Does this sound like yours truly? You lie awake at night stressing about not-very-meaningful conversations you have had during the day and formulating the witty comebacks you should have said? OR maybe you constantly worry that you have made the wrong career choices? AND perhaps you’re even huanted by negative thoughts about your body, health and relationships?

Overthinking is an epidemic which affects every aspect of our lives. It invovles the persistent rehashing of your past, present and future without moving onto problem solving. It’s partly the result of a cultural shift towards self analysis. But many people, women especially, have taken self-awareness too far.

We’re also a generation that has a growing sense of entitlement - we expect to have have lots of money, a job we love, consistently fulfilling relationships, and to feel good most of the time. When this doesn’t happen, we don’t accept it as part of normal life. Instead, we spend inordinate amounts of time and energy thinking about WHY we’re not satisfied. (more…)

Blessings come in many forms and when you are blessed, it is appropriate to celebrate as they are gifts to you. When you choose to be open and receive blessings, your perspective of life is changed for the better. When you are in alignment with what the Universe is bringing you, you will be pleasantly surprised at what shows up.


Law of Attraction

Last night I was involved in a group conversation and the Law of Attraction was one of the topics of course. I will share a story with you.

Amber was tired of driving around in her bomb of a car and really wanted a 4WD. A mutual friend told her to just imagine that when she was driving around to feel like what it would be like to be in a 4WD and believe that her car was actually a 4WD… not any particular model, just a 4WD. So every time she would jump into her shitty little car, she would sit with her head held high and it felt great.

About three months later, her parents told her that they didn’t want her driving around in an unreliable car so they gave her $30,000 to go and buy herself a new car and off she went to buy her 4WD. She didn’t have to save for it or even know how it would be possible, just believing and feeling what it would be like brought the car to her.

So today, I want to share this short movie with you. This movie has touched many people over and over again and I just couldn’t put it any better than to just show you.

The May You Be Blessed site is wanting to reach 1 billion people with this movie by October 18th 2008, so go and watch it and pay it forward to all your friends. It will make your day.

Count Your Blessings

Ange

Do you notice when you are in a conversation if you are really listening and present to what the other person is saying?  I mean are you actually putting yourself in their shoes and understanding where they are coming from?  It’s a funny thing conversing with others.  We tend to only hear what we want to hear most of the time and already have an idea in our heads about what we want it to mean before it has even been explained to us.

I was in a workshop a little while back where we had to partner up and each of us had to talk for 5 minutes without the other person saying a word.  The person who was doing the listening could not say anything for that whole 5 minutes.  Try it and see how hard it is to do.  Not just the listening, but the talking too.  The idea was for the listener to be present in the conversation and really get what their partner was talking about.

It’s easy to get distracted to with the busy lives we live today.  There are always a million things to worry about.  Trivial things mostly that stop us from really connecting with one another.  Next time you are in a conversation with someone, stop and think, “am I present in this conversation” and if you are not, you will soon learn to be.

Yours in Prosperity!

Ange