It is a basic human need to want to feel free to live as our heart desires. For some, freedom might come in the form of financial independence. They might be motivated by the desire to be free from the worry and stress that plague them when they don’t feel able to provide adequately for themselves and their families.

Others don’t see the point of having a lot of money if it means having to spend all of their waking hours working. For them freedom may mean being able to spend one’s free time with the people they love the most.

But what good is having money or time if poor health doesn’t allow you to enjoy them? For others, the key to living a good life is mostly about being free from pain or health concerns.

The point is, we all long for freedom and independence in our lives in one form or another.

Today, as we celebrate Independence Day here in America, I am feeling grateful to live in a country where I can go after whatever form of freedom I desire. In my pursuit of happiness, I not only get to visual the life of my dreams, I am free to go out and create it.

Wishing you a beautiful Independence Day! In the spirit of this day, may you choose to exercise your right to Consciously Create the Life that You Desire and Deserve!

Whichever the case may be, our surroundings play an important role in the quality of our energy. Since energy is also a key component in manifestation, it is not difficult to see that when our energy is weakened or compromised by our environment, so is our ability to create the results that we desire in our lives.

The solution: clear your space!

Recently I’ve noticed that I’m having a hard time focusing on one thing at a time. When I set to work on a project or task, I have the best of intentions to see it through to the end. What I’m finding, however, is that more often than not I get distracted by a thousand little things that get my attention rerouted in just as many new directions. I do a little bit of work on one task, which leads me to thinking about this other project that I’ve been working on for awhile, and that starts me looking in new directions, and so on and so forth. Before I know it, I can’t remember what it was that I set out to do in the first place.

Although I’ve been aware of this work pattern, what has only just recently come to my attention is the fact that the office where I work is filled with clutter and distractions. My outside world is definitely a mirror for my inner machinations. I have piles of paper on my desk, on top of the printer and even on the floor. The work table behind me has an accumulation of various objects for which a more suitable home has not yet been found. My environment is definitely not conducive to focus, therefore neither is my energy.

What I need to do: clear my space!

The problem always seems to be that the task of cleaning and clearing feels daunting. Where do I begin? What do I do with all this stuff? Do I have enough time to get through such an endeavor? Sometimes these thoughts can lead me to a feeling of overwhelm, which is something I want to avoid because I don’t want to become stuck or paralyzed with inaction.

The best way I have found to deal with this is to simply commit to spending 15-20 minutes a day working on clearing my space. I literally set the timer and get to work. I work on sorting, organizing, rearranging, recycling, donating, and/or disposing of the items that are weighing down my energy. When the time is up, I can choose to continue working on the clutter if I feel like it, or I can move to the other tasks that need my attention. If I don’t get it done today, it’s okay because I know that I’ll work on it a little bit more tomorrow and the next day and the next until it gets completely finished.

And as I begin to feel the clearing of energy in my surroundings, I also begin to notice the clearing of my personal energy, freeing me to deal with the rest of life’s tasks.

Although I have not given up trying to reach that state of grace, I am also grateful to have found a tool that helps me to achieve the effects of an advanced state of meditation without years of discipline and practice. Bill Harris and the Centerpointe Research Institute have come up with a sound technology that help you to “meditate like a Zen monk”.

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An intention is simply a declaration in the present tense that states how it is that you are going to show up in the world. It will be begin with an expression like, “I choose..” or “I am willing…” or “I am committed to..” and makes a clear stance on the energy and perspective you are bringing into the situations that you are going into that day. Intentions help you to clarify and direct your focus for the experiences and tasks that lay before you.

Intentions are different from affirmations in one key way. While affirmations are also statements made in the present tense which focus on a desired state of being, they are externally focused and rely on outside validation. Intentions on the other hand are expressed as the desired state of being that will get you the results that you desire. They are self-focused and personal and require no validation from outside sources.

An affirmation goes like this:
“I am now in a loving relationship.”

This type of statement is deemed accurate or inaccurate according to the facts of the situation. A person is either in a loving relationship or not. For this to be true, the speaker must rely on outside circumstances, experiences and relationships to come into alignment with that which they wish to create in their lives. This is disempowering and excuses the speaker from any and all responsibility for the outcomes they create.

An intention on the other hand sounds like this:
“I choose to be loving in all my relationships.”

This type of stance empowers the speaker and gives a clear focus for how they want to be in the world. Since what we focus on expands, this allows the person speaking the intention to align their energies with that which they would choose to create in their lives thereby giving them greater possibilities for manifesting what they desire.

Intentions are powerful tools. I encourage you to use them daily to see what you can create in your own life.

Also true to my Gemini ways, focus is not a skill I possess. I can’t even begin to enumerate the myriad ways that my attention gets drawn away from the task at hand at any given moment. If it’s shiny, makes noise, has a catchy title or looks pretty and interesting, I can be instantaneously detoured from my work. Before I know it, I am touching, tasting, smelling, watching, reading or listening to something that has nothing at all to do with my current project. The world has a never-ending fascination for me and I must fight my natural state of curiosity and wonder in order to get anything done.

Although it is not an innate skill of mine, for me focus is the key to productivity. It has been absolutely essential for me to find ways to effectively manage my time so that I can get things accomplished. While I have uncovered many different techniques for creating and maintaining focus, the one that seems to work best for me is creating a daily six point list of action items that are in alignment with my current intentions. This works because it is simple.

Before I set to work each day, I become clear on my intentions. I begin by asking myself, “What am I currently working to create?” I cannot be effective and productive if my goals are unclear. I may have a lot of irons in the fire, but how many of those items are important in leading me in the direction of my desired outcomes? The fact of the matter is that many of the activities that I engage in during the day are serving no other purpose than distracting me from the work that I really need to do.

Once I have found clarity on my goals, it becomes simpler to then pull from my pages long list the 6 most important things that I must do today to move me forward towards my dreams. If I am working on a larger project, the action items may be individual steps in the process. If I have multiple smaller projects, I may work on several of them in a day’s time. My list might include emails I need to write, phone calls I need to make or research that I need to get done. I may have meetings or appointments. I may be creating a teleseminar or creating materials for a course.

Whatever it is that I am working on, the action items need to be specific and measurable. I want to create quantifiable action steps in order to gauge my progress, as well as be clear on when I have completed a task so I can move on to the next.

When I have found the 6 items, I list them on an index card in order of priority. What do I need to do first, second, third etc. This is an important because in order for this list to truly be effective in keeping me focused, I must complete the highest ranking one before moving on to the next. I work on number one until it is complete. When it is done, I cross it out (boy does that feel good!) and move on to number two. I do not move on to number three until number two is accomplished and crossed off my list. And so on and so forth. At any moment in the day, it is clear what I need to be working on. When I get distracted, I pull out my index card and zero in on the next task at hand.

Although simple, I have found this technique to be a powerful tool for keeping me on task and focused. It gives me a clear path to follow, as well as a way to measure my progress. It allows me to find clarity and to stay in integrity with my life goals.

Try it. You just might find that it helps you to focus better too.

We are inundated with visual data every day, but how much of what we see is helping us to move in the direction of our dreams? In choosing to Deliberately Create your reality, you must learn to consciously select the input that you are sending to your mind. As long as your values and beliefs support the life that you wish to create, you will manifest that which you think about and vividly imagine.

So how do we vividly imagine the life of our dreams? One of the most fun and effective ways to do that is to create a Vision Board. Essentially, a Vision Board is a collection of images of the people, things and experiences that you would like to create in your life. It is a simple and fun process. Take a look at my vision board (pictured above) and then consider the following as you create one for yourself:

1. Go through magazines, newspapers and other visual media to find images that show the things that you would like to create in your life.

2. Be sure to think about every area of your life (i.e. home, professional life, hobbies, relationships, health, financial etc.)

3. Find pictures that inspire, motivate or move you emotionally. Emotions are a powerful manifestational energy.

4. Glue the images on to a piece of poster board in an attractive and pleasing way.

5. Hang the vision board up where you will see it daily.

6. Spend some time each day studying your vision board and anchoring the images into your Unconscious Mind.

7. As you visualize, add sensory details. What would the thing that you imagine look like? How would it taste? How would it feel to the touch? Would it have a sound or a smell? The more vivid your image, the more real it becomes to your Unconscious Mind.

For those of you who are technologically inclined, you can take a picture of your board and use it as wallpaper or a screensaver on your computer. You can also make a vision board on the computer by creating a Powerpoint of images that you can watch on the screen.

Regardless of which method you use, the important thing to remember is to make sure that you spend some time each day connecting with this vision. You create in your life that which you think about most. Spend some time each day thinking about and visualizing that which you desire and move more quickly in the direction of your dreams.

• Would you like to be making more money? 
• How are your relationships?
• Is your health and fitness what you want it to be?
• In which area of your life would you like to see some changes?

Whether you are aware of it or not, you are responsible for the results that you see in your life.

You Create Your Own Reality Every Moment of Every Day!

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My work this year has been threefold:
First, I have been working on seeing the abundance that surrounds me on a daily basis.  This means, that I have been actively working on raising my awareness of the myriad ways that I attract blessings and gifts into my life every day.

Second, I have been learning to see that absolutely every experience, even the unpleasant or challenging ones, offer me gifts if I choose to see them.  I am constantly opening myself up to expanding my definition of abundance thereby allowing more of it in. 

Finally, I have been learning to let go of my limited views on what forms this abundance should take so that I may allow the abundance to flow to me in whatever ways it can.  I am understanding more and more each day that the more I allow the universe to answer my requests in its own way, the more amazing those gifts of abundance are.

I recently had an experience that I feel illustrates these lessons beautifully.  I received my cell phone bill this month and was shocked to find that it was twice what I normally pay.  On further review of the charges, I found that my son and I had gone over our monthly minutes and therefore were charged for the overage.  This had never happened to us before because in previously months we had had enough rollover minutes to cover any extra charges that we might have incurred.  Well, this month we didn’t have that luxury.  The result was quite a hefty bill.  As you might imagine, I was not a happy camper.

Not wanting to have to deal with this again next month, I called my phone company and asked about changing my wireless plan.  Obviously, we needed more minutes.  The customer service representative sounded robotic as they often do.  She was doing her job by the script and taking care of me as she had been trained to do.  Although I find this sort of practiced neutrality challenging, I chose to understand that she was merely doing her job and that it had absolutely nothing to do with me.  I also chose to take complete responsibility for the fact that my son and I had gotten ourselves into this mess and that it was our responsibility to pay the consequences of that, no matter how unpleasant.

I asked her to explain the bill to me, which she did.  I asked her what my options were, and she gave me several things to consider.  I gave her a couple of different scenarios and we walked through the possibilities together.  Finally, I chose to go to the next plan up which essentially doubles the number of minutes we have.  While she was working on changing that in the computer, she had to keep apologizing for the slowness.  I assured her that it was fine and that she needn’t worry about it.  I explained that I knew this was my own fault and that apparently patience was a part of the price that I needed to pay along with the additional cost. 

Well, the transaction was finally completed, and she asked me if I needed anything else.  I told her no and thanked her for her assistance.  She responded by telling me that she would be crediting my account for $150.  I thought I had misheard her.  I asked her to repeat herself.  She did.  She said that because my bill was going to be going up this month anyway due to my rate plan change, that she would give me a break on this month’s bill with the overage fees.  I didn’t know what to say except Thank You!  I was stunned.  My bill would now be less than I would have paid on a normal month.  She continued by telling me how nice it was that I had not faulted her or the company for the extra charges.  She said that most of the people she deals with want to blame the phone company, but I had not done that and she appreciated it.

That’s when I realized the true blessing of this interaction.  This was not a pleasant situation to deal with.  I did not go into this exchange happy to have to pay twice what I normally do for my monthly service.  But all experiences contain lessons and gifts, and as it turned out, this one provided me to opportunity to practice what I preach.  In this interaction I had made two important choices: one, was to take complete responsibility for my phone bill and two, was to have compassion for this woman who might appear emotionless but who was simply doing her job.  I did not complain, play the victim or bargain with her.  I did not take my frustrations out on her.  I also did not ask her for any special favors or deals.  Instead, I accepted my resonsibility for the situation and took a proactive stance that I hoped would help me to avoid repeating this mistake in the future.  And for that, I was rewarded with a gift of financial abundance that I could have never conjured up in my own limited view of things. 

The universe knows that I am looking to bring greater abundance in my life.  What I am learning is that the universe truly knows better than I do how to allow abundance to flow to me.  My job is to be grateful for each and every experience in my life, even those that are unpleasant or challenging, and then step out of the way to allow universal blessings to flow.  I get to learn to expect the unexpected and marvel and the many forms that abundance can take.

The hour was devoted to developing an understanding of the mechanics of manifestation as it is played out on the different levels of consciousness. It was a fast-paced exploration of how we can use an understanding of consciousness to create real results in our lives.

I had a great time, and truly hope that the listeners did as well.  If you missed the call, and are interested in hearing it, please go to:

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