Living Your Life with Love

Did your parents want you to grow up and do something different than you are doing today? Did someone scoff when you shared your dreams? No matter. It's your life. Love can give you the power of living your life, your way. When you focus on banishing negativity from your life - one step at a time - it will make all the difference.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Don't be like sheep, lost unless you have something to follow, or you become intoxicated by approval so that you start to believe your own rhetoric.

We need people for love and support, but we don't need them at the steering wheel of our lives. There comes a time in adulthood when only YOU and you alone are the navigator of your life.

But that doesn't mean we should be cruel to people, or isolate ourselves from society. It means taking part in the story of life knowing that we are the ones in the driving seat of our individual journey.

Get the weight off your shoulders

We are here for a reason and it's high time that we all start living that out. Your choices require no one's approval and there's no need to provide an explanation. There is only a requirement to act.

Have you been spending your life living out other people's dreams? You didn't do this on purpose, but it was a habit that developed and got embedded very, very deeply. If that's you, and you're carrying around extra weight like I've described, today is the day to drop it. ALL OF IT. It requires only a decision to be your real self and the courage to stand in that authenticity.

My hunch is that there are things you are holding onto in your life that simply are no longer worthy of your time. Maybe they never even were. It's just not a good use of your life to hang on. Think big, act big. Release what is not yours to carry. Don't be afraid to move on.

We as people need other people for love, support and encouragement, but only one set of hands can be at wheel to our lives! Give yourself permission to be the navigator of your life. Give yourself permission to "lighten up" and lose the weight of past mistakes and failures and the heaviness of a negative mindset. Because it is only when you lighten up that you will fly.

And once you're firmly in the pilot seat, you'll discover that it's the little things that matter. Those little acts. Little acts of kindness, little acts of appreciation - they send a powerful message to the universe and your subconscious. They create a tremendous amount of positive energy.

It's the little things that can turn your life around. These little things can be done everyday. They're simple. Yet powerful. And when you apply the little things you'll enjoy greater success, more happiness and achieve your goals.

Little acts of kindness go a long way. They go a long way in helping other people. They make them feel better. They also go a long way for you. Those little acts of kindness create a lot of positive energy.

Sure they make you feel good. But they also send a powerful message to your subconscious mind and inner powers.

You tell your subconscious that you're willing to help others. Your subconscious then brings you more people who will in turn help you.

So perform little acts of kindness everyday. Then track your progress and see what happens. Send the right messages to your subconscious and inner powers.

Get them working for you so they bring you the success you want and deserve, by appreciating the little things. Even the smallest act of kindness needs to be appreciated. Everyday someone does something kind, now appreciate it. These little acts of kindness can from a stranger, a friend, a husband, wife, child - anyone.

It could be a simple thank you, a hug, a smile or something bigger. Anything at all, but whatever it is, appreciate it.

The more you appreciate the little acts, the more good things you'll attract into your life. By appreciating you create more positive energy. You tell your subconscious mind and your inner powers that you enjoy the kindness you receive. That you appreciate those little things, and you also appreciate the big things.

Your subconscious and your inner powers bring you more things to appreciate, more kindness and more help that allows you to succeed and enjoy life. The more you appreciate those little acts, the more good things you attract into your life.

We all love being appreciated. So today take a moment to appreciate somebody, you'll make them feel good and you'll feel even better. Plus you'll start sending out some powerful positive energy that will only come back to you.

You'll also start this infectious cycle, where the more people you appreciate, the more appreciation goes around and the better everybody feels. All this creates more positive energy, which leads to more success, more joy and more positive situations in your life.

Appreciate your husband, wife, kids, family members, friends, colleagues, bosses, even the person at the coffee shop that serves your morning coffee. A little act of kindness goes a long way.

I want to say I really appreciate you taking the time to read my article. If you've read this much - it means you take changing your life seriously - and I really respect your courage and appreciate you taking a few minutes of your time to read this.

If you like, feel free to share it with others, they might appreciate it. When you appreciate others, you send out a tremendous amount of positive energy that comes back to you tenfold.

Put it to the test. Try it for the next few days and see how things go.

When you appreciate people your subconscious mind picks up on this positive energy and attracts more positive people and situations into your life.

Your subconscious mind says "Hey you're appreciating people, you're being positive, let's get you some more of this good stuff." That's when things really start to change.

We all need little acts of kindness. We all benefit from these little acts of kindness. Sometimes we get too consumed with our own thoughts we ignore the little positive acts that go unappreciated.

Take time to appreciate those around you - you'll brighten their day, feel a lot better and attract more positive situations. Send the right messages to your subconscious mind. Perform little acts of kindness. Appreciate the little things and the big things. Get your subconscious mind working for you and enjoy greater success as you achieve your goals.

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Now I have some words of wisdom to share with you today that I hope will make a positive impact on you and bring a smile to your face.

I think we all can agree on that we have limits, but quite often we meet, see or hear about those who move beyond them in their quest for success. I held myself back for a long time before I understood that I too had the means to move beyond my limits.

It is incredibly easy to just kick back and think of all the 'impossible' things or focus on stuff that in the big picture is actually unimportant.

So I have a few ideas that might help you to go beyond your limits. Please read and ponder and allow the small internal shifts to happen.

It what I call the padlock and keys to living your life with love.

The padlocks and keys to your life

1. Self limiting perspective: This belief is a form of attitude. Are you open to the idea that you were put here for a reason? Do you have anything in particular limiting you? It's important to try and look for any negative thought patterns you have - because these are often holding you back from reaching your potential. Once you can pinpoint them, you can then focus on freeing yourself of them and slowly but surely turning them around. An effective way I find to do this is that when a negative thought enters my mind, I automatically challenge it - sometimes this might be to think of the exact opposite to turn it into a positive, but sometimes it might just be to dismiss it. I then say it out a loud which really concretes it into my mind and makes it feel real.

2. Procrastination: Not doing anything about anything will eventually lead to stress, anxiety and other unnecessary things. Make a daily plan and stick to it, this will help enormously.
3. Lack of focus: Set your priorities in the beginning of each week, know them by having them in front of you every single day and most importantly, stick to your priorities. Work on one thing at a time, rather than trying to do a little bit of everything.
4. Say NO: Don't be afraid to say no to the things that might be distracting, unfulfilled or plain silly. Saying no can save you not only time, but also money.
5. Say YES: Well, there will be a time when you need to say yes, it pretty much goes hand in hand with saying no sometimes. Don't be afraid to make a decision.
6. Be honest: If for some reason you are not honest with yourself, you are probably holding yourself back. It's so important to be truthful to yourself and listen to your inner self. Being honest with yourself will also boost your self-esteem.
7. Be humble: The most important of all. I know so many successful people in all walks of life. What do they have in common? They are all incredibly humble human beings. This is one of my core values as a person and not only will you be looked upon with respect, being humble also cultivates loyalty, friendship and integrity.

So what is limiting you? It could be a handful of things or maybe just a few, either way, now is the time to start pushing towards your limit, go beyond it and discover your new self. You'll do that when you start casting off your burdens and focusing on what really matters - living your life with love.

Yours in love,

Love Maximises You

At an early age I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I loved to read and learn and to help people, and somehow I was going to find a way to make this my business. That set me on a journey of lifestyle design, and I am happy to say that I have been able to achieve my goal. There were a lot of success steps on this journey that I did naturally and that I stumbled upon but I want to give you a structured plan to help get you to your goals fast.

Your thinking literally determines your level of success in everything. Here's the good news: experts say this successful way of thinking is not something you're born with - it's something you develop. If you do have a flawed way of thinking that's holding you back, you can fix it.

Learning how to improve your thinking is more important than ever. We're living in the Information Age, where you're inundated with information - and you must be able to sift through that information, find what's important, and then maximise that information's value to bring success into your life.

There is a lot of important expert information that I will be sharing with you on how to improve your sex life, how to attract true love and how to better our lives - but if you don't improve your thinking, none of this will be much help!

This is why I have been focusing on articles focusing on the power and influence of thoughts in our lives.

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We need to discover that every stumbling block in our lives is a lesson. But it's more than just painful trial and error. There are short-cuts to better thinking you can use. Once you hear these short-cuts, you'll not only see more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively. You'll also never make most of the mistakes that plague lives when they succumb to faulty thinking.

1. First, I highly recommend keeping a journal. I've been keeping a journal to record my successes and failures for a few years now. It's how I think through everything, and challenge myself to be a better thinker.

   What to write in your journal: I'm a visual person so I use diagrams and mind-mapping to think through any new projects. I also use my journal to grade my performance on how I did during the week, outline and define goals, and stay the course when I feel like I'm in a rut.

2. Questions to get you started: Challenge yourself to answer the following questions in your journals: "What exactly do you want from your life? What's the absolute minimum necessary to have it? What's the fastest and easiest way to get it?"

   The last three questions sound deceptively simple, but they're incredibly important. Trust me when I say knowing the answers to these questions will help you reach success faster than any course or programme you can buy.

   Because if you knew exactly what you wanted - and the specific steps that would get you there - wouldn't you agree that you would have what you wanted by now? If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

   You must focus on the what before you can focus on the how to get there. You must be clear on exactly what you want, so you can map out the steps to get you to where you want to be.

So take a moment right now, and start writing down your goals for your life in general. Then start outlining what it would take to achieve those goals - and the quickest ways to make those goals a reality. Take your time and give your answers some thought.

Remember: Thinking can be your strategic competitive advantage. Don't waste it.

Don't waste your life. The days we have are finite, but the tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live. Don't handcuff yourself to a lack of focus, or worry needlessly about all of those negative things that come to define our very existence as we grow older.

The hollow refrain of negativity is a choke chain on your confidence and creativity - so stop bitchin' and get out of the kitchen! Go out into the world and find your dream, find your true love, find your true self.

Because it's all about possession and control, between your positive thoughts and the negative ones; imagine it as never ending battle of justice that always depends on the fair minded outnumbering the fools, bigots and cowards. You'll get justice in life when the positive thoughts outnumber the negative, and you realise that believing in goodness (and love) is its own reward.

Because if you don't, they will keep coming. You'll try to push them out of your head. You'll try to get rid of them in the wrong ways. You don't want to believe them.

But if you allow negative thoughts the run of your mind, they'll overtake you so strongly that they'll just spread even more. And before you know it you're feeling negative and
doubt you'll ever succeed. Then you give up and say: "what's the point?"

They're negative thoughts and negative beliefs. They destroy any chance for success. They don't help you and they just make you feel like there's no hope. These negative thoughts tell you that you can't, that you don't know how, that you're not good enough, that you'll never succeed at anything. At first you don't believe them. But they spread like weeds and eventually you believe them.

Then life gets worse, a lot worse.

Sure you want more. Yes you want a better life. You may even think that you deserve it. But then, just as you start to think maybe I can - those negative thoughts creep back in and force you to give up.

Well it doesn't have to be that way. You can turn things around.

Getting rid of negative thoughts is a top priority. No matter what you do, what you try, what books you read you won't create the success or changes you want until you get rid of those negative thoughts.

This is about becoming a mind terminator and trying to completely eliminate every single negative thought. You won't be able to get rid of all your negative thoughts. But you can get rid of the negative thoughts that don't allow you to succeed. You can take possession and control of your own mind, and keep the negative thoughts challenged and checked - because battling with them with help you grow stronger.

It is only YOU that can make you become weaker. Any thought that says you can't or don't know how needs to be changed or eliminated.

At first this won't be easy. Your mind will fight back. It will insist on keeping those negative thoughts. Then they'll get stronger.

That's because these thoughts and beliefs are planted in your subconscious mind. You can't just reach in and pluck them out (like you do with weeds).

Instead, you have to re-direct the subconscious. Give it new information. Give it new thoughts and beliefs to follow.

So take a gentle approach and every time you catch yourself having a negative thought change it. Then give it some support, like why you can instead of why you can't.

For example: if you want to make more money but you get a thought that says: "I can't make more money. I don't know how." Replace those thoughts with something like: "I do know how to make more money, and I can make more money."

Next give yourself reasons why you can make more money, or why you can achieve what you want.

At first you probably won't come up with answers. If that happens - think back to when you earned your first pay cheque. If you've ever earned a single penny then you know how to make money.

If you want to meet the right person then think back to when you first met someone you were interested in or your first relationship.

This is how you give your subconscious mind new directions. When you keep giving yourself reasons you start to believe.

First you start to believe that maybe you can. Then that belief gets stronger. And when you believe without a doubt that you can that's when real changes happen - quickly.

Get an action list going if it helps:

1. Track your thoughts.
2. Get rid of the negative thoughts.
3. Create new positive thoughts.
4. Give yourself reasons to succeed.
5. Believe in yourself.
6. Continue to direct your subconscious and your inner powers.
7. Give them new beliefs to follow today.

Keep in mind that your thoughts and beliefs create your life. What ever you think and believe you will see in your life. Your subconscious and your inner powers follow your thoughts and beliefs as instructions. They bring you exactly what you think and believe.

When you think and believe that it's difficult to make money then you will always get into situations that make it difficult to make money.

If you think and believe that it's hard to meet the right person then you will always have a hard time meeting the right person.

So get rid of the negative thoughts and beliefs. Eliminate them. Replace the negative thoughts and beliefs with positive thoughts and beliefs. Tell your subconscious and your inner powers to bring you what you want so that you enjoy your life and achieve the success you want today.

You can achieve your goals. You can live the life you want. You can make more money. You can meet the right person. You can enjoy better health. You can be free do what you want when you want.

You are a powerful person. More powerful than you realise. You can achieve anything you want when you direct your subconscious mind and your inner powers. Start doing that today. Tell your subconscious mind and your inner powers exactly what you want so that you get what you want.

And if you can break down the walls that negativity, loss and failure have built up, you can allow this feeling to spread throughout your life until it becomes a constant.

You will quickly discover that when you start becoming more positive, and maximising love in your life, the love maximises you to heights you had always dreamed would never become you reality.

Yours in love,

Love Your Imagination

Your wealth is your thoughts. If your thoughts are rich, you will be. When you free your imagination, you set yourself free. Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere.

Always imagine what you have to do as easy, and it will become so. Most people don't think they have much of an imagination, which is a shame because your imagination really can be the key to your wealth, health, and happiness.

Unfortunately, too many people see their imagination as something for children and completely uncontrollable where nothing could be further from the truth. Imagination has no age, and is as enduring and timeless as dreaming and laughter. Your imagination is a highly potent force, and you can train your subconscious to harness its power.

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There are three words you can literally live by: "Perception is reality." Perception is a core function of your imagination, i.e. what you perceive to be true is effectively what you imagined to be true, and because you imagine it to be so, it becomes your reality. Hence the expression: "The World is a mirror".

Clearly, if you see a person walking towards you now that is not perception, but rather reality - you didn't imagine the event - it happened. But of course, life is full of far more complex situations, and that's where our perception comes in. If that person walking towards you said something in a certain way, it's about how you perceive, or imagine, their intentions, and you'll act according to how you perceive the situation. And thus, whether we like it or not, we make important, often life-changing decisions based on our imagination.

Like anything in life - the internet, technology, business, relationships, love and life itself, is what we make of it. Technology is not the evil or the cure, it is how we use it. Marriage can be a beautiful union of two souls, but it can also be a hot, bubbling chlorinated sea of lies, betrayals and addictions!

So, before you let your imagination get away with you - I've just proved a point. Everyone has an imagination!

We were ALL born with an imagination. Remember those pictures you drew as a kid? What about those crazy worlds you made out of modelling clay? It's what your social environment around you did to your imagination on the road to where you are now that's the problem.

Think about it. Your writing materials in kindergarten were blank paper and a box of crayons with colours you never knew existed. By the time you graduated high school your writing materials consisted of a black ball point pen and ruled paper with margins. That's indicative, don't you think? But thankfully, the damage is reversible.

It's been consistently scientifically proven that ALL children are far more creative than adults, and so we can learn a lot from kids. A child has an open-mind, the breeding ground for creative thought.

How open is your mind to new suggestions? To exploring outside your comfort zones? Can you even imagine yourself doing it? Name a success story, big or small, and you'll see a person's imagination behind it. The ability to think creatively and correctly perceive situations is the difference between wealth and poverty.

If a person perceives themselves as having a cap on their earning potential, or that they are and always will be poor, that PERCEPTION becomes reality. They will think and act like a poor person and hence watch opportunity after opportunity pass them by. Others will perceive them the same way and not invite them on potentially profitable ventures, and so the cycle continues.

A cycle YOU can break out of and control with your imagination.

Conversely, another person may well be poor in reality, but because they perceive the situation and themselves in a different way, an entirely different reality evolves. Think about all the wealthy people who became broke and then made it all again. Were they not poor at the low point and no different to the individual in our first example?

And in addition to how you perceive yourself and your situation, you can go one better and use your imagination as the most powerful wealth-creating weapon on the planet. I promise you, all your imagination needs is a specific task you give it and suddenly it goes to work all by itself. The creative mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending on the goals which you yourself set for it.

That's not mystical fluff. That's science.

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In a San Francisco study, Dr. Harry Grayson and Dr. Leonard Olinger took 45 men hospitalised as neuropsychiatric. "The patients were first given the usual personality test. Then they were asked flatly to take the test a second time and answer the questions as they would if they were 'a typical, well-adjusted person on the outside'. Seventy-five percent of them turned in improved test performances and some of the changes for the better were dramatic, the psychologists reported."

Why? Because those people imagined themselves as sane, and so became as such.

Between your ears is the most powerful computer in the world, but it's a double-edged sword that humans have used to either build cathedrals or concentration camps, based on their PERCEPTIONS at the time.

Why do markets fall and rise? Why are there economic booms and slumps? Quite simply, because of the human emotions of fear and greed. This much is a well-documented and acknowledged fact the world over. That is to say, market values are determined by how we PERCEIVE them to be.

If our valuations of markets were correct (and were therefore reality rather than perception), markets and economies would just rise steadily without booms and slumps. It's the excess of both undervaluation and over-valuation (fear and greed) which causes that - the result of human imagination.

I'm a humanist, in that I look for the fine and noble in every human being, because we have the potential if you look deeply enough.

You have that choice today. You have the control lever to this computer in your head, and you can swing it towards a personal hell or personal heaven. You always have a choice.

Yours in love,

Love Whatever the Weather

We in the UK will tell you that there is nothing more British than talking about the weather. And the rain-lashed Jubilee weekend provoked a torrent of weather talk. But what do you do when you find yourself under the weather?

Sometimes, the bad weather we experience in our lives can make us want to shut ourselves away and hide in our homes. I know how that feels, and I know many of us are stuck, struggling to make the right choices in our life. And life is all about choices.

You're scared to make the right choices because they're hard. They will force you to get outside of your comfort zone and finally start making progress in your life. But there is no shame in fear. In order to be brave, you must first start by being afraid, for true courage lies in the overcoming of fear, not in its absence. And when you defeat your fears, then you feel you can accomplish anything you put your mind to - that's why you should always be brave enough to face your fears.

So choose to be brave. If you have a dream, and want something better in your life, then the time is now.

Don't fret about your fears. For example, Warren Buffett seems to understand this - he doesn't have the fear of losing his wealth. In fact, he's famous for still living in a house he bought 50 years ago for $31,500. He enjoys his wealth, but he doesn't fret over it. He makes better financial decisions because he doesn't let the fear of loss control him.

You may be thinking, "That's fine for you to say. He is mega rich. He can afford to lose money."

But that's exactly the point. Because he is not afraid to be poor, he doesn't make foolish mistakes born out of irrational fear. The most important secret of wealth preservation is to make peace with your fear of becoming poor. Likewise, the most important secret of success is to make peace with your fear of failure.

My message today is you are your own worst enemy. Your negative actions and your mindset are stealing your time, potential, stealing away what you should be doing everyday to make your life worth living NOW. You better get your mind right. You better learn how to focus because before you know it, your life will be over.

Your very hopes and dreams are being stolen from you by your own lack of urgency and laziness. No more excuses. No more hesitation. Today you get the law of attraction working for you. Today you start attracting what you want when you want.

When you have this powerful law working for you, life gets easier, you succeed and achieve your goals, and you get what you want, not what you don't want. If you're not getting what you want then you don't have this powerful law working for you.

Instead, you have it working against you.

Now, that is something to be afraid of - be very, very afraid. Because the law of attraction is always at work. Always working with your subconscious and creating your life. But if you're not careful, if you don't do the right things the law will work against you.

You'll end up creating and attracting more of what you don't want.

If you're not enjoying the success you want, the wealth you want, the relationships you want, or if you're just not getting what you want in life, then the law of attraction is working against you. It's not creating what you want. It's creating what you don't want.

The law of attraction follows a simple rule: What you think and believe is what you get. Change what you think and believe you change your reality. Simple, right?

But you it may not be easy to change your thoughts and beliefs, especially if you don't know how. To attract what you want and to properly work with the universe you need to change or shift your energy.

Everything in this world is made up of energy including us. Other people pick up on your energy. If it's positive you'll attract positive people into your life. If you have negative energy, you'll always attract negative people and negative situations.

If you find that you're getting exactly what you don't want or if you're not getting what you want then you're simply sending out the wrong energy. You'll only attract what matches your energy. Negative energy attracts negative situations. Positive energy attracts positive situations. It's really that simple.

So if you're not getting what you want, you're sending out the wrong energy. Change your energy and you'll get what you want. Your energy is based on your thoughts and beliefs.

Your subconscious mind picks up on your thoughts and beliefs and goes out and creates situations that correspond to your thoughts and beliefs.

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Other people pick up your energy on a subconscious level. They're not consciously aware of your energy but they just develop a feeling about you based on your energy. If you have negative energy you'll attract negative people and negative situations. At the same time you'll push away positive people and positive situations. This goes against everything you need to do to create a positive and successful life.

This is how the law of attraction works. It's tied to the beliefs that your subconscious simply follows, and attract the people, situations and opportunities that mirror your beliefs. If you constantly think of the worst, if you find that you're negative, if you don't believe that you can ever achieve anything, if you constantly complain, if you always see the worst in situations, if you regularly put others down, if you're just a negative person you will develop negative energy and in the end you'll only attract more negative situations into your life.

In the end your negative energy makes your life miserable and it becomes difficult to achieve your goals and create the changes that you want. At the same time you push away positive people and positive situations. So by being negative or by developing negative energy things will continue to get worse.

Being negative is really a no win situation and you should do everything that you can to stop being negative and eliminate any negative thoughts and energy that you have. How do you turn things around? Change the way you see things and begin eliminating the negative thoughts and negative beliefs.

This will help change your energy so that you begin attracting what you want. Start directing your subconscious mind to bring positive situations and people into your life now.

To change your energy and get the law of attraction working for you focus on positive situations, understand that things will work out, look for solutions instead of complaining, be more understanding instead of getting angry, try to look at things from a different perspective, embrace changes and look for opportunities instead of focusing on the problems and no longer believing that the worst will happen.

As you continually change the way you think and see things you'll begin to naturally attract more positive situations into your life. You'll have the law of attraction working for you.

Start changing how you think. Create positive thoughts and positive beliefs. Focus on finding solutions and you'll begin attracting more positive situations into your life.

Improve and grow

It is tempting for us - myself included - to remain in our comfort zones. But that is not where we grow, improve, and make the changes necessary to dramatically move ahead. So my challenge to you is to do the opposite. Look at what you are doing to stay in your comfort zone and think, "What is the opposite action of my instinct? And would this opposite action be the better solution?"

You'll discover that by challenging your negative thoughts and being at peace with your fears, you can better your life.

One simple ritual you can use to better your life, is to remember that increased happiness and less stress come from enjoying the present. Increase your ability to be present on daily basis in ALL situations. Focus on the present. Wherever you are, be there. Living in the present moment is about allowing you to enjoy every minute you have on this Earth.

It was only yesterday my twin flame was telling me that he felt stressed about all these little insignificant things that have been scooping up his time and energy lately, so I told him the following:

What we think and worry about is always to do with something that's already happened, or something that could happen in the future. Both of these things are out of our control. We cannot change what has already occurred, nor can we control the events that are inevitably going to occur in the future. So why waste time and energy on something completely out of your control?

Instead live in the present moment. Take a breath right now, look around and observe everything that is around you and see the beauty that exists in it.

This is where you are right now - enjoy it, embrace it, and accept it.

When you give your focus and energy to this very moment, you will find a sense of peace within. Right now in the present moment, you can achieve an awareness that can forge a stillness where there are no worries or concerns - there is just right now.

I explained in my post "The Guiding Power of Love" that you need to junk your bad thoughts and get positive, that's what you are aiming to do with the following two step brain dump transition.

How to turn your brain off and relax

Here's what you'll need to do to achieve this. It's a simple solution that takes little more than five minutes and requires nothing more than a blank piece of a paper and a pen. You're going to do an end of day brain dump, and it's an effective activity to do right after you've made your short list of priority tasks to accomplish the next day. It's also something that you can and should do after any activity that gives you a lot of good ideas, like exercising or having a shower. And it's a quick task that you should do before any important thinking when you need a clear mind.

You'll get the odd idea here and there, but you'll be much better at being present where you are with this approach. Of course, don't feel bad if you can't completely turn off your brain. It happens to the best of us, literally. If it were easy to turn off your brain and to never be excited about your projects, that would be an even worse scenario.

Let's work through a specific example. Recently, a friend asked the following question. "Mickie, what do you do to 'turn your brain off' after a day of stressful work? Even when I'm supposedly relaxing, ideas are running through my head and I seem to not shut down. In other words, I can't seem to find my 'off' button."

I replied by explaining the brain dump solution. Grabbing a grab a blank piece of paper (or opening a blank word document) and writing down everything going through your head. will help clear your mind. Write fast and furious. Dump it all out.

Now there's one other easy step I recommend you take in order to make the transition from work to play, particularly if you work at home like my friend does.

Complete a mindset shift ritual - perhaps pouring yourself a cold glass of unsweetened iced tea - that signals "end of the work day". The brain dump plus the ritual will give you a relaxed mind that can best enjoy family time or to deal with the stress of a busy household and the myriad of activities, car rides, and conflicts that will need to be solved at home. You'll be a much more effective parent and/or partner if you can leave work at the office, even if you work at home.

But more importantly, this ritual can help you dump your negative thoughts any time of the day, not just to relax after a hard day at work. It's also a good way to face your fears. Write them down. Dump them on the paper. Then screw it up into a ball and throw it away. Or erase the document and delete it.

This isn't simply about erasing the fears, but acknowledging them, facing them and knowing that in dealing with them they are actually helping you grow into a better, stronger version of the only thing that can really limit your life - not your fears, but you.

Yours in love,