Cling To Your Vision

“Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.” ~ Kathleen Norris

Now that we are into 2011, I know most of you are working on your goals and intentions for this new year. Making resolutions are not going to serve you well because resolutions come with a default for failure. When you make a resolution, that is all you do. When you set a goal or an intention, you also plan your action steps to make that goal or intention a doable process. You can make resolutions, but then turn them into actionable goals and intentions.

Also know that no matter what your goal or intention, it will be fraught with some obstacles or delays. You cannot foresee these obstacles until you reach them; but know they are coming and be okay with that. This is part of the process. If you desire this goal or intention with all your heart, then those obstacles will effortlessly turn into golden opportunities. If it is a goal or intention that does not make your heart sing, then those obstacles will get bigger and bigger and block your progress.

So think about your divine why – why do you want to be, to do or to have that desired goal or intention? Your why has to be so big and you can see it so clearly that it will get you through any obstacle you may encounter.

Risking Adversities

"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." ~ Walter E. Cole, Korean War Hero

Sometimes, you may not take the leap of faith and take advantage of the opportunities before you because you don’t want to risk – losing, failing, falling, you name it.

But remember, those obstacles are opportunities in disguise, but they don’t become opportunities until you take the risk and see what lies beyond the obstacle.

Just STOP, TAKE A BREATH, and ASK:

“What obstacles are in front of me today?”

“What opportunities are beyond those obstacles?”

Your Greatest Life Lessons

Did you know that any and every obstacle or challenge is a perfect opportunity to learn a life lesson? Heartaches and heartbreaks don’t just happen for the sake of happening; they happen to bring us to a new level of awareness. But we so longingly wallow in the heartbreak that we cannot see any new awarenesses or new opportunities.

First know that these challenges and adversities happen for you not simply to you. Stop wallowing in what shoulda, coulda, or woulda – because it’s not! Think about what is before you right now.

STOP, TAKE A BREATH, and ASK:

“How will I choose to see this heartbreak?”

“What lessons can I learn from it?”

“What blessings will I receive from it?”

Then, live with the questions.

Release the Obstacles

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy – but I do say meet it as a friend for you will see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Universal Law of Polarity states that when there is an obstacle in our life, there is also the way to overcome that obstacle. The obstacle has built within the capacity to overcome it. How great is that?

So, stop struggling and resisting because that only keeps you stuck in the trouble.

Release and let go…

What Are Your Obstacles?

This week, I would like to focus on the adversities, the obstacles and the downfalls of life. I have been experiencing more pain than usual the last few weeks; and for me, pain is a sign of breakthroughs. Whenever I am moving into the direction of a major shift and life change, my body starts screaming in the form of physical pain. 

Having experienced this for years and the endless hours of study I have done, I now know to simply “be” with the pain, ask questions of the pain and allow the pain to tell its story.

I have stopped resisting the pain because what you resist only persists. But I have become more in tune with the pain – as it could lead to major obstacles if I am not mindful and conscious.

So, just for today, STOP, TAKE A BREATH, and ASK:

“What are the obstacles showing up in your life right now?”

“Are you resisting those obstacles?”

What you resist, persists!

I am conducting a free teleclass on dealing with your resistances. Stay tuned for more information on that.

Your Daily B-12 – Be Persistent

Receive your daily boost of B-12.

These are in no particular order. Use them all – everyday.

“Live everyday as if it were your last – cuz one day, you’ll be right!”

The fourth of our B-12 boosts is Be Persistent.

Being persistent means refusing to give up or let go or persevering obstinately. This was a foreign word to me up until a few years ago. I was not persistent. I did things sporadically. Now, if it has to do with my dreams, intentions and desires, I am like a pit-bull! I grab that tenacious hold and I don’t let go until I have completed my objective.

Okay, I hear you asking… so when do you let go? If it has to do with your heart’s desires, you don’t. Why would you? Obstacles are going to creep up just so you can re-confirm your passion for what you want to be, do, or have. When you allow obstacles to stop you, then you need to check in and ask if this is really what I want to be, do, or have. Perhaps this is not your passion and merely something you are doing out of fear.

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” ~ Edward Eggleston

Just for today, be persistent!
Coach Carolyn

Friday's Purposeful Question

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“What are your recent obstacles; and how can you turn them into opportunities?”

“You can tell whether a woman is clever by her answers. You can tell whether she is wise by her questions.” ~ attributed to Naguib Mahfouz

Live your questions!
Coach Carolyn

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Seeing Obstacles as Opportunities

“When opportunity comes, it appears in a different form and from a different direction. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

“Before success comes to most people, they are sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and perhaps some failure. When faced with defeat the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit.” ~ From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

I found myself picking up this book this past weekend and re-reading this particular passage. I have read this passage dozens of times, but needed to read it again. You see, this past weekend I was dealing with a computer virus; and my antivirus would not kick in and do its job. As my dear laptop Luna Sophia is four years old, she is extremely slow and packed full of junk. So my only option was to reboot and restore back to factory settings. And no, I did not have a backup – so I lost everything!

As I was waiting for the process of the reboot to finish, I got the urge to pick up Hill’s book – it’s right by my bed – and re-read the above passage. All of a sudden, I got a burst of new energy. I felt as if I was given a reprieve. I thought about how I could consciously and mindfully choose to restore my data. I was going to use a browser that I liked; I was not going to load it with programs that would slow it down; and I would feed it and myself only positive mindset programs and materials – as this is my new path in life.

I could not wait to get up this morning and make my conscious decisions about what I would install onto my “new” computer. And whoa! Does it run so much faster! And space? Can we talk?

Instead of seeing every obstacle or defeat as just stumbling blocks strategically placed to ruin your day, look for the opportunities in them. As Hill said, most people will see these temporary defeats as just give up, not looking beyond them for the lessons, the blessings, and the testings.

So, just for today, STOP, TAKE A BREATH, and ASK:

“How can I see the beauty in everything and everyone that crosses my path?” Especially the not so beautiful!

Learn to turn your obstacles into opportunities!
Coach Carolyn

Turning Obstacles into Opportunities

Napoleon Hill says in his seminal work Think and Grow Rich:

“When the opportunity comes, it appears in a different form and from a different direction. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Before success comes to most people, they are sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and perhaps some failure. When faced with defeat the easiest and most logical thing to do id to quit. That is exactly what the majority of people do.”

When I first read those passages, I nearly fell off of my chair. As a woman in perpetual transition, I would often ask the proverbial question, “Why is this happening to me?” “Why does this always happen to me?”

Does any of this sound familiar?

Then, I read Hill’s words and took a great sigh of relief. Before reading this, I would hit the adversity, then just stop. Not recognizing that this temporary defeat was an opportunity in disguise.

Today, although I’m still not crazy about the adversities that I meet, I now recognize them as opportunities in disguise. There is a higher calling for these trials.

Just for today, STOP, TAKE A BREATH, and ASK:

“What are the lessons, the blessings, and the testings of this trial or misfortune?”
I urge you to make a habit of reading books like Think and Grow Rich; especially if you are needing new shifts in old paradigms.

Here's to your success!

Coach Carolyn