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Wednesday’s Mission – Explore the Work

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:44 +0000

For today’s mission I want you to explore Byron Katie’s extraordinary “The Work”. For some people and for some mindsets, her technique can work very quickly and can even feel like magic. I highly recommend watching all the videos on the site (youtube.com also has loads – just do a search on Byron Katie) to really get a feel for what this is all about – and it will feel very strange at first. There is also her book which I highly recommend

Please give the work at least a week to really start working.

I would love to hear from people who have had success with The Work in changing their mindsets or how you got on this week if you are new to it.

Gratitude Thursday

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:46 +0000

I am so grateful that the weather is finally warming up. Winters are long in Wisconsin and we don’t see grass for months. Yesterday it was warm enough to take a long walk. Between the exercise and the sun, I felt so very much better and I am looking forward to a lovely spring.

I am grateful to the recently deceased Dick Francis whose books give me so much pleasure – I am going back and rereading his back catalog and enjoying each one. Whilst not exactly Pulizer prize material, the stories are always interesting and packed full of obscure information so that I always learn something.

I am so grateful that the Internet means that I can listen to the radio of my childhood – in particular LBC and BBC’s Radio 4 . I love being able to keep in contact with things going on back home and just find the quality of programming excellent. I have an internet radio by my bed so I can drift off to sleep to them too. I wish I could also watch television programs but they are as yet not available except for those that show up on PBS.

What are you grateful for this Thusday?

Wednesday’s mission

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:42 +0000

I hope you have been having fun completing these missions. I have challenged all of your senses and have started getting you used to change.
Today’s challenge may be harder for you. I want you to challenge one of your fears. Start with a more minor fear this week – trying to go for your worst phobia may be premature at this junction.
An example that I am going to carry out this week is to go look at a rat in a pet shop. I really hate rats and I have been working hard at conquering this phobia using EFT – I couldn’t even bear to see one on television before so I think I am ready for this step – next step will be to stroke one – the very thought makes me shudder. A rat phobia does not exactly stop my life in any way but conquering our fears in any area will help us conquer our other fears – success builds on success and changes us to a can do mindset.

Good luck with this one – I would love to hear how you get on – so please leave a comment.

Inspiration Tuesday

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000

There are some books I re-read yearly – either because the book is so beautifully written or because they inspire me to look at my life differently. Top of my list in the latter category is:

This beautifully simple tale teaches me something new every time I read it. It teaches us to look at the world with newly opened eyes. I highly recommend you read this book and allow it’s magic to work on you.

Accountability – Forgiveness

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:46:38 +0000

This post is so timely for me as I have been putting off updating my accountability page as I did really badly last week in my exercise goal. No excuses – I just got out of the habit and am now having a hard time getting back into it.
We all have times like this – when our will power is lacking or life gets in the way – and it is so easy to give ourselves a hard time over it. I am being particularly hard on myself as I feel I am letting my readers down as well as myself. So I have to do what I urge you all to do when things haven’t gone as well as they could be – lighten up! We fall down sometimes but that doesn’t mean we are now out. We just have to realign ourselves to our goals – remind ourselves of WHY we want to achieve our goals – and my why is huge – I want to stay alive to see my kids grow up and have their own kids. We forgive those we love over and over for their mistakes and we need to learn to do the same for ourselves.
Here is a wonderful quote by Maya Angelou on the subject :
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

Gratitude Thursday

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:02:04 +0000

I am loving the sun that is coming through the window reminding me that warmer weather is not so far away.

I am grateful that slowly my health is coming back and that I had excellent health care.

I am lucky to have a career that I love.

I am fortunate for the struggles in my life because they are such great learning lessons.