Being honest and practicing integrity is essential in creating vulnerability to accept what you need in your life. Being dishonest for the sake of portraying you know more than you truly do, cuts off the opportunity for you to learn what you need to grow. If you’re good at convincing people that you are already wise to a particular experience or skill set, then they will assume you need no attention to helping you learn. Honesty is also significant in giving a raw assessment of where you’re at in relation to where you want to be. If you’re dishonest with yourself, then you will contaminate your truth. Be honest. Have integrity. Your personal growth and development relies on them. Honesty is about being truthful when people are around, integrity is being honest when no one is present but you. Be you, always, and live honestly when alone or in a crowd. It will pay dividends.

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“Being positive” is not just about having a positive attitude and focusing on only the good things in life. Certainly there is a place for this, but sometimes that’s just a distraction from what is lingering about us or from the situation or circumstances we’re in. However, there is a more powerful view and practice of positivity that embraces difficult and challenging experiences and encourages us to extrapolate the lessons from adversity. To be positive is to move to maintain a plus at all times and not a minus, regardless of our current circumstances. Positivity is just that, being at a more beneficial level than that of negative, or a deficit or deficiency. Positivity is about always improving and moving in the direction of usefulness and growth. “Being positive” is to always gain and become more through all experiences.

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What do you do after you experience a terrible defeat in your life? What happens after you fall down or had to take two steps backwards? Like the game of golf, after each hole we either better our score, worsen our score, or our score stayed the same. Each hole is an individual experience. If we allow the feeling of frustration, disappointment, or anger from the previous hole to be brought into the next hole, we can significantly compromise our desired outcome. We need to put both positive and negative experience behind us and before we can move forward. Experience the emotions, learn from the previous experience, and then move forward. Know this is part of the journey, good, bad, and indifferent. The more you’re in the game, the better you will become, and the closer you will get to the desired outcome.

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We are all seekers looking for answers to help us navigate through our life. Searching for answers may be frustrating if we’re not asking the right questions. The question we ask God or the Universe should focus on what we can gain from difficult experiences, not for acceleration through it. Let not the pain and suffering we experience through difficult situations go by with nothing learned and no growth gained. Ask for clarity, strength, wisdom, and courage while you pursue victory over dark times. Become more having asked the right questions and receiving the right answers.

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There is no such thing as luck. Luck is being prepared, being ready, for when opportunities present themselves. There are doors ready to be opened around us. If we’re not prepared for these great opportunities or our awareness is extremely narrow, we will not see what’s available to us. The greater our awareness and the more prepared we are to receiving the blessings around us, the more opportunities will appear. In order to see the amazing gifts that are our’s for the taking, we must be physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually ready. This is not a passive experience like that of simply being lucky. Do the work that puts you in position to receive great things in your life. Be open, be vulnerable, be ready and you will see with a new lens what has always been there for you.

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There are moments that rattle us as we move closer and closer to our best self and what we want to achieve. We can find ourselves having episodes of self-doubt that triggers anxiety about what lies ahead. The unknown, the uncertain, and the unfamiliar can stop us in our tracks from moving forward. We can find ourselves justifying going back to our old ways and back to our old life because even though we were unhappy, it was familiar and predictable. This moment is the most significant moment in your transformation. It is the obstacle that determines whether we live the life we want and live it the way we want or remain a prisoner shackled to our fears and doubts. This is it. Have faith in yourself, the process, and the life to come. Lean on your resources, your blessings. You are not alone. Look forward only at what truly is possible. Dream the big dream. Live fully and don’t look back. The world deserves the best you and you deserve it more than anyone.

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We tend to complicate our lives by trying to do too much with the different areas of our life. By doing this, we spread ourself thin and become scattered with our focus. We sometimes get overwhelmed because we put pressure on ourselves to accomplish too much on a daily basis. We get frustrated with ourselves and our passion for what we want to achieve begins to dwindle. Simplifying our lives and our life goals using the Power of 3 gives us greater focus and helps us feel a sense of accomplishment, progress, and momentum towards our ultimate goals. Set 3 intentions or goalseach day that are aligned with who you want to be and what you want to achieve. Our positive energy will sustain and we’ll feel our movement forward. Keep it simple. Use the Power of 3. Experience a sense of accomplishment each day.

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Being vulnerable opens us up to receiving the support, guidance, and information we need to step out into the unknown. Vulnerability, however, is a perceived fear and is seen as a weakness. When we try to appear as though we already know, and shutoff our openness to receiving what we need to move forward, we actually delay our success substantially. Vulnerability is about allowing ourselves to have access to the blessings around us, resources, people, information. If instead of being open, we choose to be closed, we limit the presentation of what is available to us. Trust, courage, honesty, and complete surrender to what could happen (positive or negative) is needed to practice complete vulnerability. Open yourself up and all that you will need to succeed and find personal fulfillment will present itself to you.

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We tend to look outside ourselves to find the answers we already know deep inside us. Perhaps we confide in others or look for signs that the Universe or God send us in the most mysterious ways to validate what we already know. Trust that voice inside you. Trust what manifests in the quiet moments. Silence is loud with knowledge, wisdom, and personal challenges. Trust your knowing. Have faith in your intuition...this is your inner voice helping to guide you. Learn to trust it, embrace it, and live by it.

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Have you begun taking the steps to create your best life or to unveil to the world your greatest self? Are we giving ourselves reasons for why now is not the best time to be our most authentic selves or to live each day the way we are compelled to live them? We can give ourselves plenty of justifications for not moving out of our comfort zones and into the unknown of what’s possible. If we continue to do this, we will find ourselves decades later never moving down the road of our life. We will have found our life to be stagnant with no movement toward the life we’ve always wanted. Stagnation breeds disappointment and regret. It’s time to move, even if small incremental steps. The key is to move a little each day...to simply show up...the rest will take care of itself. The time is now to start gaining momentum towards your best self and your ultimate dreams!

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