• Their breath is not your breath
• Their eyes are not your eyes
• Their skin is not your skin
• Their lips are not your lips
• Their heart is not your heart

Listen to what they have to say Dear One, ask for their advice, guidance, support and perspective, consider their point of view — if you think it will help.

But in the end, the experience of it will be yours and yours alone; seen by your eyes, sensed by your skin, touched by your lips, felt by your heart.

In the end, it is not about what they want for you Dear One, it’s about what you want for you – and you are the only one that can decide that.

Do you want to know what you can do to feel braver Dear One, to be braver?

We’ll tell you.

Being braver does not require that you become physically or emotionally stronger than you already are. It does not require that you become more fearless or aggressive than you already are either. Nor does it require you to take more risks, be more courageous, or be more willing to just-do-it.

All that is required for you to be braver than you already are Dear One, is for you to trust more than you already do.

• Don’t say you can’t before you try
• Don’t say they won’t before you ask
• Don’t say it’s impossible just because no one else has ever done it before
• Don’t give up before you give it all you’ve got

These are all just different ways for you to exercise lazy Dear One.

And we don’t think that being lazy is a good enough reason for you to not have everything that you want.

Do you?

If you are feeling badly Dear One, because they are hurting, if you are feeling sad for them, if you are hurting for them, feeling their pain, and wanting desperately to help in any way that you possibly can, our advice to you is this – DON’T.

Don’t try to help. Don’t try to fix it. Don’t try to make it all better. Don’t start looking for answers. Don’t try to come up with brilliant solutions. Just don’t.

Here’s what we want you to do instead.

Focus on feeling good. Focus on feeling better. Focus on whatever it is that you need to focus on to release your sadness for them and come back into alignment with your higher self, with your connected self, with your confident, all knowing, and joyous self that has absolutely no doubt at all whatsoever that everything is going to work out for the best.

Once you do that Dear One, once you are in a place where your vision of what’s possible is stronger than your vision of what is, then, and only then will you be in a position to help in any significant and meaningful way.

Contrary to popular belief Dear One, managing your daily schedule is not just another task for you to contend with or another opportunity for you to exercise your highly superior or greatly lacking time management and organizational skills.  It is also not just the practice of finding ways to fit in or juggle every single opportunity, obligation, need, want, or desire that crosses your path.

What it is actually is an opportunity for you to engage in a very sacred and divine act.  One of the most sacred available to you actually – the act of managing your life, of choosing, of selecting, of deciding how you want to spend your time, who you want to spend it with, and what it is you want to do with this very precious gift that has been granted to you, to use as you wish, each and every day in this physical reality.

You can choose to see the management of your time as a daily task or obligation or you can choose to see it as a sacred act.

Your choice will tell you much about your view and approach to life Dear One, so pay close attention to your answer.

Once you come to the realization Dear One, that feeling good or better, being happy, and experiencing joy through connection with your source, yourself, nature, or those around you, really is the most important thing, then choosing and making decisions about your life day in and day out, really should become a much easier, much less conflicted process for you.

You are not in this alone, Dear One.

But you alone, are the only one who can change things.

If you want things to be different, if you want a different life, different circumstances, different relationships, you’re going to have to start choosing differently.

You, and you alone are the only one who can make that happen.

There is a very distinct difference between abundance and excess Dear One.

Do you know what that difference is?

Intention.

• Abundance is what is generated when great quantities are amassed (allowed) as a result of actions motivated by joy, love, excitement, trust, generosity, passion and an open heart.
• Excess is what is generated when great quantities are amassed (allowed) as a result of actions motivated by fear, anger, shame, a desire to escape, compete, justify, prove a point, or win.

The actions taken to create both may very well be the same, but rest assured, that the outcomes generated as a result will most definitely not be.

Abundance will empower you, fuel you, lift you up, and excess will overwhelm you, drain you, and weigh you down.

So just in case you were wondering Dear One, while you are in the process of creating, yes, intention matters, a lot.

With one hand reaching out holding on to your past, and the other reaching out holding to your future, it is no wonder that you feel stretched so thin in the present Dear One.

That which is for your greatest good, is and will always be, in the present.

The tradition of joining both hands together at your heart for prayer, for meditation, for your daily practice, is meant to be a reminder to you Dear One.

Be. Here. Now.