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Finding Success – The Daily, June 7, 2020

Sometimes you can grow even in the most difficult places

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” 
― Maya Angelou

Today is a perfect day to stop allowing yourself to be small. If you aren’t doing what you want to do, figure out a way to make it happen. Now with a very powerful full moon behind us and the beginning of the waning phase, take time to devise plans and a schedule and prepare to put ideas into motion. It feels like the rest of this year is going to provide many opportunities for personal and professional growth, and you need only want it to have it happen for you.

Challenging Times Ahead – So many retrogrades, eclipses, and general unrest in our celestial skies are contributing to uneasiness, a desire for change, and no longer tolerating the archaic beliefs of the past. The collective is pushing towards something better as consciousness continues to find expression. Allow yourself to challenge every belief you hold. Figure out where it came from. Was it something your parents told you, or you learned at school, or it’s just the way you have always thought? Now is the time to expose these ghosts of the past and decide if they still work for you.

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto continue in their retrograde motion, and before the end of the month Mercury and Neptune will join them. That will mean that from June 23rd to the 26th, six planets will be retrograde. It’s also eclipse season. What does this all mean? That it’s okay not to feel okay right now. Sometimes the energy outside of you challenges everything that you thought was safe and secure.

The year 2020 isn’t finished shaking our foundations quite yet. But from the turmoil can come strength and the realization of what is truly important in life. Sometimes you need to let go of everything in order to get everything that you want.

Gandhi – On June 7th, 1893, a young lawyer was kicked off of a train in South Africa. It was on that day that Mohandas Gandhi decided to fight racial inequality, a pursuit that would span a lifetime in a series of peaceful protests and the ability to motivate thousands. Gandhi’s persuasive methods of civil disobedience influenced leaders of civil rights movements around the world, including Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thought of the Day – It’s a new day. Step into it with fresh eyes and leave the tired, old way of looking at things behind. It isn’t serving you. Enjoy and be peaceful.

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” 
― Winston S. Churchill

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Dare to Dream

The sky is the limit!

There is something to be said for the familiar. It’s comfortable, feels safe, and pushing beyond its cozy limitations isn’t fun sometimes.

Without pushing through, though, you can’t advance towards your dreams. Why? Because if your current habits supported the realization of your dreams, then you would have everything you want already.

So unless you can see your dreams ahead and you are following steps every day to reach them, there is room for improvement!

These are the steps I took to get the ball rolling and to start to change who I was, from the decisions I was making to the actions I was taking. The funny thing was – it wasn’t that difficult once I got started!

  1. Where – Be clear about where you want to go. This is the most important step to take. A clear, detailed map will get you on the road and make it much easier to start going forward.
  2. Why – Be clear about why you want to get there. You want to be rich? Why? What will your life look like and how will you feel when you have money? It’s the feeling of having the things that money can buy that is important. Get in touch with those feelings.
  3. How – When your motivation is big enough, you can accomplish anything. Once you know where and why you are going, start to figure out the how. Break the big dream down into actionable steps. 
  4. When – Set time frames. Don’t just say that you want to start your own business, define exactly what the business is going to do, what needs it fills, and what you have to do today to start making it a reality.
  5. Act Now – Finally, do something right now! Read a book, make a phone call, do research on the internet, whatever seems like a logical first step. You won’t have a clue what you are doing, but as you start to learn and keep working at it the steps will begin to unfold before you.

Never lose sight of your dreams! Write out exactly what it is you want and then accept no substitutes. Don’t let regret be a companion of your future when it is within your power to do something today to get to where you want to go.