What's the intention for 2012 and what have we done to begin to realize it? We start the new year with tremendous intentions - I'm going to be in a body building contest by the end of the year - I'm going to weigh 50 pounds less by summer. How about - I'm going to Europe by spring - I'm going to make $10,000 a month by September. All of these things are intentions, serous intentions, but what do we do to make those things happen?
How do we keep up the enthusiasm, the positive attitude? Why do we fall away from these great intentions and wind up being yet another gym membership casualty? I think that we make big plans, huge intentions, and we don't have a reasonable expectation of success. I think we hope and wish but lack a concrete plan for getting from here to there and when we don't "magically" manifest our intention, we give up and revert to pattern behavior. We don't think of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of little baby steps it takes to reach the destination of our dreams.
Hold the intention - keep the goal in mind - don't jettison the worthy intention because it does not manifest overnight. Keep taking the baby steps, do one more thing today that we didn't do yesterday. Acknowlegde our progress. Write one page a day of that great American novel. Paint on that masterpiece for one hour a day. Save $3.50 a day, the price of a trendy cup of coffee, toward that trip to Europe. Make baby steps in the direction of the goal. Little by little, step by step, day after day, and then we realize in one month, six months, one year, how much closer we are to manifesting our goals. Then we must acknowledge how far we have come, not how much more we have to go.
Most of us manifest the big vision, not overnight, but by one baby step at a time.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Year New Day New Me
So, this is the year I blog consistently, faithfully and daily. Stop laughing...It just seems like life is happening so quickly that it is difficult to take the time to write about life happening so quickly.
Another year has gone by and I get to look at a brand new, shiny, never been used year and set my intentions for it. One of my spiritual practices is to daily read something, anything, by Ernest Holmes, founder of Centers for Spiritual Living. This morning I read, "The reflection of an image in a mirror is an exact likeness of the image which is held before the mirror. And so it is the Law of Good reflects back to you a likeness of the images of your own thought. Thus we are told that we reflect the glory of God. But too often we reflect the fear and limitation of the human rather than the glory of God."
With that in mind, I set my intentions for the new year. I set my intentions with love instead of in fear and I set my intentions with power instead of doubt. So, 2012, I accept more love, more joy, more peace, more prosperity, more unity, more wholeness, more health, more of the good that life has to offer.
Another year has gone by and I get to look at a brand new, shiny, never been used year and set my intentions for it. One of my spiritual practices is to daily read something, anything, by Ernest Holmes, founder of Centers for Spiritual Living. This morning I read, "The reflection of an image in a mirror is an exact likeness of the image which is held before the mirror. And so it is the Law of Good reflects back to you a likeness of the images of your own thought. Thus we are told that we reflect the glory of God. But too often we reflect the fear and limitation of the human rather than the glory of God."
With that in mind, I set my intentions for the new year. I set my intentions with love instead of in fear and I set my intentions with power instead of doubt. So, 2012, I accept more love, more joy, more peace, more prosperity, more unity, more wholeness, more health, more of the good that life has to offer.
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