Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Intentions


This weekend I read The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale. I have always believed in the power of intentions, but I found his book to be particularly compelling. Putting your intentions out into the world is a way of inviting flow into your life, of accepting the role that faith and your spiritual persona play in creating your life. When I've had faith that everything would happen as it should, things have always gone as they needed to. Not always without pain, but always with tremendous growth and opportunity.

Right now I'm in the midst of much change. On the surface, it's about my career and what I want to do with my life. But below that, much deeper within me, it's about whether or not I'm going to let go of what has limited me in the past. I've come to a certain place in my life that is good, but that is not quite good enough. I still please too much, still worry all the time. These are things that need to go.

It's interesting to see how often negativity flits across my brain. I'm trying to watch it as an observer and to dismiss it, the way I would wave away a gnat. This is often easier said than done. But I want to rid myself of these vestiges of a life that came before, a life that needs to be changed and reinvented.

So I put my new intentions out into the world . . .

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Fear . . .

can rule you, if you let it.

Illustration Friday--Portrait

For Illustration Friday. . . this is my mantra lately, as I look at leaving a full-time, relatively certain job that I've grown to despise most of the time to do something I really love--help people figure out what they want to do with the rest of their lives.

Letting go is typically hard for me. I don't commit easily, but when I do, I hold onto everything--relationships, jobs, books, clothes--long past the time that I should. I'm always afraid that I'm "misjudging" people or not giving something a chance. If things aren't clearly terrible, then I keep muddling on. Martyr is my middle name. But I've realized that you do have to let go sometimes. You have to make room for new things to come into your life. This book has helped, giving me a lot to think about in terms of how to re-shape my life, how to go for what really sustains me.

So this week, I'm planning to do that. To clear out some space to make room for even better things to come. Wish me luck.