Never look back. Concentrate on this moment forward and do everything in your power. There is no downside risk. Now you may have a chance.~Richard Bloch

Opportunity may be found wherever you really look for it.  To be able to capitalize on opportunity when it arises, you must have some cash reserves.  To build a cash reserve, you must save a portion of your income.  As you learn to pay yourself first, your perceived value will increase.

Forming the habit of saving in a systematic manner, places in you in the way of greater opportunity. It gives you vision, self confidence, and enthusiasm to increase your earning capacity.  This practice will destroy your poverty-consciousness.  Having savings sets up a prosperity-consciousness.  You begin to demand prosperity and expect it. You have prepared yourself to receive it and use it wisely.  Form the habit of thinking and talking of prosperity and abundance. Soon material evidence will manifest in the nature of wider, opportunity, both new and unexpected.

Without savings you suffer in two ways: first, by the inability to seize opportunities that come only to the person with some ready cash, and second, by embarrassment due to lack of reserve capital for emergencies.    Most of us have developed the Habit of Spending while neglecting the Habit of Saving.  The Habit of Saving requires self-control and self-sacrifice, in other words, more force of character than most of us have developed.   Over time the Habit of Saving also gives a thrill that spending cannot, as more and more opportunity is seized.

The rule is that if you follow the systematic Habit of Saving, a definite proportion of all the money you earn and receive, you are certain to place yourself in a position of financial independence.  If you save nothing, you can be sure you will never be financially independent, no matter how great your income.

Intentionally Affirm:

I intend that opportunity is mine for the asking. I now ask opportunity into my life. I allow it in positively; for I know that I am safe. I am grateful, I give thanks. So be it, so it is.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Weight the scales of your day more positively. Give yourself more choices and begin to make better decisions. You are putting mechanisms in place to shield yourself from negative influences and self-defeating patterns. You can begin to use suggestion to influence your life just by focusing on the good stuff. Simply, think of what you want instead of what you don’t. You can take your life where you want it to go.  Get psyched.

Let’s do the math:  24 hours make up 100% of your day. Imagine two scales counter balancing each other, one side positive and the other negative, measuring the use of your time.  Your goal is to tip the scales of time to the positive, but you don’t want to just tip them, you want to slam dunk it.  If you make the last thought before sleep a good one, you will reprogram your subconscious mind positively during sleep. You will begin your day 33% positive.   Thought by thought, decision by decision, action by action, you will tilt the percentages of fortune in your favor.  You are updating your belief system.

Begin to add choice to your daily routine and play with your options.  Have some fun going with your unique preference. Let yourself feel free to decide. As you stay more positive each day, your desires will stir. Your enthusiasm will gain momentum.  New horizons open up as you follow your interests to discover what you desire most in life.  The process is simple: in the moment ask, “What is my preference here? What would my heart say?  Which feels better?”  Then trust, decide and act. Everyday will be an opportunity to enhance your state of mind.

Your purposeful passion will become defined, preference by preference, glittering on the horizon, beckoning you forward. You now have a destination in life, a map to gain your bearings whenever you feel lost.   As you start to name your desire, intend to devote time daily to acquiring it.  An insightful shortcut to your desired goal is learning about who you most admire and understanding why.

One wonderful way to really feel amazing is to close your eyes and think of the blazing sun. See the sun shining brightly, blinding with its intensity. Then, allow in your mind’s eye your energy to merge with that of the sun.  Become one with the sun, feel the power seeping into all that you are, filling you up with pure light.  Get your fill of the power, plug in.  Shine down on all you love. See them raise their heads to take in your brilliant light and warmth.

Fill your days creating.  Let your story today be what you want.  Focus on things that make you feel good.  Find success by living your life made from your own choices.  Become the creator of your life’s story, rewrite it.

Just try to make the highest and best choice in every moment you can.  You will know it by how good you feel.  Love is the highest and best of life. Its vibration is the highest you can offer.  All things that express love have high vibrations.

Intentionally Affirm:

I intend that happiness is mine for the asking. I now ask happiness into my life. I allow it in positively; for I know that I am safe. I am grateful, I give thanks. So be it, so it is.

Your preferences guide you in this life. No one else has your unique combination of preferences.  Your preferences help you discern what makes your vibration high. This creates your exceptional path in life. You have a choice of perception because everything comes down to your preferences.

Pay close attention to the areas in which you are dissatisfied. It is there you are presented with a clarifying opportunity.  Through dissatisfaction you are forced to define what your preference is.  By aligning your thoughts and feelings with it, you have the power to draw it to you.  Take note.  In life you will continually refine your preferences.

Your preference is your guide in this life. When you listen to what your heart is saying you will steer your life well.  Your preference is designed choice by choice to bring you into alignment with your highest and best self.  You were born therefore you have value; you have something wonderful to share. Let your preferences help you define it.  When you feel excited about something you are working in the arena of your dreams.

You receive an abundance of what you ask for, get clear on what is you want. Then ask for it and imagine its yours. Come from a place that you are enough, receive and believe it. Train you mind to seek abundance rather than lack and limitation. Look for the wonders that are present in every day of your life, give thanks.  Appreciate, be grateful. Release resistance and welcome life’s bounty.

Be compassionate with yourself.  Look at yourself and say ‘You have done the best you know how to do with the resources you have available until now.’  Your belief system to this point is made up mostly of what you have been able to make up about the world and the tactics you have used to find your way through it as safely as possible.

Remember much of your belief system you constructed by default. Through environment and circumstance your young mind wrote operating programs to keep you safe. Now some of these antiquated beliefs have become negative scripts that you play out of habit.  These harmful scripts prevent you from getting what you want.  They muddle your preferences and keep you living in fear.

Your perception defines your life; there are no two ways about this.  You can take control of your perception. Actively choose your preference in each moment.  In life victory goes to those who have developed strength of character, determination and self control. Now you have options and you know it.  Take an active role in your life; let your preference lead the way.  Start from where you are.  It is the only place you can begin.

Intentionally Affirm:

I intend that choice is mine for the asking. I now ask choice into my life. I allow it in positively; for I know that I am safe. I am grateful, I give thanks.  So be it, so it is.

You are a collection of everything you have ever distilled from your life experiences.  You create adaptations to painful scenarios, like loss of love.  You then design different strategies to assist you in maneuvering through your life so you experience as little pain as possible.  Your subconscious programming is triggered automatically. You must intercede on your own behalf to grow past its limitations. You must reprogram yourself for higher success if you are going to change.  Are you ready to grow?

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass

You are reading this blog perhaps, because you have experienced a major wake up call in your life. Red Alert: you know you must do something.  Your innate resources are rallying within you.  Have faith in the purest of your energy. Simply know that you have been given life, therefore you have worth. Let this simple knowledge pervade you. You are worthy. Now realize that you are powered by an energy that beats your heart and pumps your blood. You have the right to call it to your aid actively.  Claim your vibrant health and prosperous abundance. Your choice of what you focus on makes all the difference here in the arena of your attitude.  In the end it is your attitude that wins all races.

The first step on this high road is to stop being so hard on yourself. You have done the best you could with what you had.  Try to become the silent observer, the non-judgmental witness to your situation. Have compassion for yourself.   Start to be with yourself profoundly by deeply embracing your inherent value.  You have been born. You are here therefore you are precious. If you choose, you also have something of excellence to offer—you, fully expressed.  You, actively evolving, fully vested in your life’s highest good manifest. Now stop wasting time asking Why?  Start asking How? Utilize whatever you‘ve got.

Be truthful with yourself; recognize and acknowledge your shortcomings. You are defeated only when you fail to discover the truth about yourself. You cannot find the cause of your failures outside of yourself. By letting go of blame and accepting the full responsibility for your life and all its causes, you give yourself the power to create purposefully.

Bear in mind that every sense impression you receive through your five senses, influences you as surely as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.  Your mind takes in every spoken word you hear.  It takes in every sight your eyes see. Your mind has unlimited capacity. Little ol’ you are responsible for taking control of the programming. Be gentle with yourself as you take the helm of your focus. This is a process to be mastered. When it comes to manifesting your desired life, your thoughts should be condemned or praised for their work.  How is your current thinking doing? Getting you where you want to go? If not, change.

You can begin by listening to your heart beat, simply plug your ears and listen. Think: this primal rhythm bonds me to all living things.  You can find much comfort in the sound of your heartbeat. Listen to your heart and hear the voice of love.  You are connected. You are valuable, feel it in the beating of your heart.  Let it beat the resonance of your worth deeply into the fiber of your being.  Meditate on your heart; look for its loving guidance. Hear your heart’s song and feel what inspires you, for it is uniquely your own.  Take heed and be joyous as you begin to own it.  Let these miracles into your life.

Intentionally Affirm

I intend that confidence is mine for the asking. I now ask confidence into my life. I allow it in positively; for I know that I am safe. I am grateful, I give thanks.  So be it, so it is.

I went to a free cancer support therapist.  During the first session, my assigned therapist was a young woman fresh out of training.  During our one and only session, she just looked at me and said with such big eyes “I understand, you have every right to feel this way and, wow, this is hard.”  That was not what I needed.  I needed her to ask pointed and direct questions such as:  How are you going to go on?  What are you going to do to feel good about yourself?  What are you going to do to fall in love with yourself again? How are you going to kick this cancer’s ass?

There were other such therapy missteps.  I kept looking to find the support I needed.  I found a young, 30-somethings cancer support group.  I thought: Okay, here is something I think I can commit to.  I knew I needed more help to deal with the harshness of my reality so I could continue to heal.

 I went to some therapy sessions, and I really enjoyed my therapist’s view of me.  She saw me as a woman with chutzpa and strength.  I told her I was afraid to go back to work.  I could see myself breaking down anytime anyone did a double take or stared too long.  She said, “Why don’t you have a little script ready?  You know:  ‘My name is Michele Howe and I had head and neck cancer.  They removed my facial nerve and now my face is paralyzed. And how are you?’” I stared at her slightly aghast, thinking, Hey lady I think that is Z and I am only at A, the freakin’ beginning of the alphabet of healing.  I am not ready to recite a damn script to anyone.  The disconnect from where I stood to the advice she gave was too great for me to cross at that time.  Our sessions wound down after that.

During that time I sought out head and neck cancer support groups: anything that might help me deal better.  I was excited to learn from a visit to my surgeon’s office that a woman who suffered from facial paralysis was leading a facial paralysis support group.  I needed help to learn how to cope with such an amazing change: of not being able to smile, of losing all normal appearance, of losing that familiar face in the mirror.  Without having my friendly face I realized I had really lost something.  It was something very substantial and it had sustained me through life.   I left countless messages for this support group but never received a call back.  I was angered because they should have taken their brochures out of doctors’ offices where desperate people, like  me, might be given false hope.  One day the brochures disappeared.  I was glad no one else would have my sad experience.

Step into the future baby

Step into the future baby

Step on in I said step on in

Step into the future

I gonna do it one step at a time

I gonna do it, baby, one step at a time

I fell in love with a relatively new science: quantum physics.  It was gratifying to find all of my intuition scientifically proven — energy was making itself known.  I found an amazing quantum physics study that I shared with anyone who would listen. The study showed that a particle could be in two different forms at the same time: as a particle and as a wave, until it was observed. Then it became material in the form in which the observer decided he saw it. The reality did not come first, the thought came first.   My friend Simone would say, “First came the word.”  Equipped with this knowledge I asked myself: “What shall I intend? What forms shall I make with such amazing powers of intention? What shall I create? This disfigurement will not define who I am.”