Freedom Project

The other day I was on my way to work and this soothing reassuring feeling came over me and the words that ran through my mind went like this, "Today is full of opportunities. Every opportunity that I'm faced with today has two options. One that supports my intention to feel good and one that doesn't. Today it is my intention to choose the best feeling thought, action or response that assists me with my long term alignment."

I practice everyday placing purposeful intention towards the best feeling situation, because I know that like energy attracts like energy. I want the best of the best that life has to offer. I'm not perfect and I have my trips and slips, but with practice the recovery time is much shorter than it used to be. This pleases me.

I wanted to share an amazing conversation I had the opportunity to participate in other day. I was chatting on the phone and a friend of mine was telling me that she was going through a divorce. I asked her how she was doing and she laughed a bit and said, "I am just enjoying the process of my freedom project".

I asked her if it was ok for me to share this in my blog because I really liked the perspective she was choosing. Divorce is difficult in the best of circumstances, but to be seeing this event in her life as a "Freedom Project" was very moving and yet another perfect example of making a choice to place purposeful intention towards the best feeling thing in that situation.

What ever the question, LOVE is the answer. Weather it is self love or love for another, love will always feel good.

Here's a plan

Ok, so here's the deal. In a challenging situation when you feel stuck and you're trying to make a decision, you have got to decide what's the greater good.

The greater good most often is to make improvements that benefit everyone involved.

How do improvements come?

Changes have to be made. It is imperative to deal with whatever is the cause of the situation and not just the symptoms the situation is causing. It's is not just a matter of putting out fires, it's a matter of finding the fucker that has all the damned matches!!!

Determine what is causing the symptoms.

Ask yourself if you are willing to take matters into your own hands. Are you willing to take the risks necessary to resolve the situation? Are you comfortable making large improvements and taking credit for making decisions? Are you better today than you were yesterday? Are you happy? What's in it for you?

HOWEVER, you can not make improvements on your own in some situations, therefore, you have got to get a 100% by in by everyone involved. So, if you don't have a 100% buy in by all involved, what then?

Exit strategy!

Living on the Edge

Today somebody asked me, What's my favorite thing to write about. I thought for a minute because I have been asking myself a similar question. I've been asking myself, what would I like my ultimate platform for Apozitude to be? If I were to give a presentation, what would I feel the most passion about sharing?

I have been having a little bit of difficulty with this question because I feel a great deal of passion about many things. Who will my audience be when I begin giving presentations? I love children and the pure positive energy they still have coursing through them. I love how open they are to learning new things. I asked Lexi, my favorite little 3 year old, if she wanted to meditate with me several weeks ago. Although I am not certain, she may have been introduced to meditation before, but she was totally open to it. We did 15 minutes of focused breathing exersices. She was looking at a book while we were doing it, but every single time the guided meditation instructed us to breathe in, she would look up from her book, then at me and breathe in until the guided meditation instructed us to breathe out. It was one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. She had no questions about it, like why? or what is this good for? or any doubt about it. She just did it. It was really cool.

So, having an audience of children has a certain appeal, but I am also very passionate about equal rights, exercise, eating healthy, having a positive attitude and just plain'ol having fun. I really want to discover a platform that has the widest reach. When the question, What's your favorite thing to write about was posed, my answer was that I most like to write about living life on purpose.

As I thought about this concept more as the day went on, I thought how do I live my life on purpose? How would I address this in Apozitude? I noticed that I started asking myself questions and I thought this is one of the things you need to do to live your life on purpose. You need to ask yourself questions and not just, what do I want for breakfast type of questions, questions that make you a little bit uncomfortable. Questions that take you to places deep within yourself to get the answers. In the end when you come up with the answer, that answer should make your chest swell with pride, cause a smile to strech across your face and make you feel like you're on fire because THAT is your purpose!!!

What makes you live your life on purpose? What is your intention? What are you willing to make personal sacrifices for? What is it that turns you on? Ask your self questions that ONLY YOU can answer. Every single question that you have ever had has an answer right there with in you. You have to be willing to make a commitment to yourself, to slow down and sit quietly listening with the intention of receiving THE answers.

My favorite thing to write about is living life on purpose. Being mindful. Living with intention. Listening with intention. Why? Because that is my purpose that is what gets me all fired up. I could stay up all night talking about intention and purpose and living life just beyond on the edge of my comfort zone.