Your time is your own Dear One.

You are the only one who decides how you spend it and who you spend it with.

• If you are not happy with how you are spending your time, choose differently.
• If you are not happy with who you are spending your time with, choose differently.

A different person – A different place – A different activity.

A different mindset – A different perspective –  A different attitude.

In every conceivable circumstance that exists Dear One, a choice is always available to you.

If you want things to be different, you’ve got to choose differently.

It’s really the only choice that you’ve got.

Easy does it Dear One.

There is no need for you to stress. There is no need for you to take it all on at once. This is no need for you to rush through this moment simply to get to the next.

There is no need for you to work without pleasure. There is no need for you to hold on to anger. There is no need for you to remain fearful. There is no need for you to punish them because you are in pain.

There is no need for you to pretend to be someone that you are not. There is no need for you to pretend to feel something that you do not. And there is most definitely no need for you to allow other peoples circumstances to effect you as much as you have been allowing them to effect you.

This is your life Dear One.

The most important person in it is you.

The most important moment is now.

The most important thing that you can do for yourself today is give yourself permission to re-evaluate your needs.

Just a quick note to let you all know that I have returned from my travels renewed, refreshed and relaxed.

I had a wonderful adventure and I am very happily returning to all of the things in my life that I love to do, including my daily posts.

Thank you all for continuing to read in my absence and I look forward to receiving and responding to all of your comments and questions as we start up again.

Wishing you a most wonderful day,

Michelle

It’s not about tomorrow, or what’s next, or what was, or what may be.  It is about right now, as it is, in this moment.

In this moment  – you have the ability to make a different choice, to have a different experience, to love a little more, to be a little kinder, to flourish, to be brave, to take a risk, to let it go, to live.  Now, in this moment –  you can choose to be confident – you can choose to take care of yourself – you can choose to impact the lives of others – you can choose to trust and try and trust and try again.  For it is the only thing that is real Dear One.  Now.

You keep forgetting and we will keep finding ways to remind you that now is the only moment that matters.  When you come to believe this, in your heart and in  your head and in  your soul, then you will be home.  The desire to be anywhere but exactly where you are will dissipate.  All questions will dissolve and you will find peace, contentment and satisfaction right where you are.

Everyone is looking for/striving for/seeking beauty Dear One – Every single one of you, with no exception. 

The only problem is that more often than not, so many of you find yourself coming up short, frustrated with your search, not finding what you are looking for – left with the impression that beauty is rare or elusive.  Why?  Because many of you have no idea what beauty really is – so you look in all the wrong places, chase down all the wrong things trying to find it or create it.

Beauty is a feeling, an emotion, an energy.  It is the essence of who you are.  It is a state of openness, a state of trust and allowing, acceptance of the universe, of what is.  It is not flat abs and a shiny full head of hair.  It is not pouty lips, smooth tight skin or perfectly manicured nails .  Those things are all nothing more than limited physical attributes of the body.  True beauty is limitless.

To say that beauty is measured by how one looks – is like saying that intelligence is measured by how one smells.

Your eyes are not the determinate of beauty Dear One, your heart is.

True beauty is not about how you look – it is about how you see.

Choose to see beauty in everything around you Dear One and  you will.  It is there. It is built into everything.   As soon as you start looking for it, with your heart, you will find it and be in awe of its abundance.

May we suggest that you start with you.

There is no such thing as impossible Dear One. There are only those things that you have not yet seen come to pass. There is a huge difference between never and not yet.

Practice saying “not yet” instead of “never” and your whole perspective of the world, of what’s possible, will change.

Never closes doors. Not yet blows them wide open.

What you ask for is what you receive Dear One.  Whether you are asking consciously or unconsciously –  whether you are asking with a clear intention or with an unconscious conditioned response – it matters not – you are getting what you are asking for.

Life is responding to you, your energy, your thoughts, your beliefs, your attitudes, your vibration.   That is how you are asking.  And like attracts like Dear One.  That is why what you put out there is what comes back to you.

So if what you have now, if the circumstances, events, people and opportunities surrounding  you/coming your way, are not what you want them to be, then it is time for you to start asking for something else.

Don’t allow yourself to become imprisoned by the choices, decisions and promises that you made yesterday Dear One.

Your understanding of the world around you is constantly changing and growing. In every moment, the potential exists for you to know something new that you did not know the moment before. This new information is constantly changing your perspective – and this constantly changing perspective is a gift.  Don’t throw it away simply because you “adamantly” made a decision about something yesterday.

Today, your new perspective, your current vantage point, might allow you to see something that will make yesterdays perspective obsolete. Embrace those moments when they happen Dear One and allow them to change you, change your mind and change your behavior. It would be a real shame to stand in one place all of your life simply because you told someone that you would.

Don’t let your desire to be right or loyal or trustworthy supersede your desire to live your life to the fullest.  Don’t let the promises that you made yesterday stop you from living your life today.  The truth is that the people that you made them to have changed as well.  Their needs, desires and perspectives are not going to the be same forever either.

Honor yourself and your commitments as they make sense in the moment and don’t allow yourself to be ruled by a past that is already gone or a future that does not yet exist.

The day does not require you to be brilliant, or funny, or witty, or charming or thin Dear One.  The day only requires that you do your best.  And that does not mean being better than anyone else or even better than you used to be.  It means doing the best that you can do, today.

Simply let go and allow yourself the freedom to be who you really are.  You’ll know it by how you feel.  Do that which comes naturally to you, and use your best judgement, all that you have learned to get  you to this place.  Living in the moment does not mean that you abandon all sense of reality.  It means that you use your reality to create a new reality – a better reality for yourself and for others.

You see it is not about right or wrong – better or worse – success or failure.  It never has been.  It is simply about the journey – having the experience.  And the sooner that you can except that, the sooner you will realize that it is of no benefit to you to ever be anything other than yourself.

When you find yourself on the receiving end of something so amazingly wonderful, so fantastically terrific, so unexpectedly delicious that you can hardly believe your luck, do you think to yourself, this is a once in a lifetime experience that will surely never come my way again? We’ll, if you do, you’d be right!

However, if you instead see these “once in a lifetime” experiences as gifts, as reminders, as demonstrations of the potential for greatness, joy, abundance and happiness that exists in every single day, hour and moment of your life, then you just might find them becoming not be so far and not so few between.

Your expectations have an enormous impact on your reality Dear One. You see what you expect to see. You see what you are looking for. If at your moments of greatest joy, you think that things could never be this good again – they might not be. BUT, if you instead use those moments to allow yourself to get over the moon excited because you now know just how good things can get, you will be opening yourself up to receive more of the same….and then some.

Change your expectations and you can change your reality Dear One