As I was about to shift into 2nd gear, I saw a bright light and heard an explosion, not realizing what had happened, all I thought was how I knew not to cross over the intersection even though the light was green and I didn’t see a car coming. It wasn’t until after my car stopped spinning that I realized how accurate my intuition/premonition was, and I had gone against myself.

The lesson is, if we get a gut feeling about someone, a job, or about a business deal, no matter how good it appears on paper or in person, if you have a bad gut feeling, you need to trust it and use it to make wise decisions in your life.

I was side-swiped by a person who I thought was my friend. There were subtle signs. The first one is the invisible arm that goes up when ever I was around her.  In the past when ever I listened to this signal, I was spared alot of pain.  In this particular case, I was looking at her words and actions and went with that, vs. the danger signals I was receiving in my body.

As my intuition would have it, it was a matter of time when I started receiving vicious emails with false accusations and critical judgmental comments made at me and my person.  It made no sense to me, because I had spent alot of time helping her, networking her and her Meetup group and sending prospects her way.  I didn’t dignify her emails with a response or explanation. They were just outright far from reality and downright rude and disrespectful.  She educated me on what she thought of me, and I was grateful to verify that she is someone I certainly wouldn’t want to have a joint partnership with and to call a friend.

So if you have someone who is hovering around you, labeling you, criticizing or belittling you, just know it’s not you, it’s the other person.  You stay focused on your dream and vision. See it as a distraction – most importantly, forgive that person and see it as an opportunity to move in the right direction.  You don’t need to prove your innocence (there isn’t anything to explain or apologize for, right?) just see it as God’s way of growing you up and becoming a leader,harnessing your character and integrity for success!

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Yesterday I said I wasn’t really into resolutions, but in a round about way, I do actually form a few resolutions, but they are held loosely because I know from experience how often those resolutions change form and direction.

I had a lot of issues with internal boundaries last year, in fact, I think it goes farther back.  As an online business owner, it’s easy to lose track of time, forget to eat and exercise.  Yes! I do forget to eat! I’m passionate about social media and I love to read, I actually lose my appetite!

But as I am heading to age 47 – well, I’m having a hard time saying I’m going to be 47, because it feels so foreign.  I feel like I’m in my 30’s until I look into the mirror (after taking a shower) and it’s a whole nother story! Hence, time to act upon “those resolutions”

What motivates me this time is that I can visualize the benefits of working towards resolutions – because what I’m really doing here is learning a new way of living and creating better habits that will affect my husband, family, neighbors and friends.

Here’s Resolution #1

- Form healthy boundaries within myself :

a light bulb went off last summer. I overspent on money and over gave of my time, resources, and energy, then I would end up feeling depleted, unappreciated and discouraged.  Don’t get me wrong, I do not expect to get extra stars for being generous.  I am referring to my nature of being a giver, nurturer, helper.  When I meet people socially and they begin to talk to me about their lives, work, and issues, my mind and heart begin to spin into “help” mode.  I haven’t received any complaints about this trait, except my own inner voice that says I need to balance that part of me better, that I don’t need to foot the bill all the time nor do I need to put myself in situations to foot the bill (mentally, financially, physically).  As far as feeling depleted/unappreciated and discouraged – well, some people are takers without a thought of the energy behind my giving.  They  have  a stingy spirit, or a scarcity mentality. If they’re not sizing me up physically, they are doing it in other ways, my giving isn’t really ever enough, almost like to them I just “didn’t give enough”.   I realize that my boundaries will be respected when I start to respect and honor MY OWN boundaries within.  I also know that if someone has unrealistic expectations of me, I don’t need to agree to it, and saying No actually gives me the confidence in honoring myself, and reinforces those boundaries.

Lesson: There is a time to give, a time to pitch in, a time to do nothing, my value and worth is the same regardless of how much I give.

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I know, I know.  We are mid-streaming into February 2010.  So why the topic of New Year’s Resolutions?  Because I’m not a big fan of them, nor do I really keep them.  In fact, I have a few resolutions that I constantly modify over time and I eventually accomplish my personal and professional goals, because personal growth requires flexibility.

I don’t start implementing my “resolutions” at the stroke of midnight.  In fact, I am not thinking much about anything in November or December because my mind is mush by the end of the year – throw in holiday activities, tight schedules, traveling, and other people’s expectations and I’ll find pieces of my hair missing and perhaps a chipped tooth from grinding my teeth at night!

No, I spend January recovering from the holiday season, and not putting much pressure on myself for anything.  I do however, think about what worked for me last year, and areas that I would like to change – I already know the answers, as I know where the “pain” is in my life.

I decided to start blogging about self care and perhaps other areas of transformation with the hope that women can relate with me and that maybe we can form a bond and share our sense of humor about our changing bodies, managing distractions (the noise in our head), relationship challenges and maybe touch on our business, instead of what it’s like being single in your 30s & 40’s and getting married for the first time in my early 40’s.

No, that is boring, I think.  Self care can be boring, too but since I’m about to turn 47 in April, I would like to track certain changes that I want to implement this year.  I may fail, get off the track and onto another track, or actually accomplish much!  I’m a realist which is why I even bother to mention the word “fail”.  I know that failing doesn’t mean I’m a loser, it means other things, like maybe I over estimated the steps it would take to meet the goal, maybe I was not honest about my motive to go there; maybe I found a better, smarter way to do it.  I don’t see myself as failing, but only changing direction.

Tomorrow, I’ll write more about my goals for the quarter (Jan-Feb-Mar) and maybe touch upon the rest of the year.

It was a Sunday morning as I approached the altar at Dance Spirit to use the tarot deck. In my mind was a question about outcomes. As I sat at the altar, question in mind, I pulled a tarot card and got an “answer” that seemed totally irrelevant to my question. Of course that did not stop me from pulling several other cards, which also did not seem relevant. Frustrated with non-answers I gave up.

The following week and for several weeks afterward, my questions were usually met with either more irrelevant answers, or answers I did not want to hear. A few times the cards gave me responses I desired but I realized I did not believe the good things the cards seemed to indicate would happen if I remained on my current path. Still each week I approached the altar, unaware how wonderful a mirror of my own inner process this experience was providing.

Finally one week as I was about to pick a tarot card, I heard my inner wisdom ask “What outcome do you want?” I realized that the tarot cards did not tell me what was going to happen because I create my own reality. The information from the cards did not matter. I have known for many years that predictive tools only show you the most likely outcome given your current path, and that they mostly show you your own inner process, but still that did not stop me from wanting to know the most likely outcome and from understanding my own thinking. The message “What outcome do you want?” changed all that. I don’t need to understand my own thinking. All I need to do is choose what I want.

If you have read books such as “The Secret,” and even if you haven’t, you have probably heard the idea that you create your reality via your thinking and beliefs. You probably also know how difficult it is to avoid falling back into limiting beliefs and thinking. No sooner do create an intention than the limiting thinking and beliefs show up, telling you what you want is not possible, etc. Or perhaps, like me, you seek confirmation that what you are doing is working. Constantly wondering, worrying, and checking will sabotage your heart felt intentions. Tarot cards were a way I checked in to see how my inner work and intentions was progressing. However, since my checking was coming from fear that my manifesting was not working, it was coming from limitation.

So what to do? How can you tell if your manifesting is working, especially when addressing areas of your life where results can take a while to show up? How can you do this in a way that supports your manifesting? This is the role of certainty. Since you create your reality, instead of checking to see how it is working, worrying that it is not, or feeling frustrated at what seems like lack of results, use the power of certainty. Each time you seek confirmation, or feel frustrated, choose to feel certainty.

What does it feel like to be certain? Begin with something you feel certain about, such as your eye or skin color. It is important to choose something you are so certain about that if someone told you otherwise, you would doubt their sanity. Feel what it feels like to be certain. Once you can do this, feel the thing you wish to manifest and transfer the feeling of certainty onto your manifestation. Then whenever you seek confirmation it is working, or when you feel doubt or fear, feel again the certainty. If you lose touch with what it feels like to be certain, go back to the original thing that you are certain about beyond any doubt and again transfer it to that which you are manifesting. Feel the calm knowing, the strength, of certainty. Allow certainty to work for you and whatever happens in your life, know for certain that all is well.

Linda White Dove

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A major cause of the failures of these systems is that even though they tell you to “believe”, none of them tell you how you can teach yourself to believe. Maybe you just think you believe but deep down inside you really don’t. Maybe you’ve been in negative circumstances for so long that you can’t even begin to conceive of them changing for the better. If you can’t teach yourself to truly believe then your circumstances really won’t ever change for the better no matter how many success books you read.

If you are a frequent reader of such book you have no doubt been advised time and again to “think positive” and to “guard against negative thoughts”. They tell you if a negative thought comes into your mind to immediately banish it and replace it with a positive thought. Simple, right? Not really. What they don’t take into account is that if you are reading such books you probably have had little if any success in your life or you wouldn’t be reading them in the first place.

Perhaps a river of negative thoughts has flowed through your mind for so long that it has created a “Grand Canyon” of negativity in your mind. In situations like this an occasional, weak, positive thought is not enough to overcome failure and replace it with victory. You have to learn to fill in that “Grand Canyon” with the soil of positive thoughts. BUT, unfortunately these books rarely if ever say exactly “how” to do it.

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Your thoughts determine your emotions-good or bad. Your emotions determine your belief or disbelief. Your belief or disbelief determines your faith. Your faith determines your persistence. And ALL of these things determine your eventual success-or failure.

So, HOW do you learn to believe and change your negative, failure, mindset into a positive, powerful and successful one? You have to do it ONE thought at a time. And you have to keep doing it all day long, every day.

Start out with positive affirmations. Write down what you want and read it aloud as many times daily as possible. When you are reading try to strongly visualize what you want. Think how happy you will feel when that desire becomes a reality for you. Really immerse yourself in that happiness and enthusiasm. Train your mind to associate those emotions with your goal. Do this until your subconscious accepts this as reality. Then you can’t help but to believe!

But don’t stop there. Positive affirmations may not be enough to induce you to believe. Another great way to develop the power to believe is to read inspirational books. They can be about success, love, religion, hopes, dreams…it really doesn’t matter. What DOES matter is that you choose a book that is really positive-a book that really gets you fired up. A book that says over and over, “you can do it!”, you can win!”, “don’t give up, you’re so close!”. A book that just showers you in positive thoughts of support and success.

Read these books over and over for best results and when you feel that happiness, enthusiasm and excitement about your goals and desires…THEN is the perfect time to say your affirmations. When you do this, I think you will find that gradually you WILL believe and your mind will be changed from completely negative to completely positive. And …when you really, truly believe then you really CAN accomplish anything you desire.

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YOU have to take the proverbial “bull by the horns” and really do something about it! You CAN do it if you really want to!

Here are four important facts you may not be aware of:

Almost everybody you know, loves to buy things for themselves and sometimes for people they care about!

Almost everybody you know, loves to get a Great Deal when they are buying something!

Almost everybody you know, has at least a little bit of cash to spend, even in this bad economy!

Almost everybody YOU know, will buy something from you “on impulse” if they are given the chance!

Let me ask you? Do you have at least some ability to communicate, some gumption, and perhaps a bit of sales ability!? Can you bring yourself to work at selling some cool merchandise? (NOT MLM and NO recruiting people!) If you do have some salesmanship, then you can actually buy a small quantity of wholesale merchandise, and then turn around and sell it to people in your area for a cash profit! Whether these people are your friends, co-workers, family members, neighbors, or people you bump into at the bank, grocery store or post office, you can sell various things to people, and they will buy things from you “on impulse” and they will pay you in cash! (Wink! wink!)

I am actually a self-help writer and speaker, and I know that this is a fact because I have been selling merchandise to people in my town since my childhood! I always get a thrill from selling quality merchandise to other people at a discounted price, and it is nice to have some daily cash income always coming in! Cash!

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I have also been a published writer (usually as a ghost writer) for the past 32 years, but I also enjoy buying and selling, and I have this awesome website where we sell things retail and wholesale! If you see something that you would like to buy, but in small quantities, and at wholesale prices, then you are invited to please send an e-mail and inquire about the items you want and in what quantities! In the meantime, and to make life easier, we have a bunch of Wholesale Deals Available To Ordinary People, Seen By Clicking Here!

There are well over 50 awesome Wholesale Deals available at the moment, and when I say “ordinary people” what I mean is that you don’t have to have a business license, a special bank account, a tax ID number, or anything complicated! We are willing to sell five of these or ten of those or a dozen of something at wholesale prices to people who will turn around and sell them for a cash profit! Or maybe you want to use them as gifts!

Listen to this…We actually have several customers who are college girls and they buy a batch of 25 or 50 self-defense pepper sprays, then they turn around and sell them to other students on their campus, and other people around the town! They are making cash income daily, and you can too, if you want to do it!

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YOU can definitely earn cash starting in a few days without having to get into any kind of Ponzi Scheme, recruit people, buy eight thousand bottles of vitamins, or mortgage the house, as long as you are willing to sell, and are not afraid! You will only have to count on yourself to sell 50 Key Chain Pepper Sprays for a cash profit, or take some orders from catalogs that you show around your neighborhood, campus, or community!

Remember: “The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person who is doing it!”

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Conversely when you’re feeling negative emotions like hate, anger, jealousy, sadness, depression, the Universe is still trying to give you a message.  That message is “This is not who you are.  This is uncomfortable.  This doesn’t fit.” When you think about it, isn’t that a great system?  Doesn’t that give you the utmost hope? So, if you are feeling upset over your financial circumstances, do you know what that really means?  It means the Universe is saying ” but you’re Rich! Why are you feeling poor? Get out of this space immediately!”  Isn’t it comforting to know that your negative emotions are the Universe’s way of saying that, in fact, you are the opposite of what you are feeling? That must mean the Universe knows you are:

Rich
Successful
Healthy
Happy
Joyful
Giving
Abundant in every good way
And a million other wonderful things….

To me, that’s a very comforting thought.  I recommend you remember that the next time you are feeling down.  It’s the Universe’s way of saying “Chin up! You are better than this!”  So, why not listen? You well automatically feel better when you realize this simple, yet powerful little truth.  You are SPLENDID!!! And The Universe knows it.

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Everyone has gone through difficult times that are hard to bear. You may have lost your job, your money, your credit, be deeply in debt and have a strained relationship with your significant other. It is easy to think that you are the only one that experiences hard times and other people get all the “breaks” in life.

You may not have deserved your misfortune but it depends on how you react to these situations that determines the eventual outcome. You can decide to give up and die or you can decide to fight. You’re already in a fight; you might as well fight back.

Is it possible to gain strength through adversity? It is if you closely analyze the situation that you face. The great success philosophy writer, Napoleon Hill, said, “Every defeat carries within it the seed of an equivalent advantage”. This means that no matter how bad the situation is if you keep on in persistence and belief you can turn that bad deal into something that is just as good (or even better)as the bad thing was bad.

If we think about it honestly then it is easy to see that adversity really does strengthen us and doesn’t come to destroy us but to bring us new opportunities, i.e. to promote us.

I think back to some of my favorite movies and I see this truth played out again and again. In “The Karate Kid” would Daniel Laruso ever have become the All-Valley Karate Champion if the Kobra Kais hadn’t of beaten him up a few times? Definitely not! He would have gone through his life being completely ordinary and Mr. Miyagi and he would not have developed such a strong friendship. The beatings weren’t good for sure but that’s why Daniel became the Karate Champion. He wanted to stand on his own…and stop being a punching bag.

In “Back to the Future”, Marty McFly’s father would have never changed and become successful if Marty hadn’t accidentally gone back in time and endangered his own existence. That strong adversity of losing his very life gave Marty the very strong impetus to make things right again with the space-time continuum. In the end, Marty gets his parents to fall in love, saves his existence, and his father becomes a famous science fiction writer in the bargain. If none of that ever happened, George McFly would still be a loser and Marty would never have the confidence to continue his music career (and Marty and Jennifer would never have gotten to go up to the lake in the new truck!).

It’s much the same in real life. Analyze you current misfortune and see if it contains the seed of a great victory in your life. Maybe you lost your job and your financial life is in ruins. But perhaps you always wanted to be your own boss and have your own business. Not having money is a terrible thing and you can lose your home, your relationships, and maybe even your mind! But that hardship may be just the thing you needed to inspire you to start your business now. Maybe if you had never lost your job in the first place you would never have tried your business idea. Maybe you would have only talked about it from time to time but never did anything about it. But the seeming misfortune of losing your job and your money forced you to become creative and resilient. It was either that or perish. Don’t perish.

So, don’t give up! Analyze your problem carefully, determine what you can do to change it, be open to new opportunities, and think positive. One day you will win! You have to! But, only if you keep trying. Just remember what the great movie character Rocky Balboa said, “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit…how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” True.

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We will discuss those steps and how you can completely manifest your desires and hopes in life. The first and most important thing is that you need to slow down in life. Be able to relax and keep yourself focused into the here and now.

Slowing your mind so that it won’t constantly be jumping back and forth into past and future events. You need to be able to completely let yourself focus on what is happening right NOW in your life.

This will take some practice on your part and something that you need to do each day of the week. You will get better at having your mind slowed down, and at that point you will be the master of yourself. You can now move on and make that first contact with the universe around you.

You must know that inside of you there is a power that is more powerful than anything. It will allow you to reach out and use it to contact the universe. With that contact you will be able to request those things in life that you desire. You should be able to feel that contact and at that point you will need to request what you want to manifest in your life.

In order to see success you will need to keep a positive attitude about what you want in life. The quickest way to lose something that you want to be manifested is to think negative things. So always make sure that you are maintaining a positive I will attitude.

Feel the power inside of yourself and use it to manifest what you want in your life.

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