Intentions

Did you do the Gratitude Dance yesterday? It’s a lot of fun! Today I figured we’d keep the good energy flowing with another fun activity:

How to Create an Intention Poster

An intention poster (also known as a “vision board”) is a great way to keep your intentions at the forefront of your mind – and thereby attract them!

You may have heard that you should always use present tense when you say affirmations or intentions. So instead of saying, “I will attract amazing opportunities today,” you should word it, “I am attracting amazing opportunities today,” or “I always attract amazing opportunities.”

Is this really important? Does tense matter?

While I was out running errands yesterday, I passed a car with a distinctive vanity license plate. It read: “IM BROKE”.

I couldn’t help myself, I gasped in horror!

Why would a person label themselves with such a dire self-fulfilling prophecy?

A new (yet all-too-familiar) problem has reared its ugly head in my life: Not-enough-time-itis.

I’m one of those people that gets all fired up when I’m working on something I really love. That includes my site(s), blog(s), information products…not to mention my “regular work”.

One thing I keep learning the hard way: there must be balance. I cannot work 14 hours a day and still expect to have clear focus and abundant motivation. I cannot do everything at once, no matter how badly I might want to.

Happy Monday!

I just had to restrain myself from quoting Clint Eastwood’s character Dirty Harry: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”

It would have been funny, but I doubt you’d enjoy being called a “punk”!

Seriously though, today’s article is all about LUCK. What is luck? Why do some people seem to have it, and others don’t? Do you ever say things like, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all”?

WELL, what a difference a few days can make! I’m feeling so much better than I have over the past couple of weeks. All the cleaning and organizing I did Friday and Saturday made a huge difference in my physical surroundings, and I took Sunday off to spend with my mom, mom-in-law, sister-in-law, and grandmother (all the great Moms in my life! ). It was so nice to just relax and enjoy a beautiful day. The menfolk were there too: hubby, my brother, my father-in-law and my grandfather. Oh, and my nephew and niece. We had quite a full … read more

Have you ever held back on something you wanted because you were waiting for the conditions to be just right? Perhaps you wanted to start a business but you needed the money to purchase certain equipment, or you wanted to start a new fitness routine but you wanted to find an affordable gym to join first.

And as you sat there waiting for one event or another to shift into “rightness,” what happened? Nothing. The conditions you were waiting for didn’t occur, so you couldn’t take action on your dreams.