Maria the Muse

What kind of year will you have this year?

Will it be full of joy, hope, expansion, great opportunities, fun and prosperity?

Or will it be full of fear, uncertainty, worry, loss, pain and lack?

Newsflash – the type of year you have is UP TO YOU!

It is what you FOCUS on that determines what type of year (or month, week, day, hour, moment, second, instant….) you experience.

Thinking back to when my kids were young reminds me of a good example of this.  Sometimes they’d have to do something they didn’t want to do (clean their room, take out the garbage, homework, etc.) and instead of just doing it, they’d balk and complain.  It used to crack me up that they’d spend 20 minutes trying to get out of something that would have probably taken them 5 to get done :-)

When this happened I’d always tell them the same thing:

You can choose to be happy or choose to be
sad but you still have to do this.

Life is like that too sometimes.  There’s work to be done, garbage to be taken out (metaphorically as well as actual garbage :p), people to deal with, stuff to be fixed, and all sorts of things that have to be dealt with when maybe you don’t really want to.

In all these cases -YOU ALWAYS DETERMINE YOUR EXPERIENCE!

You can drag that garbage to the curb, tearing the bag and spilling the contents everywhere and then grumbling more about it as you clean up the even bigger mess…or you can hoist it on your shoulder whistling as you go, stop and chat with the neighbor for a minute, notice the beautiful sunset, and pick a couple pretty flowers on your way back to the house.

Either way the job gets done…garbage out!  It’s you who gets to decide if it’s a delightful or miserable experience.

What do you want to experience in your life?

Think, feel and act accordingly and it will come :)