Monkeys are captured when their hands get stuck in a jar, and they won’t let go of a peanut, banana or termites. Something they want.
At times, you have to let go of something you want in order to free yourselffrom being trapped. In this photo, what means more? Money or freedom?
Things don’t always work as expected. But change always makes way for something better, regardless of how it appears.
Your income, love, support, health and results don’t come from only one source, one person, one diagnosis or one deal.
God, the Divine, the universe, whatever you choose to call it, is your supply. God is never lost and has infinite possibilities for you.
Therefore, if something doesn’t work, new ways can be found.
Maybe your change is what it took for you to let go and allow new possibilities to occur.
Sometimes you have to let go to free yourself.
Consider the monkey who grasps something in a jar but can’t remove it. The neck of the jar is so narrow that it has to release its grip to get its hand out. But it won’t let go; it just pulls and pulls and pulls. It wants those tasties. Otherwise fast, agile and difficult to catch, this is how hunters and farmers sneak up behind them and trap monkeys.
Because they wouldn’t let go, they lost their freedom.
You’ll get results: your expectation, goal or something better. However, you may need to change your perspective or approach. You may need to let go of your emotional and mental grasp to allow something better to come in.
What you focus on grows. In the past, have you reacted to challenges with anxiety and stress? Instead, enjoy a childlike trust and curiosity. Look for how the universe is assisting you. Consider it a mystery, and you delight in discovering the answer.
Believe there’s a happy ending, and focus on it. Why not believe you can be happy with a happy ending? You probably tried fear and worry, and they don’t produce lasting and fulfilling outcomes.
The happy ending is here for you. Is there something you need to let go of for that freedom to happen?
Edited excerpt from Soulgoals’ post of February 7, 2011
Ever start your day with dread? You don’t know how you’re going to get things done. Worried about what your spouse, boss or kids are going to say or do. Wondering how you’re going to get more money.
You may not mean it, but haphazard musings create intentions that cascade throughout your day. If you begin your morning with fear, anxiety or lack of direction, life will present you with a smorgasbord of experiences to match.
December was super busy for me. I launched my days thinking about my To Do list, random thoughts, what happened yesterday… just anything. The results were a crisis a week that miraculously got solved – but what a roller coaster ride.
I had taken a break from what I know works – a moment of quiet time to go within and consciously set intentions. As the year rolled in, I realizedit made sense to take three seconds to say:
I CHOOSE TO BE IN DIVINE FLOW.
I often add a few extra game changers such as I choose divine ______, such as order, timing, communication, financial abundance, grace and ease or whatever could help me with current circumstances.
A couple of weeks later, I noticed how everyday had been astounding. I was still busy and productive yet not overwhelmed – as long as I remembered to choose to be in divine flow.
I also noticed that if I didn’t react, but instead let certain situations play out,even things that appeared to be two sandwiches short of a lunch, were fulfilling.
It’s mind boggling that saying these words, that only takes about three seconds, can manifest such profound results.
Imagine going to a ticket counter at a train station. If you reserve a seat on any train, you could land in an urban jungle. But divine flow is different. You’re allowing the life force to guide you, surrendering control to a Master Planner who has your best interest at heart.
If you question that life is supportive, consider these words:
“I think the most important question facing humanity is,’Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.”
“If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially ‘playing dice with the universe,’ then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.”
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
Albert Einstein
Your life isn’t random. You’re not a victim. You have the ability to consciously design your life with the divine.
Don’t believe it? Discover this co-creation by running an experiment. Choose to be in divine flow daily for two weeks. Not just any flow – not your neighbor’s or that of people at work. Divine Flow. Affirm with an attitude of faith not desperation. If you forget in the morning, do it later. I’ve now included it as a non-negotiable way to start my day, right up there with going to the bathroom.
Now it’s your turn to “row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream.” It’s a dream you’re creating.
“When your internal reference point is your spirit, when you are immune to criticism and unfearful of any challenge, you can harness the power of love, and use energy creatively for the experience of affluence and evolution.”
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Fear was my #1 issue during a personal growth session in 1991. It took us two hours to reveal what the particular fear was: everything! It took me years to recognize the insidious ways fear had molded my life since childhood.
Like attracts like. When the vibration of fear precedes actions, the results reflect that energy. What follows is lack; struggle; failure; disappointment; frustration; worry; anxiety; loss of business; financial hardship; and that dreadful fear of the future – “what if” things don’t work out and I face a fate worse than death?
Especially when I felt justified, being afraid was like adding sugar to yeast – “Just look at my circumstances. Anyone in them would feel this way.” Fear multiplied which attracted more things to be afraid about.
Once when my budget was screaming “ouch,” I feared missing a credit card payment. I knew someone this happened to, and her rates skyrocketed. My negative musings caused me unconsciously to pay my bill from an account where I don’t keep money… and I missed my payment.
My preoccupation with my imagined, financial ruin also had me overlook paying my water bill. I opened the top portion of a letter sent to alert me and set it aside thinking it was next month’s bill. Only minutes after coming home from burying my cat who died suddenly and discovering my water had been turned off did I see it was a disconnect notice.
I had the money, but I was so consumed with fearing future financial disasters that I created them! As Job said, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”
You may have been pulled into the quicksand of fear. Once you start sliding down its slippery slope, every frantic breath has you descend into it more deeply.
My successes occurred when I let go of fear.
What is quicksand, and how does it work?
Quicksand is just a soupy mix of water trapped in ordinary sand that can’t escape, a liquefied soil that can’t support weight. It can occur almost anywhere if the right conditions are present. Contrary to being the frightening, bottomless pit portrayed in the movies, it rarely is deeper than a few feet.
Stepping into quicksand will not swallow you whole or suck you under, but thrashing about will force you deeper into it. The more you struggle, the faster you sink.
Most people who drown in quicksand or in any liquid are those who panic and start flailing their arms and legs. However, it’s easier to break free of it than you may think.
To escape you have to stop fighting. Breathe. The key is not to panic.
The way out is to relax and make slow movements back to the surface.
Because your body is less dense than the quicksand, your body will float to the surface if you let go of the struggle and relax.
In fact, it’s easier to float on quicksand than on water. Once afloat, you can find your way back to safety.
Hmm, so similar to fear – how we drown in it and how we can escape its murky mud.
Edited excerpt from Soulgoals’ Archive posted on February 26, 2012
We may feel tired or extremely fatigued from hard work or putting in long hours, but exhaustion comes from emotions. Exhaustion stems from suppressing worries, anger, fear, and concerns, often telling ourselves we’ll deal with them later. But we don’t. By stuffing and not looking at them, we emotionally sabotage ourselves.
Dragging ourselves home from work may result from not dealing with the stress of situations or associating with certain people. Exhaustion at home may occur by not wanting to admit what our feelings are trying to tell us and that something needs to change.
We can exhaust ourselves from not wanting to look at the reasons we feel pain or fear.
I was present at the moment a woman made a connection about her unfulfilling relationship with her father. As a little girl, she regularly hit her head against the wall rather than face that emotional pain.
As an adult in her twenties, she no longer hit her head. Instead she had migraines. Although painful, migraines were easier for her to deal with than looking at the pain she felt from being emotionally abandoned by her father.
Note: Please continue to the end to read another perspective on migraines and exhaustion in the BONUS below.
People sometimes drive themselves through grueling physical activity, long work hours or constant busyness rather than looking at the pain and frustration they feel about negative experiences or things their parents did or didn’t do, revealing their personal bogeyman or why they tolerate intolerable situations and people now.
If you’re exhausted or in pain and torment yourself about how you feel because of it, you have a good excuse reason not to think, change your perspective and discover that there are better options available to you.
Here are examples of underlying fears that may drive you.
If I leave my job/ spouse, I won’t have enough money.
If I leave my church/ social circle, I’ll be all alone.
If I stop being so busy, I’ll have to slow down and look at what kind of a life I have – the people, circumstances, drama, unfulfilling work, my fears, my lack, my body, my very happiness and so on.
Another emotional payoff might include the sympathy and attention others give you. Pain, illness or exhaustion can become a badge of courage… “You’re exhausted from what you’re going through, you poor thing.”
Pain’s survival depends on part of us remaining unconscious. This is how it continues to hold power over us. This is what causes us to relive variations of emotionally charged situations repeatedly.
Because our spirit desires a release of unsupportive energy, we continue to attract similar situations (even if they suck). They serve as opportunities for us to wake up and be free.
If we avoid releasing unsupportive energy, we look to gain power elsewhere. We settle for jobs, relationships and unsatisfying lives. This is exhausting.
Had enough? Where are you losing your power? Who or what did you give your power to?
A first step to freedom is self-awareness, and sometimes it helps to ask for help to see our blind spots as well as learn new ways to release energy that doesn’t serve us.
Edited excerpt from August 30, 2021, Soulgoals’ post.
BONUS!
MIGRAINES, EXHAUSTION and MORE
Alert: This may go against everything you believe to be helpful and good.
When we emotionally feel sorry for or bad about others going through challenges or try to save them from their suffering, we energetically tie into their pain. We plug our energy circuitry into their emotions and how they feel, aligning ourselves with their vibrational wavelength.
Any suffering we alleviate by doing this doesn’t help them to learn their lessons and actually holds them back.
Empaths (people who feel others’ feelings as if they are their own) can unconsciously take on others’ pain, illness, lack, confusion, stress, depression and fatigue. That kind of sensitivity can be exhausting.
Ever feel good and then drained after talking with certain people?
Here’s another consideration. Do you think someone is a headache or a pain in your neck or another part of your lower anatomy? Well, that literally can be what happens to you.
Are you struggling, stuck, have issues? Know someone around you that often feels the same? They may, for example, struggle in one way, you in another. It’s still struggling. Maybe you unintentionally took on what they’re going through.
A woman volunteered as a leader to help the homeless. While we talked she had a realization. Since riding in a car with others from her church and their negative chatter for a couple of hours to visit this community, she hadn’t closed one deal in six months! She decided to drive her own car and started closing deals.
Another example, people who don’t drink might be dealing with an alcoholic family member. However, both may be dealing with fear but coping in different ways. One drinks and the other lives in fears like expecting the worse to happen.
Look for similar feelings not identical circumstances.
Warning! If you try to share ideas before others are ready to understand, they can turn on you and make you the bad guy. People often filter information based on their past experiences and resist believing that another perspective is valid.
So how can you help? Be compassionate. Acknowledge them and where they’re at non-judgmentally. Communicate how you believe in them and their ability to get through their circumstances. But no pity, feeling sorry for them or meeting them at their emotional level of drama.
Again, you’re not uplifting others while feeling troubled about them. And you may be opening yourself to take on what they’re going through.
It works in reverse, too. Being around positive people aligns you vibrationally to live your personal and professional dreams.
Would you like to learn how to release unwanted energy?
While living in Washington, D.C., I’d park my car, run up 58 steps and be in awe at the towering and erect presence of one of the great men who founded the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson also served as our third President from 1801 to 1809.
I sometimes visited the Jefferson Memorial late at night when I could be alone in this hallowed sanctum. It was possible to do because it’s open around the clock.
Standing amidst the white marble steps and building, my eyes would gaze at the 129′ bronze statue as well as excerpts of the Declaration of Independence, whose principal author was Jefferson.
However, the reason I kept returning was to slowly turn in a circle to read the inscription under the dome:
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800.
I didn’t realize at the time how these words, which still bring tears to my eyes, would be emblazoned within me. They inspired my lifetime passion, “upon the altar of God,” to help others and myself live in freedom through liberation of the “tyranny over the mind of man.”
The definition of tyranny includes the oppression, often cruel, of people or a government over others. Another aspect is an unreasonable or arbitrary use of power or control.
For me, there’s a twist to this. It reminds me of a quote by American Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in 1813. Most famously, it was quipped by cartoonist Walt Kelly on a couple of Earth Day posters when Pogo said:
The voice in your head, motivated by an insecure ego, can be your enemy and create the greatest form of tyranny.
These inner rants can be cruel, unreasonable, oppressive and arbitrary. If you allow this to dominate, you relinquish control of your life.
Know that you have thepower of choice!
You can choose to listen to your inner guidance, your Essence, instead.
Especially those familiar with my teachings about “choosing,” you might be interested in this. When I was thirty years old, I had the first sentence of the following quote by Jefferson on a wall plate of a light switch:
“Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice, and the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
Pondering this message regularly, I knew there was more to it than I could understand at the time. I’m now aware of this:
We are free to choose. We are so free, we can choose fear or freedom.
We choose our thoughts, which impact our emotions, which create our lives. What hinders our freedom is allowing our minds to be tyrannized by any limiting beliefs. From anyone. From any circumstance or condition. From the tyrannical inner voice.
A client showed me a picture of a tow truck driver who quickly and skillfully used multiple cables to turn upright a parked truck that had been hit by a car and had completely flipped over.
The driver was very good-natured, and his demeanor radiated a cheerful attitude and peace.
Both of his arms stopped below his elbows.
He had a prosthetic leg, too.
He is a living demonstration of choosing his attitude and outlook on life. He wasn’t tyrannized by his physical condition and whatever caused it.
We in America celebrate our country’s birthday on the Fourth of July, our Independence Day. It’s a time of freedom.
While talking with others about a life-changing break for freedom from a highly abusive relationship I made during the week of July 4th when I was 20, others shared their stories of freedom that happened around this time, too.
Soon, the French will celebrate their day of freedom on July 14, Bastille Day.
Tyranny or freedom?
You can choose to hold in your mind’s eye the freedom and intentions that our forefathers envisioned while founding the United States.
What freedom and independence do you choose for you?
Start with freeing yourself from the tyranny of your mind, where nothing and nobody can touch you.
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Your thoughts are powerful! That means if you look around at your life and either like or don’t like what you see, know that you can change it by changing the way you think.
Need inspiration to even consider something that may seem impossible? And why should you go to the bother of changing your thinking because you’re not sure if it will make a difference anyway?
Listen up. You 100% have the ability to look at things differently, change your perspective and therefore think differently about what’s going on in your life.
When you change how you think about things, your feelings about stuff will change, and you’ll act differently. You’ll take different actions. As a result, your experiences and outcomes will change.
It’s way better than suffering unnecessarily, feeling like you’re a victim, enduring constant pain, being cowered by fear, anger or worry, and any other miserable emotion you may feel you’re stuck with and can’t help.
How can you empower yourself and change your everyday life and future?
Consider these quotes from James Allen’s classic book As a Man Thinketh to inspire you to improve YOUR world. Italics are mine.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”
“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”
“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”
“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.”
“Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can. They always lead to failure.”
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”
Following are more great quotes, especially for those who’ve ever been chastised for daydreaming by others who perhaps didn’t realize how all great ideas and manifestations start with a dreamer.
Everyone else follows in the shadow of someone’s dream or gets paid by people who had a vision and used their imagination to turn their dreams to reality.
Dream on. Create the life you choose.
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.”
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If you choose to get in shape, what’s that voice in your head telling you when you look in the mirror? Which do you think will help you attain your hot body faster?
Beating yourself up for the %@#! you see in the mirror?
OR
Approving of yourself just the way you are while envisioning your ideal body and taking action?
We’ve been trained to worry and be hard on ourselves with the erroneous belief that it will whip us into shape. Instead, that critical voice will either hold us back or make us unhappy..
You have the ability to change how you see yourself. By doing so, you set your success ceiling.
All your negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs come from the ego – a false identity everyone has. The ego is very wily and knows exactly how to trick you into believing lack, limit, anxiety, fear and you’re not good enough.
You know if your ego is running your life when you’re not getting the results you choose.
Your energy creates. Your feelings create. The conversations in your head create.
Want more success? Shift your energy. Change your concept of yourself.
Any negative way you talk to yourself, any depressing feelings, that critical voice in your head, all come from your ego.
Your ego acts as if it’s being rational when it tells you negative things. It says its being realistic and just telling you the way it really is. It advises you to be afraid, very afraid, and to worry.
Just because you’re thinking something doesn’t make it true!
Your ego lies.
Your TIP is to rewrite a negative story you tell yourself.
There’s a perspective to make you the hero of your story. Not an egotistical one. But one that feels like, when you’re living it, you’re satisfied and grateful.
Find it. It’s there!
By doing so, you put your core Essence, your Soul, in the driver’s seat of your life and business. Results? Whatever YOU choose!
Edited excerpt from Soulgoals’ blog posted on July 25, 2016
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When you chase after people and money, they run in the other direction.
We met by chance when he was house hunting, and I just happened to be outside a home that I bought but hadn’t moved into yet.
After our brief meeting, he purchased the house next door because he created a fantasy about the two of us getting married.
This sweet man desperately wanted a woman.
Even as time went on, he didn’t have an interest to know me, my beliefs, what I do or if I cared about him. I was “nice,” and that’s all that mattered.
He so needed to feel loved. It was really all about him.
Needy people try to get fulfillment from something outside of themselves that they haven’t found within.
When he put serious moves on me, I told him that I didn’t need him.
I then learned that he heard this before when his ex-wife said the same thing on her way out the door.
I didn’t say it to hurt him. I’ve learned to guide my life by choice not neediness, especially when it comes to relationships.
Eventually, he found someone in a place of hardship who literally needed help. They got married, and he moved.
I see them on occasion. Now that the crisis has passed, they don’t look too happy together.
Whatever you chase after, because you need it, runs in the other direction.
This can appear to be a brain twister, but follow along because it’s a key to life.
It’s the reason you can have good relationships and, well, everything.
If you want or need a relationship, it means you don’t have one. Energetically, something’s missing. Lack attracts lack. You’re left wanting but not having.
However, when you come from a place of having, you attract more of what you have to you. From an energy perspective, it doesn’t matter if you actually have it. The key is that you have the feeling within that you do.
It’s the same with needing business or money. If you need it, you push it away.
You can have anything you choose, as long as you don’t want it.
I told you this can be a brain twister. The more you get it, though, changes your life for the better.
When you want something, you’re sending out the energy of lack or not enough, what you don’t have.
Lack energy implies what you want is out there somewhere, but you don’t have it. You’re incomplete. So it will always be out there somewhere.
Ever run after a child or pet? They run the other way.
Ever have someone want you and chase after you? You feel like running and hiding.
Your goals and money will run away from you, too, if they’re out there somewhere and you’re chasing them.
Do you choose to want more or to actually have it?
This isn’t double talk. Consider it this way. Wanting and having are opposing energies.
You can’t drive forward and in reverse at the same time. At best, you’d go in circles.
The way out of this conundrum?
Let go.
To break free of self-sabotaging habits is why I created my Liberation of Lunacy (LoL) technique… because we’re all a little crazy when the ego takes over and fills us with fear, anxiety, neediness, limit and doubt.
Instead of needing more money, business, time or a relationship, come from a place of “all your needs are met beyond your wildest expectation.”
That’s a first step in letting go.
Today is your day.
Total eclipse.
Ready to have your life eclipse for the better?
Claim how.
Be sure to include having fun and living with gusto!
With gratitude,
Virginia
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Discouraged, stuck or frustrated about things that haven’t been working?
Holding on to beliefs about how you think life, others or you should be?
What (or who) have you outgrown?
Do you sometimes wish that a genie would appear and magic wand away your fears, painful memories and thoughts, past actions and choices? If only you knew then what you know now.
Perhaps you only need a change in attitude or perspective. Another viewpoint can give you insights and direction. Your next steps of what to do are always accessible. Listen to your gut feelings and the quiet voice within. Your answers will be revealed in divine right timing. Your refresh button is within you.
By the way, don’t think you’ve got to see the big picture and know all the pieces before taking action. You can start where you are and with what you know right now.
You can make change easy on yourself by using these five steps:
Be willing to consider a change. Willingness opens you to possibilities even if you’re not ready to commit to a change. This includes a change in attitude and the way you’ve always done things.
Take consistent action in your new direction.If you were to make a change, what action would you take? Do it. Then tune in to the next step and do that. Step-at-a-time is perfect – no pushing or rushing.
Get support from a friend or coach. Discussing possibilities and being heard can be powerful steps to clarity, action and change. Don’t listen to the naysayers, including that negative voice in your head.
Choose that the change and lessons learned be gentle. If you believe change is hard, it is. There are people who remain positive in the face of disaster. Set an intention to make changes with ease and grace.
Breathe your way through it. Breathing deeply in a relaxed way puts you in divine flow instead of the flow of fear.
You can hit the refresh button of your life, and it will refresh if you are open to receive! How? Choose it.
Does this sound ridiculous? Impossible? Although it may seem farfetched at the moment that you making a choice could do anything, consider that you are that powerful! When you choose from your very Essence, not your doubting, weak, negative ego, so-called miracles can occur!
Experiment. Take a breath. Ask for… whatever you choose. Answers come in divine right timing.
Here’s a key. Open yourself to receive. If you resist that possibility, you close the door.
Give yourself a gift of a new beginning. Refresh your life. You have the power within to create positive changes with ease and grace and no drama.
Excerpt from a Soulgoals’ blog posted on March 15, 2011
If you’d like help with a new perspective so you break free to a new level of living, I can most assuredly offer many. Contact me for a complimentary Soulgoals’ Session at virginia@soulgoals.com
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Flying in the face of his defeats and fears, at 41 years of age and desperate, having sold only one copy of his book in its first year, Brazilian Paulo Coelho went from one publisher to the next until his book was picked up by U.S. publisher HarperCollins.
After a time, President Bill Clinton was photographed with a copy. Julia Roberts commented about The Alchemist during an interview for Vanity Fair magazine. With acclaims from Rush Limbaugh to Will Smith, The Alchemist became a phenomenon. The book hit a milestone by being on The New York Times bestseller list for over 300 weeks and is now an international bestseller translated into more than 80 languages.
Coelho writes: “A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in pursuit of an unknown treasure. At the end of his journey, he realizes the treasure was within him the entire time.”
Each year, hundreds of thousands walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain, France and Portugal. I became enchanted with this quest in another of his international bestsellers The Pilgrimage, a novel that blends adventure with self-mastery.
Regardless if you choose to fulfill your heart’s desire to enjoy a better body or health, a loving relationship, a more harmonious family life, financial prosperity, spiritual fulfillment, peace or happiness, may you be inspired to live your dreams!
Enjoy these quotes by Paulo Coelho. Oooo, they are really good! Some ideas have taken me decades to assimilate (so don’t give up), but how my life is enriched because of aspiring to their wisdom!
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” (Dear Reader, you do have dreams. Don’t abandon them!)
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” (Stick with a heartfelt idea long enough, and magic happens. Help comes from unimagined places.)
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” (“Impossible” is an old program of limitation that lies to you. Don’t believe it.)
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” (Your choice – converse with fears or your heart. Yes, it is a choice.)
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” (Indeed, your treasure is within you right now!)
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” (What most people share and want to hear is their opinion, not necessarily the truth.)
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” (Stick with a heartfelt idea long enough, and magic happens. Help comes from unimagined places.)
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” (“Impossible” is an old program of limitation that lies to you. Don’t believe it.)
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” (Your choice – converse with fears or your heart. Yes, it is a choice.)
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” (Indeed, your treasure is within you right now!)
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” (What most people share and want to hear is their opinion, not necessarily the truth.)
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” (You’re reading this, so you’re alive. It’s not too late. Your idea… or something better.)
Don’t give up on yourself and your dreams, whatever they are! I can help. Contact me at: virginia@soulgoals.com
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I work with people who choose to enhance their lives or share their gifts in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or could use new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by connecting with their Soul’s goals.
This has been re-edited from my Soulgoals’ Blog posted on August 20, 2018.
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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