Newsletter #6
October 10, 2002

Hello To Everyone!

I hope that the beginning of the year has started off on good footing for you....but if not...I've given you some questions to ponder...

I know many of us will start off with a pure heart of good intentions or we will start off with goals that we really mean to obtain but... what happens when we have residual feelings or unresolved issues left over from the past year? How do we really start off with a clean slate?

How does one really set goals Intuitively when you are feeling really stuck, really blocked and you really don't know what direction to go in?

What do you do when you are so lost you don't feel you know which way is up?
What do you do when you have no idea what to do?
How does one set goals when you are afraid of making a mistake because of past experiences?
When you have knowledge and experience of hard work and what really accomplishing your goals and all the work it takes to get to where you think you want to go?

To come from the beginners mind is the best place to start. To be in that place where the world seems to be 'your oyster'. To have a child like mind or child like wonder. Where there are endless possibilities. Where there are not mistakes where you really can't make a wrong decision. This is the point to remember, to get back to the wonder that we had as kids. How do I have a beginners mind again?

I sat down and wrote out every area of my life of what I would like to see for myself for this coming year but I really had to do something different so as to not come from a place of fear or from a place of not knowing what the possibilities or challenges would be. Because I have some knowledge now of setting goals and accomplishing them and the work that it entails, challenges and bumping times I may go through to attaining them. The problem with this is that I will project what I think will happen or what my fears are into what I want to accomplish. Whereas if I can come from a place of really just not knowing, I can begin anew.

Remember what ever "I think" into a situations is what is becomes.

How do I not let past experience not influence my NOW? How do I really being again?

Well, what I did was I went back over what I did accomplish over the last year. I asked myself these question:
1) What was I afraid of last year but I walked through my fears anyway? I made a list.
2) What big deals did I walk through? I made another list.
3) What changed in my life for the better?
4) What happened that was more than I could have ever expected?
5) What was less than I could have ever expected?
6) What character flaws need to be improved?
7) What flaws need to be changed?
8) What relationships do I want to improve? Remove?
How did I improve physically? Mentally ? Spiritually?Career wise?

Go back in each area and make note of what you did accomplish. So many times we don't acknowledge how far we really have come we are so busy looking at how far we have to go. But the truth is the goal always moves. It really is about being happy and pleased with what we have and what we have accomplished so far.

At the end of the daymaking a list of ten things I have done well for the day is a great habit to get into. When I start to look at all I am doing I can't help but attract more good into my life.

Also too what is really good to look at is ... what drama did you create in your own mind, live as if that drama was happening or was going to happen but it really did not exist or it really never did come to fruition. why not see the good until shown otherwise?

How did you stress your self out when you really did not need to? It all worked out great. How many of us get all worked up over something because that is how we are use to responding to stressful situations?

It is about building on what you have started to achieve. It is about moving forward.
It is about doing a little investigative work into our selves. They say that awareness is half the battle.

Continue to ask questions like:
1) What are the thoughts, actions or people that cause me to backslide?
2) What causes me to not show up for myself?
3) How or what do I become distracted by?
4) How do I get into drama or create drama in my life?
5) What is out of my control that I need to let go of?
6) What are the thoughts that come up that caused me to stop doing what feels good?
7) What causes me to think that I don't have the answers within me and I seek other peoples opinions and begin to live out their life story for myself?