What Expectations Do You Have for Yourself?

When setting a schedule for the day or long-term goals for the next five years, it's important to assess the expectations you have for yourself. Consider if your thoughts, feelings, or proposed actions are positive, negative, or neutral. Through conscious and holistic self-awareness, you can learn how to actively engage yourself in the co-creation and manifestation process. When functioning from a place of negativity, pessimism, or self-destructive energy, the results that follow may not be what's for your highest and best good. However, when you affirm positive outcomes, feel joy in the work you do, and make healthy decisions, the product is more likely to be rewarding and beneficial. The expectations you set, even in casual sentences like, "This black cloud keeps following me," can be self-fulfilling. Instead of feeling a sense of struggle, regain control by first shifting your thoughts to an "in the flow" mentality. The initial changes may be challenging because you have to own responsibility and choose differently than what you've been doing, but ultimately, positive expectations can create positive results.

I start my day with a positive frame of mind, healthy emotional state, and affirmative action. I know it is my choice to live from a sense of struggle or sense of peace. I choose peace! I happily allow the day to unfold because I trust in the energetic flow of the universe. My intentions remain focused on good.

How to Do a Life Review

When you are ready and willing to heal your life, one of the first steps is to perform a life review or assessment of your current situation. Oftentimes, it is difficult to analyze your experiences, thoughts, feelings, and actions without having an biased opinion. As you grow in self-awareness, you can become your own internal checks and balances mechanism to keep your life flowing well. But until then, you need to learn to rely on your recurrent thoughts, feelings, and actions as well as factual evidence with as much outside-of-the-box perspective as you can. Take one hour and address each of your life aspects - health, career, finances, romance, and relationships with family. Decide what is out of balance with respect to each area. For example, in health, do you have high cholesterol? In career, are you motivated by passion or just by getting a paycheck? In romance, do you and your partner treat each other well? In family relationships, are you on non-speaking terms with someone? Life reviews at least give you insight into what is not working right or serving your higher purpose. From there, you can tackle your priority areas and start healing your life for the better.

I am ready to heal my life. I am capable of determining what no longer serves my best good. I deserve good in life, and I am responsible for creating it. I am empowered and function from a hero consciousness. I am not a victim. I choose confidence, courage, and personal power!

Are You Using Your Power of Choice Wisely?

Each day you are presented with the ability to choose hundreds of thoughts, feelings, and actions. Along with the final decisions you make regarding each of those you would have bypassed several thousand other options. Consider the time you wake up, the type of toothpaste you use, how you address your spouse in the morning, whether or not you eat breakfast, if you press you horn impatiently for traffic to move, how productive you are at work, the quality of time you spend with kids, the amount of television you watch, the types of books you read, and what time you go to bed. These are just some examples of the power of choice you actually have and can use. Most of us think and function according to our limiting beliefs and perceived realities - can't afford this, don't have a big enough yard, can't get partner to understand, kid doesn't want to eat broccoli, etc. Look at your daily life from the perspective of choice. Use the power of choice in a healthy, positive way and start attracting refreshing situations and experiences beyond your self-imposed barriers.

I realize that every day gives me the opportunity to make healthy choices. I consciously stay in the here and now so that I can choose more wisely from a place of love. I understand my choices create consequences, and I create a brilliant now and future by making healthy decisions today.

Ask the Universe for a Reward

If you are feeling tired, stressed, overwhelmed, or burnt out, you need and deserve a break. Struggling to arrange time for yourself or for money to come your way is exactly that - a struggle. Instead, ask the universe or set the intention to experience a beautiful reward in the highest and best way. Then, over the next few days, be aware of opportunities that present themselves or ideas that come into your mind seemingly out of the blue. Follow up on guidance that is healthy, supportive, and consistently positive. Know that your mind, body, heart, and soul are due for a restorative, healing rest and rejuvenation. Maybe you can arrange for an exchange of services, or your sister says she'd love to take the kids for a few hours, or your neighbor gives you a magazine after she's done reading it. Release the need to control what the universe delivers and surrender any expectations. Allow God and the universal Spirit to bring you what you need most at this time. Express gratitude for everything that comes your way.

I consciously put myself in the abundant flow of the universe. I graciously accept good into my life now and always. I give myself a much needed rest because I know I deserve it and because self-care is important to me.

Your Inner Power

How do you feel about your inner sense of empowerment? Though each day may bring varying emotions, your inner power in general is either being built up, being drained, or staying rather neutral. If someone approaches you in a dominating or threatening way, he or she could be draining your energy. If someone praises you for a job well done, your internal power is likely strengthened. Think about who you associate with and your relationships with them. Do people suck you dry, or are they inspiring to the point of positive empowerment? In the same regard, consider how you interact with others. If you raise your voice in a manipulating or abusive way, you're taking away someone's sense of self and internal power. If you offer helpful guidance and support, you're more apt to enhance your own as well as another's inner source of control. When dealing with issues of personal power, you should realize that your holistic self is influenced - mentally (thoughts), emotionally (feelings), physically (body and actions), and spiritually (soul). If another person is consciously or even subconsciously affecting your inner power in a negative way, it is vital to your confidence and energy to draw boundaries and protect your sense of peace. When you converse with others, be cognizant of how you treat them. Is your tone loving and supportive or condescending and patronizing? Show respect to yourself and build up your personal power by surrounding yourself with positive people, places, and situations and by removing yourself from harsh environments.

I love and respect myself; therefore, I always surround myself with love and light. I draw boundaries as necessary and stop others before they threaten my inner power. I am consciously aware of my interactions with others and only think, feel, speak, and act in supportive ways.

Taking the Easy Way Out

If you found a bag with $10,000 in it, with no name or reference to its owner, and in a place with no one around, would you keep it? If the bank accidentally credited $1000 to your account, would you tell them it was a mistake? If you were given answers to a test, would you cheat? In other words, would you take the easy way out? Taking the path that you aren't necessarily deserving of may be the quick, least productive way, but it also may not be the most integrous and moral. So why is it so easy, and why do people still do it? Because when the world presents someone with an undeserving opportunity, that someone may view it from a couple of perspectives: 1. The universe just gave him an easy way out, though he did not rightfully earn it. 2. The quick and easy way satisfies his immediate needs and urges; therefore, he chose it. From these viewpoints, some may actually rationalize that it's OK to forget about morals or Karma and just accept what they think they deserve. If you were truly evolved and had a developed conscience and conscious, you would realize that cheating or taking money that isn't rightfully yours is not the healthy thing to do. You would understand what the appropriate course of action would be without hesitation. Where do you stand on these scenarios? Examine your beliefs and the actions you think you would take and decide for yourself how healthy your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are.

I am confident in myself and the universe to always provide for me and my family. I openly receive what I feel I rightfully deserve. I have a clear conscience and know in my heart, mind, body, and soul that I do what is appropriate and healthy.

Using Your Energy Productively

Thinking, feeling, and acting are all ways of expending energy. Are you using your energy wisely? Or, are you wasting your thoughts, feelings, and actions on something or someone who is not benefiting your highest and best good? Each time you focus your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual self on someone else negatively, your own energy is drained. When you give energy away, you're giving your power away as well. Stop ruminating over something you can no longer control and start vamping up your own power. Work on yourself and don't worry about people or situations that aren't even in your best interest. If you're going to think, show emotion, or act on someone else's behalf, then do it in a positive, healthful way so that your spirit and energy are built up as well.

I choose to conserve my energy by not wasting it on negative thoughts, feelings, or actions. When I do connect mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually with someone or something, it is for the highest and best good of all.