The only thing that matters.....

I have been on an Odyssey now to use my life circumstance to propel me to where I need to be and to look for the lessons over the rest, and it has paid off, no question.....And I write and speak about lots of things that have come my way......but all of it is rooted in a really simple place......mindset is THE thing that decides what kind of life we live......how we view our circumstance......the story we tell ourselves......the quality of our thoughts.......our interactions with other people.......the people we surround ourselves with, the daily habits we live in........ALL of it......and learning better how to really harness the power in my mind, has changed my life.....my mind used to rule the day.....and I would be led by the hand in all the directions that it wanted to take me in.......and often times it would lead me down unpleasant rabbit holes......holes filled with anxiety.....worry.....what if scenarios.......conjecture......overthinking......and somehow I have learned to manage that all so much better.....I will never not love thinking.....can't help it lol:) But these days I can just let it be.....knowing so fully what is for me, and what isn't......and not attaching too tightly to it......and that has changed the game.....and now my mindset is one of my strongest assets....because no matter what has been coming, and gosh has it been coming.....I have been using the power in my mind to alchemize it for my greater good.....not letting anything penetrate what I have built for myself.....the peace that lives within me.....and that feels like everything......and perhaps it is everything......we have to live so fully in the contrast to appreciate it all....right? If you haven't known one way, you cannot know the other way and what a blessing it is......so I lock into the blessings, stay rooted in them.....gratitude being my default.....and I had my coach mention to me the other day, when we met, asking about whether or not I let myself fall apart, and allow for that since I am holding so much......and I do......I FEEL it all.....never pushing away anything that comes.....not pretending all is rosy and fine.....my positivity is authentically me......I feel all the things everybody does, but I attach to the light over the darkness whenever I am able......my default now is to rewrite the script in my mind so that I can heal whatever it is.....not staying in the darkness........and that has changed everything......WE DECIDE the life we live NO MATTER what......I have had many things come for me.....and I refuse to let any of it ruin a thing.....refuse.......using my Taurus bull to stand her ground in defiance of any of that:)......and if you are reading, and struggle some with it, you can too, Changing your brain and where it lives and breathes is within your power.....I am careful the words I speak.....the words I write.....the words I say in my mind in my quiet moments....and often challenge them now.....reframing them to strip them of their power....or give power to other ones....and it works......and if I start to lament or become miserable by something, I know that I need to shift it some....not in a toxic push away way....but in a gentle way that brings whatever it is back into balance.....and it is a daily practice........learning better to do that.....one thought.....one moment......one circumstance.....at a time....but it is where my passion in coaching lies......so fully....knowing where our power lies and working to take what comes and find the higher expression of what it has come to show me.....and I have seen my clients do it and find amazing places as a result.....I help my own kids do it, and my class.....so I guess my point is that it seems like I have learned so many lessons, and I guess that is true in a lot of ways, but ultimately.....the root of them all has been found in learning to shift my mindset so fully......we are holding the pen in our lives.....able to write our own story......and well we might as well make it a good one;-) Happy Friday:)