Seth Godin writes:

Your story about money is a story. About money.

Money isn’t real. It’s a method of exchange, a unit we exchange for something we actually need or value. It has worth because we agree it has worth, because we agree what it can be exchanged for.

But there’s something far more powerful going on here.

We don’t actually agree, because each person’s valuation of money is based on the stories we tell ourselves about it.

Our bank balance is merely a number, bits represented on a screen, but it’s also a signal and symptom. We tell ourselves a story about how we got that money, what it says about us, what we’re going to do with it and how other people judge us. We tell ourselves a story about how that might grow, and more vividly, how that money might disappear or shrink or be taken away.

And those stories, those very powerful unstated stories, impact the narrative of just about everything else we do.

So yes, there’s money. But before there’s money, there’s a story. It turns out that once you change the story, the money changes too.

via Seth's Blog: Your story about money.

Mastin Kipp share his thoughts on transformation here…

Here’s the article to which he refers…

Most people believe that habits are formed by completing a task for 21 days in a row. Twenty-one days of task completion, then voila, a habit is formed. Unfortunately, this could not be further from the truth. The 21-day myth began as a misinterpretation of Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s work on self-image. Maltz did not find that 21 days of task completion forms a habit. People wanted it to be true so much so, however, that the idea began to grow in popularity.

Tom Bartow, who successfully started advanced training for Edward Jones and has since become a highly sought after business coach, developed the following model of what habit formation really looks like:

Get the rest of the article here: Habit Formation: The 21-Day Myth – Forbes.

Dr. Danielle Dowling writes:

We say that all the time, don’t we? “It’s hard to know where to start.” When we want to move to a new city, start a new venture, go back to school, learn a new skill. We pull out that old chestnut of an excuse, shine it up, and then use it on the daily to explain why we’re not doing what we want to do.
But is it really true? Do you really not know how to begin?
Name something you care about or one thing you’d like to do. Now, is it totally impossible to Google it? To look up who’s doing the best work on the problem, to research the issue, to become involved with the revolution…..or with the solution?
Get the rest of the article here: http://danielle-dowling.com/its-hard-to-know-where-to-start

You know who you are…

Tara LeMieux has a beautiful post on her blog this morning. I share it here in its entirety…

“I am me. I’m who I’m meant to be. I am my past, my present and who I want to be. I’m not anyone, I am all three. I am a work in progress, a destiny. I am who I choose to be. I am me.”
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My dears, some very wise words, indeed…
We are not our circumstances…
We are not our missteps and misfortunes…
We are not our tragedies and/or our miracles…
We are, my dears…precisely what we *choose* to be – a most spectacular blessing of life, and in spite of all our goings on.
In every day, we face these choices – a spiritual crossroads of sorts. The bottom line, your reflection of ‘me’ – is all in who you choose to become.
Don’t let passing moments define your future sense of inner calm; be grateful…be humbled…and step into the beauty that is you.
Because, the truest miracle of this life takes hold in all these, the littler things.
http://www.mindfullymusing.com/2014/03/24/i-am-who-im-meant-to-be/

@consciousbride writes:

The bottom line is that there is no perfect partner. If you’re waiting for Mr. or Ms. Perfect to come along, you’ll be waiting for the rest of your life. And in the waiting, you’ll miss the wonderful partner who’s standing right before you. We’re so culturally indoctrinated into believing that the fabled perfect partner really exists that when you realize that he or she doesn’t, you may need to grieve the fantasy. That’s OK; better to grieve the fantasy than to walk away from your loving relationship because you’ve fallen prey to the grass is always greener syndrome.

Get the rest of the article here: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13065/how-to-love-the-one-youre-with.html

http://simplereminders.com/blog/post/i-am-not-my-past