Author: Dottie Hager

Pay attention to what you focus on.

You receive what you focus on.

Your life is a living example of your focus.

Is it what you want?

Do you want to keep creating what is happening in your life or are you open to something else?

In my Living The Course, one of the exercises we did was to look at our own version of The Kingdom of Heaven versus My Tiny Kingdom of Life. As you can imagine the Kingdom of Heaven is unlimited abundance, love, peace, joy, freedom, etc. Then looking at my small self, My Tiny Kingdom, I have fenced myself with limiting beliefs and thinking. I’m in contraction. I have limited my focus and attention. It was a great way to see how we keep ourselves small, not live in the vastness we are.

I’d encourage you to really take notice of how boxed in you might be. How limited you are focusing.

I know how easy it is to lose focus. There are so many distractions today. It is why I speak to this issue. To remind you to take charge of the life you desire, to the way you’d like to live.

Dr. Kim D’Eramo talks about 4 ways we lose our energies and stay stuck if our focus is on our past, our future, our identity and others.

Are you stuck in the past? Is your past the focus of your future, Groundhog Day all over? What about the present?

Are you always looking to the future? When this happens, I will… like when I retire I will travel. Can’t you do that now?

Are you trying to live up to certain images, instead of focusing your attention on all you are? What is running your life?

Are you giving up your power to others? Allowing others to decide how your life will be. Who is really in charge of the life you are living?

I know for me, the future has captured a lot of my attention. Always chasing – the when I look this way, when I have this degree, when I’m not so busy.

How are you deciding how you will focus your attention?

Is it on your Highest and Greatest You?

Is it listening to your Soul and emotional guidance system?

The more you know what you want in your life, and align how you act in life with that, the more satisfying your life will be. But, it takes focus in the direction of what you want.

Throughout your day, notice ways you are distracted and taken away from the tasks at hand. Then notice how much of your day is focused on your dreams, your soul’s desire.

Awareness and consciousness are the tools for today’s peace and joy in life.

The more you know yourself, what you desire and how you are being in your world, the easier it will be for you to self-correct your attention.

To keep you on track, add reminders on your phone twice a day.

The more you keep your focus and attention on what you desire, the quicker you will receive.

Create some discipline and watch how your life is blessed with what you want.

Focus matters.

Life is precious.

Life is a gift.

Life is what you make it.

Let your vision be a light in this world.

Let Spirit or God be part of your solutions.

Let whatever is happening in your life encourage you to be part of the solution. Stop and ask, what is being asked of me right now. See the messages behind whatever you are facing. There’s something there for you.

How can you be a light or example for others?

You never know the impact of your actions on others.

As Howard Thurman shares, “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

Are you struggling with a certain situation in your life? Know that In the darkest of times, you are usually more open to solutions, to a higher way than what is presenting itself.

Remembering that life is full of peaks and valleys can help you know there is a way out. Stay out of the gutter.

If you are living in a faith higher than yourself, you can feel hopeful and surrender. Give it over to God or your Higher Power.

Know you are going for the solution. Even if you don’t know what that is. Make it your tendency to seek Higher.
As you look at a conflict in your life, are you being part of the solution or part of the problem? These days I’m trying to live more in the solutions, the light, love, and kindness. So whether in a disagreement or upset at others, I try to remind myself, I can choose – love or kindness or peace instead of being right or thinking I know best.

How can you view unsettling times as opportunities for you to live in a Higher Place? They are wake-up calls to find something deeper inside of you.

If you choose the more positive outcome, you are being part of the solution. Often the path to that is hard and hurts but in the end, you have a bigger heart or bigger space for love.

The world needs more love. You need more love. I need more love. Love is who we are.

How is your life part of the solution for this world? I know I write my blogs and send daily tips to help awaken people to a greater life, to know there are greater possibilities.

I know from experience, that life is for you and everything happening is for my, your, greater good. I also know I’m not always ready to see it or be in that space. Give yourself grace if that is where you are. You will be given plenty of opportunities to open yourself up, to heal those dark spots and blockages.

Be willing to be part of the solution. Be willing to reach Higher.

Would others say you are living your life as part of the solution, or more like part of the problem?

It’s time to rise up. See more peace. See more love. Speak more peace. Speak more love.

How can you make little shifts in your life to be more of the solution to live and create a more kind and loving world?

I remember decades ago when I first heard Wayne Dyer say, “Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?” Whew, that was a big wake-up call for me.

Jolting.

Learning to listen to and honor what your body, mind and heart tell you is a journey.

From what I had learned from my observations to be heard and to be successful, I was to show how much I knew, I was to give my point of view and speak up if the conversation was different from what I believed or knew.

Oooh. Maybe not. What was Dr. Dyer saying? Why did it cause me to stop and ponder? I had never heard of “feeling right.”

I knew I didn’t like the discord I would feel after speaking out.

I knew I didn’t like how I felt after an argument when I was trying to prove myself.

I knew I didn’t listen to the feelings, so I moved on to “being right.”

For most people, you’ve been taught to follow the external cues, not the internal ones. Follow rules, your parents, authority, and churches with their doctrines such as The Bible and Ten Commandments.

You weren’t taught to question your feelings. I know many of my generation were taught to “not feel.” Toughen up.

So as these discrepancies appear in your life, they are there to open you up to new possibilities. To question what you think, and how you are living. Not to make you wrong, or bad, but for you to see there is more in the world than the limited perspective you see or live.

As John-Roger, DSS says, “Many people live the good life – with successful careers, great wealth, and all the security this world has to offer. What they would like more than all of that, however, is peace of mind: ”I wish my mind would leave me alone so I can feel good inside myself.”

Are you wishing for more peace of mind or peace?

Do you know it’s possible?

Which end of the spectrum do you fall more often – Feeling Right or Being Right?
I know as the world is feeling so much chaos and craziness, it’s time to question. Why is it upsetting you? For law and order people, the changes are creating havoc with what has been. For people who don’t want others or institutions telling them what to do or how to be, there is freedom, and exoneration.

Do you want to feel right or be right?

Can you be both? Certainly at times. Notice what is your focus – Making someone else wrong? Proving yourself?

I know at some point I realized I wanted peace above all else.

I didn’t like that monkey mind that was driving me crazy, thinking how not enough I was, how I wasn’t doing things right.

You know when you declare you want something, everything unlike what you desire, shows up for you to decide “Do you really want this?”

Piece by piece you decide if what you stated is true for you. That is when most people give up and go back to the known habit. Instead, choose commitment, and dedication to what’s right for you today.

For me, A Course in Miracles has saved me. The lessons, the messages, which I use as mantras when I am shifting my way of being. Like I choose peace instead of this. Yes, I really, really, really want peace above all else.

I want feeling right. I want to listen to my inner being. As Abraham-Hicks shares, listen to your emotional guidance system. Your inner being knows the Truth for you. It WILL guide you to what is right for you.

I have lost most of my need to be right. My bigger vision is to live in a world of love, kindness and peace. I try to align my thoughts, deeds and actions with what I believe. And, that doesn’t include needing to be right. It doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things.

I know I am in charge of how that happens – even when I don’t like what is going on. I’m asked to dig deeper.

Start observing whether you are more about being right or feeling right. Make little shifts to feeling better. Take the homelessness situation. Where do you stand on this issue – fine them, lock them up, or help provide places for them to stay.

Being Right or Feeling Right.

Take notice why you are taking the positions you are. Not right or wrong. More where you are – becoming conscious.

Notice what your beliefs are that are guiding your decisions.

I saw that Oklahoma has had a 23% increase in homelessness this year alone. For me, I go to what’s under all of it, why are things like this today, what’s my role with it, etc.

Life will give you many opportunities to test your beliefs if you notice and pay attention to how you are feeling.

Pay attention to the issues or situations where you take one side more than the other. Like being right. Are there other issues and situations you ride more on the other side? Like feeling right.

Notice where things don’t even matter, and you have a need to be right. For instance, it was raining and messed with my walking. The weather people said it was supposed to stop at a certain time. It didn’t. So I felt myself ruffling, making them wrong, rather than just noticing it is still raining and when it stops, I can go.

Crazy what we add to our lives that causes stress. How my mantra, “I can choose peace instead of this” works beautifully.

Begin today to value how you feel. To give your emotional guidance system more credence.

Decide to live more peacefully and freely so that you can live a more loving and kind life.

How can being aware of this idea of Favoring Feeling Right or Being Right More can help you live closer to the life you desire?

Who are you today?

You are not the same person you were a decade ago or as a teenager. Have you allowed yourself to change, to be more of who you came here to be?

Are you noticing and acknowledging all the ways you’ve changed? Are you focused on whom you are becoming?

One of the great messages of life is to Know Thyself.

Have you been willing to explore who you are?

Are you more accepting of all of you today than yesterday or years ago?

I can clearly see how I have evolved. For much of my life, I’m not sure I wondered who I was. I thought in a more limited version of myself, who I thought I was supposed to be. I tried hard to be that. Rather than be curious and wonder what is important to me, what MY core values are and what brings great joy and peace to me, I allowed my past to keep repeating itself. I spent too much of my life trying to please – others, what I thought others wanted from me, and who I thought I needed to be. I am more at peace with who I am today. I have miles to go in truly owning all of me, moving more into embodying me and releasing the outside influences that have a hold on me. I still have many attachments.

Where are you on the spectrum of the ego’s beliefs? Beliefs of

Lack? Attachments? Control?

Which ones of these ego beliefs drive your life today? Have you ever thought about how these are leading your decisions? Acknowledge where you have made growth.

Boldly stand up for yourself.

Think about yourself when interacting with others – your intimate relationships, your circle of friends and your colleagues or other groups you are involved with.

Who are you?

You are an extension of God, a Higher Power or the Universe. What does that mean to you?

As Ernest Holmes writes, “Until we awaken to the fact that we are One with the nature of God, we shall not find the way of life.”

Life is the journey to finding this Oneness, your connection to all that “isness.”

Do you have the courage to discover and struggle with this understanding?

Notice when you are willing.

Notice what keeps you hidden or resisting discovering more of who you really are..

Can you own all of who you are, especially your greatness? Can you see how all qualities are part of the whole and part of the oneness? The goal is to not identify with any. It is to know you are all. To notice the Oneness of it.

Can you allow yourself to be in the flux of the discovery of yourself?

To flow with the present?

To flow with new challenges and experiences in your life?

To flow with the uncertainty of new ideas that unsettle you?

Life is about discovering who you are.

I know today I listen more to my inner wisdom, rather than always being influenced by outside factors like keeping up with the Jones phase of life. I do more of noticing these triggers and see what I discover about myself. I know they have messages for me.

Are you ready to awaken to a larger version of who you are?

You are more. Life has challenged and rewarded you at every stage of your life. Maybe you haven’t acknowledged or paid attention to this evolution of yourself.

Let today wake you up to seeing the magic and miracles of how life works.

Living in an enlightened state allows you to see more of who your true nature is.

You are being called to live more fully.

Find more of the magic and miracles working in your life to help you be who you were created to be.

Who are you ready to become?

One of the things I love to do is travel.

Travel opens up your world, your perceptions and your heart.

There are numerous ways to travel.

I love the opportunities traveling provides. I know when we are on the road in our motorhome it is wonderful to connect with the different people all out to enjoy nature and the outdoors. I love the ease of flying to get there quickly.

These days virtual reality allows you to feel like you are having the live experience of travel.

I just returned from a girls’ trip in Greece. I read they were the 2nd friendliest place to visit.

Here we are in Athens. We had no idea how many people lived there. Can you see all the dwellings behind us? Whew. The history is rich and old. It makes you realize how young the USA is.

Fun to climb all the different Acropolis in the various cities we explored.

We went to Ephesus and learned a lot about the religious world there.

Amazing all the people out to explore the ancient world’s history.

There’s much to explore in this big world if you are open and willing.

You can receive more than you thought you were going to. We were delayed leaving Athens which caused us to miss our connection in Chicago to return home. We had to stay over as did a huge plane full of people. But, what was so neat, was to see how 6% of separation is truly real. I noticed lots of the people who were in the lines waiting to be rebooked on other flights. Well, just by chance, or is it, that this family sat next to us as we waited the next day to return home. Come to find out, they have a lake house at the edge of one of the ladies I traveled with in NE Oklahoma. Can you imagine the conversations that took place as we were discovering that? Being across the world, and having someone live right at your doorstep. He even wanted to know about the fire hydrant in the middle part of her property.

Travel brings out the best in people and the worst. It brings out your best qualities and your worst – like when you miss flights or wait in loooong lines. Or can you allow yourself the opportunity to live greater? Like, meet your new neighbors?

What are your thoughts about travel?

How do you see travel as your life’s journey?

You see all kinds of people when you are traveling. People where travel is easy, and where travel is labored for them. But they are out there, willing to get around. Something within them is not holding them back. They are tenacious, open and determined even though getting around might be difficult for them. I love it. Something greater is pulling them up and about.

My girlfriends were a little taken back when I was tentative, resistant might be a better word when they wanted to go into this port that we were rerouted to. I shared I wasn’t very open about exploring countries I don’t know my way around and where I can’t read the language. I was uncertain about how far out I was willing to go. I’m brave in many ways, but uneasy in others. Just like about life.

Traveling can teach you a lot about yourself.

How open are you about travel?

How can you use travel as a means to open you to a whole new world, and a whole new world of discovery about you?

Let travel open your eyes to all that is out there, right before you that you might not have ever noticed.

Are you ready to upgrade your experience of life through travel?

If yes, watch your world open to greater awareness and possibilities for your life.

You make decisions all day long.

Are they in the direction of what you desire:

For Your Life?

For Your Health?

For Your Well-Being?

For Your Dreams?

As my health coach shared with me, ” I should choose “supportive” foods for the way I want to feel and that help with my healing.”

Think about that for yourself.

What are your decisions that are supportive of how you want to feel?

What are your decisions that are supportive to help with your healing?

I know at this age everything seems like how to be healthier, prevent disease and help with aging.

One of the things I believe is food is medicine. So if I believe that:

Are my decisions with my food focused on eating things that keep the inflammation away? Inflammation is among the greatest factors in heart disease, ageing, diabetes, etc.

Am I choosing foods that help with gut health? Digestion is a big deal as you age.

Do I make sure my meal choices include lots of protein to build my muscles since we lose so much muscle mass as we age?

What decisions are you making that are supporting your dreams? Appreciate and acknowledge all that you do. Decide to adjust or change other decisions that don’t support your dreams or the direction you want your life to go.

It’s a moment-to-moment decision. You are making hundreds and thousands of decisions all day long.

Allow yourself to choose again.

I would venture to say most momentary decisions are made without thinking about your dreams.

Most decisions are based on habits and beliefs rather than where you want to go. That’s why you stay the same or get stuck in situations you say you’d like differently.

I am on a Greek Isle Cruise with 3 girlfriends because I, we, made decisions a year ago to make this real and happen for us. We initially made many decisions, like where we wanted to go – visit the Greek Isles. Many choices we saw didn’t give us a way to really visit a number of the islands. Most options were to visit other places, too. We could have chosen those, but they weren’t what we wanted. That was an important decision for us at the beginning. Along the way, we had to decide what to do and how much everything would cost us. Ultimately, we decided to exchange our currency for euros and all the details we needed to ensure our trip would be relaxing and fun.

It was a dream come true because of the decisions we made to make it happen. We stayed clear and supported each other in the process. It is so fun to travel with girlfriends.

Think about something immediate that you’d like to happen. What are the decisions you know you need to make? Allow some you haven’t thought of to pop up for you, too. Play with it, but become aware of all the decisions you make to ensure they ARE in the direction of your desire.
Not all of life will be as conscious as thinking about your dreams. If you can begin paying attention to what you truly desire, your dreams, or your bucket list, you will begin noticing how you feel as you make certain decisions.

You will know what feels right and light for you.

You will see how easily you go off course.

You will see how you can decide again, and again, and again.

The more aware you are of your decisions, the more likely your life will be in the direction of your desires.

Be present.

Decide you are willing to notice how you are making decisions and how they are supporting your desires and dreams.

We are big fans of the University of Oklahoma girls’ softball team. They just won the Women’s National Championship for the 4th time, something nobody has done. Just think about that. Just think about ALL the decisions they had to make to get to that level, stay at the top, and keep pushing themselves. Whew. I heard one of the pitchers say, “I’ve had to teach myself to let go of the past pitch and stay focused on what I want this one to be.” That’s a lot of discipline and focus. That’s being present in what is right at this point and time. Look at what she received because of all her decisions to support her dreams.

Abraham-Hicks says, “A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.”

Are your dreams powerful enough?

Decide today to support your dreams.

The world needs more love, kindness and compassion.

What you choose to do has a huge impact on your life, the lives around you, and the collective.

It all begins with you. You are consciously choosing how you want your life to be and go.

It seems we all want more love. The way to receive more love is to give more of it away. Unconditionally.

What are some simple acts of love you share?

Is hugging someone, whether for joy or holding someone who is in distress?

Is that listening purely to hear what someone else is saying?

Is that volunteering for a cause that matters to you?

What are your ways to show love?

Feel how you feel as you share these simple acts.

Can you allow that peace, joy and contentment to fill your body and soul?

Think about how you could be generous today. Generous with

Acts of kindness

Acts of appreciation

Acts of affection

Lots of different ways to share love.

Life can be simple yet so rich and so fulfilling.

Collectively, we have made life seem so hard. We have allowed external factors to guide our lives more than our hearts. Like competition or comparing power over and money.

How can you return to a simpler focus of sharing love, goodness and compassion?

As John Roberts, DSS states, “We are here to learn one thing primarily: inner peace. Amidst all else, when you put your body on the line and get your actions lined up with your loving, you can experience this inner peace.”

What if you knew that everything before you was a mirror to help you return to love? Yes, including all the hurt and hardship.

Different things break you open. Open to more love. I know it does not seem like it at the time.

What is receiving your attention today? The good and the bad?

Can you understand and know how each of those things you listed as good and bad can help you open up more to love and peace? For instance, I have a hard time with a lot of chaos. I like more order because I feel more peaceful – sometimes more in charge. But the good from the craziness of chaos is that it is an opportunity for me to surrender, to allow what is rather than resist it and feel stressed and uptight. It allows me to see how that state of being is not how I like or want to feel. Chaos captures my attention and makes me feel grumpy. It’s a chance for me to be detached from external and work more of what I can control, which is me, and how I want to be and feel.

Life is asking you to awaken to a higher way of being.

Find ways today to allow yourself to be happy with who you are.

How you are loving yourself.

How you are trusting yourself.

How you are honoring yourself.

How you are valuing yourself.

Can you imagine how great you would feel if you gave yourself some simple acts of love every day?

Whew, my body already began relaxing my shoulders and breathing deeper just thinking about that and how it feels.

What if when you met up with another or read about someone you dislike, you could take a moment to say and think, “I only know your Divinity?”

Be curious about how that interaction would unfold when you are in that loving energy.

What are some small ways you are willing and open to share more love today, tomorrow and on, and on?

Let today’s message be a wake-up call to share simple acts of loving throughout your day.

Make sharing loving acts a priority. Watch how your life changes and how you begin to receive more and more love.

Magical. What you give, you receive.

Your thoughts create your reality. You are creating your tomorrow all day.

Your health is your mind, body and spirit.

Pay attention to your thoughts and beliefs about your life, your health, and the world around you.

All these affect you based on how you respond and interact with them.

If you want to know your thoughts, stop and look at your life.

I know it’s hard to think or see that you created what you are living. But, if you step back and not make yourself wrong, see what’s working and what’s not. Be open to what else is possible for you. You can begin a journey to a healthier life – inside and out.

I can see where I’ve been stuck and rigid. My body has shown me that by the tension and tightness in my muscles. As I have learned to loosen my grip on life, I can see and feel how I relax more. I can see how my thoughts have changed about viewing me and life situations I didn’t like. I can see how I can be in the flow, allow more of what is happening, and not ramp up the unfairness or rage inside of me. I spend more time noticing and seeing what bothers me and how I’d like it to be. Then, go toward a more peaceful and loving place. More from my excitement about how I want things to be.

I’ve learned you receive what you focus on. It’s much more comfortable for me when my body is fluid and flowing than tight and hurting. Think of how your organs and glands clamp up! Tension, stress—not healthy.

Is your health like you want it to be?

Your health can direct what you can do and what needs your attention. Take a moment to listen to what your body is saying to you right now.

Is it to rest?
Is it to get moving?
Is it to love it more?

What is your body saying to you?

One of the great learnings I’ve had is through my body. Oh, I’ve had many. But, after my Pickleball injury and tearing my hamstring off the bone, I did lots of reflection and rehab. Not just to my body but to my mind and way of thinking. One of the things I learned about was how much Pilates could help me build up my small muscles around the larger ones to protect them. Most of my previous exercise was to build up my large muscles, get strong, and push through everything. Pilates has taught me to listen to my body and form in ways I have never done. I realized how much I’ve used strength more than allowing my body to work for me.

Your body is masterful in how each part can help support you if you focus on it and allow it to help you.

How are you making sure your health is vibrant and dynamic? It can be up to you rather than like me thinking I knew what to do. Rather than being open to what’s next and best for me.

Your body tells you how you can be vibrant and dynamic, no matter your conditions. Based on right where you are, what is the best thing you can do for yourself now?

I remember when Bo was recuperating from his cancer and how ecstatic we were when he could move from bench to bench on this walking path we had. One bench was a HUGE milestone. It gave him hope, joy and belief in something more the next time. Twenty years later, you would never realize how close he was to the other side.

The best thing is not to fall into the trap of thinking something greater is not possible for you unless that is what you want, like being a victim of circumstances.

You are the decision maker, and it’s not always an easy one. What helps is knowing what you want, really want. Keep that your focus.

How are you making sure your health is a top priority?

Find people who have overcome something you are facing. There are plenty of examples examples of miracles, too, that can lift you up. We just had dinner with some friends of ours. There is a couple we both know that has recently faced some unbelievable health problems, each in the hospital facing difficult circumstances, he, his wife and their adult son. Like her having breast cancer and facing horrible reactions to the chemo. Most people would feel sorry for what they are facing, but this courageous man is so humble and acts like it’s calling them to live something greater. Unbelievable spirit and strength. She is an example of living strong in her faith. Wonderful, real-life examples can make you feel like you can see things differently if they can handle ALL of what is happening in their lives.

Think about your health as filled with love. See your body as a miracle-making machine.

Think about your health as well-being. How are you making your well-being a priority? Not all your aches and pains.

As Vernon Howard shares, “Any change which contributes to your true good must start with a change in the way you think.”

Change your focus. Focus on what you WANT.

Focus on being healthier.

Be curious and wonder what else is possible.

How is your health precious to you? Keep that as your benchmark. It will change the energy with which you handle things.

What healthy choices can you make today that could lead you to a more vibrant you?

Where are you struggling today with making your health a priority? Are you too focused on the pain and struggle you are facing? How could you shift that thinking to more about listening to what your body is asking you to do?

Ask God or your Higher Power to help you – help you see things differently.

Nobody wants more pain, but paying attention to the ailments, the hurts and limitations is so easy. Remember, you receive MORE of what you FOCUS on. More pain when that is what you keep talking about and thinking about. Yes, it hurts. Acknowledge that, but ask what can you do to see something greater emerging.

Surround yourself with pictures of what you’d like, people who have overcome or uplifting messages to help you move from your struggles so you can prioritise your health.

Commit today that you are worth making your well-being your top priority. Your life depends upon it.

Move from struggle to curiosity of what else might be possible.

You will see something more.

Here’s to a healthier you.

A goal in life is to “be happy.”

The words seem to make it sound easy.

But real living can look so different with all the pulls on you in different ways—your career, your family, your faith, your self-care, and then trying to be happy and peaceful.

Growth happens when things are hard and you figure out how to manage and live it out.

If you want to have things change in your life, you must choose different thoughts and patterns.

Like, move out of your comfort zone and choose more towards happiness and peace.

My challenge is to imagine how you can be happy in all parts of your life.

That’s the big vision. Maybe way out of your thinking of any possibility. Or, maybe you have been journeying to live a more peaceful life. Wherever you are, start. Start by adding one thing that brings you happiness – like playing the piano daily, reading a book, or taking a bubble bath. Then, acknowledge how peaceful and happy you were. (You receive more of what you focus on – gratitude and appreciation are magical tools). Or choose your health or relationships and do 1 thing that brings you pure joy. And acknowledge how you felt when you did that.

Do things more often that bring out feelings of joy and peace.

Remember, you receive what you focus on.

I know when you make a decision that happiness is your biggest desire, and you remind yourself over and over, then your life can change.

You will ask yourself along the way, does this choice bring me happiness? Or am I feeling frantic and overwhelmed? Guess what you could choose?

Become more aware of your choices and where they are leading you.

What you FEEL is so important as you are moving towards an intention or goal you desire. Keep checking in with yourself – “How am I feeling NOW? and NOW?”

Feel the nirvana in happiness and being at peace.

When you decide to choose a different path or option from what you have been doing, it requires focus, great focus, and commitment. It doesn’t happen naturally. It can be quite awkward, or it’s not even in your thinking at the time. You forget, and life goes back to autopilot.

The good part about pain or challenges in life is they capture your attention.

So when life gives you more than you can handle or think you can handle, surrender to something greater than you. This is the time when you are more open to hearing something different.

Be willing to go after the REAL goal – happiness and peace. Because all the “things and stuff” you are going after are only a disguise. You believe they will make you feel good. Decide to listen to what your real desires are. You can have the stuff, but know what you really want is the feeling – like happiness and peace.

As Mike Dooley shares, “Do you know what most people wish for, Dottie, when it comes to improving their own life? More stuff.Because they think having more stuff will contribute to their overall happiness. But do you know what most people wish for when it comes to the lives of the ones they most love and cherish?

Happiness, peace, creative work, fulfilling relationships.

Because they understand that once these things are in order, more stuff will automatically take care of itself. One of these two things doesn’t belong with the other….”

How can you shift your focus so you can begin your journey to more happiness and peace in your life?

As John Morton, DSS, shares, “Your life is full of new opportunities to create all that fulfills you. All experiences contribute to your learning and growth more than others, so you always have plenty of reason to be grateful for all you have been given.”

How close are you to real happiness and peace in your life? On a number scale 1-10, 10 being right there, full of joy and contentment, where are you? Write down that number. Then begin your awakening to consciously add more ways that bring you these feelings daily in small ways. Ask this question again in two months and see how far you have grown. Your world is probably feeling lighter, too.

Your well-being is calling you to this road of happiness and peace.

Life doesn’t need to feel chaotic and out of control.