In general, many people don’t feel empowered to change their lives.  Instead, they have a strategy of managing, coping and settling.

If managing and coping don’t work, they’ll decide to settle.

In 2010, I was participating in a group coaching call with a wonderful marketing expert, Chris Williams from Wide Awake Marketing.  I was looking to learn some helpful marketing basics.  Chris was helping us to practice our elevator speeches.

An elevator speech is a 20 second introduction that you could give to someone in the time it takes to go up a couple of floors in an elevator.  There was a woman who said she was a life coach and her elevator speech was:

I help people with their problems by coming up with managing and coping strategies so they can have better relationships, more fulfilling careers and improve their health and well-being.

I immediately knew my elevator speech could be:

I help people find happiness.  Together we solve problems by healing the root causes, including identifying and eliminating their managing and coping strategies so they can actually enjoy their life and have fulfilling relationships and careers while improving their health and well-being.

I didn’t wish to make the life-coach wrong, but if you settle for learning managing and coping skills is like making an agreement that you can’t ever have the life you desire.  You HAVE to settle in order to apply that approach.

I can’t advocate for settling, managing and coping.  That’s a strategy for people who feel that solutions aren’t available to them.  It’s a strategy for people who feel like they’re on their own and don’t have any tangible INTELLIGENT support.

I’ve learned that I ALWAYS have tangible intelligent support from Spirit, from my Higher Holy Spirit Self, the mighty I AM that I AM because I’ve cultivated a relationship with my Higher Holy Spirit Self and so it’s always available to me – as long as I’m not harboring unforgiveness.

When I’m holding on to resentments and regrets, guilt, blame and shame, then I’m focused on my own beliefs and the story I’ve made up about life.  If I’m attached to that false perspective, is it even possible that I’d be interested in solving my problems?

If I’m thinking I’m so right about how wrong things are, is there any part of me that’s open to having a healing?

We think we have to manage, cope and settle when we don’t feel empowered.

When we don’t forgive, when we attack and hold grudges, when we complain and feel resentful, when we feel guilty, when all of these thoughts and feelings are swirling around our mind every day, we simply do not feel loving and kind, we don’t feel generous and compassionate to ourselves or others.  And THAT’S why we don’t feel empowered. 

Love is our super power.

It is the power of Love in us that allows us to feel worthy of a good life rather than settling, managing and coping.

I invite you to consider where you might be managing and coping and where you have settled.  If you’re willing to be more loving every day you’ll notice you feel empowered to make changes rather than continue to cope or settle.

When we making more loving choices, our family makes more loving choices, our friends and our co-workers are inspired too.  Being loving is inspiring and infectious.

Now’s the time for for us to shine the Light of Love into every day!

Our willingness truly is all that’s required in order for us to let go and move on.  The Higher Holy Spirit Self will do the heavy lifting of figuring out how to let go if we’re willing.  Now is the time of our liberation!  Let’s be clear in our decisions and decide to let go of repeating the madness of the past.  Our mind is a power tool.

We are entitled to miracles!

RETREAT!  Let’s get away together and have some fun while we’re having a lift-off!  Early-bird on now!  Power of Love In-Person Retreat Memorial Day Weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina!  May 23 to May 26 – Come away with us!  From the very first retreat I led back in 1998, people have been telling me that these retreats are life-changing, mind-expanding, heart opening – and OF COURSE THEY ARE!  My intention is so strong that we have an amazing experience of transformation while also having fun, remembering to laugh and enjoying ourselves together.  Let’s have a wonderful time together up in those glorious Blue Ridge Mountains, doing our spiritual work and playing, having fun, eating delicious food, getting spa treatments and relaxing in spiritual community together.  Things are so intense right now – let’s get a way for along weekend and open ourselves to new insight and inspiration.  We’ll anchor the Highest Vision for our life and let go of limiting habits and beliefs.  The mountains alone are worth the trip!  Let’s play!  Click here for more info!

My Prayer Power Class started Monday!  You can get the instant download of Part 1 right now and then join me for the next 3 classes.  If you’d like to become a powerful person with prayer, consider joining me in this 4 week class.  For many, these prayer practices that I teach have been completely life changing, just as they have for me.  Give yourself the gift of this power tool and you’ll benefit the rest of your life!  Class begins today!  Prayer is the one spiritual practice that I value above all others.  

NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is The Secret to True Prayer. There is a secret to true prayer, that’s so simple people don’t realize how healing and effective it is. True prayer isn’t about asking for things but about remembering that we already have everything we need in God and diving deeply into that knowing. In this week’s episode, drawing from The Song of Prayer, I unpacked the heart of true prayer as an offering, a letting go, a deep resting into Love itself. I shared my living experience of transformation, shedding the old, and embracing true prayer. True Prayer has healed my mind and transformed my life. It is a power tool!

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