Category: Self-Growth

“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.
What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.” Jim Rohn

Think back to a major accomplishment in your life – one you can vividly recall working towards. Recall the struggles, the challenges overcome. Recall who you were before as well as the qualities you developed along the way. Bring a few more goals to your awareness. Consider childhood goals, adolescence, young adulthood: riding a bike, running a 6 minute mile, writing with your non-dominant hand, mending a relationship with your best buddy in 9th grade, achieving a 4.0 grade point average.

Which of those goals remain important to your life?
What is the value of the character traits, strengths, qualities you developed?

Consider this:

One way to live this life is to “figure out what works” and do it over and over until we die. One problem with that perspective is that “what works” keeps changing as the world around us changes.

Another way to live is to be present to what is really here now and dance with it, discern what step to take this time, and take it. Then, evaluate: How did that work? What did I learn? What changes will I make next time?

On each path there are “mistakes”.  Path number one includes mistakes you want to hide. Path number two has mistakes that serve as stepping stones.

What mistakes will you make today?

I’m at it again. I think it comes from 30 years in computing — acronyms — those non-words that mean so much! Well, today we start with “joy” and create (J)(O)(Y):

(J)ourney
(O)f
(Y)es

How is yours a “journey of YES”?

What? It’s not? Are you more likely to say, “No, not me.” or “No, not this time.” or “No, I couldn’t.” What if you tried, “Yes, I’ll try!” or “Yes, of course!” or “Yes, I’ve never done that before but why not!”

What would be different if yours was a (J)ourney (O)f (Y)es?

The new year begins. So much of what we read points to visioning and planning and making this “the best year ever”. Perhaps you have been one who creates “resolutions” – or maybe you’ve given up because they never lasted. Regardless of what has been, I want to share with you something I read this morning that may help. From The Intuitive Way by Penney Peirce:

“Since your body registers only the present moment as real, start acting right now as if you already have achieved fill-in-the-blank.”

You may not be new to “act as if” or “fake it till you make it”. I’m not. Yet reading her words which I interpret as:

The body, the emotional, physical sensations that often drive our actions – is perceiving only NOW.

And NOW is merely the manifestation of yesterday’s choices.

If that’s true, then how can we move forward? We need to base today’s actions on tomorrow’s desires. We need to send a message to our subconscious any way we can. We “act as if”. We stop complaining and start affirming. We express gratitude as if we already had experienced our desire. We pause, meditate, and vision fulfillment.

What words and thoughts from yesterday will you release?
What will you affirm today?
What energy will you send to your body today?