Mission Impossible
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Do you feel like every time you turn around, you are facing mission impossible? Nothing you do seems to work out the way you want it. You appear to be running in circles and you keep having the same situations come up in your life. Does that sound like you? Maybe the proverbial “lit fuse” is you. Perhaps you have become your worst own enemy.
Whether you realize it or not, your actions, behaviors and perception may be hindering your progress in life. When your daily routine becomes mission impossible, you need to rethink and recreate your current lifestyle. “But I don’t do anything differently than other people,” you say? Well, let’s take a look at where you are and the issues you are encountering:
- Is your loved one making you feel miserable?
- Do you see yourself in a dead-end job?
- Are you a hoarder, holding onto way too much clutter in your home?
- Are you afraid to move forward with your goals?
- Are you still trying to live in the past?
- Have you lost track of who you are?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you might just be creating your own mission impossible in life. In order to become whole and happy, you must focus on what is attainable and what makes you feel truly alive. If your relationships with work, your significant other, your health or your friendships are putting a strain on your emotional, mental or physical wellbeing then it is time to reshape your perception on what is working and what is not. If you, yourself, are experiencing emotional barriers that prevent you from being happy and healthy, then you must discover what those emotional blockages are so that you can face them, release them and head them off at the pass.
Your missions in life do not have to become fearful and tedious. Only you have the innate control to overcome any misconceptions or trepidation that you may have in achieving success and true happiness. There is an old affirmation that many individuals use to help maneuver life’s sometimes murky trails:
“Please grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.”
Should you ever feel like your life has taken you on seemingly impossible missions, I want you to stop whatever it is you are doing and take a long, deep breath. Say the affirmation above and lose yourself to the Universal flow of energy. All things will be revealed to you when you are ready to receive them. Once you have, your impossible mission will transform into the blessings and opportunities that you have been missing all along.
Joan Marie – your Intuition Girl
© Big Mission Impossible – 2013
By Joan Marie the Gift, Intuition Girl
Season of Giving
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Every year around the holidays, a transformation takes place at the local retailers and grocery stores. As you walk down the aisles, Christmas carols echo (through the sound system) and shoppers are bundled up in their winter attire. Sometimes, even cashiers get into the holiday spirit, dawning their red and white St. Nicholas caps. In some stores, you might see the lit Menorah or the colors of Kwanzaa.
American author, H. Jackson Brown, Jr. once said, “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” I believe that is true during the season of giving. We often go overboard, spending more than we normally do to buy the perfect gift. It is during this time when stores hold fierce competitive sales to attract customers; sometimes offering buy one-get one free specials or generous half-off sales. Of course the early bird sales promise rock-bottom deals. While holiday sales are relatively wallet-pleasing, you discover that the season of goodwill and giving go right out the window when customers have camped out all night to get inside for the early bird offers. Last year, for example, a store employee was trampled to death. In some instances, you hear how fights have broken out among random customers over a child’s toy. What on earth possesses people, in their desire to please others, to go to such extremes?
Brown understood that the love for others is a selfless act of generosity. How do we then, as human beings, behave like we have no sense in our quest to impress? The truth of the matter is that the holidays bring out the best and worst in people. While you may truly want to make your significant others happy, one must ask the question, “What is the reason for the season?” It is easy to get caught up in the spirit of things. But you must determine if you are acting selflessly or selfishly.
What makes the holiday season so extraordinary is that there is, whether a believer or not, a mystical and magical feeling of love in the air. Friends are friendlier, children are extra well-behaved, and neighbors are more neighborly. When you have a special someone in your life, you do everything in your power to make that special person (or people) happy. Now imagine if you could take that same feeling of love and generosity and apply it in your daily living? When you give yourself, selflessly, you don’t lose your wits because someone beats you to the head of the line. Instead, you are too eager to help those around you and you don’t think about who gets what first. The season of giving is a humbling yet gratifying feeling. Give 100 percent of yourself 100 percent of the time and you will find that more positive things will come back to you. This is just one way the Universe thanks you for being so giving and warm. During this holiday season, I want you to focus on the brilliant light inside you. Concentrate on the beauty and love in which you were created. Translate this beauty and love into the compassionate and caring person you are intended to be. When you do, a whole new world of opportunity will be opened by you and for you.
Joan Marie – your Intuition Girl
© Season of Giving – 2012
By Joan Marie the Gift, Intuition Girl
Commitments: 5 reasons they are important to you
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Have you ever overextended yourself by making promises you could not keep? Or maybe you have decided to no longer volunteer because you were unable to follow through on your commitments. If this sounds familiar to you, then you must realize that you cannot continue on this path. When others start seeing that you are not capable of following through on your commitments, it puts you in a precarious position. Now not only are you kicking yourself for not achieving certain tasks or goals you’ve set for yourself, others will begin to wonder if you are really serious enough to keep and follow through on anything.
Here are five reasons why commitments are important to you:
1. Honor Thyself
If you make a commitment – whether it is to yourself or to another, honor yourself by carrying out what it is you have promised. This behavior will only lead to greater promise for yourself and your life. The more you accomplish, the better you feel about yourself and ultimately, the closer you become to fulfilling your own destiny.
2. Get Satisfaction
Think back to a time when you were a little boy or girl. Do you ever recall wanting to climb to the top of the monkey bars or perhaps it was acing your math test or possibly it was just learning how to skip rope? Once you accomplished it, you automatically felt a great sense of satisfaction and self-pride. It is the same thing with commitments. When you keep them and you accomplish them, you feel a great sense of pride and self worth.
3. Show ‘em what you got!
Demonstrating your ability to follow through on commitments does more than just honor and satisfy you, it shows others your dedication and willingness to go the extra mile. In essence, it reinforces your value. It gives those around you the motivation to do more themselves, and it demonstrates to higher ups how accountable and trustworthy you are.
4. Thanks for the Memories
The nice part about accomplishing the tasks you set out to do is that when you reflect on your life, you can sit back and know that some of your most priceless memories are those you created yourself. In all honesty, who wants to be known as the person who never finished the job? It’s a positive feeling being able to look back and know that you kept your commitments and put your life on track to success.
5. Success!
Most importantly, sticking to and completing your obligations will lead you to success. Some tasks may be more challenging than others, but when you set your mind to reaching the end goal, you discover that all the sweat, blood and tears were worth the effort. Yes, anything is possible when you realize the essential role you play in making good on the commitments you made to yourself and to those around you. Why not choose to stick to your commitments? Choose success because it is your greatest joy!
Are you interested in becoming your own Master Intuitive? Joan Marie has an upcoming 5-Month Intuitive Life Coaching Program beginning January 16, 2013. Call the office (941) – 954-9001 to speak with Joan Marie to see if this certification program is right for you!
When Darkness Falls
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When you were little, were you afraid of the dark? It is okay to admit you were. Many of us have had fears about something we could not see, or we imagined to be real. Hallows Eve brings back memories of witches brew, candied apples, ghosts and ghouls, and everything in between. But for some of us, there are real fears of the unknown – fears from past trauma, fears of isolation, fears about loneliness and even fears about guilt. All too often, we would rather live with those constant fears than face them head on.
It is tough trying to wade through those murky waters. It is much easier just to forget what has made us so fearful and continue to live in those confines. We become complacent in fact, knowing that we can blame something or someone for the life choices we have made. But what happens when it becomes habitual? What I mean by that is what if you continue to repeat the same behavior and the same reactions time and time again – each time, with a worse outcome? Do you always blame that past event, situation or person for the choices you continue to make? More often than not, you probably are. It is actually quite convenient to say, “If it weren’t for so and so, I wouldn’t be in this situation.” Imagine however, if you really had to accept your own responsibility in what is happening in your life. Oh no, the dreaded, “I goofed up. I made a mistake.” The consequence of that is your acceptance to be responsible for the action or inaction in your life. The ultimate outcome is a learning experience in which you can absolve yourself by forgiving yourself and then move forward. Once you do, you are ready to go beyond those confines and understand what it is you need to do the next time to successfully overcome similar situations.
No more “boos” or demons in your life! From this day forward, I want you to take a proactive lead in your life to forgive your fears. Rise above your complacency and understand that you are making a full and conscious choice to take control of your life and the life decisions you will make. Remember, no one or nothing can make you do the things that you do, or feel the way you feel. The next time darkness falls, know that you will not be alone in the familiar black cloud of uncertainty. God is always with you and s/he has got your back.
Until we speak again, I am
Joan Marie, your Intuition Girl
Joan Marie – your Intuition Girl
© When Darkness Falls – 2012
By Joan Marie the Gift, Intuition Girl
Are you interested in becoming your own Master Intuitive? Joan Marie has an upcoming 5-Month Intuitive Life Coaching Program beginning January 16, 2013. Call the office (941) – 954-9001 to speak with Joan Marie to see if this program is right for you!
What you create, you become
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In the Ghetto is a 20th Century hit song made famous by King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. If you have not heard it, I encourage you to listen to it. It is a beautiful song but it is also a very tragic one. As you listen to its lyrics, you discover a cruel cycle of dismal circumstances. It tells a story about an impoverished mother giving birth to a baby boy in the ghetto of Chicago. As the ballad begins, the infant’s mother cries as she is already downtrodden and “if there’s one thing that she don’t need, it’s another hungry mouth to feed”. The stage has already been set for failure because the mother is riddled with lack – both financially and emotionally. Automatically, it is assumed that because of these conditions, this young infant will one day grow to be an angry young man. The tragedy is not so much that it actually transpires, but ultimately that the self-fulfilling prophecy leads to a young man’s demise. This is part of the Pygmalion Effect.
In society, people are often stereotyped by others – especially in relationship to social class and education (or rather lack thereof). James Rhem, Ph.D., has said, “How we believe the world is and what we honestly think it can become have powerful effects on how things will turn out.” Ability can and does play a role in what we achieve in life, but in the end, perception and confidence in realizing these achievements are the most critical factors. That is why I encourage you to focus on your blessings and bounty not your inadequacies or lack. If you believe you are unable to be successful in life, then in reality that is what you will experience; your thoughts and words will become a self-prophecy.
As the title suggests, what you create, you become. The truth of the matter is that your belief system – the psychological and emotional kind which adhere to your belief in self and how far you will be able to go in life is the deciding force that will enable you to succeed. For instance, if you tell a child that she can do anything she wants if she sets her mind to it, you equip her with a powerful mindset to realize her potentiality. If you tell that same child she will never amount to anything, you eventually destroy her spirit and the willpower to create success and happiness. A campaign slogan used by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) in 1972, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” has helped empower over 400,000 minority students to graduate college. The UNCF further reiterated that people have the capacity to do amazing things, but without an education they will never have the opportunity. It is a powerful belief system – knowing that when you empower others (and self) to create and achieve wondrous things, that all things are indeed possible.
Today, I want you to create what you want to become—stop holding onto negative statements or teachings that have told you otherwise. You are a powerful and an emotionally intelligent being. You have the mind-power to create and accomplish extraordinary things in your life if and when you set your mind to it. If you have been thinking about going back to school and keep putting it off – why? If you want to start your own business but do not believe you can be successful – why? No matter your age or circumstance, I encourage you to pursue your dreams. Nurture the seeds of your mind, heart and soul and blossom into the wondrous gift that you are. No man, no situation, no economic factor, no deed, and no thought can ever prevent you from achieving your life dreams. The miracle you have been searching for is you.
Joan Marie – your Intuition Girl
© What you create, you become – 2012
By Joan Marie the Gift, Intuition Girl
Are you interested in becoming your own Master Intuitive? Joan Marie has an upcoming 5-Month Intuitive Life Coaching Program beginning January 16, 2013. Call the office (941) – 954-9001 to speak with Joan Marie to see if this program is right for you!
