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The Celebration Affirmation

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

I don’t know why I waited so long to celebrate life: life’s adventures, life’s events, life’s connections, life’s relationships, life’s fun.

The now is what matters most. Now I enjoy. Now I learn. Now I love. Now I heal. Now I live. Now I know how to use my emotions. Now I control my focus. Now I look for thoughts that feel good. Now I take inspired action. Now is a celebration of life.

It feels good to be confident. It feels great to appreciate today. Now I look forward to a future filled with what I want. I know I want more love, joy, trust, and kindness. I want more to enjoy. I want more of life’s adventures.

I know that life is a process and it can be a joyful one. I know life can amaze me with beauty and love. I know life can get better and better. The celebration continues now.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Life is About

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

Life is about wanting and growing. You will be better tomorrow than you are today if you can go with the flow of that.

It is good to want. It is good to allow. It pulls life through you. You want more and that is the juice of life.

Can you enjoy the wanting of what you want? Don’t pine away for it! Be glad there are things on your want list. Be glad you want to get better at something or that you want to feel something more. That is a sign you have more living to do.

Now, enjoy what you want in your mind before you even have it.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Tiny and Powerful Shifts

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

There is power in tiny mindset shifts. Like a breath of fresh air, you can turn a habitual thought around — and it doesn’t take much. With clarity of intention and presence of mind, you can make new distinctions that change your whole perspective.

Knowing the feeling you are seeking makes all the difference. Now you know what thoughts to keep and reproduce. Once that tiny shift in perspective is found, it brings a refreshing outlook that has the power to help you improve your results across the board.

Posted: March 15, 2022 by

Always Another Level

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

Will you get to that place where you no longer feel frustrated, afraid, angry, or stuck? Do so and listen. Sense your intuition. You will know the perfect time to take inspired action. Once you start doing that on a regular basis, your life will be enhanced. It can get better. There is always another level. Walking with a calm mind makes the path light up. You’ll know what step to take and when.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Falling Out of the Flow

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

As a spiritual being having a physical experience, there are times when finding the flow is easy. The better you get at recognizing that sweet spot, the more painful and frustrating it can feel when you fall out of the flow. The thing to remember above all is that falling out is only temporary. You can, and you will find your way back. So keep your thoughts general and positive. You are, after all, alive and still wanting to create and experience more, and that is great! That is how it should be. So find some nice ways to nurture yourself. Soothe yourself. Rest.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Silence Option

An excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts follows.

Speaking is intention in action. What you talk about demonstrates the direction of your momentum. What you choose to say out loud is revealing. You show where your focus is and where it generally hangs out by the words you put together and release into the world.

Listen to yourself. Use what you say as additional feedback as to where your focus is. Consider, do your words reflect the love side of the scale or the fear side of the scale? Much better to practice silence if you discover that you are demonstrating the fear side of the scale more than you realized.

Updated: March 12, 2022 by

Using All Senses

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

Intuitive guidance is always present and can be tapped every step of the way. Are you using it? Life will flow better for you when you do. Intuition is well recognized as the sixth sense. It’s a body sense just like sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. It’s like your whole body is an intuitive antenna. So using intuition is just a matter of paying attention to the incoming signals and learning how to interpret them. When you do, you will be using all your senses as you go through life.

Posted: March 11, 2022 by

Powerful Clarity

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

When you know exactly how you want to feel, you become undeniable as you stay the course. Let the power of your clear desire propel you forward. Take inspired action toward what you want, consistently, from this moment forward. Entertain no thought of whether you’re worthy of it or not because that’s irrelevant. You are worthy. Enjoy the process.

Posted: March 10, 2022 by

Watch Not Broken

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

The watch is not broken. Nothing needs to be fixed. Everything is as it is. Find peace with that. You are where you are and where you are has its perks. Find them.

What can you appreciate at this moment? Go big if you must. Are you breathing? Does your heartbeat? Did the Sunrise? Do you see to it that all that occurs as it should? No, but you are a beneficiary of it. You are lucky.

What other abundance is in your life? Appreciate as much as possible and often. Appreciation is the key.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

A Cornerstone for Self-Improvement

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

If you want to make a permanent change to improve yourself in any way, then the importance of feeling good cannot be overestimated. Many people don’t realize that they can feel good whenever they want to and without needing exercise, food, drink, drugs, permission from others, approval of others, or any other crutch they may have developed over the years.

The first step is to realize that the way you tend to feel will repeat over and over and that whatever you focus on directly affects how you feel. So spend more time feeling better to get momentum for self-improvement. Make a minute-by-minute practice of caring about how you feel and managing your focus and thoughts so that you feel your best.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Like What You See

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

Many people have a habit of noticing what’s not “right” about others. They may feel judged themselves, so they are passing along the pain. Or, maybe they like the drama. The thing is, the more attention given to behaviors that are mock-worthy, the more mock-worthy behaviors are noticed even about oneself. Then one lives in fear of being mocked.

If you recognize that it’s a mental habit of yours to notice what’s wrong with others, it’s time to make a new habit—one of detecting what you like about others. Practice seeing at least one thing you like about every person you see or come in contact with. If you can’t find something you like fairly quickly, then ask yourself, “What is the opposite? What do I like instead?” Take your mind off in that direction.

Updated: March 21, 2022 by

Noticing Inspiration

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

Plan ahead to feel inspired. You can anticipate feeling inspired soon and often whether it is about a certain decision you want to make or just in general. Calmly move forward knowing that inspiration is all around you. Notice it now. You will likely find yourself accidentally inspired a couple of times a day even when you first begin to feel for it. You can plan on realizing more and more inspired moments as you go through your days.

Learn to translate the signals of your intuition in your own unique way by developing an agreed-upon vocabulary. You can trust your intuition. You are loved wholly and unconditionally, similarly to how you would look upon a dear child. An important first step is to learn to distinguish the difference between the mental chatter of fear and the warm knowing of intuition.

Posted: March 6, 2022 by

Present Focus

What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

All that happened before is part of the process that brought you to now. And that is all. Just a step along the way. If you notice that you often look back with regret for how you handled a situation or decision, try letting it go. You can be sure you did the best you could with the info you had at the time. You can also try switching your thinking to something more relevant — like how you want to feel now. 

The past does not deserve any of your present focus unless you can use past memories to help you feel good now. For example, remembering how you felt during especially joyous experiences in your life, or remembering times you’ve felt certain ways that you want to feel again: like when you’ve felt lucky, adventurous, inspired, sexy, or proud.

Updated: March 7, 2022 by