Being an optimist requires just as much thought, energy, effort, and self control as being a pessimist does Dear One – only it yields you far more promising, pleasing, and positive results.

In every moment, whether you are conscious of it or not, you are constantly choosing between the two.

So, in this moment, we want you to consciously decide, we want you to consciously choose.

Pick one.

Which are you going to be today?

You are not here to complete a task Dear One.  And you are not here to win.  You are not here to prove a point, to get the boy/girl, to win the race, to nail the bid, to be right, better, or best either.

You are here to have an experience of being alive.  You are here to experience joy, to get to know yourself, to get to know your heart, to discover who you are, and what you capable of, what you enjoy and what you don’t, what makes you cry and what makes you laugh, what inspires you and what frightens you, what moves you to love, and what stands in your way to it.

And you are here to have an experience of getting to know them too.

Remember that Dear One, as you move through each task, each conversation, each interaction throughout your day, your week, your year, your life.

Yes, the best way to learn is through experience Dear One.

But you don’t need to drink the poison to know that it will kill you.

Be adventurous. Be Daring. Take a chance. Try something new. Risk it. Live.

And remember, that you were given intuition, knowledge, and wisdom for a reason.

So don’t forget to use them.

Why choose to doubt yourself, punish yourself, be hard on yourself, judge yourself, or skimp on yourself Dear One, when you can choose to comfort yourself, forgive yourself, have confidence in yourself,  be generous with yourself, and love yourself instead?

The only thing you need to change about yourself Dear One, to begin to turn things around, is your mind.

Passion, inspiration, intuition, and joy are all “tools” that your soul uses Dear One, to speak to you to, to connect with you, to get your attention, to guide you, to motivate you, to encourage you to move in one direction or another, every single day.

So pay attention.

When you get a hit, big or small, of any of them, it means that you have just stumbled across something that your soul does not want you to miss, that is worthy of pursuit, of further investigation, that is, in one way or another, in alignment with you life’s purpose.

Why are we always encouraging you to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be yourself, and to stop trying to be the person that you think you should be, that you think the world wants you to be?

Because when you are yourself Dear One, when you think, act, speak, and behave authentically, genuinely, and from your heart, your words, your actions, your thoughts, you, are infinitely more powerful, more interesting, more fun, more lovable, more accessible, more desirable, more attractive, more everything – than any illusion of you ever could be.

What do you think it means to take good care of yourself Dear One?

Today, unlike most other days, we are not going to share with you what our beliefs are on the subject.

Today, we want you to show us what your beliefs are instead.

So, what does taking good care of yourself look like Dear One?

We’ll be watching.

You can choose to focus your attention on that which makes you feel badly, on that which is not working, if you want to Dear One, but you should know, that  would not be the choice that we would make, if we were you.

Care to wager a guess on what we would choose to do instead?