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Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought :
Perfectionism is about a feeling of not being good enough, right enough, smart enough; a feeling of having to compensate for lack. Doing the comparison game with others to see if you did more or less than they did.
Gratitude allows for the gift of Acceptance. Accepting that you ARE good enough, smart enough, doing enough. Gratitude keeps your focus on Appreciation for who You are and the things You have accomplished, the good coming into your life.
Gratitude keeps your heart open. When your heart is open you see yourself and everyone else through a softer, lighter lens. When you maintain Gratitude AND an Open Heart then Life becomes 'very good', not perfect but Good Enough.
Affirm:
Today I Am Grateful to be Me and I AM good enough and I AM okay with Me!
Have a Very Good Friday!
Mary Ellen Pierce
Motivating YOU with Positive Power!
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day, in Every Way!
Showing posts with label acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acceptance. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
I AM Good Enough!
Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
Perfectionism is about a feeling of not being good enough, right enough, smart enough; a feeling of having to compensate for lack. Doing the comparison game with others for being or doing less than they did.
Gratitude allows for the gift of Acceptance. Accepting that you ARE good enough, smart enough, doing enough. Gratitude keeps your focus on Appreciation for who You are and the things You have accomplished, the good coming into your life.
Gratitude keeps your heart open. When your heart is open you see yourself and everyone else through a softer, lighter lens. When you keep Gratitude and an Open Heart then Life becomes very good, not perfect but Good Enough.
Affirm:
Today I Am Grateful to be Me and I AM good enough!
Have a Very Good Friday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!
Perfectionism is about a feeling of not being good enough, right enough, smart enough; a feeling of having to compensate for lack. Doing the comparison game with others for being or doing less than they did.
Gratitude allows for the gift of Acceptance. Accepting that you ARE good enough, smart enough, doing enough. Gratitude keeps your focus on Appreciation for who You are and the things You have accomplished, the good coming into your life.
Gratitude keeps your heart open. When your heart is open you see yourself and everyone else through a softer, lighter lens. When you keep Gratitude and an Open Heart then Life becomes very good, not perfect but Good Enough.
Affirm:
Today I Am Grateful to be Me and I AM good enough!
Have a Very Good Friday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Today Just Be YOU!
Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
It is very stressful to try to live up to everyone else's standards for you, to people please, over commit because you're afraid to say No, do things out of guilt rather than free will, hold back your own thoughts and feelings because someone may not like or agree with you.
Just for today try something different. Be your version of You. Please yourself, commit only to what you really want to do, speak your thoughts and share your feelings with truth and love.
Just for today - relax and Be You! After all no one can tell you you're doing it wrong because you're the expert on you!
Affirm:
Today I relax into just being Me and I am okay with who I am!
Have a Be True to You Tuesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!
It is very stressful to try to live up to everyone else's standards for you, to people please, over commit because you're afraid to say No, do things out of guilt rather than free will, hold back your own thoughts and feelings because someone may not like or agree with you.
Just for today try something different. Be your version of You. Please yourself, commit only to what you really want to do, speak your thoughts and share your feelings with truth and love.
Just for today - relax and Be You! After all no one can tell you you're doing it wrong because you're the expert on you!
Affirm:
Today I relax into just being Me and I am okay with who I am!
Have a Be True to You Tuesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Today is a new day!
Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
Yesterday is over. Today is a brand new day. If you started your day today thinking about what happened yesterday and trying to rehash it, analyze it, figure it out, recriminations about all the what ifs, should haves and whys- STOP!
Yesterday is Oooover. Today is a brand new day. Focus today on what you CAN do, all the possibilities that exist in this day. Focus on how you will make today a better day, a more successful day, a prosperous day.
You can't have a better yesterday however you CAN have a better tomorrow by using Today wisely.
Affirm:
Today I invest my time and energy in the here and now as a building block for tomorrow's successes.
Have a great today and Weekend!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in yourself, Anything is Possible!
Yesterday is over. Today is a brand new day. If you started your day today thinking about what happened yesterday and trying to rehash it, analyze it, figure it out, recriminations about all the what ifs, should haves and whys- STOP!
Yesterday is Oooover. Today is a brand new day. Focus today on what you CAN do, all the possibilities that exist in this day. Focus on how you will make today a better day, a more successful day, a prosperous day.
You can't have a better yesterday however you CAN have a better tomorrow by using Today wisely.
Affirm:
Today I invest my time and energy in the here and now as a building block for tomorrow's successes.
Have a great today and Weekend!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in yourself, Anything is Possible!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
STOP! and Breathe in Serenity
Whenever life throws me a curve ball or gets too overwhelming, all I need to remember is that I can STOP! take a deep breath and center myself in the fact that my serenity is always mine unless I choose to give it away.
Then I can simply choose to reclaim it and let the peace I feel anchor me until life stabilizes again -as it always does.
This was the positive thought today and how appropriate! Life did indeed throw me a couple of wicked curve balls today and really the past couple of days and I have been plodding through. However reading my daily thought reminded me to take my own advice. (you know how sometimes you catch yourself and realize that you might just as well say "Here take my advice: I'm not using it!")
Well I practiced what I preached and did STOP!, take a deep breath and say to myself "I Choose to reclaim my serenity now!" And then I went into the kitchen where I have a magnet that has this quote on it "Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace within it"(by Anonymous) and read it several times, took another deep breath and went back to my studio.
Sometimes the Universe makes it crystal clear to me that I am powerless over everything except my thoughts about what is happening. At those times I do have the power to adjust my thinking, accept reality for what it is and just breathe my way back to inner calm. Once there I can focus my thinking on a possible solution instead of the discomfort of the problem.
And quite often, as was today, the solution is to accept that I do not have the answer, I do not have the power to change what reality is and therefore the best course of action is to maintain inner calm while reminding myself that the situation is a "God job" and that the Universe is already in motion with the Divine plan.
The fact that I am not privy to all the details is as it should be. I have more than enough to keep me busy adjusting my own thoughts on how I think Life should be working - for Everyone.
So I am STOPPING! and breathing in peace and serenity- for me.
Then I can simply choose to reclaim it and let the peace I feel anchor me until life stabilizes again -as it always does.
This was the positive thought today and how appropriate! Life did indeed throw me a couple of wicked curve balls today and really the past couple of days and I have been plodding through. However reading my daily thought reminded me to take my own advice. (you know how sometimes you catch yourself and realize that you might just as well say "Here take my advice: I'm not using it!")
Well I practiced what I preached and did STOP!, take a deep breath and say to myself "I Choose to reclaim my serenity now!" And then I went into the kitchen where I have a magnet that has this quote on it "Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace within it"(by Anonymous) and read it several times, took another deep breath and went back to my studio.
Sometimes the Universe makes it crystal clear to me that I am powerless over everything except my thoughts about what is happening. At those times I do have the power to adjust my thinking, accept reality for what it is and just breathe my way back to inner calm. Once there I can focus my thinking on a possible solution instead of the discomfort of the problem.
And quite often, as was today, the solution is to accept that I do not have the answer, I do not have the power to change what reality is and therefore the best course of action is to maintain inner calm while reminding myself that the situation is a "God job" and that the Universe is already in motion with the Divine plan.
The fact that I am not privy to all the details is as it should be. I have more than enough to keep me busy adjusting my own thoughts on how I think Life should be working - for Everyone.
So I am STOPPING! and breathing in peace and serenity- for me.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Acceptance of what is
Well I am finally back up and running, fully and completely! Sometimes the Universe decides to slow you down and change your focus to something else - even if you don't really want to. I have been having computer problems for two weeks now and instead of taking the Universal hint I kept trying to figure it out and fix it myself! After all I am pretty smart, determined - and convinced that I would persevere! However what happened was that I began to spend most of my time and energy getting my computer Internet connection to work properly and putting tasks that needed to done on the back burner. Things piled up and I was still determined I could fix it AND finish all my tasks on schedule.
And that's when the Universe stepped in to assist me. It became obvious that I needed tech support to help me and when I called to make an appointment I was told that it would be four days before the Tech could come out! Four days! No way! I have a couple of vendor shows to do, I have to have access to my email so I can print out things I need, so I can communicate with the world! Surely there must be a sooner appointment? But no there was not. I took the appointment and asked if I figured it out before then could I just cancel without charge (see I was still planning on doing it myself).
Then as I realized all the things I needed to get done, printed, sorted, painted, created, organized, boxed up, etc. etc. reality came into my awareness. A choice had to be made: try to fix the computer on my own OR continue getting ready for my events and working on finishing important tasks.
Thankfully I saw the wisdom of accepting reality for what it was. And I changed my attitude and perspective from Why is this happening to me now?! to OK Universe I get it. Apparently I am not meant to use my computer online, access my email and some of my files and spend time trying to do it all myself. Apparently I am meant to finish what I can and keep my focus on how to make my upcoming events the best Success they can be with MY FULL awareness on that and let the computer tech take care of the rest later on.
And that's what I did. And it all worked out even better that I thought it would. Even better than if I had tried to do it all myself.
Sometimes when I am all caught up in myself, making myself the center of the Universe, the Universe intervenes to make it clear that there is a Power greater than me at work. It provides a much needed Attitude Adjustment and lets me know that I do NOT have all the answers. And that sometimes the best course of action is to just Accept what is, do the best you can and allow help to come when it is supposed to.
And that's when the Universe stepped in to assist me. It became obvious that I needed tech support to help me and when I called to make an appointment I was told that it would be four days before the Tech could come out! Four days! No way! I have a couple of vendor shows to do, I have to have access to my email so I can print out things I need, so I can communicate with the world! Surely there must be a sooner appointment? But no there was not. I took the appointment and asked if I figured it out before then could I just cancel without charge (see I was still planning on doing it myself).
Then as I realized all the things I needed to get done, printed, sorted, painted, created, organized, boxed up, etc. etc. reality came into my awareness. A choice had to be made: try to fix the computer on my own OR continue getting ready for my events and working on finishing important tasks.
Thankfully I saw the wisdom of accepting reality for what it was. And I changed my attitude and perspective from Why is this happening to me now?! to OK Universe I get it. Apparently I am not meant to use my computer online, access my email and some of my files and spend time trying to do it all myself. Apparently I am meant to finish what I can and keep my focus on how to make my upcoming events the best Success they can be with MY FULL awareness on that and let the computer tech take care of the rest later on.
And that's what I did. And it all worked out even better that I thought it would. Even better than if I had tried to do it all myself.
Sometimes when I am all caught up in myself, making myself the center of the Universe, the Universe intervenes to make it clear that there is a Power greater than me at work. It provides a much needed Attitude Adjustment and lets me know that I do NOT have all the answers. And that sometimes the best course of action is to just Accept what is, do the best you can and allow help to come when it is supposed to.
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