�Enlightenment�

Happy New Year everyone! We recovered from our gluttonous feast on New Years Eve as we attempted to challenge EVERY artery with a true 3-course fondue fest of cheese, oil and chocolate. I have discovered this to be one of… read more

It doesn’t matter how scared you are, you can move through it. It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks, it doesn’t matter what anybody does. What matters is that you were living your most significant, powerful truth. What matter is that you are following your path.

Even more than that, in doing so, you get to relinquish responsibility for those things that happen outside of you that have a tendency to impact your life or that can even have a tendency to control you.

Powerfully making the that decision, to relinquish responsibility means that when you’re facing obstacles you can choose to access happiness no matter what comes at you from the outside world.

Here’s the bottom line about having a good life. You have to do the work. You must be willing to do the work. Nobody’s going to give you a magic pill to swallow to dissolve all your worries. You see, we all know that. But yet, if someone is waiting for that lottery ticket that’s gonna solve everything, and erase the distraction of fear and worry, etc., well, it’s just not going to show up. There’s no way around it: We have to make choices, we have to make decisions that will begin to evolve our life, and move things forward.

There is a foundation to making this thread of decisions work in our lives – it is knowing the difference between the things that we can control and the things that we can’t. Even in the moment I was diagnosed with cancer, I could 100% control who I was choosing to be. I could decide how to react to the doctor’s words, “I don’t know if you’re going to live.”

It’s hard enough to even hear our truth with all of the constant noise and chaos around us – but to actually follow it, when life throws us curve balls, is the ultimate test of our convictions. When life gets us down, its time to re-connect, re-engage, and re-invigorate ourselves.

Here are 10 simple ways to maintain your faith and to follow your truth when you hit speed bumps and road blocks along the path to happiness and fulfillment.

It’s easy to personalize the insecurities, fears, and otherwise outward projections of others, perceiving them to be our own. To feel like we’re on a teetering tower. We try to stay open to the world around us, yet we open ourselves to everyone else’s dysfunction. We attempt to walk as vessels in the mind and image of God, available and of service to those around us. But unfortunately, we often tend to absorb petty strife and confusion, anger and frustration, and instead of focusing on our own path, we end up taking responsibility for everybody else’s.