You decide what stays and what goes in your life, Dear One.

You and only you.

And you do so with your choices.

You decide what stays by giving your attention to it.

You decide what goes by withdrawing your attention from it.

So what will stay and what will go today?

If you feel as if you have lost your balance, Dear One, if you feel as if you are having trouble getting both of your feet planted firmly on the ground, the single most important thing that you can do for yourself in this moment,  is to find it again.

How can you do that?

By asking yourself the following before every step that you take, and answering it honestly:

Will this choice, will this action, will this conversation, will this program, will this meal, will this purchase, will this person, will this decision, bring me closer to achieving a state of balance in my life or carry me farther away from it?

That’s how.

Embrace change today, Dear One.

(Do not resist it.)

That is all.

Are you up for the challenge?

Create from an angry, frustrated, stressed out, fearful place, Dear One, and no matter how hard you work, how hard you try, how good your intentions are, the very best that you are ever going to be able to do is create more of the same.

You can’t make an apple pie with peaches.

Make sense?

You are a powerful creator, Dear One.

You can choose to believe it or you can choose not to believe it.

Whatever you decide, you should know that your decision will not impact the reality of who and what you really are, only your experience of it.

So what’s it going to be?

Are you going to choose to live your life as a powerful creator that knows it or as one that does not?

Don’t fight your heart, Dear One, follow it.

Lay down your sword.

There are some battles that are just not worth winning.

We can feel your impatience, Dear One, your restlessness, your desire to move on from where you are now, to someplace new, to where you want to be.

We can see you searching, looking, trying, struggling, experimenting, stumbling around looking for the key to the door that you think will get you there.

Well, we’ve got some bad news for you.  No matter where you look, no matter how hard you try, no matter much you visualize it, no matter how much you want it, you are never going to find that key, Dear One.  Ever.

Why?

Because it doesn’t exist.

The door is already open.

All you need to do is walk through it.

The best thing that you can do for yourself right this minute, Dear One, is to take a deep breath, clear your head, make a conscious connection with your heart, allow the smile to rise to your lips, and trust what it is telling you.

Do yourself a favor, Dear One, and stop trying to do the right thing all the time.

Trust us.  The right thing is not what you want to be doing anyway.

Figuring out what is “right” requires you to be judgmental.  It requires you to look at a person, an event, a situation, and judge it as right or wrong, instead of just accepting it for what it is.

Judgment only serves to disconnect, to cut you off, to separate you from your greatest source of strength, inspiration, and joy — your connection to all that is.

So today, instead of trying to do the right thing Dear One, why not do better than that for yourself, and do the loving thing, the compassionate thing, the honorable thing, the generous thing, the kind thing, or the joyful thing instead?

You are never alone, Dear One.

You are always being guided.

You will never be forgotten.

You will always be forgiven.