A piece of you is here, Dear One, and a piece of you is over there.  A piece of you is at your desk.  A piece of you is worrying about a friend.  A piece of you is planning dinner.  A piece of you is getting ready for what’s next, what if, and what could be. And a piece of you is thinking about all of the things that you need to do, want to do, have done but don’t believe that you have done well enough, and so on.

We get it.  You know how to do multiple things at once (or at least try to).  It is a skill that you have been practicing for most of your life with varying degrees of success.

But what if today you tried something new, Dear One?

What if today, instead, you practiced doing only one thing a time?

It is the fastest way we can think of that will help you to pull yourself right back together again.

There is no rule anywhere, Dear One, that says that you have to feel badly when dealing with a bad situation.

Yes, it’s true that you can’t always choose how you feel.

But it is also true that you can always choose what you think.

And you can choose to think a different thought, a better feeling thought, anytime that you would like.

Some may think that doing so is nothing more than an exercise in denying what is.

But we would call it, getting yourself into a better feeling place so that you can more effectively deal with what is.

We challenge you to try and find something wrong with that.

Your life is meant to be a journey, Dear One; a wonderful, exciting, enlightening, inspiring, challenging, mind blowing, creative, collaborative journey.

It’s not a job.

So quit treating it like one.

Let go and let yourself enjoy the day.

This is not a test, Dear One.  And it is not some puzzle to figure out either.  Challenges are not trials.

This is your life.  YOUR life, to do with as you please.

There truly are no have to’s. There are only choices, and they are all yours to make.

At long last, here is the answer that you have been looking for, Dear One.

How to make them all happy, in two easy steps:

STEP 1
Make yourself happy, do that which brings you happiness, because you can’t share something with someone else that you don’t first possess yourself.

STEP 2
Teach them by example what it looks like to take responsibility for creating your own happiness, because in the end, if they really want to be happy, they are going to have to learn how to choose it for themselves.

Fear is a powerful attractor.

It serves to concentrate, focus, fixate all of your energy on a single idea, object, scenario or outcome, bringing you into vibrational alignment with it, and therefore inviting it into your reality.

The same can be said about faith, Dear One.

Are you ready to reclaim your life, Dear One?

Do you want to know how to do it?

You do it one conscious decision at a time.

• Simple?          Yes.
• Easy?              That is for you to decide.

Do you want to know how to be loved the way that you want to be loved, Dear One?

Love yourself well.

Show them how it’s done.

If you are looking for simple directions, Dear One, that will help you get from where you are to where you want to be, here they are:

• Always look up more than you look down
• Always look forward more than you look back
• Always keep your attention focused more on where you want to be, and less on where you don’t
• Always follow your smile, heart, and intuition

And always do the best you can to allow yourself to enjoy the trip.

Now, get moving.

You are not a disappointment, Dear One.  We are not disappointed in you.  We never have been, and we never will be. Ever.

Why?

Because we have no expectations of you.  We have only love, acceptance, compassion, support, guidance, and applause for you.

We require nothing of you, nothing from you.  And we never will.  You simply can’t let us down.

We don’t have a list of rules that we need you to follow, or a set of demands that we need you to meet, before we will give you our love.

It is already yours.  All of it.  We couldn’t love you more than we do right now, even if we tried.

So if that was one of your worries, Dear One, if that was one of your fears, that you were not, that you are not, living up to our expectations, up to spirits expectations, of what you are meant to do, be, have, or accomplish in this life, you can at long last, let that one go, once and for all.