This is what I saw this week when I opened my front door and looked down.
It’s a baby fawn who the mother left on my doorstep for a few hours. Mama deer leave their newborns somewhere they feel is safe while they get food after giving birth, probably either that morning or the day before. This little one was lying on my doormat nestled directly against the threshold of my house. Comparing her size, the doormat is 18″ x 30″. She’s lying on top of the words Be Grateful. This gift certainly gives me lots of reasons to feel grateful. I’m grateful that the mama trusted me with her baby, too!I was inches in front of the fawn’s face when I took this photo. She didn’t move a muscle or look at me. At the top of the picture, you can see inside my house and that she’s immediately in front of my door. The colors and texture of the rug and baby are similar, although the baby’s fur looks a lot softer.A few years ago, I found this little one on the steps at my back door.My cat Micha had to investigate. Micha wasn’t sniffing or licking. With closed eyes, she looks like she was doing a bit of a mind meld with the baby. Welcome to the world!
Life. There’s always something to be thankful for.
When we take a moment to open our hearts, away from some of the pressing problems of the day, we can see.
With gratitude,
Virginia
Gratitude can open the door to create a life you love. Find out how by contacting me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by discovering their Soul’s goals.
Please enjoy this excerpt from my Soulgoal Missive, which was first published in June 2002.
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
Maybe it took months of house hunting, but it just takes one house to become your dream home, and the rest is history.
Perhaps you looked your entire life for your special someone, but it just takes one person to make the wait worthwhile.
You may desire to take your next step, wherever it is. But it just takes one good idea on which you follow up, and your future will never be the same.
When Tony Robbins’ advisors recommended that he go bankrupt because his partner left him holding the bag for megabucks, he got an idea. He started TV infomercials. Not only did this turn his debt around, it brought him more money and fame than ever before.
When my car broke down, instead of getting it fixed, I decided to use this as an opportunity to stay home and fulfill a desire of mine to write. A couple of months later I realized I needed to focus on generating more business, and the idea came to me to contact people personally about an upcoming event.
Following up on this one idea, which initially my mind had pooh-poohed as unnecessary because my contacts already received a mailing, created lots of energy for both a successful event and me to refocus my attention on business.
One idea that is followed up can make all the difference in your world.
Success Thought:
“Ideas can provide us with autonomy. Ideas can give us freedom. You’ll find you have other options, other places you can go.”
Would you like help in finding and following up on your one good idea? It IS possible!! Contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by discovering their Soul’s goals.
Please enjoy this previously unpublished Soulgoal Missive that I wrote in 2005.
We’ve been led to believe we’re limited and weak. That’s accurate only if we buy into this belief.
We’ve been told we have access to only 10% of our brain and spirit, and we bought into this limitation. However, when we choose to invoke our Soul energy, the 90% of us that is from the Divine Source, we have access to a power and ability that is our heritage, as long as it is used for good… or good play!
Saying we are limited to 10% of our abilities is just part of a tribal belief we accepted as true.
It reminds me of the story about generations of women who cut the ends off a roast before baking. Upon questioning, they learned this technique wasn’t to improve the flavor but to allow the meat to fit into a smaller pan.
We can choose to access the 90% of our Soul energy to assist in any change we desire.
We can choose to invoke Soul energy that resides in the invisible realm by accessing our spiritual self.
This is not mystical or hokey. We do this in the same way a mother was able to rally her strength to lift a car off her baby during a crisis, which previously would’ve been impossible.
Our greatness and ability to change our lives are here for the taking.
Here’s what happened to me:
After weeks of sequestering myself to write, I felt a need for more social contact. Although I hadn’t dated for months and rarely left my neighborhood, I considered having a man in my life.
In less than a week three men appeared:
First, I saw an old friend while shopping – he invited me out to dinner.
Second, a friend stopped by to drop something off as I was leaving for a movie. He joined me, and we had a spontaneous night on the town. He had such a good time he asked me out again.
The third was a suitor from last year.
A casual thought impressed on life’s ethers energetically attracted whoever was closest and available to respond. Hmm, how much more specific do I want to be?
How about this? I choose to increase my income significantly with grace and ease. Let’s see what this brings.
Note: shortly after writing this choice about income, one of my clients asked for daily coaching to support him in an important work project!
God did not plop us on earth and say good luck. We have all the tools we need to be free.
We may complain, beg for and want something different, but for change to happen we must choose.
What do you choose? Now start by imagining you already have it.
Want to learn how to invoke Soul energy to live your ideal life? It IS possible!!
Contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by discovering their Soul’s goals.
Please enjoy my Soulgoal Missive, which I resurrected from my July 2002 archives. This was the year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and fear was rampant.
“Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Anxiety and worry reside in many like a low-grade fever that won’t go away.
People work, live, and don’t notice fear most of the time because it’s so familiar. It can lurk in the background like a gnawing in back of the mind that something might happen… a feeling of anticipation, waiting for the other shoe to fall.
There are countless ways to mask it, such as using power over others, escapes like too much television, overuse of substances, addictions, sex, being controlling, seeking approval, and anger.
Fear. It’s often fear of the future, the unknown, that somehow, something might happen, and we won’t be able to handle it.
We can never cope with the future. When our mental imaginings run rampant into what danger might be lurking, we incapacitate ourselves.
We can always cope in the now, in this present moment of time. Remember the adage that we are only given what we can handle.
We always have the ability to make it to the next stage of life. Always.
“So let me assert my belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President during World II
What else can be done to diminish fear?
If you want yeast to multiply, feed it sugar. If you want fear to grow, feed it fear.
If you want to reduce fear, take a deep breath and surround what you fear with love. I know this can sound crazy, but consider this.
The aim of terrorists is to create fear and terror. Generating fear in others makes them stronger as it’s their food, their energy source. Instilling fear is the outcome they’re trying to create, so our feeling fear encourages them to create more terror.
Unconditional love short-circuits them. They become like the Wicked Witch of the West and their power to create fear in others starts to melt. The fury of anger cannot ride on love.
Overcoming the domination of fear IS possible! Here’s a recent Success Story of one of my clients, LisaBeth Thomas:
“With Virginia’s coaching my world totally changed.She showed me how to let go of the fears and let in my success. Now I am getting new business and opportunities each month! My energy and enthusiasm are through the roof, and there is no stopping me or the growth of my company!”
LisaBeth (LB) Thomas, The Big Cheese.TV, LLC; Producer, Speaker, Leading Brand and Media Strategist;Founding Member & Past President of Texas Women in Business (TWIB); an Austin Business Journal’s Top 25 Woman of Influence
Thoughts, feelings, and prayers are real and are felt around the world.
We have the ability to impact life by living in this moment of time with the spirit of love.
Right now as you read this, you can offer love and goodwill to the Life Force and let it be distributed wherever It chooses. Now, you just made a difference.
That which we fear diminishes and eventually disappears as we wake up to this awareness.
Who do you trust, a Higher Power or fear? Hint: Who do you know is the biggest kid on the block, every block, everywhere, throughout eternity?
Maybe you’ve been wearing your fear like an irreversible tattoo when it’s only a rub-on that can be removed. Switch your attention to the now rather than worry about an unknown future, and the fear washes off.
Fear is your interpretation of events, a misuse of your imagination, and you have the power to change your perspective.
Fill the now with love, and not only is there no room left for fear within you, but that which you fear dwindles.
It doesn’t mean you agree with what others do or a situation. It does mean you don’t give them the power to control you.
There’s a Zen story about a Japanese warrior waiting in prison after capture. The fear of interrogation, torture, and execution overwhelmed him, and he couldn’t sleep. Then he remembered the words of his spiritual master, “Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now.” He fell peacefully asleep.
Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to live in the moment with love.
Observe your reaction when fear arises in you and recognize that the fear has nothing to do with this moment in time.
Instead of worrying and being afraid of what might happen, redirect your attention to the now. Replace the feelings of fear with gratitude, love, and goodwill to Life.
Success Thought
“Focus on what you want. Dwelling on your fears will bring them upon you…We need to enjoy what we have right now and live right now. Fearing loss is not living in the now. Fearing loss is living in the future.”
Andrew Matthews, Being Happy! A Handbook to Greater Confidence & Security
Want to be free of the influence of fear so you can live your ideal life? It IS possible!!
Contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by discovering their Soul’s goals.
Virginia Goszewska (go-SHEF-ska) awakens people to be richly compensated doing what they love by aligning with their Soul’s goals.
Based on decades of extensive research and personal discoveries, Virginia created the unique mastermind and success program Soulgoals: A Step-by-Step System to Do What You Love – even if you failed before, lost hope, are afraid, stuck, stressed or confused. The mastermind is an energy created when two or more gather in harmony for the attainment of a shared, definite objective.
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