consider that discomfort you experience today isn't a something to endure, but something to value and appreciate for what it teaches you about yourself. You're bigger than whatever is trying to break you down.

No event has to prevent you from becoming all that you can become.  You can bring new life and hope to whatever situation may be difficult or seemingly too far gone to turn around.  Change your point of view and you'll find that you have the ability to transform your life for the better.  No matter where you are, now is the right time for positive change. Believe you'll turn things around. Reframe them for the better.

Delight in misperception

Who hasn't known someone who's been up to their ears in challenges or unforeseen situations? You may have stretched your own limits to manage all that's on your plate. Maybe you've even thought how great it would be if something happened to shrink your perceived burden. Would it seem possible to you for a guardian angel to intervene? If one did, would that really help you? Many people take pleasure in deceiving themselves. They choose relationships that enable them to reinforce false ideas and may assume angels would intervene to assist in such self-deception. Angels praise worthy behavior and encourage self-discovery. They wouldn't support you to lie to yourself. Although they may desire you be concerned about direction you choose, their role may be to urge you to question and define 'toward what end?' They won't tell you how to get there. Each person can benefit from gaining new insight into themselves. Emotions have been known to interfere with your understanding of reality. Feelings may also overtake your logic. What about when emotions enable you to see the truth you desire to see? If you bring on a burden yourself, you may unconsciously be hoping to learn from it. You can grow from everything. Angels observe all your choices. If they don't respond or offer you reason to believe they're nearby, what kind of message are they sending about behavior? Are you encouraged to think you don't need them or, that your choices aren't good for you? Angels may take the form of human beings or watch you from another vantage point. Your life is all about change and what you choose to see. Who you think is helping you or not emerges in your mindset and belief system. You may also act as a kind of earthy angel. Consider whether you have ever prompted a friend to rethink certain choices, to acknowledge what s/he's not. By encouraging other people to be real, to see through their own misperception, you may empower them to experience not only who they really are, but also what it means to sense new harmony and happiness in life.

Give in to yourself

Some people would say that to be alive at all means you're successful.  Do you dream of more? Consider babies who struggle to get a stable hold on their existence.  That's no mean feat! Consider people who manage to sort through physical and mental trials.  Consider who miraculously survives terrible accidents and proves 'mind-over-matter' works.  How do you build that kind of mindset? 

Your chances of success are more likely to grow if you're surrounded by capable people who will help you better understand and overcome your perceived obstacles.  This doesn't mean these people will fight your battles.  Much is up to you.  It seems logical, providing the time is right to grow. You decide that too.    

You can also work on your own and have faith in the trial and error system some of us call life.  How many people do you know who hold a map of concise rules or directions for their lifetime?   Each of us is the creator of our own recipes of success. What will it require for you? You may believe that the best is yet to come. That's fine too, so long as you also learn to see that success comes in many shapes and packages, from the simple and basic to the complex and out-of-reach.

The next step for you will be to recognize that you are the master of your destiny. The winding paths you choose will give you opportunities to expand your horizons and change, but only if you feel ready.  If you desire to move forward, you need to know first yourself what this means.  It is about time to take a closer look at how you perceive yourself or what feelings you seek at all.