So this afternoon, I was cleaning house and picked up a book in my nightstand that I had started two years ago called Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction.
I started the book to reiterate what I was already practicing, which was "the powers of positive thinking", something that I always thought I was pretty good at but wanted to learn some more tools to master this way of thinking. It's a Chicken soup for the soul and is really easy to read. I'm almost half way through, and after picking up the book again today I thought that it would be a positive blogging option.
The 7 essential ingredients for living a prosperous life is how this book is divided. With this book you begin a journal, which is of course optional, yet in order to really do the work there are some exercises that you can choose to participate in.
7 sections are broken down into the following and include 5 life lessons:
So far I have completed...
Chapter 1 - Here's how it work- "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth"
Life Lesson #1 Let your passion be your guide- "We do not know who we are until we see what we can do"
Lesson #2 What you think and what you feel- "What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."
Lesson #3 Releasing the "How" so the dream can unfold- "When the truly great people discover they have been deceived by the signposts along the road life, they just shift gears and keep going"
Lesson #4 The Power of your state of mind- "Abundance is not something we acquire, it is something we tune into"
Lesson #5 The Power of intention, not attachment- Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance"
In this chapter I learned a LOT about where exactly my state of mind is, where I react vs. respond and how to get from where I am currently to where I want to be. Reading these lessons and little short stories helped me figure out where I was at that moment. Like I stated before, I started this book in 2008. Where I was 2 years ago is COMPLETELY different from where I am now. Not just because I'm married and had a baby but mentally, emotionally, educational, everything about me feels different. Of course, it's not all because I started reading this book but I definitely feel that I've learned from it.
Chapter 2 - Defining Moments - "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed"
Life Lesson #1 You're never stuck! - "Burnout doesn't occur because we're solving problems; it occurs because we've been trying to solve the same problems over and over.The problem named is the problem solved, Identify and confront the real problems in your path.
Lesson #2 Breakthroughs don't have to be hard - "At any moment, I could start being a better person...But which moment should I choose?"
Lesson #3 Where you currently stand is perfect - "We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are"
Lesson #4 You are always at choice - "You always do what your want to do, this is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that your were forced to, but actually whatever you do, you do it by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself"
Lesson# 5 Call in your team - " Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success"
Talk about a smack in the face! I was currently, extremely struggling at work with new obstacles in my path that I have never ever had to face. It wasn't necessarily the people individually that I was struggling with, yet at that time I didn't know this. I would have so much anger and confusion towards them not knowing why they were acting or speaking the way they were to me or even of me for that matter. It took a looooooong full year to realize that we all started off on the wrong foot. Relationships were already damaged, yet I was determined to make them better. I CHOSE to do everything in my power to help them and grow individually regardless of the outcome I knew I wanted to get past this. Putting on a different set of glasses helped me take the baby steps to get there, I have no hard feelings for them, as I know it was probably just as frustrating for them as it was for me. There were times when I felt like I was thrown under the bus and lies were flying left and right, today I still feel that that was the way it was, but I am not going backwards. I have no angry feelings with past statements, I've forgiven and moved on. That is what I choose to do daily. Forgive and move on. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff I've stated this since the passing of my beloved Uncle Jerry. Can you imagine what life would be life if all you did was worry? Or became hung up on everyone's conversations and lives that you cease to live your own? How fullfilling would a life like that be? Can't even imagine, I for one have never, will never allow myself to even slightly think like that. I've been blessed and I am going to count them and enjoy living them!
