Day 12 - 7 habits!

Today’s PN is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ~ Stephen Covey

I have this book in my library. There is a reason it has been on the best sellers list for so long! Great, great book!  This was a great review for me.

My aha Moment
Begin with the end in mind.  I love this - keeping the end in your heart and mind will help me to move past procrastination and continue to take the baby steps forward.   I think I’m very clear with the end picture, it’s the journey that sometimes becomes overwhelming feeling to me. Baby steps while enjoying the ride is my focus in 2010!

Did some work around laying out those baby steps, and the priority list that I will follow to complete them. I am feeling good about my plan, and definitely am believing that it is possible!

Gratitudes:
1. Super meeting today with staff with some good plans for moving forward.
2.  Amazing amount of work completed again today at the office.
3.  Great feel good work out tonight!
4. The very very good looking man that gave the tour today. Teehee
5.  Real estate potentials! Yayyyyyyyyyyyy!!

Day 11 - Agreements with Myself and adding a challenge

Well, I just couldn’t pass up a challenge! I joined the 50 day challenge offered on Finer Minds , following the philosopher notes.  This is going to be  a blast!

Today’s PN - The Four Agreements ~  Don Miguel Ruiz
I love these four agreements.  They really are the basis of living a life of bliss.
1.  Be Impecable with your word - stop complaining, blaming and criticizing.  - I love this - last year I took the Complaint Free World challenge, and although it was challenging and full of self-awareness, I finally  was successful after 6 months of going 21 days complaint free.  This was a nice reminder to continue on this journey.
2. Don’t take anything personally - one of my favorite sayings is “What you think of me is none of my business. At the end of the day, I go to sleep knowing I have done the best I could with the tools I had.” I really try to live by this statement.
3.  Don’t make assumptions.  My life coach has taught me to always find a better feeling assumption.  If I do not know with 100% certainty, why would I choose to believe something negative.  So true! And of course, ask for clarification whenever I can.
4.  Always do your best.  This morning I reviewed Wayne Dyers Power of Intention, and realized that using the ‘act as if’ principle will really help with this.  This is one area that will be putting a larger focus on in the upcoming weeks.  Love the point about the fact that my best will fluctuate from day to day and this is ok. Quit being so hard on myself.  I will do the best I can with the tools I have at every moment.


These are the Top 5 things I *know* need some work from me:
1.  Continue to an attempt to become complaint free. I know that complaining gives power to whatever I’m pushing against.  I need to continue to strive towards finding the blessing in everything.
2. Continue to listen to something inspirational every day in order to stay on track with the 4 agreements.
3.  When I find myself making assumptions (negative ones), I will ask the questions to seek clarification. I will also find a better feeling assumption if I cannot ask the question.
4.  Rid myself of excuses - blaming others or situations for my own behavior needs to stop.
5.  Accountability - live life as if there is a camera following me around 24 hrs / day.

Gratitudes:
1. A rock solid sleep last night!
2. A very very productive Monday! So much done, in so little time.
3. The opportunity to set intentions with a co-worker for a concept we wish to introduce. Was great to focus on the reaction we intend to get from those we present to. Knowing the outcome desired is the first step in achieving it.
4.  For the comments fellow participants are leaving from the PN challenge re the Four Agreements. So much food for thought!
5. Great conversations with like minded people today!!

Exercise: 25 minutes on rebounder

Meditation: Shower of abundance

My results
Energy is still high and I feel great.  I got rid of a cold with only a few sniffles - wonderful thing! I seem to be attracting a lot of people who are on the same wave length as me.. Love it!

Just before bed....

Had to load up my creative piece ~ painted this on the wall going to my bedroom... :-)

I added the words.. "If you can dream it, you can achieve it" right in the center, but the batteries in camera died before I got to take a new pic of it.

Anyways,,, to explain (btw, it was hard to take a good pic as there were walls in the way (its in a stairwell)

The tree - money tree - financial abundance

The hearts - never ending love

The grass - its growing out of orange soil which to me resembles creativity- so ever growing creativity.

The waves - catch the wave of life and have a blast doing it!

The purple rays coming down from the sky - excellent health

The birds flying - freedom to fly and do what I love.

And that, is my vision board for life! :-)

Day 2 ~ My first steps

After a great amount of reflection, I realized that the first thing I needed to do was to get into some healthy habits that will make me feel good.  This should make aligning myself with my desires a whole lot easier. I am told that the best way to increase happiness endorphins is through laughter, exercise and a good roll in the hay. Since I am single at the moment, I decided that for now, I will rely on laughter and exercise. Ideally, this will help me achieve my goal of weight loss as well.

Tonight, I decided to try out a Christmas present that my kids bought me.... A work out belly dancing video. Well, wonderfully, this not only provided me with the exercise required to increase endorphins, but it also provided me with plenty of laughter. Picture an uncoordinated, middle age woman who never quite took care of the 'baby belly' from children many years ago, wearing a belly dance wrap around her hips, "shaking it" to some exotic music. Quite a sight, and without a great sense of humor could quite possibly be described as SCARY. LOL. I am so grateful for my warped sense of humor!

Promise to myself ~ some form of exercise will be built into my day at least 4 times / week.
I have also made a promise to myself to record my gratitudes on Gratitude Log every day. I find when recording on the gratitude log, it makes me take note throughout my day of all the things that made me smile, so that I have something to write about at the end of the day. Noticing what makes me smile through the day makes me smile even more in the instant. This has to be helping to align me with my desires.

Results so far ~ I am definitely finding myself laughing more and feeling good about myself and my life. I, also, had a wonderful and loving conversation with a dear friend today. (I am attracting love my way.. wohooo) I have become inspired to pull my camera back out again and take some pictures for the greeting cards that I design and sell on Greeting Card Universe . When my creative mind becomes active, I know I am on the right track!

Next Steps ~ Review my gratitudes from yesterday ( the new years eve 2010 exercise) and set my goals with action steps.

With extreme gratitude and love, I continue on my journey. 

Day 1 ~ Setting the stage for 2010

Well, the kids and I had fun tonight pretending like it was new years eve 2010. We celebrated the amazing accomplishments that we saw throughout 2010. We allowed our imaginations to run wild and really felt the appreciation of an amazing year.

Here are my top 20 gratitudes for a wonderful year ~ 2010

1. I am so grateful that I quit smoking.

2. I am so grateful that I lost the last amount of weight I was wanting to lose.

3. I am so grateful that my business has taken off and is financially abundant.

4. I am so grateful that I finished my book, got it published, and it is climbing the best sellers list rapidly.

5. I am grateful for the financial abundance that I am experiencing, with enough money in the bank to retire if I chose to.

6. I am so grateful that I have my house completely paid off.

7. I am grateful for my new house in the country, with the wrap around porch and top of the line media room.

8. I am so grateful that my house is neat, clean and organized.

9. I am so grateful for my maid who goes above and beyond the call of duty.

10. I am so grateful for my pool man who not only keeps my pool sparkling clean, but he looks darn fine doing it.

11. I am so grateful to be able to share my wealth with good causes like CLGS and local animal shelters.

12. I am so grateful for the superb health that me and my kids have experienced this year.

13. I am so grateful to be able to drive my dream vehicle ~ Fully Loaded Jeep Wrangler Rubicon

14. I am so grateful that all the puppies went to amazing homes where they will be spoiled rotten.

15. I am so grateful for the wonderful man in my life who loves me and treats me like a princess.

16. I am so grateful for my kids and the way they have grown into such wonderful people who have learned to practice gratitude and the law of attraction, and now experience abundance on every level of their lives.

17. I am so grateful for my creativity, and how throughout this entire year it has continued to grow and led me on some amazing journeys.

18. I am so grateful for figuring out just how to use the law of attraction to experience amazing abundance and knowing with certainly that the path that lies before me is infinite.

19. I am so grateful for great friends, business associates, customers, co-workers, partners, who are all positive thinkers and focus on solutions.

20. I am soooooo grateful that my life is completely and impeccably amazing filled with abundance, love, peace and harmony.


With extreme gratitude, I set forth on this year long adventure. I look forward to blogging about this daily. 

New Years Eve - Laying the Foundation

As I look forward to the beginning of my 365 day challenge, already I can see the law of attraction at work. More tools, readings and inspirations are coming my way.

Appropriately and in perfect timing, the Optimist's Creed came to my attention from a fellow blogger on the Gratitude Log.

The Optimist Creed was first published by Christian Larson in 1912 and adopted (in a shortened version) by Optimist International in 1922. I have changed it to the first person. 

The Optimist's Creed

I promise myself.....

To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet.

To give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.

My task today is to print this out and hang one copy on the mirror in my bathroom so I am reminded of this creed every morning.  I will also prepare a copy to hang at work when I return on January 4th.

The other tool that came my way today was from Rebecca Fine at The Science of Getting Rich.net. I thought this was such a marvelous idea that I will be doing this with my kids tonight as we celebrate New Years Eve and will post our results tomorrow. The idea is simple, as you celebrate the change of the year to 2010, you name all the things you are grateful for over the past year, but you act as if you are celebrating New Years 2011. This is a great way to practice the teachings of the Wallace D Wattles classic "The Science of Getting Rich". You can get a free digital copy of this book from Rebecca's site above.


In extreme gratitude, I end this post for today and with enthusiasm, I look forward to the beginning of my challenge on the first day of 2010.

My Challenge for 2010

I have spent the last number of years reading endless books on self improvement. I have utilized many of the tools that I have learned from these books with success. But much like someone with a mental health illness, once the medication starts working, I figure I no longer need it and fall back into my old patterns and behaviors.

This blog is written for me. Although it is my hope that anyone who reads this will receive inspiration to use the law of attraction in a way that will bring them infinite abundance in all areas of life, this blog is ultimately written out of purely selfish reasons. Why? Because I deserve it. I have the tools to draw to me the life that I have dreamed of, and this blog will be my check in point, my person to answer to, the courthouse that will enforce my law.

The challenge - a year of staying on the bandwagon of positive thinking and using the law of attraction in the way it is meant to be used; Staying grateful for everything that I have, being grateful for everything that is on its way, celebrating life daily, taking inspired action, and mostly, finding and living in my joy.