You are the teller of the story of your life, Dear One.  You are the one who decides what kind of story it will be.

You choose (where) YOU want the emphasis to be p-l-a-c-e-d in the telling of it.

• Do you want to emphasize the parts that you like or the parts that you don’t?  All that you have, or all that you lack?
• Do you want to tell a story about your strengths or your weaknesses?  About those things that you love, or those things that you hate?
• Do you want to bring attention to all that you are proud of or those things that you regret most of all?  To the parts of yourself that are hurting or the parts that are healing?
• Do you want to emphasize your triumphs, your successes, and your victories?  Those moments that you were brave, that you summoned courage that you didn’t think you had? Or those moments that paralyzed you, that paralyze you still, where you gave into fear, resignation or defeat?

What’s it going to be, Dear One?

What story are you going to choose to tell yourself, and all those around you, today?

Chances are, Dear One, that you are stronger than you think you are, that you are smarter than you think you are, that you are more resilient, resourceful, talented, creative, clever, useful, needed and loved than you think you are.

But unless you are willing to test your limits, unless are willing to allow yourself to move forward with confidence, to move beyond your self imposed boundaries, open to the possibility that there is more to you then you are aware of, you’ll never know for sure.

We already know what your value is. We already know what you are capable of.

Now it’s time that you know it too.

The wait is over, Dear One, the moment that you decide it is, the moment that you want it to be, the moment that you choose.

When the choices you are committed to don’t seem to be leading you towards a better feeling state, Dear One, it may be time for you to start thinking about making different ones.

A dark, cloudy day holds just as much potential for you to witness something beautiful Dear One, as a bright, sunny one does.

You have just conditioned yourself to look for it more in one than in the other.

The trick to overcoming this is simple.

Believe us, and start looking for it in both.

Once you do, once you discover for yourself that what we are telling you is true, your experience of darkness will never be the same again.

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?