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If youre serious about changing your life, youll find a way. If youre not, youll find an excuse.
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You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.
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You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that its got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. Says who? Youre on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twists and turns. There is just being. And your job is to be as you as you can be. This is why youre here. To shy away from who you truly are would leave the world you-less. You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance.
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What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.
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You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. Its got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.
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Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide youre no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis.
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Theres nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they werent threatened by other peoples opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.
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It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.We're on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins!
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So often, we pretend weve made a decision, when what weve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.
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Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.
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We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until its over?
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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We are all perfect in our own, magnificent, fucked-up ways. Laugh at yourself. Love yourself and others. Rejoice in the cosmic ridiculousness.
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Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.
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Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our actions, our actions become our habits, and our habits become our realities.
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Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.
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The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.
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Follow what feels good in the moment, every moment, and it will lead you through a most excellent life.
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Say nice things about your body, dress it up, and take it out. Give it hot sex, luxurious baths, and massages. Move it, stretch it, nourish it, hydrate it, pay attention to itThe better our bodies feel, the happier and more productive we are.
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Take care of yourself as if youre the most awesome person youve ever met.
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Hang out with people who are living on purpose, who meet their challenges with a step aside, suckers attitude, who are dating super awesome people, making exactly the kind of money they want to be making (or working toward it) or taking the kinds of vacations they, and you, want to be taking, and youll not only see whats possible for you,
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In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.
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When you are consistently in a state of gratitude, and aware of all the awesomeness that already exists, it, among many other things, makes it much easier for you to believe that theres more awesomeness where that came from, and that this yet-to-be-manifested awesomeness is also available to you. Youve received awesomeness before, so of course, you can receive awesomeness again. This is how gratitude strengthens your faith. And having strong faith is a major key in transforming your life.
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maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, youll wake up one day and realize youre living the kind of life you used to be jealous
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Holding on to my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.
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Because so often when we say were unqualified for something, what were really saying is that were too scared to try it, not that we cant do it.
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Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.
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DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.
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What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.
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What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.
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YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BITCH
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You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.
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Making a big fat deal out of anything is absurd. It makes much more sense to go after life with a sense of, Why not? instead of a furrowed brow. One of the best things I ever did was make my motto I just wanna see what I can get away with. It takes all the pressure off, puts the punk rock attitude in, and reminds me that life is but a game.
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The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.
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You are powerful. You are loved. You are surrounded by miracles.
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There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.
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If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.
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you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.
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I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, WTF is my problem?! the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that youve been dragging around without even realizing
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We are so unbelievably blessed to have all the things we have, all the opportunities and ideas and people and tasks and interests and experiences and responsibilities - choosing to freak out about it all, rather than enjoying the living of our lives, is like throwing pearls before swine. Such a waste of such a glorious gift.
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Your job isnt to know the how, its to know the what and to be open to discovering, and receiving, the how.
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Even though theyre often doing it out of love and concern, having others smear their fear and worry all over you is the last thing you need when youre strengthening your superhero muscles to step out and take some risks, so I highly recommend keeping your mouth shut around people who are gonna bring you down. Instead, seek out those who are already totally kicking butt (or who are lifting up their foot to do so), or people who you know will be supportive, and confide in them. Because youll have your own internal freak show to deal with as you try to overcome the objections from your own BS.
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What you tell yourself on a daily basis is more powerful than you know.
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When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves.
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Theres something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while theyre in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder theyre called crabs.
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No matter what you say you want, if youve got an underlying subconscious belief that its going to cause you pain or isnt available to you, you either A) Wont let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but youll be rill fucked up about it. And then youll go off and lose it anyway.
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Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.
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Our greatest fears are the greatest waste of time.
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When you came screaming onto this planet you were truly a bundle of joy, a wide-eyed creature incapable of doing anything but being in the moment. You had no idea that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it. When you looked around, everything just was. There was nothing about your world that was scary or too expensive or so last year as far as you were concerned. If something came near your mouth, you stuck it in, if it came near your hand, you grabbed it. You were simply a human... being.
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All this is to say that its not your fault that youre fucked up. Its your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something thats been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When
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Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. Its about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right. Its about taking responsibility for your own happiness instead of pretending its in somebody elses hands. Its about owning your power by giving all your anger, resentment, and hurt the heave-ho.
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You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that its got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid.
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Every night before you go to bed, review your day and either write down or mentally note ten things you can be grateful for in your life. These can be everything from the beautiful flowers in your garden to the fact that your heart is beating to the hour-long visit from your persnickety neighbor that taught you to be happy that you dont have her life. Stopping and noticing throughout the day all the things that you can be grateful for is a great way to keep your frequency high at all times. So try and remember to do it all day long, but at the very least, make it part of your evening routine.
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When you live your life doing the things that turn you on, that youre good at, that bring you joy, that make you shove stuff in peoples faces and scream, check this out!!! you walk around so lit up that you shoot sunbeams out of yer eyeballs. Which automatically lights up the world around you. Which is precisely why you are here: to shine your big-ass ball of fire onto this world of ours. A world that literally depends upon light to survive. You
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Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.
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Lets review, shall we? 1. List off your old stories that youve gotten into the habit of thinking and saying. 2. Journal about the false rewards you get from them. 3. Feel into these false rewards, thank them for their help, and decide to let them go. 4. Take each false reward and write a new, powerful story to replace it with. 5. Repeat this new story, or affirmation, over and over and over until it becomes your truth. 6. Behold your awesome new life.
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Its just as easy to believe were awesome as it is to believe were giant sucking things.
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Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of leap and the net will appear. Faith is your best buddy when youre scared shitless.
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