How to Know it All

I wish there was a Secret Ingredient that worked for every person everytime in every situation under the sun to fix every problem.  When it comes to correcting deficiencies in oneself, it is best to take them one at a time.  Recently, my friends and family have been advising me to face my issues this way.  There are a lot of opinions going around about the best way for me to live my life.  But perhaps the best advise I am receiving is to pursue my ambitions...everyday...with my whole heart.  Is that what some people refer to as Self-Actualization?  Let's check the dictionary...

Okay, so it means to develop one's full potential.  Excuse me for sounding like a pre-teen having a tantrum here, but today I have heard this one too many times. That being said, I am attempting to place my life under a microscope and see what I find.  What are my goals?  What should my goals be?  Are these 2 things the same?  Ideally that should be a yes.  Perhaps, sincce this is supposed to be a "How-to" guide, I shall lay out some steps here.  We always refer back to the Law of Attraction.  So....the LoA says that everything is governed by Love.  To be Self-Actualized and Meet my calling and true potential and highest potential in life, I must:

1.  Know what it is that I love
2.  What I LOVE should be what I am striving for in life (my goals)
3.  I should think about what I love and nothing else
4.  I should Act on what I love and nothing else
5.  My life should reflect things I love and not be cluttered by other things that affect that energy.

So with my short list here, I can set out to know it all!  I have made lists of what I am grateful for and what I love.  I use those lists when I need focus...when everything seems negative.   But for the sake of making this article concise and easy to follow...and myself be the guinea pig of the experiment...I shall insert some of my own feelings into the categories.  What do I Love?
answer:  I Love My Kids (Annika and Alex), I Love the Ideal of a happy family, I Love hard work and earning my money, I Love a Home, I Love to Travel, I Love to commune with Nature everyday.
I am striving for these things in life....definitely.  I want the best outcome for my children.  I want a happy home-life.  Thinking in wider terms, it is easy for me to let go of ideas that are too specific and realize that I have the capacity to enjoy these areas of my life and I can maintain them best by focusing with positivity and love upon them.  As I read this back, I am thinking that the majority of people in the world want similar things.  It is not that hard to achieve.  As Shakira sang- we can have it all.  I believe that, so why do I limit myself?  We all limit ourselves.

Ok...Let me continue to fine tune.  This is a written/mental exercise for me, so if you are reading this and it sounds a bit like babble...perhaps it is not my best blogging but it is honest...straightforward.  I am having a tremendously difficult time focusing on my goals and principles.  It should be easy, but I keep going astray.  No one can give you your convictions.  You must acquire them yourself.  Others can offer encouragement on your path, but only YOU can fix you.  I am trying to fix a problem in my life...one I have talked about in previous blog entries.  I have a wonderful family.  My Children are exceptional little people...they are clever and intelligent and deep and beautiful.  No one is without flaws so of course, there are some trouble areas, but I am totally in love with my kids...a fact that I wish were always true but it is not always the case and so it bears repeating:  I AM IN LOVE WITH MY KIDS.  They are my world.  I have twice given up careers to be with them during their formative years and be their primary caregiver and main influence.  So when I consider the course I should be on in life it includes, supporting my kids physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually, educationally, and offering them the best life has to offer.  This is my first goal in life.

My second item on the list is an "Ideal of a Happy Family" which is my subtle hint that a Loving Partnership must exist in order to have the kind of harmony at home that creates the Happy Family.  As far as this goes, I am afraid that in my life I have not found this balance at all.  My partner and I have done too much to create difficulty and not enough to guarantee that we will be able to come together lovingly.  So this area is under construction for me right now.  I feel that I ought to maintain the details as private, but if this part of life doesn't resolve then there can be no happy ending.

Let's turn to Hard Work, earning my Money and having a Home.  For me, these three things are pretty well tangled together.  I earn an income by working from my home...using the resources in my home and I do my best to create a proper home environment for the beneifit of the family while giving clients the best experience I can using the same resources.  It is a challenging way to earn a living but it has been working for years now and therefore, I do treasure it.  I am blessed to have many nice clients who are supportive and flexible and caring.  Our children are getting their needs met and so there is a definite synchronicity happening.

When it comes to travelling, I do travel more often now then I ever have in the past.  I have discovered many ways to make travel possible, even without a personal vehicle.  I have many treasured experiences from trips we have gone on.  I cherish my memories of them and I believe that many more voyages and journeys lie ahead for me and for the children.  Having faith and believing that things will get better is a very important part of the process of manifesting and showing gratitude.  It is by gratitude that I can use the Law of Attraction to magnetize the things I desire so that they can come to me.

The last item in my list is Communing with Nature.  I find this much easier to do than ever before. I take time to appreciate the ways that I am surrounded by nature.  I take walks in the park...on the beach and just in general take in the beauty of trees, flowers, and other plants...we are growing a garden...we play outdoors in the yard.  These are a few ways I am working to make my enjoyment of nature a heightened experience and thereby increase my happy feelings...and my frequency and my vibration.  Once that Happy Vibration is going strong, many good things appear in life.  Striving for Happiness and for feelings of happiness has become my life's task!  It is a noble thing to fight for and perhaps one of the only things worth fighting to have!  I cannot control all situations but I will work tirelessly to elevate myself...my mood and my attitude.  I can do it.

Thanks for listening!  ~namaste~