Clarity 101

How often do you do something for someone else just for the wonderful feeling you get from the action?  How often do you feel inspired to do good for others? Do you follow through with your inspiration?  I often talk about keeping your heart open and aligned with the energy of love. When you can do that and keep that energy flowing through you it helps us with empathy, understanding and compassion. That way when we are inspired to help others, the action comes from out hearts, divine action.  What does the above have to do with service?  Those ideas are part of doing service for others. Just doing something nice for some because you can.  Doesn't that give you the warm fuzzy feeling?  That is personal service. Then there is what I call 'community' service. This is when we do volunteer work, building houses, gardens, helping thrift stores. charities and more.  When you do this kind of work it is always wonderful to see the ...

Falling down is an accident, staying down is your choice -  get up, dust yourself off and do your thing! We all have situations where we make crazy decisions and end up on out rear ends - sometimes literally! We are hard on ourselves, we judge ourselves we beat ourselves up over it. Why?  There can be many reasons why we are mean to ourselves. Mostly it is our expectations that cause this effect.  What if you just decided instead to look at the situation you have just been through and stood up dusted yourself off and start again without any judgement at all. Keep what you have learned and apply it on your next go. It has taken me a long time to figure that out.  Now when something doesn't work out the way I want it too, I move on. I figure I am not going to be on the planet forever in this body. I am not going to waste my time staying on my butt. I am going to get up and work on achieving my goal. I am going to allow events in my life ...