What’s running your life? You or your limitations?

It is a process to shift from a limiting to an empowering perception of yourself. Just switch the focus to beliefs that lead to where you want to go.

Instead of ” I am overwhelmed and too short on time” repeating in your head, listen to your new paradigm and belief, ” Every task is easy and enjoyable. I have all the time I need to accomplish whatever I want or need to get done.” And, then, let it go at that.

Instead of ” I have no time to work out and no motivation” turn it around to ” I deserve a healthy body. I get great satisfaction from getting slim and toned with exercise.”

Instead of ” This place is always cluttered ” change it to ” I am neat and organized.”

Instead of ” I am not good enough” know in your inner being that ” I have a lot to give.”

 Stopping yourself when you hear negativity in your brain, erasing it and affirming the opposite is just another tool to better mental and over all health.

Hope this helps someone.

What have been your accomplishments or successes up till now?

While complaining to trainer J about how much I had to do, which leads me to a frenzied overwhelm state, she asked me how much I had already done that day. Unbelievably, I had tackled lots of little small tasks by noon. thank you J  That raised my spirits and gave me confidence.

So, why don’t I write down everything I do get done instead of beating myself up for not making it through my to do list which is in reality probably a week’s worth of errands, jobs and duties? Some of the work is self made, like finishing a paint project or cleaning up my own disarray of flung clothes in the bedroom. But some of it is common chores, like laundry, dishes and the every day care of pets.

Just to live life in the context of gratitude instead of whining or complaining is an accomplishment. If I am good to myself, get to paint my toes or enrich my mind, well, that’s just a crazy good day!

Happy Birthday to one of the cheeriest people on the planet! Your zest for life and your many ideas and creativity were the first energies that attracted me to you!!

Super open! Full of solution and positive linings! Kind, Loving and Helpful!

Truly a growing relationship that helped me grow up! Thank You!

Who doesn’t have fears?

But in Master Mind 2016, us women are working out different methods to reach our goals or to at least get closer to our purpose and mission in life or just the next six months, with clarity and focus.

A clever tool is the Quadrant. For each box, fill in your personal information.

One question can spark a revolution or a quest or a debate inside your head.

As every teacher knows, no question is too insignificant or wrong.

Some questions demand an immediate response and some require us to pause and think. Some, of course, are rhetorical.

Every question asks us to press on, move forward, dive in deep, prompt us or to contemplate the past. Any of those actions and sometimes even more options can exist in the same response.

Do you remember a question when you replied with a lie?

Can you recall a time you answered with an unexpected response and took yourself by surprise?

What questions keep you up at night, make you livid or destroy your sense of humor?

And what question would you ask if you could ask only one?

What answer would you give if you were asked that very same question?

Whom would you want to inquire more about?

Someone once asked me what my favorite part of practicing yoga was and I answered, “The spiritual connection I receive as I flow through the present moment: body, mind and soul.”

I will be forever grateful for that question I did not expect to answer with such conviction and wide open tenderness.

You only get one childhood and I was reflecting on mine and what I loved doing then.

I played on our old multicolored swings, hanging upside down on the trapeze bar my dad concocted out of rope and a metal bar. I did flips and swung by my knees, stretching my arms all the way down, using my core to gain momentum because I couldn’t reach the ground.

I sat in my backyard petting my first cat, a tuxedo feline named Misty, in the shade, under a mimosa tree on the side of our house.

I spent time in my room, reading, strumming the guitar my abuela brought me from Argentina. I taught myself a few chords, wrote my own crazy lyrics and sang badly. I wrote poems overlooking the woods behind us from my window above my desk.  I played school, acting as teacher and all the imaginary students and loved to play “Spelling Bee” for my weekly vocabulary quizzes, even scolding with consternation whenever a “student” was out of line.

I listened to music on my cool petal pink LP portable player, watching the black album spin from my twin bed.

I was happy, content and liked to make every situation as fun as possible.

I loved being outside, one with nature, contemplating, observing and daydreaming for hours on my back watching the clouds and the sky and wondering even then, what’s it all about?

When I was older and was allowed, I remember walking ” into town” which consisted of one movie house, one bakery, one bank and one general store. I walked everywhere: to school and back in every kind of weather, to town and five miles to church, past the one grocery store and our Carvel ice cream shop. I was gone for hours at a time and as long as I made it back by whatever time, usually dinnertime, no one knew where I was.

Those were the days. No wonder I escape to the treehouse and I am content with solitary endeavors now as a grown adult.

Your perception becomes your reality and when we are so focused on our own version of the truth, we close the door to other possibilities.

Creatives see outside the box, they are willing to be willing to be open, in their hearts and minds and that makes them teachable, flexible and ready to receive the download of Universal Inspired and Visionary Energies.

Whenever I see this genius piece of art by Salvador Dali, I think about perception. In the cubed form of Lincoln’s profile picture there is a naked woman’s backside in the center  -depending on where you view the art.

I experience humility as a feeling of being right-sized, like Goldilocks. It’s not thinking too highly of yourself, nor lowly of yourself. It’s a balancing of knowing what’s mine and what’s none of my business. It’s acknowledging and accepting my good traits as easily as I cop to my flaws.

It feels like authenticity wrapped in wisdom, enveloped in serenity and tied in a bow with joy.

Affirmation: I accept myself as a work in progress.