What Are Your End-Life Questions?

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 I’ve heard it said that at the end of our lives we will ask ourselves questions.

 I’m sure we will. What will your questions be? 

 I think mine will be:

 1. Did I LOVE?

My answer will be a resounding YES.

 Let’s take a look at what love truly is. The word ‘unconditional’ comes up a lot when it comes to Love. I think that means that we can disapprove, pass judgment, misunderstand, and otherwise hate the actions or behaviors of a loved one, but we still love them, who they really are. In my belief system I think we all are part of the Super Conscious (use your own word for a Higher Power), we all are here to receive lessons, to evolve and grow spiritually. If that is the case then we are all One. 

How you treat another is how you treat yourself, judge another judge yourself, hate another hate yourself, etc. This ‘separateness’ philosophy is beginning to step backwards in favor of the new age of Oneness. This means we practice loving the ‘essence’ (spirit) of a living being which is Love, the Super Conscious is all and nothing but Love. We practice forgiveness in the true sense of the word, we practice understanding, listening, loyalty, responding not reacting, whatever love would have you do. You can still Love someone from afar if it is necessary to distance yourself physically for whatever reason, because real Love knows no distance. 

Love can hurt sometimes, but it will hurt less when you know the person you love who hurt you is a spirit on their journey too, a spirit which is a representation of Universal love just as you are. 

This is not easy, it requires learning a whole new way of living, but the effort it so very worth it.

2. Did I LAUGH? 

I grew up in a more serious environment. Not to say there wasn’t laughter now and then because there was, but there was definitely more emphasis on the serious and/or tragic.

 But I’m happy to say that I learned to laugh as I grew older, I learned to relax the seriousness and develop a great sense of humor. Many people helped me along the way and as a result I then could help others laugh. I incorporate humor in my work, friendships and encounters with people I don’t even know. 

 Laughter joins people together, makes them feel more united, eases pain both emotional and physical, it’s a magic medicine for longevity and health. 

 If you can give the gift of laughter, you are special.

 3. Did I MATTER?

 Perhaps this is a question that may be the most difficult one for you to answer. It involves how you have touched the lives of others and that may be more appropriately decided by those others.

 

But you do need to have a sense of how you grew as a person, as a soul, and how you contributed to people and the world. I would say that if you loved and laughed as above, you mattered. If you discovered your purpose, your gift, and lived it, you mattered. If you did better when you knew better and set an example, you mattered. If you took a risk, chose goals and connected with them, worked in a business/career/job/ you loved, taught by example, helped others, forgave the hurts, then you mattered.

We come here to learn, and if we were courageous and we learned our lessons, if we rose above and took the road less traveled, we mattered.

What you should do:

Make it a goal to:

1. Decide which questions you will ask yourself at the end of your life

2. Decide how you want to be able to answer them

Your Assignment:

Begin right now doing what you must do in order to be able to answer those questions the way you want to. Life is not a dress rehearsal, it’s the real thing and you don’t want to waste any of it.

Get some help. If you don’t know whom or how, you can talk to me about a strategy and a plan to make your life matter.

Book a free 30 minute Goal Strategy Session

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Is Your Life Mediocre or AMAZING!

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Well, I suppose the beginning of a new year is a good time to set goals, aka New Year’s Resolutions, but why not the beginning of a new season; the beginning of a new month; the beginning of a new week, a new day, a new hour?My point is, we don’t have to have a ‘new’ anything reason to choose what we want in our lives and then set out to make it a reality.

 

Problem is most people are living lives of mediocrity.  It becomes a comfort zone and they are conditioned to stay there even though they complain constantly about what they lack.  This is one of the main reasons people ‘fail’ at goal realization. They make an effort once a year to change things but don’t know how to follow up or understand that the changes have to be internal and not external.

 So, what does a mediocre life look like?

 ·      Always sacrificing yourself for others

·      people pleasing

·      drudgery

·      boredom

·      lack of money

·      in debt

·      don’t like your job

·      relationship with significant other not close, loving, respectful

·      same routines

·      insecure

·      not feeling important

·      personal growth stagnant

·      lack of energy

·      unhappy

·      live day to day or pay day to pay day

·      don’t make plans

This list could be much longer!

Recently, I was thinking about wonderful people I know who were stuck living in mediocrity.  First I got sad, then the more I thought about it, I got mad!  Life does not have to be this way for anyone.  In fact, I got so mad I was mightily motivated to let everyone in the world know how, by putting up a video on YouTube, to begin to go from a mediocre life to an amazing life!

Wanna see it?

 Kicking Your Butt into an Amazing Life!

 Even though you may feel powerless to change the mediocre-ness of your life, you were sent here to have an amazing one, to stand in your power and fulfill your purpose (deliver your gift).  Even if you don’t know what that is let alone be prepared to do it, you can know that you were born prepared because you came with that intention. And guess what? It’s not hard; all you have to do is begin.  And a beginning means a plan.

 What you should do:

 1.     Never allow your circumstances to control you. Instead, learn how to create the circumstances you need.

2.     Be committed, not interested. There is a huge difference!

3.     Develop daily habits to retrain your thought patterns.

 Such as:

    a.     Get extremely clear about something you truly want, not something you think you should want or think you can get

    b.     Write down one unproductive habit you need to change in order to get this goal.

    c.      Imagine how it feels to release this habit.

 Your Assignment:

 1.     In the ‘mediocre’ list in the above article, check off the ones that pertain to you. Be honest, it’s just between you and you (grin!). If your total is 5 o   r over you must be feeling very dissatisfied with your life. The question is will you dosomething about it?

2.     Practice point #3 above

3.     Get some assistance. If you don’t know whom or how, you can talk to me about a strategy and a plan free.

 Book a free 30 minute Goal Strategy Session

 (c) Lynn Moore 2004 – 2012

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“8 Ways to Thrive In Tough Times”

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Tough times can mean different things.

It can mean struggle with health, a relationship, your job or business, school, the economy, etc., but there are certain skills which when honed can become your buoys to not only help keep you afloat, but swim strongly! Let’s look at them:

1. Be Aware of Yourself. Know your habits and whether they help or hinder you when you are ‘tough timing it’. Tough times always mean change and that’s a good thing. Some times we really need to make changes within ourselves and it takes a tough time to show us and make us do it. Keep your antennae up, be aware. 

2. Remain Aligned With Purpose. Tough times are no time to second guess who you are and why you matter. No twisting in the wind. Don’t change to suit the times or you will always be all over the map. Remain steady and true to who you are.

3. Keep Well Informed. Learn about whatever is causing your tough time. Ignorance causes us more pain than any tough time will. Knowledge is your friend, just be sure to get that knowledge from authentic and intelligent sources ie: NOT the evening news or any media.

4. Make Game Plans. There is seldom only one answer. By yourself or with others who are positive forward thinkers do some masterminding of several scenarios in which you can go forward and through your tough time.

5. Take Some Action. Get out of your head and your emotions and go into action on those game plans. Staying stuck in paralysis will only prolong your unhappiness. 

6. Be a Re-bounder. Not everything we attempt works. Keep bouncing back and don’t allow yourself to become a blame-filled, powerless victim. That’s giving away your power and you might as well pull the covers over your head and stay in bed the rest of your life.

7. Get Educated. Take a course, get certified, get a degree, go to school, become an avid reader, stop watching TV and join the library.

8. Wear your Captain’s Hat. Take complete ownership of your life. You and  you alone are responsible for your actions, non-actions, and reactions. You always have a choice.

What You Need To Do:

Contemplate each of these 8 points and evaluate how you measure up on each one. Decide which ones offer opportunity for you (growth). 

Your Assignment:

1. Rate yourself from 1 – 10 (10 being the best) on each of the 8 points

2. On each one that was less than a 10 make a decision to take an action that will take you closer to that 10

3. These are now your GOALS!

 “In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”  

-Robert Heinlein-

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“Who Wouldn’t Want To Be Perfect?”

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by Lynn Moore CAC

I wonder why we tend to use the word ‘perfect’ to describe something that is faultless, the ultimate, without equal.

 Well, who wouldn’t want to be perfect? If that were so, we couldn’t be negatively judged in any way. 

Problem is, perfection is relative.  Everyone has a different perspective on what is perfect and what is not according to their own belief system.  When you describe the ‘perfect’ man/woman, dollars to donuts they will not be anything like the description the person next to you has!

Yet so many of us spend lives striving for this elusive perfectionism.  Why?

I still struggle with this issue myself at times, but one thing I know for certain is that it is based on fear. Mainly fear of being judged, fear of failure and fear of lack.  It keeps you from standing in your power.  In fact, it keeps you giving your power away by the bushel.

 These voracious fears are fed by your limiting beliefs. I know, I harp on limiting beliefs a lot. Because they cause you and me to constantly sabotage ourselves, unconsciously!  We adopted them from other people as very young children both by words and by example.

 For instance, I watched my Mum work extremely hard just to keep our family regularly fed, clothed, housed, educated and provide a few nice extras. She was always exhausted and always pinching pennies and always living in fear of lack.  Guess what I adopted? If I was working really hard just to succeed with a business making a moderate profit, I never believed I could make a highly successful living because I would never want to have to work that hard. And so I ‘unconsciously’ did things to sabotage myself and make certain I did not earn more than was necessary to help “feed, clothe, house, educate and provide a few nice extras for my family.”

 Duh!!

Let me also say that my mother loved my brother, sister and I and our Dad. Life taught her many limiting beliefs too. She did the best she could with what she knew at the time and she guides me today as an all-knowing Angel on the Other Side. I’ve always loved her.

 You and I do not serve the world by playing small. Those words had a profound effect on me and catapulted me into making huge changes.  Now I know that when I stand in my power, my purpose, and someone is turned off by that, it is because they are not standing in theirs. It has nothing to do with me.  Don Miguel Ruiz wrote in his book The Four Agreements, “Don’t take anything personally”.  And it is profoundly great advice.

 When someone throws a stone at you there are likely 20 others who thank you.  It only matters that you remain aligned with your gift and purpose. You work for the Universe, not the people who judge what you do.

 What You Need To Do:

 1.     Give thought to what you need to be, do and have to make it possible for you to stand in your power and deliver your gift.

2.     Do not be afraid that you aren’t ready. You were born ready because you came here with that intention.

3.     Hold that as truth and make your plans from that point forward

 Your Assignment:

 Discover your true value. If you don’t know and can’t figure it out, ask for help.  Then align yourself with this gift you have and your life will be forever fulfilled and meaningful.

“You were not meant to be perfect, you were meant to be whole” ~ Jane Fonda

 (c) Lynn Moore 2011

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How To Listen To The Universe In 5 Easy Steps

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by Lynn Moore CAC

“The Universe is your friend and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it” ~ Wallace Wattles

Oh my, that’s a earful.  I know that when I first heard that quote it smacked me upside the head and hollered “Wake up!” It was as if I saw a haphazard group of letters on a page, then they suddenly danced into alignment and I could easily read the words, “Gifts are being tossed to me and I’m refusing to catch them. OMG, my life is in MY hands, no one else’s. I just need to take catching lessons!”

It’s a natural instinct that when something is tossed to you, you reach out and catch it, not dodge it.

Watch animals. They function on instinct and it’s always right and there is always a purpose to it. Sometimes I think this human ability of ours to think, make choices, and reason really gets in the way of our natural instincts (intuition) and messes with our un-conscious mind.  It’s instinctive for you to love, so why hate things? It’s instinctive for you to eat, so why choose unhealthy foods? Well, you get the picture.

Pretend you are in an orchestra. Here you have this amazing maestro conducting you plus you have within you a superb talent and ability to play your instrument but the music stand has the wrong sheet music in front of you. The conductor keeps directing you, your talent is bursting to get out, but your symphony remains unplayed and silent.

Your talent to play music is instinctive. It’s a gift you were given and people are waiting to hear it, be moved by it, uplifted and motivated by it. But that is not what is happening. Y’see, the music sheets are how you play at life (Consciousness), the conductor is your Super Conscious (Universe) and your musical talent is Unconscious (intuitive, instinctual).

You are getting messages from the Universe, and your talent wants to come out, but you choose a music that is out of alignment with the messenger and your innate abilities.

It has to do with listening to the wrong messenger. Y’see the Universe is sending you messages all day everyday but so is your Ego, the part of your Unconscious that you were not born with, but was ‘learned’.

The Ego’s purpose is to sort of ‘protect’ you. Protect you from harm, disappointment, failure, grief, loss, unhappiness, shame, guilt and a litany of other ‘negative’ occurrences. Its favorite way of doing this is via planting fear in your mind and it has lots to draw on: that which is renting space in your sub-conscious real estate. These are the ‘beliefs’ which took up residence when you were very young and were sown and cultivated by other people. 

Perhaps you got the belief that you had to be satisfied with what you had, or that you didn’t have the ability to become a (fill in the blank), or the oldest child in the family had to be more responsible, or you had to work very hard to make enough money, etc. etc. The wrong sheet music.

On the other hand, the Universe’s messages bring you inspiration, excitement, motivation, happiness and so much optimism.

Which one will you align with, Ego or Universe? Both are pure energy, one positive and one negative.  The great thing about the human brain is that, unlike animals, we have the power to choose and direct our thinking once we realize consciously that we can. You can choose to ‘play’ at life to a different tempo.

It’s time to change your sheet music, to take your power back…to develop the ears to hear the Universe.

What you should do:

1.   Listen. Get one of those head bands that have antennae on them. Put it on once a day and be still for 10 minutes. Ground yourself comfortably, close your eyes, and allow the mind to slow down. Just gently brush aside those thoughts that don’t serve you at the moment. You are in receiving mode.

2.   Or, you can go for a walk in a place you love and I double dare you to wear the antenna head band! Maybe you’d like to ride a bicycle or whatever it is that brings you peace and allows your mind to stop racing.

3.   Remember to breathe, taking several deep breaths at a time when you think of it.

4.   Enter a state of gratitude for your life, body, environment, people, etc. All the ‘gifts’ the Universe has bestowed upon you.

5.   Just allow things to ‘arrive’. When you feel something ‘good’ accompanying a thought, you know it came from the Universe. Write it down or have a recorder handy to speak into.  If a thought carries a negative feeling you know it is the Ego and you simply let it go away.

This is a process that is best to do before you make any strategic plans for your future; before you choose what you want to be, do or have (goaling). When you are hearing your Universal messages, you will choose the right goals for YOU and therefore you will connect with those goals as easily as letting your innate music play. You will be aligned and life becomes a constant joy! 

 Your assignment:

 Do this for two weeks, just 10 minutes a day. You will be teaching yourself a new awareness and you will be more in alignment with the Universe and the ‘music’ that’s in you.

(c) Lynn Moore 2011

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