The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others’ validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals or wind chimes. It’s the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation. Caroline Myss.

Sometimes in our lives, things aren’t happening because we are actually doing all we can to prevent them from happening. In a way, it’s a paradox.

All twisted up in our doubts and fears, subconsciously we have slammed on the breaks, preventing our goals or dreams from manifesting so as to prevent any more pain and getting hurt again.

Boxed in by our uncomfortable comfort zone, we forget, or don’t want to be reminded, that life is not simple. It’s complicated and hard. Those who can come to terms with that idea, who can tolerate and understand that there is no gain without pain can overcome their resistance and the friction it causes.

Ironically, friction can be a good thing. The act of fighting against the resistance against life’s various and many challenges makes you stronger, better and more powerful.

How you meet and deal and give meaning to the forces arranged against you will ultimately determine your outcome.

Overcoming your resistance, in large measure, has much to you with how you show up everyday: Knowing that if you are being honest, if you’ve got it right, and do the right things, the Universe will jump in to help and that victory is just up ahead.

Strange, perhaps. But that’s how life often works.

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In his famous, I Have a Dream Speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently reminded us that:

“We are faced with the fact, my friends, tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood – it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.”

Many of us, from time to time, feel similar sentiments, especially today. We all face barriers and challenges of one kind or another and have setbacks occasionally. That’s how life goes. It’s the familiar dance – one step forward, two steps back.

In the dance of life, time waits for no one.

The key is to keep dancing – with the fierce urgency of now.

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The here and now is all we have and if we play it right, it’s all we need. Ann Richards.

The most important moment is the present moment. But how to live that?

Many of us live out our lives with one eye on the past, a past that’s already gone – and the other on the future, that’s not here yet. Choosing to live in the past or in the future steals your todays and robs you of living to the fullest.

Learning to live in the now, in the present, takes work, time and humility. If you are new to this philosophy, here are just five of many practices to get you started:

1. Live more simply. Cut back on what you don’t want and what you don’t really need. Live as lean as you can. Don’t let all the things overtake you. It’s just ‘stuff.’
2. Stay in control of your attitude. Strive to stay positive in spite of all you hear and observe. It is easier to give in to cynicism, but don’t. Nothing of any real, lasting value has ever been produced by a cynic.
3. Be more compassionate and considerate of others. Start today, right now. You’ll be amazed at what flows back to you when you do.
4. Make a conscious effort to fully appreciate the various ‘little things,’ the sights, sounds and smells, and the various emotions you feel and encounter each day.
5. Love your work. If you don’t or can’t, then learn to appreciate the good things about it. Focus on the positive aspects and not only the negative.

You only come this way once. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever reported back.

Nobody knows how things will turn out. Give each day your best shot. When you have gone as far as you can go, you’ll know what to do next.

It’s not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game.

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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. Tennessee Williams.

The other thing to remember is that your future, in large part, has a lot to do with what you are doing today.

So here’s the question:

Is what you are doing today moving you towards or away from how you see the future?

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I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll.

The journey of life is long.

You are not who you were when you first started out. The choices you made were based on what you knew at the time.  And that was good then.

But you know more now. You have grown and learned. Your world view has broadened.

Do you find your interest waning in what you’re doing? Bored with the familiar? Defending the status quo? Could it be you’ve stopped growing?

In today’s world defending the status quo won’t cut it. Nor will standing still.

Letting go of the familiar is never easy and sometimes inconvenient, but it is the only way to grow.

The journey continues… you are never done.

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Would you like to connect or reconnect with your sense of self and purpose? Need to be inspired again? To dream a bigger dream? We could chat. Text/Call 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com