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You are so Important: Your Unique Role in Shaping Our World

You are so Important in so many ways, and you should know that, and live that, and experience positively, more of that! What you do, how you live, what you put out into the world has a profound impact on the universe, and on everything in it.

Before we get to how important you are, let’s take a look at how just simply being, you affect the world around you.

How you affect the world.

“Just one look, one word, one display of body language can mean everything in the eyes of the perceiver.”

– Fostering Purpose

How a person perceives your look, words, or body language, can affect not only them, but it can affect the people who encounter them. A ripple effect of either positivity, or negativity, will spread, depending on how that communication was received.

The ripple effect

You’ve probably heard of the ripple effect when it comes to how we treat people in our experience. Some may call this karma, you get what you give, what goes around comes around… You’ve probably experienced it for yourself when someone has appeared to put you down or shown some sort of disdain towards you. Whether they intended to or not doesn’t matter, it’s how it’s perceived by the receiver that matters.

In perceiving that negativity, you have invited negative energy into your flow. That negative energy makes you feel lousy and those around you, sensing that negativity or experiencing your reaction to that lousy feeling, are being affected.

We hold a lot of power over the feelings of others, and not being careful with our actions can cause a lot of heartache for them. On the other hand, if careful and intentional, we can use that power to boost morale, encourage growth, motivate, and inspire self-love and self-worth. In doing so we can invite positive experiences into our own lives mirroring what we put out.

To understand this concept, you must first understand positive and negative energy and its importance in our life experience. Understanding this concept can have an astounding impact on the way you experience life, and on the way you influence others lives.

When you can understand the power of energy and live in a way to expand that energy around you, positively, then you can truly accomplish anything, and in doing so you can change lives.

Understanding energy and the concept of like attracts like.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. All things, even objects that appear solid, are made of vibrating and moving energy.

Positive energy vibrates at a higher rate of speed than negative energy. This positive energy will attract experiences that match the vibrational frequency of your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Conversely, negative energy will attract experiences that align with its vibrational frequency.

The quality of the energy we emit into the world, whether positive or negative, can and will affect those around us in corresponding ways. Living in a high-quality, positive energy state results in a positive energy field surrounding you. Your energy field, whether negative or positive, influences the energy fields of those around you.

A positive energy field radiates much farther than a negative one. You’ve likely experienced the uplifting feeling of being near a highly positive person, as well as the draining effect of being around someone with low energy.

Okay let’s talk about your greatness now!

What’s so important about you?

Why are you so important? Why are you worthy of love from yourself, from others, and from the universe? Because, if you remember who you truly are you’ll realize that you are magnificent! You are the child of all that is and ever will be, you’re the creator, the experiencer, the amazing soul that is here to live hard and learn large!

You are the child of the king so to say and the blood of that king runs through your veins. That blood holds the DNA of all that is powerful and all that is important, all that IS. If you carry the DNA of all that is, you at your core, are all that is. Together WE are all that is.

You’re not that person who made this or that mistake. You are not that terrible person that others may have claimed you are. You’re truly the soul that came here and has experienced so much, overcame so much, learned so much, grew so much, and contributed so much. No matter what you have experienced, you’ve learned. No matter what you’ve reaped, you’ve sewn. You have contributed to the experience of the soul whether it was positive or negative. You’ve become this one person that is unique in their experience and like no other in their knowledge and beliefs.

In our current reality, we’re confused and don’t remember who we truly are. We’ve let life kick us around and we’ve listened to what we have been told, by people who don’t know. We’ve been conditioned to believe that this life is just a game of chance and that we get what we get. We forget that we are intelligent, powerful beings, full of light and love. We have forgotten that we have this immense power inside of us to create every single detail of our lives.

You, creating you.

When you can say, “Yesterday I was this person, but today I am this person.” Then you are deciding today to be who you want to be. Yesterday is over and today is now. Everyday you are different, knowing different things, feeling different feelings, believing different beliefs. Every day you are growing, evolving, learning, and experiencing. And if you stay right here, right now, being what you want to be then you are always being what you want to be. When you leave the past where it is which is gone, you can experience the moment in totality, which is now and turns into forever.

Without even thinking about the future, you know that being who you are in the now, always, means you are that forever. And through living positively, things change, and you grow. Your abundance increases in positive ways, but still at your core you remain that amazing person you want to be, not just for yourself but for the world around you.

You hold the power to create your extraordinary life. This power, this light inside of you, grows bigger and bigger as you get better and better at nurturing and cultivating it. As your light shines brighter, your energy expands around you and affects everything and everyone around you. This bright light will light up the way for someone with low energy, likely feeling quite sad and lost.

Your bright light can inspire others to want to brighten their own lights. Your bright light will shine on our planet and amplify our collective light. Our combined light energy, which in turn will heal our planet. That positive energy coming from everyone collectively will ripple and spread and heal the world.

Why does the world need you?

There is something that you have to offer this world, that only YOU can offer.

Nobody else knows the things you know in the way that you know them. No one else can speak the words you speak in the way that you speak them. Nobody else feels the feelings you feel in the way that you feel them. This all means that you are the only one who can offer what you are passionate about to this world.

There’s a wonderful thing about sharing your beautiful positive self with the world. The world starts sharing beautiful positive things with you. The world wants to hear what you have to say and learn what you have to teach! There could never be too many teachers. If there are still people left to learn then there are still things that have not been taught. You may just hold that language that changes lives everywhere. That language, that way of speaking, the way of describing, the way of explaining, that is unique to only you.

Now more than ever, people are seeking to learn about their true selves. This is a time when people are waking up to who we truly are, why we are here, and what our purpose is in this experience.

Let’s look at some other ways you can help to change our world!

Share your love.

Radiate and amplify love

Have you ever sent authentic love to someone? Well, guess what! You can, and it doesn’t matter who they are, or where they are. All you need to do is concentrate on your heart and imagine a light of love, flowing from your chest straight to theirs. Feel that energy flowing out of you.

As you practice and get better at this you will be able to strongly feel that love (energy) rushing from you to them. And don’t worry, sharing that love won’t drain your energy. You will have love energy rushing back in from everywhere, in response to your sharing.

Love attracts love my loves.🖤

Choose your words wisely.

There is so much power in always speaking positively. This means you should always be speaking about what you do want, and never about what you don’t want. In only speaking about what you do want, you will be drawing only positivity into your life. By not wasting your time and energy focusing on the negative things you don’t want in your life, you’re giving that negativity no attention. You’re giving negativity no power. Where your attention goes energy flows so make that energy positive with positive thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Instead of saying “I hope I don’t get stuck in traffic today” say “I hope the roads are nice and clear.” Instead of saying “I hope I’m not late” say “I hope I get there with lots of time to spare.” Give power to positivity, and let positivity grow around you.

When people hear how you speak, and they pick up on your positive vibes, you’ll be setting a great example and prompting them to do the same. The positivity you radiate will be so comforting and uplifting to those around you that you’ll be a pleasure to be around. When you radiate positivity and are a joy to be around, you naturally attract others who exude the same warmth and positivity. Good vibes attract good company.

Compliment others.

There’s got to be something you admire in every person that you interact with. Telling them so will mean far more than you may know. A compliment can be relived in the mind repeatedly, bringing with it the good feelings that it invoked, repeatedly. A compliment can be the boost someone needs to love something about themselves and foster growth in that self-love. It doesn’t cost a thing to give a compliment!

Bonus points for complimenting on something you would like to see manifested in your own life. If you notice this quality in someone else, it’s probably because it’s something you would admire for yourself. Embrace joy in seeing that quality, compliment that quality in others and you’ll be inviting it into your own experience.

Spread some joy.

If the only thing you did in life is spread some joy, love, and faith, then you have contributed to changing the world. In doing so, you will invite more joy, love, and faith into your own life. The world needs you to radiate your positive energy and to be conscious of your feelings and mood. Radiate love and gratitude to all that is around you. Watch as more things to love and be grateful for ripple back to you. What an inspiration to always feel your best!

Conclusion.

Inspire people toward self-love and self-worth, to be inspired toward self-love and self-worth. Encourage growth to be encouraged to grow. Motivate to be motivated. If you live in a way where you are always aware of what you are putting out there, then you can expect that the experiences in your own life to mirror that. Intentionally radiate positivity and watch how your life experience transforms.

Decide who you want to be and be that person starting now and staying in the now. You’ll always be that person. You can choose to be anyone you want to be! You are the person with the power to make your experience what you want it to be. Share the good that you have to share, radiate the love you have to radiate. Inspire by being inspirational for others and for yourself.

Share yourself in a positive way with the world. You have experiences like no other and the things you’ve learned through those experiences can help others. Utilize your remarkable qualities to help others realize their own potential. Remember, you are profoundly significant! 🖤

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Turn Jealousy into Inspiration: Embracing Manifestation and Spirituality

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Jealousy is a complex emotion that often stems from feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, or fear of loss. It can be a destructive force in our lives, leading to resentment, bitterness, and even strained relationships. However, what if we could transform jealousy into something positive? What if we could harness its energy and use it as a catalyst for growth and inspiration? In this blog post, we’ll explore how to turn jealousy into inspiration by incorporating principles of manifestation and spirituality into our lives.

Understanding Jealousy:

Before we can effectively transform jealousy, it’s essential to understand its roots. Jealousy often arises when we compare ourselves to others and perceive their success, possessions, or relationships as threats to our own sense of worth or happiness. It’s a natural human emotion, but it becomes problematic when we allow it to consume us and dictate our actions.

When seen in a different perspective, we can come to realize that it’s our calling to go after those things we desire. It’s our inspiration to strive for growth, transformation, and success. Imagine how seeing jealousy for what it truly is can mean freedom from negative emotions and a reminder of the possibilities that lay before you.

Manifestation and Jealousy:

Manifestation is the belief that our thoughts and beliefs have the power to shape our reality. By focusing our attention and intention on what we desire, we can attract positive outcomes into our lives. However, when jealousy rears its head, our thoughts and beliefs often become clouded with negativity, making it difficult to manifest our desires. When we resent someone for having something we want then we are feeling negative and placing ourselves on a low vibrational frequency. You will never be able to get to a vibrational match to that desire if you are not affiliating having it as a positive experience.

Quote about resenting someone else's success.

Instead of dwelling on feelings of envy or inadequacy, we can shift our focus to abundance and gratitude. Rather than resenting someone else’s success, we can celebrate it as evidence of what is possible. If you didn’t desire for yourself something you seen someone else achieving, then you wouldn’t have had a reaction. You want it, therefore reacted, but the reaction is just misconstrued emotion. By adopting an abundance mindset, we open ourselves up to the possibility that there is more than enough success, love, and happiness to go around. Seeing someone who has what you desire is a reminder and a motivator for you to work toward receiving that desire. Be grateful for those reminders and motivators!

Spirituality and Jealousy:

Spirituality teaches us that we are all interconnected and part of something greater than ourselves. When we embrace this perspective, we realize that someone else’s success does not diminish our own worth or potential. Instead of seeing others as competitors, we can recognize them as fellow travelers on the journey of life.

Practices such as meditation, mindfulness, and self-reflection can help us to foster compassion and empathy towards others. When we approach jealousy from a spiritual perspective, we understand that it is our ego, rather than our true self, that feels threatened by the success of others. By transcending our ego and connecting with our higher self, we can release jealousy and embrace inspiration.

Transforming Jealousy into Inspiration:

Turning jealousy into inspiration requires a shift in mindset and perspective. Instead of viewing someone else’s success as a threat, we can see it as a source of motivation and inspiration. Rather than comparing ourselves to others, we can focus on our own unique journey and path to success.

Practicing gratitude is a powerful way to counteract jealousy and cultivate inspiration. By acknowledging the blessings in our own lives, we can shift our focus away from what we lack and towards what we have to be thankful for. Gratitude opens the door to abundance and attracts more positivity into our lives. Gratitude attracts more things to be grateful for!

Visualization is another effective tool for transforming jealousy into inspiration. By visualizing our own success and happiness, we can align our thoughts and beliefs with our desires. Visualization helps us stay focused on our goals and empowers us to take the necessary actions to manifest them.

Jealousy is a natural human emotion, but it does not have to, and should not, control us. By incorporating principles of manifestation and spirituality into our lives, we can transform jealousy into what it really should be, inspiration. By shifting our mindset, practicing gratitude, and visualizing our success, we can embrace abundance and attract positivity into our lives. So, the next time jealousy rears its head, remember that it’s not a threat, but a reminder. It is an opportunity for growth and inspiration.

Adopting these perspectives can not only have a monumental effect on your health and wellbeing but can also bring opportunities for inspired actions into your awareness. Recognizing these opportunities can guide you onto the path of manifesting those desires for yourself. Inspired actions lead you to your success.🖤

Rock Bottom is a Beautiful Place

We never feel so badly, the push for change, than when we have crashed to the depths of despair.

We all know that rock bottom is an awful feeling place. It’s the lowest of the low, the ultimate destruction of your life as you know it. Your world crashes down all around you, crushing your self-worth, pulverizing your hope, and leaving you with self-loathing guilt and shame. You feel like a complete failure.

Hitting rock bottom can be a terrible, traumatic life experience that can cause severe emotional turmoil, and recognizing you’re there is the first step towards recovering from it. In my own experience, rock bottom was a horrible ride that delivered me to a wonderful destination.

Rock bottom is losing yourself.

Finding yourself at rock bottom usually means that you’ve lost something significant. Most eminently yourself. You have lost your self-respect, your self-confidence, your sense of importance and your feeling of belonging. You’re feeling degraded, worthless, lonely, and you’ve placed insurmountable blame upon yourself. You might feel like you just can’t face another day.

But what if you didn’t have to see it this way?

In a 2008 commencement address at Harvard University, J.K Rowlings spoke of hitting rock bottom. After being struck with a divorce and ensuing poverty, 7 years out of university she realized that she had met her biggest fear. This gave her hope, determination, and motivation to succeed as one of the best authors of our time.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

-J.K Rowlings

If you change your perspective there’s an alternative view.

Stop looking around you at the emptiness of the loss and view it as an opportunity for tremendous growth. You can rebuild something even better than what was there before. You have this opportunity to design the life of your dreams, and there’s nothing in the way now. Reach for hope, and search for purpose, remembering the dreams you once had, but left behind for some reason or another.

Before you lay that first brick, you must come to terms with yourself. Although it’s uncomfortable, it’s extremely important to acknowledge what you have done, and how that makes you feel. Allowing yourself to observe your emotions can be extremely fulfilling, and it’s okay to feel how you do.

Your rock bottom – your responsibility.

Acceptance is essential to your healing and your growth. There is no place for blaming others in this process because this is your story, and ultimately your decisions have placed you here. You may have been a victim in your circumstance, but accepting your role in the situation is key to your growth. You can’t change what has happened, but you can accept it and learn from it. In learning this lesson you’ll gain experience and strength. You’ll be given the gift of knowing what you do not want for your life, but even more importantly, what you do want.

After coming to terms with yourself, be sure to identify the lesson. What was it, what did you learn from it, and how will this impact your decisions in the future? What will you do differently from this point on? If you can’t identify the lesson, then how can you be sure it won’t sneak back in again? And if you can’t find something to change, then where will you find your hope to rebuild? You will be selling yourself short and missing out on an amazing opportunity for personal and spiritual growth, if you don’t ascertain what you’ve learned.

This experience can go very deep, exposing feelings and beliefs you didn’t know you had. This allows you to remove perspectives that do not serve you, and start establishing ones that do. And now, rock bottom becomes your new foundation.

Solid foundation – laying the first brick.

You’ve done the hard work at this point. By now you know what you do not want, and you have a clear picture of what you do want. You’ve accepted that this is where you are and have the hope and motivation to arrive where you want to be. You know what your new life looks like, so now it’s time to start building it.

Your new thoughts, ideas, and feelings become your beliefs. These beliefs create your new mindset. Your mindset is the total sum of your beliefs, the I can, or I can’t, the I will, or I won’t. And your mindset is what fuels your motivation to succeed. Pay close attention to what you are feeding your mind and make sure that your new beliefs about yourself and your goals, align with what you aspire to achieve.

Your rock bottom is your new foundation, and every brick you place upon it has a purpose. These bricks are the future walls that protect you from the past mistakes you’ve made and learned from. Because you now know what they look like, you won’t allow them in again.

You can only go up from here! Each brick you lay, is a great achievement, and these achievements are your motivation to keep building. You’re going to find that you have built something stronger and more resilient than you ever had in the past. You’ll have built the castle you dreamt of all along.

We all make mistakes; I call it growing.

Congratulations on your growth, you’ve survived a traumatic experience. You can now learn from it and rebuild upon it. Isn’t growth a beautiful thing? 🖤

Note: If you are feeling utterly hopeless and can not foresee a positive outcome for yourself, please seek help. If you feel that you are experiencing a suicidal crisis contact:
Listing of world crisis hotlines can be found here: Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World | Psychology Today
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Why You Procrastinate and How to Stop!

So, you want to stop procrastinating, but you’re not sure how? Well, guess what? You are not alone! Like the other 1 in 4 estimated procrastinators in this world, I do it too.

Read on my friend… Not only am I going to show you how to stop it, I’m going to help you figure out why you even do it in the first place.

Here are some common causes:

You don’t know where to start.

When you have tasks that are piling up, it can feel extremely overwhelming. In this case, you need to take some time to list and prioritize these tasks. Take bigger tasks and break them down into smaller, more manageable tasks that you’re more likely to complete. This can get the job started and keep the momentum going, to get through your list.

Let’s say you need to get your whole house cleaned and organized. This is a huge task but breaking it down room by room is much less daunting. If required, even that can be broken down into sections of the room.

Let’s take the kitchen for instance.

Rather than:

1. Clean and organize the kitchen.

Break it down to:

  1. 1. Clean out the fridge
  2. 2. Organize cupboards.
  3. 3. Clean out drawers
  4. 4. Mop floors
  5. And so on… Not only are these tasks smaller, but they are more likely to be completed, and you can feel accomplishment with each one. Maybe you do get the whole kitchen cleaned, as one big task but you didn’t have to, to have reached a goal. Now I’m not saying it’s better to prolong a task, what I am saying is as long as you are reaching those small goals you’re getting somewhere, and you are feeling good about it.

So, list all those tasks, and break down big ones if needed. Next, you should prioritize those tasks, determining which are most important and should be completed first. When deciding, you should focus on the feelings you have regarding each task. Which ones are you thinking about when you’re trying to go to sleep at night? Which ones constantly nag at you throughout your day? These tasks are a higher priority.

Once you have your priorities straight you can set your timelines for each task, Making sure they are realistic and meetable. You can always complete them faster and have that sense of joy for really crushing it, and then jump on to the next ahead of schedule.

One more thing, don’t be afraid to delegate if you can. Teamwork is the dreamwork, right? If you have a hard time with delegating, let go of the idea that only you can do the job right, and let someone else help you out. You can always go back and touch things up that you want to, but how great is it that you could strike that job off your list and get on to the next?

You don’t know the best way to complete the task.

These days we have a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips. You can find tips and tricks on literally anything! Jump on to the net and search for ideas. Watch a video, tutorial or read an article, but make sure not to go down the rabbit hole and waste too much time! This is procrastinating and it’s exactly what we are not doing. Embrace this task as an opportunity to learn something new.

You become distracted easily.

To stop procrastinating, you must learn to steady your thoughts and keep your attention on the one important thing you’re trying to accomplish. You can’t be focused enough on one thing when you’ve got your attention on other things at the same time. When you find yourself distracted, just acknowledge it, correct it, and move on. Practice makes perfect here, you can and will retrain your mind.

Time your task right. Things like hunger or having to stop because you have dinner to cook, or kids to pick up from school are distractions. That’s why it’s important to have an approximate idea of how long a task should take to complete. This way, you will know where to place them in your schedule.

You are a perfectionist.

There is a very simple way to get past this. Do the task well, and once you finish you can go back and perfect it if you need to. You will have much more success if you think of the task as a rough copy. Once you have completed that rough copy, sit back, and take a look. Maybe you’ll be happy with what you’ve done, or you may want to make a couple of tweaks, but the work that takes the time is complete and you didn’t have to overthink it.

You have a fear of failure.

First, there is no such thing as failure. No matter what, you can not fail. You can make mistakes and you can learn from them. You can try again and improve upon those mistakes, and you can do this as many times as it takes. At some point, you are going to find yourself mastering the task. As many times as it takes, you will be learning and improving.

It’s better to try than to not try at all. Accept a new challenge and have faith in yourself. Give it your best and see where you end up.

You are relying on last-minute pressure.

There is a very good chance that if you wait until the last minute, you are not going to have as good an outcome as you could with more time. In procrastinating, you will find yourself rushing and stressing. You will exhaust yourself by putting in the extra hours that you now need to complete it on time. You won’t have time for snags you may encounter when you’re now rushing to meet deadlines.

There is just no good excuse for procrastinating. You can start now and proceed with a more relaxed timeline which saves you from attaching unpleasant emotions to the task. There is a certain satisfaction in crushing your goals ahead of schedule.

You are just plain lazy.

I don’t believe you are lazy at all.

Depressed? Stressed? Dealing with anxiety? These I can understand. If you get yourself into a situation where you have so much to do that it resembles a mountain you must climb, then you begin to feel awful about it. And as the days go by with that task left incomplete, depression and anxiety will build and build. That mountain will appear to get larger and larger, even though it’s just the hill that you started with.

You have all these unpleasant emotions attached to it now, making it so much more daunting than if you had just done it when it first needed doing. That depression, stress and anxiety is increasing as the window of time gets smaller.

What can you do? Commit to just 10 minutes. Drag yourself up off that couch and go get started. Once you do, you will probably find yourself working even longer at it.

You’re ready to stop procrastinating!

Remember if you’re stressed and having anxiety, it’s the mountain that’s causing it. Don’t get it backward, the task isn’t the mountain, NOT doing the task creates the mountain.

As you work away, remind yourself, that once job is complete, your anxiety over it will disappear. Every task you complete is going to bring you to a better feeling place.

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Reward yourself with some downtime when you finish. You can finally enjoy a sense of accomplishment. This guilt-free lazy time, when nothing is waiting to be completed is the best!

You have complete control, so love yourself enough to do the work, free your mind, and end the procrastinating, once and for all.

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