Decide right now Dear One, before you do anything else, how you are going to approach this day.

Are you going to do it with confidence or with fear?  With trust or with doubt? With excitement or with dread?  With self-pity or with strength? With an open heart or a closed one? With a belief in limitations or in endless possibilities?

Think carefully before you answer, because whatever you decide right now, is going to determine the outcome of every single experience that follows.

Forgive them for their mistakes Dear One, their shortcomings, their faults, their ignorance, and their impatience.

Forgive their actions when they react out of fear, their words when they respond from pain, their behaviors when they get defensive, and their callousness when they are cruel.

They are not perfect. They are deeply flawed. They are hurting, healing, learning, and coping the best way that they know how. Believe it or not, they are actually doing the very best that they believe that they are capable of.

They are imperfect Dear One – just like you.

Forgive them without expectation, without condition, without question and without hesitation.

Why?

Because doing so is one of the most powerful gifts of self-love, acceptance, and forgiveness you can give to yourself.

When it hurts Dear One, when you find yourself in place where you feel as if you have been emotionally batter, bruise, tossed about, and mixed up, remember this;

• You are not here because you did something wrong.
• You are not here because you are being punished.
• You are not here because you are being tested.
• You are not here because you are being taught a lesson.

You are here because you are being given an opportunity to heal.

Take it.

Making tough decisions is a part of life Dear One.

Living is choosing. You know this very well.

You are forced to make tough decisions everyday, and today is no different.

• Choose with your heart, connected to your source, open to the vast possibilities and wisdom of the universe, and your choice, regardless of what you decide, will be an empowering one for you.
• Choose with your head, out of fear, based on logic, experience and expectations grounded in the past, disconnected from your source, and your choice, regardless of what you decide, will be a limiting one for you.

So there you have it.

Does this help to make your tough decision a little less so?

We hope so.

You decide what comes into your life Dear One, and you decide what goes.

And how you do it is no great mystery.

• You choose what comes to you by giving your attention to it, by focusing on it, by coming into vibrational alignment with it.
• You choose what goes by withdrawing your attention from it, by not giving it your energy, by not aligning yourself with it.

It’s just that simple.

So what are you giving your attention to right now Dear One?  What are you spending the majority of your time thinking about?

Is it something that you just can’t wait to have more of in your life?

If your answer is not a resounding YES, we think that you know what it is that you’ve got to do.

Meeting the deadline, finishing the job, maintaining the relationships, finding what’s missing, fixing what’s broken, cleaning up the mess, etc.   If you view all of these things as nothing more than tasks that need to be completed throughout your day, your week, your life Dear One, then that is all that they can or ever will be to you.

But the truth is that they hold the potential to be so much more than that.

The truth is that the completion of every task that you take on, big or small, important or mundane, forced or chosen, is an act of creation/creativity, and every act of creation/creativity is a sacred act.

This is your life Dear One, and these are the events in it.

You should know that you are truly missing out on something potentially amazing if all you are doing is enduring them.

Holding on, staying small, keeping quiet, playing it safe, maintaining the familiar is not going to protect you Dear One, is not going to serve you, is not going to lessen the pain, frustration, confusion, discomfort, or lack of abundance in your life.

Open your heart, open your mind, open your eyes, open your mouth.

Open up wide Dear One, wider than you ever have before and let in the light, make room for something new, create space for something different.

Listen to what we are telling you Dear One.

It really is the safest, most effective and most pleasurable route out of any undesired state or situation there is.

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.

Never feel guilty about taking care of yourself Dear One, for putting yourself first, regardless of what anyone else has to say about it.

Those that give you a hard time just don’t yet understand how vitally important it is for you to do so – for you, for them and for the rest of the world.

If you are not healthy, happy, balanced, and strong, you will be of little or no use to anyone, including yourself.

Someone’s got to teach them Dear One.  Someone’s got to show them how it is done.

Why not you?