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How To Turn Your Past Into A Better Future

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Do you think of your past and say “If only…..”? Or do you say “What if….”? Are you bitter about your past? Do you have regrets? Or, do you look at your past and say “Wow, I can’t believe how that event or situation changed my life”? Or even “What if that hadn’t happened? How would my life have been different”? Take a chance and a few hours and travel into your past writing down different things that have happened to you. They may be big events or small events. Just start by writing down events you can remember that seem(ed) significant.

This may take a bit of time but just let your mind wander. It does not matter if you write them down in chronological order or in order of significance. Everything will come into the proper perspective later. It helps if you actually use pen and paper. There is something about that hand-eye-brain connection. It certainly stimulates your creativity so it could very easily help you recall more memories.

Once you’ve taken the time to list your thoughts and prior activities, look at each one and see what happened after that event. This may take some thought because the consequences or related situations may not have occurred in close proximity. Some may be really close and others may be far apart. Let me give you an example. I didn’t get accepted into medical school right out of college as I had “planned”. I was devastated of course. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life since I had wanted to be a doctor since I was 4 years old. But life continued. I kept applying every year and the second year I didn’t get accepted either. So, what good could possibly have come from that? Several things. First, it gave me time to mature which was very important as I began my trek into medicine. But more importantly, I developed a medical issue that wasn’t diagnosed for approximately a year. Had I been in medical school when this developed I would have either dropped out or failed out because of this condition. So, my not getting into medical school when I wanted was actually a very good thing. I was able to go after my condition was diagnosed and stabilized. During those two years I was feeling down and out, however, it did not feel like a good thing. We have to have faith that things really do happen for a reason.

Take the past and the things that have looked like bad luck and see what happened after them. How would your life have turned out had that ‘bad luck’ not happened? Although you can’t change things now, you can declare them good and be grateful for what has happened to you. Remember, declare everything that occurs as good and say “I declare this good and I see the good coming from it”. Do this no matter how dark and dismal something may appear. This statement will convince the Universe that you believe it and the Universe will make it good.

Your life really is what you make of it. You can learn how to craft the events that happen to you and manifest your goals by altering your thoughts and words. The Art of Making Things Happen will assist you in this process.

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Use Gratitude To Increase Your Success

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The law of gratitude is probably the most important and maybe even the most overlooked law of all the universal laws. If you want to succeed and you want to make the law of attraction work you must understand the law gratitude.

You have to align yourself with the good out there in order to bring it closer to you. In order to align yourself you must constantly think of the good things in your life. Keep your mind focused on all that is coming to you even if it hasn’t presented itself in a material form yet. It’s a process of mental adjustment to the idea that that you can achieve and receive all the good that you possibly desire. Thoughts are things. There is this formless substance that’s out there in the universe. Your thoughts are what modifies that formless substance and brings you what you have told the Universe you desire.

Gratitude will bring your mind into greater harmony with the creative energies of the universe. If you are always grateful, the Universe will start giving you everything that you desire.

I recommend that you write in a gratitude journal on a daily basis. Why? This will help train you to be thankful for everything in your life. There are many stories about people who made a goal list and six or eight months later they’re still complaining that nothing has happened to achiev their goals. But if you asked them to get their list out and then compare it to things that have happened in their lives, they will be amazed at the number of things actually have been accomplished. It’s human nature that we don’t remember everything which is why it’s important to write things down. How small is this? I write everything down and when my TV is broken, instead of being upset about that, I was grateful that I was able to watch the baseball games on my computer. Nine or Ten years ago I wasn’t able to do that. It’s small to many people but I give thanks for that capability because I want to express as much true gratitude as I can. I know that the Universe will then “power up” to bring more things that I will be grateful for.

Without gratitude you cannot keep from being dissatisfied with things as they are. You have to have a constant flow of gratitude in your life. Remember that the creative power within us makes us into the image of that we give our attention to.

Here’s an action step for you. Download this The Getting Unstuck, LLC Gratitude Journal. It’s very easy to use. It has a sticky function that will keep it posted on your desktop at all times. That way whenever something pops into your mind as things tend to do you can immediately go to the sticky jot down what you’re grateful for and it will be transformed into your gratitude journal. This is my gift to the universe and I hope you enjoy it and most of all I hope you use it because gratitude and the perpetual use of gratitude will bring you everything you want in life. It’s important that you don’t just use gratitude when it’s convenient for you or when things are going well. It’s important that you use gratitude all the time. Learn to discipline yourself and set aside a “Gratitude Time”. Gratitude will increase your faith. Increasing your faith will bring you the best of all there is.

Thank you for reading this! I am very grateful for your support.

Terrie

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When is Failure Truly Inspirational?

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Have you ever not completed something you were aiming for and automatically decided you were a failure? Perhaps you didn’t totally disparage yourself but still decided that you failed. I was inspired to write this by the recent attempt by Diana Nyad to swim 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She didn’t make it. Was she a failure?

The attempt failed but Diana Nyad was anything but a failure. In fact, she probably inspired more people in her attempt than if she had actually swum the entire 103 miles without a hitch. She had multiple problems during the 29+ hours she swam approximately 55 miles. In fact from hour 3 she was swimming with excruciating shoulder pain, which she had never had before. Then the last 11 or so hours she was besieged by an asthma attack, which she also had never had before. As a physician, I can’t imagine her staying in the water at all with an asthma attack to say nothing of the 11 hours she continued. Then there were the “little” things – she was apparently stung by jellyfish in every imaginable part of the body adding to her already pain-wracked body. 

This woman endured more in those 29 hours than most of us endure in our life time. Being unable to breathe is such a frightening experience but she pushed on trying to achieve her goal. However, reaching Florida and swimming that 103 miles was actually only part of her goal. She repeatedly professed that she wanted to show people her age (and mine) that life wasn’t over and that they could accomplish their dreams despite their age. She certainly accomplished that goal. Her story is all over the social media networks, CNN and the Internet.

Diana showed courage under fire – fire that most of us will never know. It was not only her personal desire to continue on but she wanted to do this for all the people who supported her and were there for her. Wouldn’t you like to pattern your life after her? I know that I would. I cannot tell you how inspired I have been by her and her attempt. I think I’m more inspired by her “failure” and what she went through than if she had simply made it. I also believe that most of the world reacts the same way.

How can you change your life to pattern it after Ms. Nyad’s? Take some inventory about what’s going on in your own world and see what goals you have or have had. What good came out of the ones you didn’t achieve? Take a look at her actions after the event. She admitted intense disappointment but she also carried through on promises she made to her team – she had the parties she had told them they’d have. That is the sign of a true leader and a champion. Do you behave like that when you don’t succeed? Or do you go off and pout? What can you change about your reactions and behavior? She also made sure she made a video for her fans thanking them for their support throughout the aftermath of her swim. She thanked them for sending in their stories and telling her how much she had inspired them. She didn’t have to admit all these things. She could have just gone into hiding and had a pity party. But that is not Diana Nyad. She is phenomenal.

I recommend that you look at everything you “failed” at and see what good came out of it – either for yourself or for others. Analyze the results and I bet you will see that you helped others. And if you didn’t, think about how you can use your situation to help positively influence others.

Check out Ms. Nyad’s blog . If you’re interested in improving your life, setting realistic and achievable goals and living each day to the fullest, take a look at The Art of Making Things Happen.

Terrie

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How To Turn A Lousy Day Into A Much Better One

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Have you had those days where nothing seems to go right and you’re sure it’s a full moon? We all have experienced those days. Two things can happen. You can continue in the downward spiral toward a really, really bad day. Another option would be to make the most of what has happened and improve the day. Make that your mantra “Improve the Day” – we’ve all heard “seize the day”. We want to change it to improve our own day..and our life.

The primary reason you want to do this is so that you’ll not perpetuate the bad. You know that the Law of Attraction says “like attracts like”. You do not want the bad you’re dwelling on (as we all do) to attract more bad. You want to nip it in the bud and turn your day – and your life – around.

What’s the best way to deal with all that has happened on this day from you know where? Begin by declaring it good. Simply say “I declare it good. I see the good coming out of it and know that it will enrich my life more than I ever could have expected.” You can use any other affirmation that makes you feel good and tack it on to the end of “I declare it good and see the good coming out of this day”.

You want to do this with everything that happens in your life, no matter how small and no matter how bad things may seem. Don’t worry that you feel hypocritical or that you will be struck down for lying. If you say it often enough and with enough emotion, your subconscious mind will definitely believe it. Then, after you’ve had experiences like this several times, you won’t have to even think that you are trying to persuade your subconscious. By that time, you and it will have seen the good and know that that is the best way to deal with negative things.

What do you do if nothing good happens? First, you don’t say “see I knew it wasn’t going to work”. The reason for that is because you do not have any idea what timeline the Universe is on to bring you the good. Also, the good may be relative. I have a perfect example. When I was working in D.C. I lived 60 miles south of Washington, D.C. and had to travel on Interstate 95 which has horrible traffic. One day we had a sudden snow storm and I kept asking my boss if I could leave early to avoid the mess that was bound to occur in that storm. He wouldn’t let me go because we were in a meeting. I was upset. Then I remembered what I should do and kept saying “I declare it good and see the good coming out of it”. Of course there was doubt inside of me when it took me 8 hours to get home that day. But I kept saying “I declare it good”. And you know what? There had been a 100 car accident on the interstate (the reason for the long commute – no one could travel on the Interstate). If I had left when I wanted, there was a strong probability that I would have either been in that pile-up or stuck immediately behind it and been stranded in the cold for a much longer period of time. See how the “good” was relative. Yes, it took me 8 hours to get home but I got home safely and might not have had I left when I wanted.

The other thing you can do instead of sitting there trying to identify the good is to simply forget it and know that the Universe will actually bring you good. Because it will whether you ever see it or not. If you look back over your life, I imagine you’ll be able to see times when things happened that you couldn’t figure out but then you looked at the entire situation and had gratitude that things turned out the way they did. This could be regarding a relationship, a job, an event, or just about anything. Declare it good and it will be good.

This is just one of the hints discussed in The Art of Making Things Happen. Changing your life is within your power. You are not a victim and you are the one in control. You simply need to do some inner work to find out what has been holding you back. Then you can change it. Check out more about this self-study course at The Art of Making Things Happen.

Terrie

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How To Identify and Deal With Divine Discontent

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There’s a phrase that we use in knowing when it’s time for you to stretch. That phrase is, “It’s caused divine discontent.” Divine discontent is what you feel when you get that urge of boredom. “Things are not happening. It’s time to move on. I’m not happy here. There’s something missing in my life.”

Divine discontent. Remember these words. That means that you’re not reaching your potential. There’s something else for you to do. It could be anything from a change of job to a new opportunity to adding hobbies or developing something in another way.

Your soul pushes you and nudges you to always be greater than you are, to reach out a little bit more, to do a little bit more.

If you get to a point that you’re feeling like, I believe it was Rosemary Clooney that said, “Is that all there is?” that we constantly think about life. “Is that all there is? I’m going to be like this for the rest of my life? Do I really want to do that? Is that all there is?”

It’s also when you’re thinking that there is a possibility you can’t get ahead. It’s not going to work. You don’t like where you are. You don’t like the people.

Start asking yourself what is it about where you are at the moment that is nudging you. It will usually have something to do with your need to be adding a little bit more to your life experiences, to give you either greater authority in where you are or to have an experience in life like you’ve never had before. To know that there’s more to life than where you are right this minute and to say, “What is it? Where can I go from here?”

If you don’t stretch yourselves, you reach a point where all of a sudden even though you’re doing everything right, you’re just sort of bored where you are, and then chaos happens. The unexpected that you don’t want happens.

All of a sudden you’re in a place where you wonder, “How in the world? What did I do to create this situation?” If you reach a point like that, you do denials. “This is not my truth.” Go back to denials always at a point when chaos is occurring, because something in you has accepted this for some reason. You again say your denials.

Go back to some of the ones that you have used. “This is not my reality. I don’t choose to have that in my life. I refuse to have chaos in my life. Whatever is coming up, if it’s lack of some sort, this is not mine to do. It’s not mine to be. I remove it. I dissolve it. I get rid of it. I let it go.”

Tell the Universe that your next step is here and now, so that you can move through this and get to the next part very quickly and very easily.

How do you know that you’re right at the point of a new level of receiving? Well, that’s the divine discontent that you feel. That’s something there that you’re not reaching for. Your soul is saying, “I really would like to have a new step here.” Remember that life comes to us through steps.

“I’m ready for the next step of my divine plan, which is greater health, happiness and prosperity.”

Your divine plan is to be happy, healthy, whole, prosperous, complete in all ways, able to manifest and do and give and share all that you want to give, do and share. That is your divine plan. To find out more about how to create the life you want check out The Art of Making Things Happen.

Terrie