Is anyone else feeling excited about Christmas? I know some of you aren’t because this time of the year can been really stressful. If it’s not wondering what do we get for everyone? When do we get it? Will they like it? We’re worrying about the actual day and how much work the
Christmas dinner will be or whether everyone’s gonna behave, get got on or have a good time.
Have you ever stop to think that it’s your very thoughts that are causing the problems, that they are deciding the results? Think about it; thoughts are energy and they create our reality. If that’s the case, when we think about how stressful it all is and how everything can go wrong, that is the reality that we create.
Instead, think positively this year. Get into the spirit of the season and think about how wonderful it is. It’s an opportunity to spend time with those you love (even if it has to include those you don’t). You get to give amazing presents and show others that you care not to mention all the presents you receive. You get to stuff yourself with plenty of food, eat all the chocolate and other goodies that you want and over-indulge on your favourite tipple all without someone else raising an eyebrow or you having to feel guilty.
Give yourself permission to relax and let go. If you want to have the perfect Christmas day or even just a nice day put that out there to the Universe. Ask for it, visualise it and then give thanks to the Universe for delivering it to you. Yep, just go right ahead and assume that your request has been answered and all is going to be fine, no better that fine, it’s going to be great.
Christmas should be a time for happiness and good cheer it’s us who makes it into something stressful by feeling tense and anxious rather than seeing it as opportunity to be happy and grateful.
Choose to be glad and thankful at this time of the year. If you do that it will put you in the right mindset and the right positive vibration to attract more things to be happy and grateful for in the year to come.
Have you ever had one of those days when you just want to give up? Yes, me too. Sometimes all your efforts and hard work seem to produce very little and it feels like your hitting your head on a brick wall. I know you may not want to here this but this is not the time to give up.
Often failure is just the Universes’ way of....not wanting us to stop…but just to do things a little differently. At times we are so attached to a certain way of doing things, so used to doing it that way, or so sure it’ll work, that we keep at it, even when what we are doing isn’t producing the results we want. And then, finally, instead of just altering our methods we give up altogether.
Let me give you an example of how we can come at something another way. Just imagine you’re a budding journalist and really want to get one of your articles featured in your favourite lifestyle magazine. Every week you ring the features editor to ask if she’d be interested in receiving articles from you and are told she’ll call you back, which she never does. You also email her as follow up and you get an automatic reply saying she’ll contact when she can, but you never hear from her. Ok, so instead you could do things a little differently. Email her one of your articles, complete with sample headlines and images, which accurately suit the typeset and style of the publication and tell her she is free to use it if she likes it. Make sure you include you bio and a pitch for 2 more article ideas that she might be interested. Then call to ask whether she received the email and liked the article/ideas. Even if you can’t get hold of her she will have received a sample of your work and got an idea of who you are and what you can do. Do you see how it works? You still called, you still emailed, you just did things a little differently.
So, is everything going the way you want in your life at the moment? If not how can you use the idea above? I challenge you to think of something that you have been doing that hasn’t been producing the results you require and to find a way to do it differently. Whether it’s getting a partner to pick up after himself, getting your children to do their chores/homework without the usual arguments or getting your boss to take you more seriously at work. Sometimes all it requires is a little change on our part to get a great change in results.
