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Why To Kick The Comfort Zone?

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andre Gide

growth

It’s that comfort zone again, that keeps drawing us down and forces us to cruise along blissfully neglecting our own growth. Growth is very important. Why? Because without the sense of achievement that comes from meaningful growth we feel empty, unfulfilled and depressed about life.

We must have meaningful goals to achieve, and constantly so. That doesn’t mean we have to be driven like rats. We can stay mindful, calm and know that we pursue worthwhile goals without neglecting what’s important in the Now. And growth ought to be balanced across the physical, mental (emotional) and spiritual dimensions.

affirmations

I AM a free child of God. I AM fearless. I can take on new goals and projects without apprehension. I understand that at one level all life is play and that I AM a child in a playground. I explore and I conquer. And I do it with all kinds of invisible help from the Universe. I AM blessed, just like everyone else!

Recommendation: Do It! Let’s Get Off Our Buts by Peter McWilliams

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Where To Next?

Follow your bliss.Joseph Campbell

bliss

The words are very precise, Joseph doesn’t say follow your desires or follow your happiness…

Bliss is defined as follows by the Dictionary:

  • complete happiness: perfect happiness
  • spiritual joy: a state of spiritual joy

The definition begs the question, what isperfect happinessand/orspiritual joy’?

We must answer that for self. And to answer that question we must know self.

So know self first, understand what makes us happy for the long run, understand our bliss and follow it…

affirmations

Today I AM following my bliss. I notice what makes me happy. I understand the tasks that fulfill me. I recognize the people who lift me and complete me. I find happiness assisting others. I AM guided by Spirit which gently leads me to a state of spiritual joy. I see God in everyone else and my whole day is blissful!

Recommendation: The Center Within by Fred Harris

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What Did We Not Do?

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable.Sydney J. Harris

regret?

Other regrets come from ways we couldn’t be. And I think these regrets are worse. However if we find our Life Purpose and know how to be blissfully happy then any regret can be minimized. Regrets that we harbor cost us deeply. They stifle our growth and keep us from moving forward. This is also true of people (self included) or situations that we haven’t been able to forgive. Take this quote with a grain of salt! Understand that we must try and be all that we’re capable of and at the same time we don’t want regret to sully your life experience today! We have an eternity ahead of us to get it all done!

affirmations

Today I AM happy that eternity smiles at me. I have all the time I need to get it all done. I’ll have opportunities beyond my earthly life if some business is left unfinished. All wrongs and all regrets will be erased by time and by God. I rest easy and everything gets handled easily. Life has a great way of working out when I have the right attitude. My life is beautiful!

Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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What’s An Opportunity?

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know I held opportunity.  – Hazel Lee

opportunity?

Opportunity abounds. We just need to know how to look and pay attention. What’s opportunity?

opportunity

  • Opportunity to just enjoy what we already possess, in mind, body and spirit.
  • Opportunity to grow in all possible ways, including intellectually and emotionally, especially towards ultimate pursuits.
  • Opportunity to build and mend relationships.
  • Opportunity to be all that we can be, and do!
  • Opportunity to love and be joyous!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM engaging in all opportunity!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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How To Partner With God

There is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live.  – David Whyte

plans?

We’re supposed to build plans. But do they really help or do we sell our potential short by making them?

guided

We play safe and don’t truly understand our potential. Therefore we should always collaborate with divinity even making our own day or life plans. God is intimately present. Why not involve him? Why not partner with God?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM partnering with God!

Recommendation: P.S. I Love You

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Getting Bored?

Seize the day!  – Horace

humdrum?

Don’t make this another humdrum day, seize it by the horns instead! Let’s do one thing today that’s been sitting and waiting on our To-Do list!

  • Make a vacation plan
  • Think about your next job
  • Exercise
  • Meditate
  • Kiss all those we love
  • Call someone we haven’t talked to in a while
  • Smile
  • Be thankful for what we have
  • Smell that rose

seize it!

Be the dynamic, full of life, happy, joyful, creative person that you already are, and rejoice, life is good!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM seizing the moment!

Recommendation: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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Why Today?

Today is a perfect day to start living your dreams! – – seen on the internet!

when else?

If not today, then when? Why do we continue to procrastinate? When will we stop hesitating to do and be what we really want to?

now

Better still, why not right now? What one step can we take today, right now, that’ll further the vision we have deep inside us?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM living my dreams!

Recommendation: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken…

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