Expect to Appreciate
March 8th, 2010
Merry Monday!
FIRST! Before I say another word, I want to express my deepest and most sincere gratitude and appreciation to those who increased MY abundance last week! It seems I was not the only person who has experience great results from our group abundance focus! I humbly accept your monetary gratitude and wish for it to return 10 fold to you and more.
Today I want to talk about expectations. I was watching Joel Osteen and Esther Hicks yesterday (not together of course, but what a great show that’d be!) and they got me all fired up about expectations.
Are you someone who wakes up in the morning and dreads getting out of bed? Do you lay there and think about all the reason that you DON’T want to get up? Do you lay there and curse the things that you know ware coming because you fear them or they just don’t excite you?
That isn’t the way in which we were meant to live. Heck, forget meant to. That’s not the way to live a life! What kind of life can you possibly have when your very first thoughts of the day are immediately on all the negativity that you DON’T want in your life.
We are here for joy. We are meant to rejoice in this life that’s been given to us. Just look at how amazing it all is! And it’s all just for you and your pleasure!
I’ve decided to start a new practice in my life.
I want to practice being in joy because really, why would I want to be anywhere else? I have practiced being in joy for a few years now. Practiced taking those knee jerk, reactive thoughts and turning them into, if not joyful, at least neutral thoughts. Turning my mind back to co-creation and the fact that all things outside of me are only a reflection of that which is residing inside of me.
Practicing being in joy or turning to joy is the way I’ve built my legacy thus far. Every day is an awesome gift and an opportunity to expand my life, love, and joyfulness. Every person I encounter is an opportunity to send a joyous smile out from me that will spread throughout the land.
So, a new practice.
Well, not really. I’ve been making lists of things I appreciate in the morning since the winter solstice, I’ve just not gotten a very regular practice out of it. Frankly, some mornings I don’t feel all that grateful, but I know making these lists will help change that. I also had been thinking about making a list of intentions for the day. Not a to-do list! Not things really. More like what I expect FROM the day, not what’s expected of me during the day. There’s quite a difference there.
I very highly recommend “Smart Diary Suite” as a desktop journal. It’s very easy to download and it’s 100% free. You can purchase a complete version of it for like, $20, but I’ve been using the free version for months now and I love it. I, personally, have no need to upgrade. I’ve tried quite a few diary/journal applications before and this one is by far my favorite. It’s SO easy to use that I had it all figured out and functional within 5 minutes. I didn’t even need the help section at all.
I hope you’ll join me in my new practice. The only thing you stand to lose is your bad attitude and you stand to gain everything you ever wanted! Not a bad deal by any measure!
~ Today, Monday (3-8-10) @ 6:13am EST, the Moon went v/c and remains until 12:13pm this afternoon ~
A nice quiet morning spent writing and relaxing in the quiet house alone. Heaven.
~ When She rights her course @ 12:13pm EST, She’ll move into Capricorn where She’ll remain, from Monday afternoon until 4:59pm EST on Wednesday (3-10-10) ~
My almanac says:
Capricorn is conservative, competitive, practical, and unemotional. Capricorn is also high energy and persistent in the pursuit of a goal. Creative is also a good Capricorn key word.
~ Moon Manifestation Tarot Card ~
*King of Swords*
Wow! What a fantastic powerhouse for me through Wednesday! The King of Swords represents the just. The ethical and honest. Renders truthful judgment. Insightful and concerned with justice and truth. He’s well spoken and articulate. Understood.
~ My Plan: Monday afternoon through Wednesday early evening ~
Today is my Day Spa Monday and I intend to take full advantage! Having creative imagination supported so nicely in Capricorn, I intend to also spend a good amount of time today in daydream. How wonderful to actually PLAN to daydream :) My Hubby is working on starting his own business and so much in my life is expanding super fast right now, spending some time daydreaming about how things will look can only serve to assist me!
We’re taking a family trip to Colorado to visit Ash and her family in April. We’re scheduled to leave by car on Thursday, April 1st. I can’t seem to daydream ENOUGH about this! I am… well… we ALL are SOOO excited about this! I’ve been attracting this one for a while now :D
I intend to round out Tuesday with some good, manual labor. I have a ton of painting and cleaning to do in our rental property so we can get someone in it again soon. Now that the court date has passed and things are calm again, it’s time for me to turn my focus into repair and find the peace in that house again.
Wednesday, right before the Moon v/c again, I have ANOTHER appointment at the school. This time I have to go talk to my son’s 2 teachers. I already had it out with the principal, and now that the teachers have denied any wrong-doing, I have to go back in and confront them myself. The moon AND the tarot are seemingly on my side in this, which I greatly appreciate.
Of course, I’m ALWAYS fully supported by the Universe. I guess plans and readings like this simply show me that I’ve got my own head in the right place and that I’m fully supporting the direction in which the Universe is nudging me to go.
I truly can’t even recall the last time everything didn’t turn out exactly as I’d wanted or at least in an equally pleasing fashion. Ah, the joys of walking a loving path and leading a charmed life.
Be blessed in all you do. The choice is yours.
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El -
While I am not a morning person and I don’t really like to get out of bed at O-dark-thirty, I’m not negative about it. I’ve gotten into a routine of waking up and then thinking about things I’m grateful for, making a “wish list” kinda thing – sorta daydreaming – about what I want for the day. I’m much more content if I don’t have get right out of bed upon waking so I usually wake up a good half hour or so before I actually need to get up.
I write “morning pages” in the am after I get the teenager out the door before I wake up the other three. It’s a technique I learned reading Heather Sellers “Page after Page” and Julia Cameron’s “The Artists Way” years ago. In addition to that, I write a gratitude list every morning. Recently, I started using an online gratitude thing called “Gratitude Log.” http://gratitudelog.com It’s pretty cool. It’s kinda like twitter for gratitude lists. ;-)
And lastly – I have to tell you about an annoying little thing here on your blog – anytime I click on something – a link, a page, a textbox to enter my info (like this comment box), the TUT thing pops up! Now, I like Mike Dooley – he’s a cool guy (gave me an autographed copy of his first book about 4-5 years ago) and all and once is ok – I can deal with that but, every time I click something is a bit extreme. LOL I didn’t notice it doing this before so it seems to be a new thing.
In fact, since I’ve clicked in this box to edit my sentences a bit, I now have five of those little pop ups . . . and counting! LOL It is a bit frustrating to say the least. Maybe you can check it out and see what’s causing it???
Ok – rant over! Sorry! ;-)
Be blessed, my friend!
I’m so glad you said something! I didn’t even realize that pop-up was there :(
I hate pop-ups. Giving people a choice to look at, click and check things out is one thing. Harassing them with things that are in their face like it or not is just rude in my opinion.