Change Your Life Friday

2021 Restart, Reset, & Relaunch

10. Evolution

Posted on March 8, 2013 by changeyourlifefriday

“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” – Teilhard De Chardin

Over the last five years I have been conscious of my ever growing life, and specifically I have been an active member in my own personal evolution. I am fairly certain this process has been going on my entire life, but I also humbly acknowledge I have not always been a participant in the development.

Today I get to be engaged in my personal growth. My greatest growth has come in two forms. First when I realize something in my life that is an internal block to Love, and in response to this epiphany work to dissolve that block. This usually occurs when some “crisis” occurs. It might look like an end of a relationship or perhaps a financial problem. The other is when I actively find situations that take me out of my comfort zone, and makes me aggressively do some deep soul searching. One personal example is a meditation retreat I attended.

Inadvertently this week’s topic has elements of the last 3 weeks of CYLFriday. The fact is it takes a great deal of self-love and persistence to evolve in breaking down internal barriers, and seeking barriers that I may not be aware of. The process has been such a wonderful adventure I now find it important to pass it on to others. If I am able to take action to be a better me this is the best type of leadership I can give my fellow wonderer on this path called Life.

Affirmation: I draw from the sacred well of life to bring in the Love that helps me to evolve to a new outlook and new me.

Call to Action: You are an ever-evolving, ever-unfolding expression of love and life. Take some time to see where this growth has taken place recently, truly take the time to honor that growth and share it with the people around you. I know the best teachers that I have ever had in my life are the ones that knew and lived their passions. You are one of those teachers, head forth and find your students!

7. I Love Myself

Posted on February 15, 2013 by changeyourlifefriday

“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself.” –Steve Maraboli

Once a year our culture is reminded to put forth some effort in an expression of love to the people we care about with gifts, kind words and amazing gestures. I hope that all of our community was able to find someone else to share their love with, whether it was a friend or a lover, a parent or a child, maybe even a stranger. If you had this chance and were graced with the joy of another I think you got it right. The process of bringing the love we have within to the physical plane can quickly lift the giver and the receiver up in an instant.

That brings us to today; the day after all of the Valentines giving is gone. This seems to me to be the perfect time to give a little love back to ourselves. Actually it may be better served today to give yourself a lot of Love. I have often heard throughout my lifetime that is wrong to pat ourselves on the back or to put ourselves first. What I know today is that if I am not right with myself and I do not love the me that I see, I will not be able to love you or anyone else fully and completely.

So on this day after Valentines, I am going to spend some time reminding myself of all the good things that I do and all the good that I am. It is very easy to put ourselves down and most of us do it very often. Just as we shed those feelings about our partners yesterday let us shed those feelings about ourselves today.

Affirmation: I love who I am in this moment, exactly as I am, as I really am.

Call to Action: Make it a point to give yourself some love today. Write a note to yourself about how much you love those things that make you you. Put it somewhere that you can see it throughout the day as a reminder. Take this as a chance to woo yourself, you deserve it, and who knows you better than you?

6. Preparation

Posted on February 8, 2013 by changeyourlifefriday

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” -Abraham Lincoln

Over the last 24 hours it seems every news break I heard on the radio was about a gigantic snow storm that is supposed to hit the East Coast today. The first half of each report talks about the magnitude of how powerful this force of nature could be and the second half of the stories seem to detail how everyone is preparing for the worst case scenario. I sure hope that everyone who is touched by this storm is safe and protected thanks to the ability for science to predict such a massive event, without such a warning some storms seem to be so devastating mostly due to a lack of preparation.

Throughout life it seems that most of the biggest storms that we face in our lives are ones that come out of nowhere as well. They deal out extreme pain due to a lack of preparation on how to cleanup the aftermath. When we lose friends or relationships, jobs or dreams, the most painful ones arrive without a chance to see them coming. It is hard to forecast anything in life since so much that goes happens, some would say all of it, is outside of our immediate control. What we do have control over is the how prepared we are to cope with the inevitable storms that come through.

When life is going well and everything seems to be just the way it is supposed to be I often find myself pulling back on the time that I spend trying to grow. I find myself getting lazy in relationships and responsibilities then seemingly out of the blue something painful comes my way and I am running around trying to pull everything back together. The truth is that the out of the blue moments come when I let up on the things that keep me connected to the universe and the people about it. I know today that storms can come at any time and if I am not doing something each day to grow I will find myself overwhelmed by the challenges that life has to offer me. I choose to grow today, to put in the time to get a bit better, understand a little more and prepare for the changes that life is bringing me.

Affirmation: I am working on myself today to be the best I can be tomorrow.

Call To Action: No matter what our circumstances are, today is the perfect day to grow. Find a place in your life where the leavey is a bit weak and do what you can to fortify it. Please share your experiences with us below.