The challenges won’t ever stop coming, Dear One.

No matter how careful you are.
No matter how much you plan.
No matter how how much you pray.
No matter how badly you want them to.

They just won’t.

But on the other side of every challenge, yes, every-single-one, there is a success, a victory waiting for you.

Allow yourself to remember that sweetness that is in store for you right from the start, and maybe you will begin to experience much less resistance when new challenges arise.

That is our hope for you anyway.

Will  you please try?

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There is no race that you must win to achieve success Dear One
So you don’t need to push yourself to work harder or faster than you already are

There is no line that you must cross either
So you don’t need to travel farther than you or anyone else has ever traveled before

There is no amount that you must accumulate
So you don’t need figure out how to earn more, sell more, make more, or get more

There is no title that you must earn
So don’t need to continually climb the ladder to get to the next highest rung

There is no level of notoriety that you must achieve
So you don’t need to figure out how earn more likes, more views, more friends, more recognition, more, more more

There is only a life for you to live
And if you want to be a successful at it, all you need to do is absolutely everything that you possibly can to make sure that you are enjoying the experience of living it

You will never fully trust yourself, Dear One, if you never give yourself the opportunity to prove to yourself that you are trustworthy.

And there is only one way for you to do that.

If you are waiting for things to get better before you think a better thought, Dear One, you could be waiting a long time.

If you think a better thought right now, things would start getting better right now.

So, it looks like you’ve got a decision to make.

Do you want things to start getting better now, or do you want to continue to wait?

There is nothing wrong with feeling badly, Dear One.

And there is nothing wrong with feeling sad.

There is nothing wrong with feeling angry, jealous, mad, frustrated, judgmental, insecure or uncertain either.

If that is where you are at, if that is what you are genuinely feeling in your heart, then yes, by all means, you should honor those feelings and allow yourself to experience them fully, to learn from them and understand what they are trying to teach you.

BUT, we want you to know that it is also honorable for you to choose not to.  It is also honorable for you to choose to prioritize your desire to feel better over whatever bad feeling you may be experiencing in the moment.  It is honorable Dear One, for you to decide to not give your attention to things that don’t feel good to you and choose instead, to give it only to things that do.

Make sense?

You are worthy of great, big, unconditional, uncompromising, all encompassing, forgiving, limitless, boundless, joyful, love, Dear One.

And absolutely nothing less.

If you don’t already love yourself this way, we can think of no better time for you to start than right now.

There is nothing that you can or will ever do that will ever make you any more worthy than you are right now.  The simple fact that you exist makes it so.

So, why wait?

Keep looking ahead, Dear One, no matter what.

Where you are going matters so much more than where you have been.

It doesn’t always have to be about trying to achieve something great, Dear One.

You don’t always have to work so hard to make a difference.

What we mean by this is that you don’t constantly need to be striving for, working towards, trying to achieve some ambitious, life changing, envy inspiring, lofty goal for yourself in order to remain on the cutting edge of creation, in order to be doing something worthy, productive or significant with your life.

So you can let yourself off the hook.

Know that it is perfectly ok  for you to set ordinary goals for yourself, to pursue ordinary experiences —  beautifully simple, regular, run of the mill, everyday,  nothing spectacular goals and experiences.

Because the truth is that if it makes you smile, if it makes you feel good, if it brings you joy, then you are doing something worthy, productive and significant with your life.

And if that is the case. Dear One, then the answer is yes, the answer will always be yes – it is totally and completely worth it.

Please remember, Dear One, that having a bad feeling is not a valid excuse for making a bad choice.

Thank you!

If you are still giving your attention to the problem Dear One, the solution will continue to elude you.