Feeling small?

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Feeling small or hopeless?

Sometimes we fall into the limited thinking of how small
or insignificant we may feel.
After all, we're just one person.
'I'm just a small fish in this big ocean.'

Did you know that the best things in life come from within?
That one plus one isn't two - it's three!
Each individual plus the collective of each.
There is power of one, but as we combine our
strengths with others, we multiply our power. ❀

Discovery Keys

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Discovery keys...

Every new day brings different experiences
- pieces of who you are today.
Everything you observe, experience, learn, feel 
- they are like individual keys that can be used 

to unlock/reveal the next step in your process.
Some people move very quickly through their process.
Recognizing the keys and using them
to discover more than the surface.

Opening doors that were unseen previously.
Taking steps forward and seeking,
rather than sitting back and waiting to be ‘shown’.
Given this newfound key, they might even use it
to dig deeper and uncover buried treasures.
Discover brand new territories.

An important realization is the key itself.
Seeing situations as not happening to you,
or keeping you down.
Rather, as containers of tremendous growth
through lessons and realizations.

Kind of like the development of a callous
through repeated hard work.
The ripples formed by a stone tossed in the water.
There are end results to your actions or inactions.
We have little external control over what
happens in the world.

However, we do have free will to cultivate our
inner processes - our perceptions and outlook.
By focusing on that which we can impact,
our own attitude, outlook, mind development -
we can create a more meaningful journey,
regardless of externals. ❀

Those moments add up!

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Those moments add up!

Do you often find yourself so busy that there
just doesn’t seem to be enough time to do
the things you want to do?
Maybe it’s carving specific time for exercise,

or reading a book to learn about health.
You’d love to meditate, but where do you find the time?

By simply seizing the scattered moments in your day -
waiting in line at the store,
sitting at a red light in traffic,
sitting on the toilet,
waiting for an appointment in the office,
doing the dishes,
loading the washing machine,
mowing the lawn,
shopping at the supermarket,
while watching television,
walking from your car.

A meditation can be focusing on the now while you do dishes.
Exercise can be done while watching tv or maybe doing lunges
as you prepare lunch.
I like to park far from my destination - partly for the exercise,
partly to protect my car from dings.
i pods make education easy as we can load interviews and books
onto them for easy listening while we do other things.

By combining activities, making use of idle time
and being creative with our time allotment,
we really do accomplish much more.
Or find the time we need to simply be quiet
and reflect on things. ❀