What do you believe?

Do not believe what you have heard.

Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.

Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.

Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.

Do not believe in conjecture.

Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.

BUT ... after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

- Buddha

So often we get caught up in doing things based on our interpretation of ... the way we think others would do them ... the way others have told us to do them ... the way things have always been done ... from what we've read in books ... or heard in the media or in courses we've done ...

Even when in our hearts we feel it's not the right way to be doing whatever it is for us.

Judith Orloff, M.D., an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of the book Positive Energy says your intuition ... 'tells you the truth about how you can help yourself ... that your conscious mind could never tell you ... In the beginning, with intuition (like with most things though) sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong.'

That's just the way it is though with most things we do isn't it now, practice is the key.

With practice, you naturally gain greater skills with pretty well everything. Intuition is the same ... the more you listen to your inner voice the better sense you'll get of when to listen to it.

Our intuition can serve us well ... if we choose to develop it ... now or later. It serves us in our relationships, at home, in the work place and making career, business or investment decisions.

The next time you get that inner feeling that something needs to be done differently, or now, or whatever the case is ... take a bit of time, reflect, think of the possibilities and maybe choose to follow your own unique path ... so long as it's safe for you, safe for the people around you and the world you live in ... go on ... take a risk ... make your own path!

Love life and live it creatively and on purpose!

Leanne
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Self Trust

Self trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love this quote by Emerson. Why do so many us give ourselves such a hard time? A lack of self trust. Why do so many businesses and relationships fail? A lack of self trust.

If you set your goals and don't achieve them, you're in risky territory. You begin to doubt yourself and then you lose confidence. An incongruent person begins to emerge, someone who says one thing and does another. Even if the incongruence isn't noticed by the outside world, it's noticed in the inside world of the most important person concerned ... yourself!

Think about it for a bit. If you decide you're going to start working out, keep a clean office, be on time or set clearer boundaries in your relationships. Then you skip a few days of working out, your office goes to mess, you're habitually late and you cross boundaries. Then what happens? You lose your trust in yourself.

According to Emerson self trust is the first key to success. Why? Because trust builds confidence! When you do what you say you'll do you trust yourself. One of the most impactful things a person can do to improve their life, is to follow through on their decisions and goals; to keep the promises you make to yourself.

Follow through creates self trust and self trust creates momentum.

Do you trust yourself? I mean really trust yourself? Emerson says this is the first secret of success and I believe him.

Sometimes though, we have such high expectations for ourselves and it can seem so hard. One statement which has had an enormous impact on my ability to change the way I do things is ... 'Just for today!'

Trust is built in small steps, just like learning to walk ... on step at a time ... one goal at a time. If life happens, rather than beating yourself up ... ask yourself ... 'What did I learn from this?'

So .. Just for today ... Set a goal ... a small goal ... follow through on that goal and then congratulate yourself for your achievement.

Then tomorrow ... Just for that day ... set another goal ... and follow through on that one.

I'd love to hear about the goals you're setting and how that's impacting your life.

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne
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