Giving

Today I will open my heart to the act of giving. Giving and receiving flow through the same frequency. When I am able to truly give of myself, I have tuned into that frequency, and have therefore opened the channels through which I receive. When I love another, I am loving myself - giving and receiving love simultaneously. The act of giving is the master key. In giving I receive, in loving I open myself to the experience of love - the Universe is for me, not against me. If I open the essence of me to the world around me, in return my experience will be filled tenfold with the blessings of love, health, relationships and prosperity.

Soul

 Soul is non-material, and unmeasurable. It is not something that can be won or bought or sold. Soul isn't a reward that someone gives me if I am good enough, or an accolade I earn by being smart enough, or an object I can buy when I am rich enough. Soul is that place where all the waters meet, where giving and receiving are one, where forgiveness and release happen, and where ego and vanity disappear. Where soul thrives, selfishness does not, and where selfishness thrives, soul does not.

Courage to Succeed

A key quality that distinguishes a top-notch performer in any field, is the way they respond to bad days. Everyone has good days and bad days, and the good ones are certainly easier to handle. But do we allow the bad ones to throw us off our game? Do we become so disturbed by our bad days that we lose focus on our goals?

Personal development is a process; it's never an end goal that we reach and hold. Our developement includes preparing ourselves to respond well to the bad days. We do that by keeping our eye on the big picture, knowing that however bad things may seem at the moment, they will change. We learn to reach deep into our spiritual center for the courage to stay focused in the midst of our hardest days. We don't have to do it alone. We have the spiritual support of our Higher Power and the companionship of our friends to keep us on the path.

Making Mistakes

Perfection does not exist. We make progress toward a goal, but we rarely move in a straight line toward it without sidesteps. Life is like a zigzag chain of events that first brings everything together just as we want it and then messes it up all over again. We try to do our best, but inevitably we make mistakes. So a large part of normal daily life is spent fixing and repairing mistakes in judgement.
When we accept imperfection as a fact of life, we make peace with the constant need for repairs. Saying I made a mistake is never fun, but when we do it we grow stronger. Every disappointment, every complaint, points to an underlying lesson for growth. We can use them to point us in the right direction. We do not learn anything new from correctly repeating what we already know. We learn from making mistakes and discovering the underlying lesson behind them.