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Last post I spoke about gratitude...the importance of looking for and acknowledging the good things, the blessings, seeing what is. I offered the suggestion of a gratitude journal.
Today I am sharing my thoughts on the title: Create an Inspiring Year! Our life is our creation. Now that may sound trite, and it's true, that stuff happens that is out of our control, and what is also true is that while we cannot control life, we always, but always have control over how we respond and react to what life brings us. I'll share a story: when Learn, Love, Live arrived in its lovely package, I sat with the distributor and I was very excited. The first two comments from him was: it's late and it's expensive. I felt the color drain from my face. late and expensive???!!! but we had talked about timing and cost and the importance, hadn't we?? well, I had a choice of how to react. I didn't choose well that time. my response was: attack!! I got angry and I got upset. later on (it happened to be a few days before Yom Kippur, a day of built in reflection) I took a step back and zoomed in on what triggered my response. all fear. what if no one can afford LLL?? what if no one even knows where to find it?? Once I faced the fear I was able to push past it, and reestablish dialogue and discover that it will work out, and in fact, things are working out quite wonderfully. So I offer you this: in times of angst and conflict, step back, figure out what triggered you, acknowledge and push through it. it is so amazing what happens when we face our fear, when we speak it out loud.....it takes the sting right out of it, it releases some of that initial tension and allows us to move forward gracefully, authentically, as we are meant to.
