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Rebuilding the Foundation

You develop a prosperity consciousness by changing your mind- by replacing ideas of lack with ideas of abundance. Spend more time each day thinking about what you want rather than what you don't want. You don't want lack so stop thinking about it! John Randolph Rice

I was chatting with a good buddy of mine yesterday she asked me how does it feel to be starting over? It must be so exciting building back up from a new foundation doesn't it? When she said it a whole heap and ton of lessons came flooding to my mind! First, perception, how we look at things, I can look at this as an exciting new phase in my life where I can lay a solid foundation based on love, trust, authenticity and prosperity consciousness, rather than fear and people pleasing. Second lesson that came to mind is the people I choose to surround myself with, if I choose to surround myself with negative people and negative vibes it enters the consciousness, so choose positivity and even if you have to hang alone for a bit do it! The last lesson is atonement and forgiveness of myself for choices made in the past, I take full responsibility for the choices that I made and now that I have accepted it its easier now to move on and start again!!

I give thanks for my buddy Robin and her question!

Let me know get back to rebuilding!
Peace!!!

We grow or we stagnate

We grow, or we stagnate.  We form good habits, disciplines, or destructive ones.  Or sometimes both.  We learn from our mistakes, or we keep repeating them until we’re in enough pain to make changes . Dani Shapiro author I feel really alive and jus plain ole good when I am doing something new, and it might be the simplest of things, like finding a new route home that I never knew before, just to show you how simple I can get down to doing new things! Doing the same thing over and over again for me seems to be a form of stagnation. And that is to say you can get a result but by doing it in a different way, mixing it up a bit! I never tried yoga before I always had the perception that it was boring and I would fall asleep but I wanted to get to a result of optimum fitness and there are many ways of getting there, I decided to give it a go. My aunt convinced me to come with her to a class and I can tell you it was a nice nice feeling! so hey, why not do it its the end result that matters! So as I am here in Port of Spain I joined a yoga class, my good buddy does the class (she's pretty darn good, I think she was born to do this)
It's tougher than I thought but I am giving it my all, I love the feeling of challenging my body to make the stretches and I can see its all about the mind as well!

Anyways, my point is try something new, push yourself, get out of the routine, break the monotony, you might end of liking it!

We almost WORK for a way to figure out why our own situation is hopeless.

Get out the comfort zone, its outside where the magic happens!
Peace!!

Ah feeling d feelings!

If you are falling....dive.”
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” - Joseph Campbell
Today I just want to give myself permission to feel what I feel without having to explain it to anybody! Some days I feel like just feeling a feeling and not having to justify it! Do you ever feel so? I don’t mean to act like a complete A-HOLE but just to live with the feelings you have without judging and rushing them or labeling them! Just feel!!!
So that’s what I am doing today!
All lessons on the journey!!
Have a day full of feeling!
Peace!!

Sharing a story done in the Sunday Guardian

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. Brene Brown

Guys
Please see the link below on a story done by the WoW Magazine

Feel free to share and comment
Peace!!

http://digital.guardian.co.tt/?iid=86926&startpage=104#folio=104

At home I simply AM

Don’t waste your time wishing, hoping, demanding or begging to get something for nothing. Joyfully put your energy into creating new, useful and beautiful value out of the unique abundance with which you’ve been blessed . Neale Donald Walsh


 
This morning I set off just after 5am with a good buddy of mine, who was so kind to come and pick me up out of the way of her home and where we were going, (thanks sis!!) to go to Maracas for an early morning beach workout. As we climbed the hills I simply was in awe of how beautiful this drive is,  it would seem like I have never been there before right? Well maybe in a way because I hardly ever took the time to pay attention to the sheer magnificence of the hills, the scenery, the water and green around me but I have been practicing being in the moment and drinking everything all in whether it is a conversation a place whatever it is I am present! (try it, I swear its magical) Anyways, I digress! So the beach workout, the glorious Maracas beach and beauty in front me and the sun rising behind me! I stopped and looked and just screamed THANK YOU!!!
 
In between the workout, which was super hard, I swear Carlos the trainer came with a mission today! He told us to take a break and we sat at the shore for about five minutes, I sat on a log and looked out at the water, the sunrise, the trees and listened to the waves and the tears just came! Where did that come from? Just the sheer gratitude of being here, being alive, being able to experience such beauty and peace I couldn’t hold them back! What are we missing by rushing around, stressing about, thinking ahead instead of being present?
 
And this is how I felt at the time, At home, I am loved, appreciated and protected. At home I am nurtured, cultivated and inspired. At home, I give, serve and share. At home I am free to heal and dream, to reflect and correct. At home, I simply Am, true to myself.
Peace!!

Find the courage to ask questions

Be Impeccable With Your Word : Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.   Don't Take Anything Personally : Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.   Don't Make Assumptions : Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.  Always Do Your Best : Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. By Don Miguel Ruiz from his best-selling book The Four Agreements

I had a moment today! Yea I have those! And I give permission to myself to have them and not beat up about it or judge it! Anyways, I was in a discussion with someone with a different point of view that mine. And I had a moment! You know sometimes I see myself regressing into my six year old self and pouting wanting my own way! So as I was falling into the past, my old six year old self I remembered Don Miguel Ruiz four agreements! I am not even sure how it entered my consciousness but it saved my friend from dealing with a six year old tantrums! What great advice, don’t take things personally and have the courage to ask before you make assumptions! Well let me tell you, the courage rose up from somewhere and I was asking questions like there was no tomorrow!! And just like magic, I was present in the moment and the situation was resolved, well for me it was I didn't take the comments or position they took personally and I asked about all the assumptions that I had (boy oh boy that was tough!!!) What are you taking personally that pissed you off and affects your relationships? Peace!!

Sharing the wisdom and lessons today

“It’s so common for your world to just turn upside down when you really commit to raising your vibration. It’s no secret that thoughts are like magnets, so it’s impossible for people and life circumstances to stay the same when you change your mind and commit to a new belief. Embrace the change for a change and just allow in the new life that’s working its way into your experience and TRUST that it’s all for your benefit. I promise you it is.” - Jackson Kiddard
I wanted to share something that my girl Danielle La Porte wrote today, hope you like it!
He was rude. He cut you off in traffic. She's aloof, cold, curt. He's on the corner asking for a hand-out. She lies. He's money hungry. She's grossly overweight. No one returned your phone call. They left without saying goodbye.
You might never know the why behind someone's less-than-ideal, not-the-way-you-wish-it-was behavior.
Here's a curative for the sharp judgement that often accompanies our disappointment in others -- just a single, surprising expansive phrase: You just never know.
Use it before you jump to conclusions that someone's a jerk, or that they need an attitude adjustment, or that they could be doing better than they are.
I've been to enough ridiculous self-help workshops, heard enough stories in airport bars, and had enough one-on-one conversations about so-called "success" to know that there's a story behind every demeanor. I've kept my own pain hidden in plain sight and thought, "If they only knew." But you just never know...You just never know if: someone has just been diagnosed and is thinking about all they have to lose. 
: their lover just texted them to say "it's over." 
: he wakes up every day thinking he's about to fail, fearing that everyone else in the world knows something he doesn't.You just never know if: she's in the middle of a divorce and is about to go on stage. 
: before he was your driver, or your waiter, he was a doctor in his homeland. 
: their spirit was fractured as a child by unspeakable things. 
: she is frightened -- all the time. 
: he resists life itself -- all the time. 
: they are frail from lack of love.You just never know if: they're faking loving the heart-hollowed life they fought so hard to make. 
: chemicals are coursing through them in destabilizing ways. 
: she hasn't slept through the night in months and months. 
: they've experienced a loss that will leave a gaping wound for the rest of this incarnation. 
: today is especially hard and they're doing their best, while they wish for just a little more than what they've got.

Are you willing to be yourself?

A re you courageous enough to live the truth of your desires without fear?  This is what will determine your freedom.  . . .  More important, once you are clear about the experience you want to have, you are free to make the choices that will result in your having that experience.

The key to changing the world, to changing your life, and to empowering those around you is authenticity - the willingness to be yourself - the willingness to be vulnerable - the willingness to feel - the willingness to live – Pananche Desai
This morning the NiNa programme started another cycle. I started this programme a few years ago, the thinking behind it was to introduce an entrepreneurial culture and thinking particularly in young ladies between the ages of 15 and 19, showing that entrepreneurship and business ownership is also an option, we focus on real stories, real challenges, real people, more than just looking at the theory and what the book says! I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me, to see how this programme has evolved over the time it began! I had zero dollars, not a cent but I had a vision and a dream and some wonderful people who believed in me and supported my vision, up to this day they support me in many ways! The girls have gotten scholarships, the participants have opened businesses, they have developed a confidence in themselves, started thinking independently and sideways, one may say outside the box and now we start again!Love spending time with the participants, I learn so much!
I was willing to be myself, to be vulnerable, to get into the arena and get bloody and I am so happy that I did!What are you willing to feel and do?Drop me a line
Peace
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Conditions and Judgements

You are not responsible for the choices that others make, nor are they responsible for yours. However, you can and must learn from one another, for what you choose is not that different from the choice your brother makes. You make many of the same mistakes.
 
Mistakes are opportunities for learning. To condemn your brother for making mistakes is to pretend to be mistake free, which you are not. I have asked you before and I will ask you again: which one of you will throw the first stone?
 
Paul Ferrini
 
Confessions on the journey, I had a meeting yesterday and all the way throughout it I was asking the Universe to release all judgments of the situation, so these well intentioned people (I truly believe that they are) have decided to assist their community by starting a church and going out into the community and tackling some of the issues  they believe are either causing strife or assisting those who are in need of assistance whether through food, someone to talk to whatever it may be
So I ask myself why was I asking for the release of judgement? Well the conversation moved to what people should be doing and who and why some people are helped and being helped and then it moved on to money being the most pressing matter to ensure that the help continues. I asked for the release of judgement and to see it differently because everyone is on their own journey and me saying to them why do you put conditions on the help you give? You either help or you don’t! That would be my way of seeing things! I just said to myself . self, at least someone is being helped and left it there! I myself was putting conditions on how I thought they ought to be helping and as soon as I released that judgement the conversation flowed I actually learnt something!
So I thought to myself, what conditions am I putting on helping someone and what other judgements do I hold!
What conditions do you put on love to get your own way?
Peace!
 
 

Stand Up!

When presented with a problem assess the equation, select the solution that equates to completion. The only shortcut is that there arent any shortcuts. We all have to do what we have to do, and even when we don't it still registers as choice.If the repetition of denied, yet justified decision making goes uninterrupted, one may find oneself feeling detached from one's manifestations. Out of control but still creating (Natalie Stewart)
 Standing is not only a physical move. Stand up!! I’ve learnt  today that If I had to, I could stand with my feet cut off, If I had to, I can stand if I’m flat on the ground. It’s a MIND SET! How you’re gonna flow if you’re in your way? Stand Up! Stand up every time you fall down, stand up even if you’re small you can still stand up tall. It’s a MIND SET. There’s nothing more powerful than a made up mind. Encourage yourself, Everyone doesn't have to pat you on the back, sometimes everybody with you can’t keep up with you, they have a different mindset. Don’t feel guilty say bless you and Encourage yourself. Stand Up! TD Jakes say’s it best “Some people get beaten by the battle some people GET BETTER in the battle” Don’t play small. Everything you fear is a friend in disguise. Stand Up! Peace!!