Forgiving yourself...when you fall short of your goals

I learned a lesson this week, a lesson I think the universe has been trying to teach me for a long time. I learned how to forgive myself when I fall short of the goals I set for myself. I was told a long time ago, but a very wise woman, a very good friend of mine, that failure is nonexistant, she said, "You do not fail anything, things just didn't turn out the way you thought they would."

Many times, I think that people give up on the law of attraction very quickly when they feel that it is failing them. Sometimes, the universe may be waiting a while before granting your wish, not because it's not coming to you, but to teach you some profound lesson in life. These lessons come in all forms and continue to come into our lives until we learn whatever it is we need to learn.

My "failure" this last week was that I stopped doing my exercises. My initial respose when I "fail" to do something I had planned on doing, is to berate myself and be angry at myself. This time I finally saw the light. The universe wanted me to learn to forgive myself of my shortcomings. This time I didn't get angry at myself, I didn't berate myself, I just accepted that I wasn't in the mood to work out this week and I allowed myself to take a break. Once I decided to give myself the week off, I felt so much better, and I even went ahead and worked out last night a little with Shane, when I hadn't planned on starting my routine again until Wednesday.

It felt good to accept myself. To allow myself to feel good about my decisions instead of getting angry at myself.

The next time you seem to hit a road block when you're manifesting your desires, before you get upset and allow yourself to feel like a "failure" stop to ask yourself what the universe may be trying to tell you by putting this obsticle in your way. What lesson are you meant to learn from it?


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Sticking with it....Exercise is hard

Lately I've been really proud of my accomplishments when it comes to weight loss. I am so happy that I have been sticking to my plan and I know I have positive thinking and the law of attraction to thank for it. I have never been good at sticking to a diet or an exercise routine with any real consistancy. But lately that has all changed.

Since I made the decision the last time to reach my ideal weight I can finally believe it's going to happen and I've been exercising really diligently to make sure it does. I've found great resources online to help me to achieve my goals and I've been inspired to do it. I was given a treadmill by my grandmother to help me out. I found out that my favorite dvd to work out to that I'd scratched beyond repair was the same one my mom had and she loaned it to me. Every single situation has been turning my way. Instead of obsticles I've had help. I've actually been seeing the universe lend it's hand and help push me towards my dreams of loosing 30lbs. It's been amazing.

I can't even list all the ways that I've been helped out over the past few weeks when I made the decision to get serious about loosing weight. I am so proud of myself and the universal support is making it possible for me to stay focused and to believe that I am going to get back in shape

Sometimes things don't go how you planned....

but that doesn't mean they don't give you exactly what you want.

Well, this was an extraordinary weekend. It was the celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary and my husband and I had the entire weekend to ourselves. My parents were keeping Jezi the first night and then the following night her Godparents were keeping her. I was very excited to have an entire weekend for just the two of us, since this has only happened one other time in our entire marraige, and that was over a year ago.

I really wanted this weekend to be special and for us to spend as much time together as possible. I knew that we probably wouldn't spend as much time together as I hoped though, and I focused on getting that much needed time.

Well, I got my wish. Friday afternoon, before my beloved husband had even made it home from work, a freakish storm took out the power for most of the state of AR, including the street we lived on, along with many of our friends and family. Luckily Mom still had power so she was still able to keep Jezi for the first night.

It was a wonderful night. We were irritated by the lack of power, but we had so much fun. We talked and hung out and drove around and went shopping. We had a grand time just hanging out together.

Saturday morning was starting to get hot, and so we went out again and went to a really fun flea market that we like to go to but rarely get the chance. While we were out we found out that Jezi's Godparents didn't have power either and so we had to make a last minute change to find a new babysitter. Luckily my grandparents were willing and able to take her so that she wouldn't be stuck with no power and nothing to do. That night we decided to go ahead and stay at a hotel and it was a lot of fun as well. We havne't stayed in a hotel since our honeymoon. :-)

Sunday we were able to get the generator and set it up and I was able to do some laundry at Mom's and we stayed at home with fans and lights. No A/C with the generator, but there was television and hot water.

Basically, I had no idea how to be sure we'd get to spend a lot of time together on our anniversary and have fun, but I wanted it to happen. Because I was open to whatever solution the universe may have for me, I got exactly what I wanted and I had fun, despite the craziness of having no electricitiy. It just goes to show that you can get what you want if you're not bound up in how it has to be acheived and you just let it happen.

Manifest your Man

Well, 5 years ago today, I manifested my man. At the time I wasn't aware I was doing it, luckily in this situation, my subconcious was doing me a favor.

At the time I'd left my boyfriend of about 3 years and was living with my brother and just trying to get through the days. It was a tough time for me, because I was heartbroken over the ended relationship and I was still very hurt and discouraged. I was beginning to beleive that I would never find the right man to spend my life with.

I had decided to wait a while before I got into another relationship. I didn't want to rush into anything that I would later regret. Then I met Shane. LOL

We hung out a few times as friends, he was good buddies with my brother, and then one night he came to see my brother but he wasn't home. We ended up staying up all night talking and the rest is history. We were inseparable after that. He moved in the next day and we've lived together ever since. Just a month and a half after our initial date, we were married. It took us a few more months to go to the courthouse and get the paperwork to make it official, but we did, and now we've been together 5 years.

This was one of those situations where action was necesarry. My head was telling me to wait and not get involved with anyone for a while. It wasn't the strangest idea, many people have it after a particularly difficult relationship ends, but for me it wasn't right. If I'd ignored my heart, I may not be married to such a wonderful man today. Would I have my beautiful baby girl who just turned 3? Would I have such joy and happyness and fullfillment?

The reason I shared this with you guys is because I know how hard it is to take that leap of faith when you desire something but you're afraid. Don't be afraid to follow your instincts and intuitions because they are leading you in a specific direction for a reason. You may never even know the opportunities you lost by ignoring your heart and relying only on your brain.

Using the Law of Attraction to make Exercise Fun

A lot of people use the law of attraction to help them attract their ideal weight, and I'm doing that as well, but what a lot of people don't think to do is to attract the love of exercise and eating better at the same time. I don't just want to be skinny, I want to be healthier.

My long term goals are this:

1) Loose the 30lbs I gained.
2) Quit smoking.
3) Eat Better.
4) Develop long term exercise goals that taper off (as I loose weight) into a low stress 3x a week exercise routine.

To get my mindset right I have begun looking at pictures of myself when I weighed 30lbs. less than I do now. I invision myself looking that way now and see myself in form fitting clothes again that make me feel beautiful and desirable. I picture myself feeling comfortable in a bikini again. :-)

I have been keeping track of my calorie intake to help myself make better decisions about what I eat. I don't allow myself to feel guilt over small indulgences but I look at the overall week to make sure that I'm doing pretty well with the calorie intake over the whole week. I've found that I burn approximately 1200 calories a day from regular stuff. That means I can eat roughly 2000 calories a day and maintain my weight. That's not bad. Without any exercise I only burn enough to maintain without gaining. If I burn just 225-240 calories a day I will loose about 2 lbs over the week.

In order to burn that many calories I have to either walk a little over two miles on the treadmill, or do an hour of Pilate's a day, or lift weights for an hour. Instead of doing that, I break it up into easier to manage days. I walk a mile everyday, do 20 minutes of Pilate's (rotating which muscles I exercise), and 10 minutes of weight training for my arms.

A few months ago I wouldn't have commited to 10 minutes of exercise, never mind the hour long exercise that I now undertake almost every day. I had to decided how much I wanted to loose the weight and then I had to act when I was inspired to get back into exercise. I had to build myself up to that ammount of exercise, but now I've been keeping up with it for a lot longer than I'd ever thought possible.

I knew what I wanted, and I took inspired action, and it's been easier than ever before. I never believed before that I could exercise and loose weight. Once I changed my thinking, and allowed myself to believe that if I exercised I would loose weight and if I kept track of my calories it would make a difference, it did.

Faith in yourself is the biggest obstacle people have when using the law of attraction. It's very easy to loose that faith in yourself, but it's the key ingredient to any successful endeavor.

Now I have a flexible plan, and I'm open to the universe to accept whatever changes I may need to take along the way, confident that when I feel that inner guidance leading me down a path that it is in fact the right path.

Shane got his own job!!!!

I'm so excited because Shane just got his own job. I have been focusing for a month now on Shane's income increasing using the law of attraction and now he just got his own drywall job. I'm really proud of him because he even stood up to his Dad this time. Shane and his Dad have a very stressful relationship. Shane's Dad really favors his brother over him and it's very obvious most of the time. His brother gets the best jobs, the most money, and even help on the side when he blows his money on other stuff. Shane, on the other hand, doesn't even get respect from his Dad, and he resents helping us out with anything, no matter what the circumstances.

When Shane got this job his Dad was so mad that he didn't give him a job at all that week, just out of spite. But the good news is that he did it anyway and he's opening himself up to other opportunities. He also might have the opportunity to go into business with another drywall construction crew that is very profitable and to get a lot more of his own jobs from them. I'm really really proud of him for taking this step and proving to himself that he is capable of getting his own jobs.

It was really hard to stay positive and to have faith that it was going to go our way and that he would get what he deserved from the universe, but I held on and now I'm seeing the benefits of postive thinking. Yay!!!

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