Out with the old and in with the new. Cleaning house will give you instant feelings of gratification and accomplishment. Having space for new things will bring different kinds of possessions into your life just as surely as your thoughts will.
Spring cleaning isn’t just for windows and it isn’t just for Spring time. The best way to start a new cycle in life is to wipe away the layers of accumulated dust. And dust can accumulate under the best of circumstance.
Time to throw away the old beliefs, the self-limiting speeches and your same old story. Get out your largest trash bags and start filling them up with the proverbial baggage you just don’t need anymore.
Clutter causes disfunction and if you’re not careful you will bury yourself under the years of trash that will most certainly hold you back. Think of yourself as you would your car. A full detail every few months will have you breathing long deep sighs of fresh air.
Put your old beliefs to rest. Go through the ceremony, engage in the mourning period and cut the umbilical cord. Do whatever it takes to bury the past where it belongs so you can move forward with an open mind and embrace the miracles in any given moment.
Letting go is hard. Changing is scary. Get it out. Let your tears cleanse you. Now’s the time. April showers bring May flowers!
It’s time for a fresh start. Clean house. Wash up. Disinfect. Set new examples. Surprise yourself. Be curious. Be refreshing. Re-set your clock now. Glow, sparkle and twinkle. Make a wish.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
If you had access to the keepers of your life flashing before your eyes what questions would you ask? How would you greet the efferevescent premonitions? Whatever would you wear?
You can’t really wait because life waits for no one and you can’t look toward the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind because well, that’s just not where you would look.
How many years have you been here? How many impressions do you carry in your music box? If in the glimpse of kaleidoscope eyes you were given an opportunity to see who you really are would you take it?
You may not remember all of yesterday and tomorrow only half matters. Your life is not a book mark or a paper weight. It’s a night in shining armor and the most heavenly scent.
Your life is in the moment of a single breath and a droplet of rain. A place where the lilacs whisper in the wind and where magic swirls around in the air.
The future can be capricious while the next day may never come. Honor the significance and don’t forget to blink. Time might even slow to a most certain stop while you wonder.
Measurements don’t apply here and feelings are just words if you don’t know the definitions. The infinite possibilities are taken from you if you forget. Liken it to a wish upon a star.
Is there still hope in you? Find it. Is there trust beyond the depths of the deep? Drink of it. Is there promise that your light will shine eternally? Believe in it.
Refuse to consider the hyperbole and make your own luck. Forever has been here all along if you just know where to look.
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“The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are,
with the very next question you face.”
~ Napoleon Hill
Being the W Chaser generates all kinds of questions. I most certainly want to know the where, who, why, and when of every little thing. But how do we know the right question to ask? Where do we go for answers?
We know there are no stupid questions (thank God), and the more we ask the closer we get to the truths of the matter. If we spend more time asking questions instead of saying “I” this or “me” that, we will grow exponentially. We don’t live in simple times so questions are changing. But are the days of a Thoreau influenced rhetoric really a thing of the past?
Life moves fast and keeping up with the Jones’s is no easy feat. People are rushing around in such haste, sometimes we forget our manners. We misplace our compassion and we are quick to judge. We react so fast that by the time we are done arguing we aren’t even talking about what sparked the flame to begin with.
What we bury will eventually come to the surface. The rain will come wash away the cover and we are left bare to face the veracity of our existence. We will have inflicted pain on love ones. We will have become so self absorbed we will forget that anyone needs us. We will become so wrapped up in what we own we will forget who we are. We will walk around in transference and never get to the bottom of anything.
The self absorbed human prophecy of consumption is bound to conquer, if we don’t relinquish the ego. Time promises change if we can be without judgements and to be without judgements is to engage. A rhetorical question and the Socratic method. Inquiring minds want to know and investigating souls are bound to grow.
If we can only stop ourselves from the engagement of the defenses long enough to ask questions. Take time every day to sit in silence and ask yourself some questions or one big question. Write it (them) down or say it (them) out loud. Before you go to bed at night ask a question and ask for the answer to come to you in your dreams. If you wake up in the middle of the night, write down whatever you remember and see if the answer to your question is there. Pick a question and write it down with your writing hand on a piece of paper then with your other hand write down whatever comes to mind. See what happens.
Remember when we were kids and we questioned everything around us? That’s how we get to the bottom of it. We can’t be afraid to ask.
“Ask and ye shall receive.” Matthew 21:22
Really? Really.
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Checks and balances. We go through most of our lives trying to acquire stability, to get it right and to evolve.
My genius mother used to say, “Don’t forget, you are the company you keep, so choose your friends carefully”. “Umm okay well I’m 10 so my friends are kinda limited to whomever is in walking distance”.
Then as I got older I realized some other meanings to this very wise suggestion. So being the late bloomer that I am, I have most recently set out on a journey to conquer some things and change the vibrational level I’ve been residing on. When you change your address, you change your neighbors.
There is no getting around the truth and the truth is, we grow up surrounding ourselves with that which we know. It’s comfortable, familiar and nothing but a prevorbial brick wall. Have you ever been in a relationship with someone you argue with all the time? Is your spouse or best friend a heavy drinker but you don’t drink at all? Do you surround yourself with people that uplift you or deplete you?
I’ve spent a large portion of life in denial. Being the social butterfly found me in the company of other people with the same affiliations. There is nothing uplifting in staying out all night only to have to recover in bed all day. We were facilitators. We abandoned our values long enough to seek a higher consciousness. What goes up most come down.
When you engage in a false hope with people living the same erroneous existence, you are incarcerating yourself with a long list of liabilities. And the more impediments you add to the pile the deeper you go in the hole. Well if you want to get out of the hole. Stop digging.
Taking stock of your life isn’t easy but it is courageous. They say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Well isn’t it time you acted as a substitute while you await their arrival? We are always stronger than we think. We are always capable of miraculous feats and sometimes it takes some good old fashion isolation to get us where we need to go.
Twice now in my lifetime I have made tremendous recovery. I set out to change something in my lifestyle and in order to truly and unequivocally make the change I had to separate myself from all of what I know. I had to cleanse the patterns and habits out of my system. I spent a lot of time alone taking stock of my choices. Why was I making decisions in my life that left me feeling berated or depleted? Because it was all I knew.
Yes I am successful. I do very well. I am lucky for my career and not a day goes by that I don’t say thank you for my blessings. But if I’m this good I know I can be better. It’s time to surround myself implicitly with that which is uplifting. Time to rewrite my story. Exchange the liabilities for some valuables.
It’s time to acquire assets. The benefits will make us better people and what I realized was the truth in being the company you keep. I find myself surrounded by people with the same hopes, dreams and determination as me. There is solace in the mutual exchanges of energy. Walking away from someone with a smile on your face means you are being uplifted. Friendships are meant to be inspiring. Undeniable confidence is contagious. We’re not here to be better than each other we are here to be better together. Assets know that. Liabilities want to control you.
“Be the change you want to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) ).
When you set your sights on being the best person you can be, you will find yourself surrounded by the same kinds of people. Trade in your liabilities for some uplifting assets and see where the wind takes you. Birds of a feather, flock together.
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Sometimes good old fashion pen to paper is enough to clear your head, jog your memory or embrace some silliness.
The surroundings are overcast with hints of winter and the ocean ripples toward far away lands. The trees whisper in the wind and you can’t help but wonder what they’re saying. Some harmless brain spew promises a glorious day of creativity. Dr. Seuss inspirations encourage light hearted banter but your mind doesn’t let the Oscar Wilde in you get any rest. Delving into history shows that you’re made up of both. This is where the past meets now and it’s a quiet collision. Some memories never leave you so you carry them around like a lucky charm. I hope Matt Andrews is playing a piano somewhere singing. I hope there is space and there is someone in it. I hope there is room and it is occupied. The moon is full and gives light so you can see what is ahead of you. A subtle glance. I catch you. I look away and I feel your eyes on me. Imagination works its wonder. Memory of a kiss and kiss pull away. I didn’t mean to leave you but the words are on paper only. Feelings are internal and kept to yourself. You look at me and I want to be lost in you forever. There is an open door but you still knock. You walk in and look around. Searching the room for me. It spins, it tango’s, it mixes drinks. A picture is taken, a demo recorded and the laughter fills the air. The drum you play is the heart. The words you sing the soul. The ivory keys on your piano keep you moving. You’re intriguing. The linear righteousness has vanished. You’re famished. You ask. You speak. You know. You hear. You need. You want. You’re horizontal but you look down. You’re vertical but you see behind you and I may be closer to being found. Lights flicker, candles lit. No breath to blow out. Sulphur fills the air and a cough is heard. Footsteps on the wooden floor and they approach. But they don’t. It’s just a tapping. Misconceptions. Sony sound. Rewind and do a playback please. I missed it. Digital enhancements. Qualitative kisses. It always comes back to kisses. So give notice. Seven days in advance. The flash is on but there is no film. That radio plays no music. The only sounds that you can hear are the warnings. Because this is only a test. This is only a test.
Everyone loves a payday. Validation for a job well done. Recognition for accomplishments. Endorsements for good behavior.
The payoffs come in many forms. They are compliments from loved ones, awards for good measure, and accolades for being honorable.
There are payments for services rendered, bonuses, incentives, motivations, and stimulants. There is nurturing, caring, promoting, developing and strengthening. There is looking outside ourselves for formal cognizance and there is looking within ourselves for our own self-preservation.
If we don’t allow people to hold us up, we can never be let down. Self discovery will cast a light on the elements within ourselves that inspire us to be responsible for who we have become. Perception is in the eye of the beholder and it’s time to live up to our standards.
Change begins when we love ourselves enough hear the heartbeats in our story.
Important question 101: After your payoff do you feel elevated or depleted?
If you work out hard for an entire week why would your payoff at the end of the week be a fat greasy cheeseburger with french fries? Is that a celebration or self deterioration?
If you work out hard for an entire week why wouldn’t your payoff be a nice 30 or 60 minute massage to comfort your aching muscles?
It doesn’t matter if your payoff has been depleting or encouraging. Our bodies and our minds get used to both kinds and our subconscious does not discriminate. It will follow along like Simon Says engaging in whatever payoff pattern we employ.
It’s time to try something different. Something new. A payday that benefits us in all the right ways.
You have to look at what you want to change and have a replacement ready for that in which we have the power to change. I always find it best to work in lists and columns so you can list the pattern or activity on one side and the payoff counterpart on the other. This time we can make a third column and add what our new payoff is going to be.
Remember repetition breeds success. Any habit can be adjusted, changed or replaced in 21 days. Be honest with yourself so you can invoke the change you wish to see in your life. The new emotional paydays will be worth the effort.
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A little reminder for all of us that undeniable faith and constant repetition will replace any old thoughts, conquer any bad habit and make us the beautiful, glowing, loving beings we are meant to be… You ready to commit?
And think not you can, Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course.
~ Khalil Gibran
We spend our lives looking for love, being in love and loving the idea of love. Songs tell us all we need is love and our hearts fill when we’re in love. Love moves mountains, and love brings smiles to our faces and sparkles to our eyes. Love is within us and love is all around us. Love is also available from above us.
We know there is love from the Heavens. That’s a given. But what about the idea of refreshing our love state from an unconventional source? What if we could have a love affair with the moon?
Chinese Taoist and Feng Shui Masters teach that the `yang` energy is from the Sun and the `yin` energy is from the Moon. The yin energy holds the feminine attributes and aligning ourselves with the celestial energy of the yin can help us find balance and new perspective.
The possibility of garnering energy from the moon was first presented to me by a dear friend and one of the VP’s of a very large music company. Once the seed was planted I set out to not only find out more, but to experience this for myself. There have been many failed attempts. I didn’t know what to look for, how to feel or what I was supposed to see (if anything).
There are different moon phases each month called lunar phases. Since we are all energy and everything around is energy it seems only fitting that we work with the moon to help us manifest new goals and dreams.
The first phase is the new moon and is when we should plant our new seeds (new beginnings, new business venture, new relationship etc). The second phase is called (my favorite) the crescent moon. This is when we would develop our objectives and make our plan of action. The crescent moon is followed by the quarter moon and this is when we take action. If you leap the net will appear. Trust will take you far during this phase.
The Gibbous moon is said to be one of the most powerful phases of the moons cycle and insists that we wait. If we sit still long enough to receive this, it will energize us going into the next phase of the disseminating moon. This phase is when we manifest (reap what you sow). This is a time to get out and share with the world.
The Last Quarter initiates reflection and improvement. Look at the things that aren’t working for you and pull out the weeds. Welcome any new ideas that could replace the old ones. Now is a good time to complete any unfinished project laying around.
The completion of the lunar phase ends with the Balsamic Moon. A time to center your thoughts and intentions on the future. Looking forward will move your feet and your thoughts in the same direction. Let go of any fears and trust in the inherent possibilities your future holds.
Last night while walking Sir Henry, I happened to be perfectly angled to the beautiful full moon. Focussing on the energy around her, I let my eyes go unfocussed and cleared my mind. I gave myself over to the energy and for the first time, I witnessed it. What can only be described as an aura of a glittering white light at first dancing around the moon and then it looked like a cone of white energy was reaching directly for me to cover me and bathe me in a heavenly effervescence.
I read once that we should think of ourselves as one with everything around us… “I am not an organism in the environment, I am an enviro-organism”. Being one with the world helps us keep an attitude of gratitude, a desire to be of service, and an appreciation for everyone and everything around us. And I really think it was Gods intention that we embrace everything He gave us.
So let’s give what we get and let’s give so the getting gets really good.
I love you… Pay it forward…
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