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April 2010: Release and Let Go
Spring is a good time to let go of the "old" and get ready for the "new." Spring is the time when winter is dying away. New flowers, trees and animals are coming forth. A new you is also ready and waiting to burst forth if you allow it.
If there are things in your life that should leave — old physical things, old attitudes, old feelings, old resentments, relationships that no longer work for you, jobs that no longer work for you or goals that no longer work for you — right now, today, is a wonderful time to let them go.
In order to make room for all the new things, goals, relationships, etc. to come into your life, you need to make space for them. It’s just like all the things you do around your home for spring cleaning – getting all the old stuff out of the closets, sweeping away the cob webs, packing or giving away old clothes, sending old toys to people who can use them, scrapping the winter mold off the fence, cleaning the roof, washing windows, cleaning carpets, mowing the lawn, trimming trees, etc.
Those type of things can be done with the rest of your life not just with your home.
Use the energy of the season to support your releasing and re-creating process. For example, look at what in your life isn’t working as well as you would like.
If your relationships are not working as well as you would like, ask yourself:
- What can I do to release something that might be blocking me from having what I want?
- Am I too demanding in some way?
- Am I too passive in some way?
- Am I not giving my full energy to the relationship? If not, why not?
- Am I getting what I want in the relationship?
- Am I giving what is needed to make it work at the highest possible level for both of us?
If your job isn’t work for you, ask yourself:
- What can I do to release something that might be blocking me from having what I want?
- Am I expecting too much?
- Do I try to control everyone and everything?
- Do I actively participate in decisions?
- Am I giving my full attention to the job? If not, why not?
- Am I getting what I want from the job?
- Am I giving what is needed to make it work for me and everyone else at the highest possible level?
- If I blame someone else for my lack of success, am I willing to take responsibility for my own feelings, words and actions? If so, am I willing to change my mind and start today to participate in a different way?
If you don’t have a job or your own business and would like one, ask yourself:
- What can I do to release something that might be blocking me from having what I want?
- What do I want? Am I clear about what I want or am I just whining around indecisively?
- Am I willing to accept that maybe I have some control over how I perceive the situation and be willing to change my viewpoint?
- What can I do today to move toward my goal of having a job or creating a business?
- If I blame someone else for the state of my life, am I willing to take responsibility for my own feelings, words and actions? If so, am I willing to change my mind and participate in a different way?
In other words, take the time to clear out and clean out the old "stuff" that might be taking up space in your life that could be used to create something brand new. Use that old stuff as fertilizer to help your new life grow. Realize that it served you well for a time and now it’s time has passed; it’s time for it to be recycled. Last month, we gave some tips for looking at seven major internal blocks that keep people from getting what they want. If you haven't read that article, maybe now is the time.
Are you willing to live the rest of your life filled with joy, laughter and abundance? That seems like an overly simple and silly question, most people might say. The truth is that many people are stuck in a pattern that they don’t realize is keeping them from fulfilling their own dreams. Listen to the beliefs of others when they express how their life is filled with regrets, old hurts, old ideas and beliefs that keep them limited and imprisoned.
Are you willing to break free from your own self-imposed limitations? If so, start today to change your life for the better.
Some tips:
- Know that your life is perfect just as it is. You created it — so enjoy it! Every day, every hour or every minute, remind yourself how much you already have. Be grateful for the benefits you already have. You created those. You got yourself to where you are right now. Knowing that, you can also create or recreate your future life in whatever ways that you want.
- Identify some people that you admire – friends, famous people, heroes, etc. — who have accomplished something that you want to accomplish. Learn how they were successful and see what you can to do emulate their positive attitude, drive and techniques.
- Reinforce positive thinking constantly. Do not allow negative people or negative thinking to stay in your life. Make a commitment to clean those out of your life. When you start to feel critical or unhappy, remind yourself that YOU have the power to change your mind about anything. See the situation differently – in a positive light – knowing that events are unfolding in a perfect way. Pretty soon, it will become a part of you so that you won’t even have to remind yourself.
- Use positive affirmations. Know that you are a miracle and say to yourself, "I AM a miracle." "My life is filled with miracles." "Miracles come into my life easily and effortlessly."
- Notice every good thing that comes to you and every good thing that happens to you. Focus your attention and your energy on those good things, not on what you don’t have.
- Sign up for some inspirational web sites that can send you reminders of who you are and how powerful you are. A couple we like are The Daily Motivator and Notes from the Universe). Play inspirational tapes or CDs in your car. Read inspiring books. Watch inspiring movies and videos. FEEL yourself expanding as you read or listen or view what inspires you.
- Believe that YOU have the power to re-create your own life and YOU have the power within you to change your life. If you doubt that, think about this: If you can’t change your life, who can? The most powerful thing you can do for yourself is to believe in your own power. The most powerful thing you can do for everyone else is to believe in your own power.
The Greatest Secret: What you think about is what you become (Earl Nightingale)
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (Ernest Holmes)
The best thing you can do for poor people is not be one of them (Rev. Peggy Bassett)
If you are thinking about creating sources of income, new business ideas or exploring expansion of a existing business, our book Income Without a Job has some great creative ideas and exercises to assist with that. The book is a great gift for friends who have been laid off or need extra support during these times.
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