Love is an inside job Dear One.   Totally and completely.

Experiencing it, enjoying it, feeling as though you have enough of it in your life, has very little to do with them, with their thoughts, feelings, actions, beliefs, and behavior towards you, and everything to do with you.

If you are not open to it, if your heart is not open to receiving love, if you don’t practice loving yourself and others, you will never feel it, you will never feel as if you have enough of it in your life, no matter how much they love you, no matter how often they tell you, no matter how many different ways they try to show you.

But, if you are open to it Dear One, if you open your heart to the experience of love, to the love that exists all around you, that is flowing to you and through you at all times, you will never be without it, you could never be without it, you will never know the experience of feeling a lack of it in your life again.

Just in case you needed it Dear One, here is one more reason why no matter what, under any circumstance, you should always be yourself.

Because the reality of you, of who you are, is and always will be infinitely more powerful, more likable, more effective, more creative, more beautiful, more everything, than any illusion of you ever could be.

And the truth of it is that whether they admit it or not (to you or to themselves),  the people that you are putting on the act for can tell the difference anyway.

• Who said that you were not worthy Dear One?
• Who said that your opinion didn’t count?
• Who said that you were less important?
• Who said that you were not worth it?
• Who said that you could never do it?

And who chose to believe that they were right?

Fear is not a choice Dear One.

Anger is not a choice either.

Neither is resentment, guilt, hatred, doubt, insecurity, remorse, jealousy, lust, or despair.

They are all feelings.

And feelings do not dictate actions Dear One.

Your choices do.

Whatever your priorities are Dear One, regardless of how long your list is, we implore you to please add one more; make enjoying the process, enjoying the path, one of them.

Prioritize it just as high, or even higher than achieving your goals.

That way, win or lose, success or failure, victory or defeat, you come out on top.

So what do you think? Can you make room for one more?

You don’t have to fight the brewing storm Dear One, or fear it, run from it, hide from it or prepare to brace yourself against it.

You’ve got another choice you know.

You can simply allow it to come, and trust yourself enough to know that you are strong enough, wise enough, and resilient enough to handle it, and whatever it may bring your way.

Because you are.

If you don’t like something the way that it is Dear One, don’t try to change it.

That’s right. You heard us correctly.

Don’t try to improve it, fight it, repair it or make it better.

Don’t exert your very valuable energy trying to twist it, turn it, mold it, or fold it into something else, into something new, into something that you want it to be.

Let it be Dear One, just as it is.   Let that which you don’t want be exactly as it is.

Decide to let it go and make the choice to start again with a clean slate, with a new mindset.  Decide to exert your energy, your time, your heart and your soul into creating that which you do want instead of changing that which you do not.

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

• Look up more than you look down
• Look ahead more than you look back
• Look more often in the direction of where you want to be headed, and less towards where you don’t.
• Follow your heart, trust your intuition and let your smile lead you.

And most importantly, try as best you can to allow yourself to enjoy the trip.

Now, get moving.

If feeling better, being happy, creating balance, and enjoying this moment, was your top priority Dear One, what would you be doing right now?

Well…?

What are you waiting for?

A lack of confidence in yourself is just an excuse Dear One, it is not a good enough reason not to try.