Feeling Overwhelmed

… is always MORE OVERWHELMING than the actual tasks at hand.

Nothing is ever as challenging as we think it’s going to be.

Whether we have too much on our plates, or are feeling in-over-our-heads with a project(s), we inadvertently tend to build up anxiety over getting it all done/achieving it on time, etc… We naturally default to feeling overwhelmed, but the overall feelings of “being overwhelmed” are much more overwhelming than if we were to just sit down and work out the logistics of doing the project and/or setting the schedule. Once you shed the light of consciousness on your anxieties, you can see that it is never as bad as you think it will be.

Instead of worrying about how to tackle a project and pushing it off for weeks feeling overwhelmed, sit down and start it. You will soon see that it is not as bad as you thought. Nothing is as difficult as are the feelings of overwhelm. Things are never as difficult as we think they will be. But we spend countless amounts of energy fretting over it and that is the energy that we could be channeling into something more constructive.

Take back your power. Don’t give it away to worry about something that needs to get done. Live one moment at a time and by the time you get up to doing what you have been feeling overwhelmed with, you realize it isn’t so bad after all and much easier than you thought.

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To Be a Beautiful Snowflake

… you have to stand out in the COLD.

And no one likes to stand out in the cold. It usually means that you are alone and uncomfortable.

But the snowflake can only exist out in the cold. It is the only place that can support it.

We are all beautiful snowflakes – one-of-a-kind, original and unique. We can only thrive and be ourselves when we stand out in the cold and stand up for who we are. It is not always convenient and not always comfortable but always necessary in the evolution of our lives.

Being who you are means respecting your needs, wants, interests and fears – the whole package and standing up for it even if it is inconvenient and uncomfortable. There will even be times when you will be unpopular or even misunderstood.

No one should ever doubt themselves, their worth or their value. Everyone is unique and beautiful in their own right and everyone is worth fighting for. To truly be that beautiful snowflake, you have to stand out in the cold. It’s easy to stay inside in the warmth. It’s harder to take a stand and defend who you are by taking the road less traveled. After all, the cold isn’t for everyone, but the cold will certainly attract just the right ones to you. Do you want to be like everyone else and take the easy way out or do you want to work hard to take a stand and be yourself? The rest of your life awaits your decision. Who will you be?

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Time to Wake-up

… or you will sleepwalk your way through life.

Most of us are not consciously living our lives, we are unconsciously making our way through a maze of daily distraction. Unfortunately we exist in a state of continual anxiety and organized chaos to which we have managed to desensitize ourselves. Today generally we live our lives on automatic pilot and we’ve trained ourselves to proceed with blinders on as a means of protecting ourselves. There are some things that we just do not want to see and so we turn a blind eye to them. We think this psychological cocooning keeps us safe but in actuality, it creates much bigger problems for us. 

If you are not awake, you will miss your life. It’s as simple as that. You will miss all the subtle signs that the universe is bringing you if you are not conscious. You will miss the opportunities for growth and happiness as they present themselves.

Wake up and see what is happening right in front of you. Do you want to know what is going on in your life? Look at your landscape. Your landscape and everything around you is a reflection of what is going on inside of you. So when you can see what is clearly playing out in front of you, you are in a better place to make decisions that will help you live a better life.

Life is too short to walk it in the dark. Put the lights on. Shed the light of consciousness on your life and start to put the pieces together. Once you can see where you are going, the road ahead will always be much smoother. Time to wake up.

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When a Relationship Ends

… you are supposed to MOVE ON.

It doesn’t matter how or why it ends, it only matters that you acknowledge the ending and take the learning with you.

Relationships are opportunities for us to grow and learn. When you learn what you have needed to learn from each other, then the relationship ends. It is time to start a new chapter to practice your learning in a new situation.

Now, that does NOT mean that the relationship will never come back to you in a newer, healed form later on. But it does tell you that for now, your work with each other is complete.

Problems arise when we do not let go of the relationship, but hold on out of fear of need or fear of being alone. When you hold on too long, it only creates frustration, pain and stagnation and ultimately will keep all happiness and growth from you.

When a relationship ends, the most important thing you can do is to be strong and learn to graciously accept the new changes. Trust in the universe to bring you to where you need to be. If your relationship was not meant to end, it wouldn’t be ending. If it is ending, it is because it is time for it to do so.

Don’t drive your relationship into the ground by holding on too long. Everything happens for a reason and despite the fact that you may feel it is not yet time for your relationship to be ending, the universe may just have other plans for you. Learn to trust and learn to find the “good” in “goodbye,” for it is ALWAYS there.

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Need is Never Love

… it is NEED.

Only love is love.

But we confuse the two. We get into situations where we think because we love someone that we NEED them in order to feel whole. If you are needing someone to be something or do something for you to feel whole, then realize that that is never love – it is in fact only need.

Need is what we need to learn to give to ourselves. Once we take care of our own needs, then real love follows. But we have a habit of looking for love and then putting our needs on that love as if it is our love’s responsibility to fix us or save us from ourselves.

It is no one else’s responsibility to give you what you NEED. It is your responsibility to take care of your own needs and make sure you always have what you need in order to feel whole in yourself. When you can manage your needs effectively, real love has the opportunity to complement you, not complete you. When you manage your needs, you find that the love you attract is always able to give you what you need, because you have given it to yourself first.

For example, if you need someone to provide for you, learn to provide for yourself.

If you need someone to see you as successful, find success in yourself.

If you need someone to see you as beautiful, see the beauty in yourself.

Once you have honored those needs in yourself, real love will be able to provide you with so much more richness and happiness. So remember, need is need – it is never love.  Real love is the ability to give yourself what you need in order to feel whole. All you need is love – real love to be whole and it starts with yourself.

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When Life Poses More Questions Than Answers

… you’re in the RIGHT place.

But we never like uncertainty. We feel as if we need to know the answers to everything in advance. When you’re faced with many questions and uncertainties, it means that you are in a phase of personal growth where you are learning about yourself and the world around you is subsequently changing to fit your needs.  In other words, you are in a period of transformation. Transformation never comes about with great ease, it comes about through questioning and trial and error.

If you are not questioning the world around you, then you are not growing and evolving. Questioning your world pushes you to open up to new directions and new opportunities that you might not have otherwise discovered. Contentedness breeds mediocrity. Uncertainty breeds discovery.  

It’s time to ask more questions and discover more of the world around you. We all seek to find a world where we can feel comfortable and make a difference. If you do not question your role daily, how can you grow to expand yourself and find where you need to be? Life is a process and asking questions is the ignition key to success. Stop thinking you have all the answers. No one has all the answers. If we did, there would be no reason to be here. Start questioning your life, it can only bring you to a much better place.

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Life Has No Remote

… you have to change the channel yourself.

Nothing good ever comes easily in life. Nothing. If you want greatness, you have to work at it. In our society we have become lazy at navigating our lives.

We prefer to sit back and press FAST FORWARD through the uncomfortable bits to get to our goals.

We prefer to hit REWIND and sit stuck in past relationships and situations that have long outlived their purpose in our lives.

But what we do not do enough of is to hit PLAY and live in the moment and realize that as we are trying to fast forward our lives, we are missing the spaces in between that could change us. And when we are looking back at the REWIND, we are not allowing ourselves to grow and evolve forward in the moment.

Living life in PLAY mode makes people uncomfortable because they cannot control the outcome. Life’s outcomes are NEVER meant to be controlled. They are meant to be lived through and experienced deeply. You can only live your best life in PLAY mode.

Life has no remote. If you allow it to play out, you will be brought to the most optimal conclusion for your highest good. If you try and use the remote, you may just allow your free will to take you on a ride.

Time to throw out the remote. Be in the moment and allow your best life to play out. Your transformation will happen while life is playing out before your very eyes. Are you ready to play?

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Do You Want To Change The World?

… start by changing yourself.

It all starts with YOU. As  Ghandi said, “BE the change you want to see in the world.”

We never realize our power. We never realize just how much influence we personally have in the world. We never think we can make a difference by ourselves. We are very wrong.

Every act of kindness – every smile – every compliment we give changes our molecular structure. It shifts our energy and helps us to create more light in the world. Not only do you feel better, but the planet responds in kind.

When we focus on spreading love and kindness, our planet heals. When we focus on spewing venom towards each other, competing with each other and building our personal wealth to the detriment of being kind to the person hurting next to us, we’ve lost the lesson. Selfishness breeds pain and misery on a personal & global level.  

Natural disasters are Mother Earth’s response to hate, anger, mis-used power, greed, materialism and waste. Do you want to change the world? Start by changing yourself. Put more positive energy out into the universe in small ways everyday. Smile at a stranger – compliment your colleague – offer to help someone in need – small random acts of kindness will go a long way to helping you live the best life you can.

Circumstances do not change outside of you until you undergo a change on the inside. Embrace positive energy and share it with others. You might just find that the things you are looking for in life find their way miraculously to your door.

Be the change you want to see in the world. And the world will change around you. What are you waiting for?

 

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When the Burden Gets Too Heavy

… learn to lighten your load.

Not every issue has direct relevance on your life. Yet as humans, we tend to carry every burden on our shoulders as if it was our own. Maybe we are empathetic, maybe we are sensitive to other’s plights, maybe we are just kind people – whatever the excuse, we do not need to carry others’ issues, struggles or negative behaviors upon our shoulders. Life gets much simpler and easier when we learn to own what is ours and give the rest back.

Your work in life is to get yourself to the “top of the mountain” with as much ease and enjoyment as possible. You cannot get to the top of the mountain with ease if you are carrying bags upon bags of other people’s traumas and opinions and judgments. In order to succeed in your own life, you have only to carry what you need in order to make yourself happy. When you have what you need, you have enough to share with others, but when your bags are full of what isn’t serving you, you take yourself down, exhaust yourself and leave yourself feeling hopeless and filled with despair.

Decide today that you are not going to hold onto anything in life that doesn’t serve you – whether it may be a certain person or other’s opinions of you, or other’s dysfunction with themselves or with their peers, etc… Whatever drama or nonsense is going on around you, learn to let it pass through you. Don’t pack it up and take it up the mountain with you. If the situation doesn’t have a direct bearring on your life in a POSITIVE WAY, learn to not take it on as yours. The work in life is in learning to streamline your baggage, not in carrying everyone else’s up the mountain. Carrying other’s burdens does not make you the superhero, it makes you the fool. Afterall, your carrying their baggage doesn’t help them learn their lessons and by doing so, you have just made life harder for yourself. Who wins here? No one.

Give your back a rest. Give others their own baggage to carry up the mountain. Everyone will get there in their own time and with their own learnings and comfort level. Let the journey to the top begin.

 

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