There are three things that you should know about guilt Dear One:

• No one can make you feel guilty. Feeling guilty is a choice that only you can make for yourself.

•  Guilt’s greatest function is to serve as an anchor that holds you in a position of weakness.

•  The quickest way to relieve yourself from guilt is by taking responsibility, by shifting yourself from a position of weakness to one of authority over your own life.

• The first most absolutely useful thing that you can do for yourself today Dear One, is to feel good.

• The second most absolutely thing that you can do is to focus on, think about, and speak of only that which is wanted, that which is desired, that which you believe will make you feel even better, and to only take actions that you believe will move you closer to it.

You are the author of your life Dear One.

You are the one writing your story.

You are the only one who gets to decide what kind of story it will be.

• Do you want it to be a story about joy, love, compassion, bravery, or connection?   About creativity, taking a risk, forgiveness, patience or perseverance?

• Or do you want it to be a story about fear, guilt, getting by, playing it safe, or making excuses?  About jealousy, anger, ego, hatred, frustration or giving up?

You’ve got total creative freedom Dear One.

Write yourself well!

It is not your accomplishments that determine your success or failure Dear One.

It is how you feel while you are accomplishing them that does.

Slow down, pay attention, be conscious, be deliberate, and enjoy yourself.

Look for the best that is available to you in each and every moment, and failure will not even be an option.

If you want to know what freedom feels like Dear One, if you want to know what it feels like to be free, to fly — you’ve got to be willing to jump.

There is no other way.

Your heart does not have an OFF switch Dear One.

It is always speaking to you. It is always guiding you. It is always showing you the way.

When all you can hear is the voice in your head, the voice of fear, insecurity, doubt, judgment, concern, guilt, lack, or despair, it is does not mean that your heart has shut down, it is simply a reflection of what you are focusing on.

The voice that you give your attention to to Dear One, is the one that you will hear the loudest.

If you want to turn the volume back up on your heart, so that you can hear it loud and clear, so that it is the dominate voice within you,  simply choose to give your undivided attention to it.

Do this and it won’t take long before all of the other rumblings within you become nothing more than a faint and distant murmur in the background.

Achieving, accomplishing, or acquiring your hearts desire Dear One, is not the greatest measure of success.

The amount of joy that you experience along the way is.

Please remember to keep this in mind as you are working your way towards the top.

•  You are never going to be able to please everyone Dear One.
• You are never going to be able to get it all done.
• You are never going to be able to live your life without making mistakes, experiencing heartbreak, or suffering from loss.

These things just can’t be done, not by you or by anyone else.

But why would you want it any other way?

You learn valuable lessons from your mistakes, you grow stronger from your heartbreaks, and you are able to know and understand love in a much deeper and more intimate way through loss.

All of these impossibilities contribute to your evolution Dear One, contribute to your humanity, contribute to the experience and depth of your life.

Why would you ever want to wish them away?

What are some good reasons for you quit Dear One?

Frustration, fear, insecurity, discomfort, uncertainty, anger, sadness, doubt, distrust, jealousy, anguish, ambiguity, or despair.

None of these qualify.

So what does?

Any reason that stems from a source of strength, determination, confidence, honesty, clarity, or complete understanding.

Any reason that serves to consciously and intentionally bring you closer to that which is wanted, and not simply farther away from that which is not.

What do you think now?  Are your reasons good enough?

Today is the only today you’ve got Dear One.

It is the only today you are ever going to get.

It is the only today that has ever been and it is the only today that ever will be.

Don’t approach it like you did yesterday, or the day before that, or the day before that.

Today is different.

Today is special.

Today is the only one of its kind.

Please remember to treat it that way.