Dear Friends,

We can learn to get what we want in life. And part of that is learning to align our desires, our intentions, and our beliefs. I’m finally really getting this.

When we have a desire, we want something. When we have an intention, we intend to have what it is we want. And when we intend to have it, we live life as though we will have it. If we only want something, we may intend to go on wanting it indefinitely. We may go through the motions of doing something about our desire only to relieve our sense of obligation to do something, with no real intention of ever satisfying our desire.

If we want something and we don’t intend to have it, chances are we have conflicting desires or limiting beliefs.

Maybe you want to lose ten pounds and you also want to continue to eat as much as you’re eating now. Hmmm … looking honestly at both of your desires allows you to see an option you may have missed. And the option to burn more calories — rather than eat fewer calories — may spur an intention.

Maybe you want to get along with your sweetheart and you also want to make him see how wrong he is.… More

What gives us the impetus to do what is at hand? Is it an encouraging word OR a kick in the butt?

Sometimes we need one, sometimes the other. In both cases, somebody’s saying, “I believe in you!”

And as we take action, we grow faith in ourselves–and in love! When we do what we can, we feel the strength of love. When we show kindness, we see the compassion of love. When we give generously, we share the abundance of love. When we demonstrate understanding, we know the peace of love.

When we give legs to love, we experience the power of love as part of us.

I believe in you! I must! Because I believe in love!… More

Whether I write about breaking up or compatibility or communication, it always comes down to the same thing — know and love who you are (so that you can share all of you with enthusiasm and be at peace, regardless of the outcome).

When we spend enough quality time to get to know who we are, we realize how wonderfully made we are! But that means stopping the busyness, all the excuses we find not to be alone with ourselves, and all of our efforts to make ourselves good enough — with another promotion, a bigger house, a trip, even meeting the needs of others, so that we don’t have to face our own. The reason we’re so busy is that we can’t get enough of whatever we fill our lives up with, to make us happy. We keep adding more and more and more.

When we break away from the treadmill, we find out that everything we were looking for — nothing more than happiness, really — was right there within us all along. The only way to be happy is to be true to what’s inside. The only way to be unhappy is to be untrue to what’s inside.… More