Control

You don't need to control everything.

On the contrary, you need to let go of the need to control everything.

Take control of your thoughts, make a plan, and then take control of that which you CAN control.

Let God have the rest.
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Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control

Compelled to Control: Recovering Intimacy in Broken Relationships

Losing Control Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us And How to Let It Go

Relax

“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”
- Osho

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Relax

“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”
~ Osho

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Time

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." ~ Will Rogers

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Open and Loving

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." 
- Mother Theresa

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Sining Light

"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be."
- Shakti Gawain

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Appreciate Appreciation

"Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well."
- Voltaire

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Imagine Magick

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein

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Happy Monday! What do you see in this coming week?

You're probably "expecting" the same things you got last week.  Take a moment today and see something wonderful and unexpected for your week.

Make your magick!

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Mindfulness

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Great Titles by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Goodness

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you."
- Eckhart Tolle

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Great Titles by Eckhart Tolle 

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Building from the End

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." 
- Charles Swindoll

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This is my mantra today.  I'm having a little bit of trouble with my 90% of the deal.

But I know that when I'm in bed for the night, and I look back on this day that I'm about to embark on right now, I won't remember specific things that happened throughout the day.  Some, yes, but mostly not.

What I'll take with me was the overall tone that my day took on.  And the overall tone of my day will be determined by how I'm reacting, and the feelings and thoughts that I nurture throughout it.

I will move through my day nurturing good thoughts and blessing everyone around me.  I will share the best part of me because that's the part I want to remember when I contemplate my day, later.

There's something to be said for beginning a new day by contemplating how you want to feel about your day at the end of the day. 

Close your eyes and imagine you're in bed for the night.  How do you want to feel?

I imagine being tired and near sleep as soon as I lay down.  It's been a fantastic and productive day for me, and I'm rightfully tired.  I drift off to sleep sending blessings out to all my loved ones, smiling happily to myself.

Now, off I go to shape my day into whatever will make me feel like that later.  I will hold my tongue, and just go where the Spirit moves me.

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Great Titles by Charles Swindoll 

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A Good Morning to You

"Every morning when we wake up, we have a choice to either open to a potential miracle and celebrate it, or to choose complaint and control."
- Deepak Chopra

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I also recently heard Joel Osteen talking about how every morning is a gift of joy from God just waiting for us to open and unfold in it.  And it's up to us to accept the gift of joy we're given each day.

One of my very first observances in the morning upon waking is how cozy and warm I am in my bed.  That simple observation of pleasure makes me smile and sets the stage for my entire morning.

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Influences

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
 

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The past influences our present because its happenings cause us to take a perspective and form thoughts relating to it.  Those thoughts are the first step in our actions.  Our present actions.

The future influences our present because its happenings are in their first step stage, our thoughts.  Our present thoughts about our future actions.

If you know in your first step stage, thoughts of future, where you are heading, your present changes to support the creation of future.

If you know in your present only that which is past, your past is all you will create presently.

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Great Titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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