Re-entry – from a holiday, or illness, or time off can make you wonder if you’ll ever find your balance point. That’s how I felt this morning. The first two days back from our unexpected Australian trip, I saw clients. Client days are always joyful for me, witnessing the movement of individuals from the “stuck” to creative, positive forward places.

Today was a “desk day”. Time to catch-up on all the things that had happened while I was away, and the pile seemed overwhelming! Yes – I get there too – more “to do” than SuperWoman and 6 of her super-hero friends could possibly accomplish in one day rose before me this morning. Daunting, yes – until I did what I know how to do – I chose my word for the day.

Focus.

Seriously, there are 999 supportive energy words in Pocket Full of Possibilities, and I muscle-tested my way to page 6, column 2, section 1, word 4. If you’ve taken Flip Your Switch, are a one-on- one client, or have done Daily Practice 101, you’ll understand what I mean. If you haven’t let me just say there was a 1 in 999 chance that “Focus” would be my guiding word for today.

I opened up my journal and wrote the word: Focus.

Then I did these re-patterning statements:

• I forgive myself for believing I need to go to a place of overwhelm.
• I give myself permission to focus.
• I can focus or I can be overwhelmed – I choose to focus
• I am free to move through today with focus.
• I know what it feels like to be focused, I just focused for 10 minutes on my word for today and I am moving forward!
• I am focused and my creativity is kicking in – that’s just like me on a very full, and very accomplishing day!

At the end of the day I am gratified by my accomplishments. I used a bunch of the activities I teach – Brain Dump, Just 10 Minutes, Do Something Physical, Highlighting the “To Done” list – yes I am my own best client!

And the most important one of all – being gentle and kind to myself by accepting I am human.

Although, looking back – it was a pretty much SuperWoman kind of day!

Namaste,

Suze

Airplanes. They feel like fax machines for people. You file in, sit for a period of time, and file out somewhere completely different. Popping out of one “reality” and into another one. Both “realities” continue with or without my presence, and intellectually I know there are any number of other realities I could step into or out of simply with a decision.

A phone call last week 30 minutes before my weekly radio show switched our realities quickly. Within 24 hours we were on a plane bound for a family funeral, the brown winter landscape of Canada giving way to the “green so intense it hurts my eyes” of Australia. We’d planned to be here next month, yet today I find myself keeping cool in the air-conditioned kitchen of my partner’s family home, rather than keeping warm by the fire of my home in Calgary.

An early morning walk in the “gum” trees this morning was accompanied by the laughter of the kookaburra, and yesterday we walked at the ocean and body surfed in the waves. I went out to investigate the chainsaw sound of the gardener, and watched him “trim” the Bird of Paradise bush in the front yard…the trimmings of which became a bouquet on the sideboard. The Aussie relatives laughed when I said it would cost more than $100 to purchase the bouquet in Calgary, and here the blooms are composted as lawn trimmings. Different realities. Different decisions.

• I forgive myself for believing the ways things have been are the way they have to stay.
• I give myself permission to change the aspects of my reality I don’t like with a decision.
• I choose to make decisions that support the reality I want to create.
• I am free to change my reality, simply with a decision.
• I know what it feels like to change my reality easily, it happened when I…
• I am the co-creator of my reality, and I consciously make decisions that support me.

My day-to-day world seemed so important, yet one phone call altered our lives forever. It doesn’t need to take a long time to change your reality – just a decision.

Namaste, Suze

Luck of the Irish aside, perhaps it is less about luck, and more about Intention…
“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.” – Samuel Goldwyn – 1879-1974, Film Producer

• I forgive myself for believing I’m unlucky.
• I give myself permission to acknowledge the opportunities I have and expand them.
• I choose to proactively prepare myself for opportunities by keeping my mind clear and my heart open.
• I am free to create my own luck through positive intention.
• I know what it feels like to be in the right place at the right time, it happened when I …
• I am lucky! I’m alive and enjoying the beauty of this day!

Clear your mind of the “chatter” and negativity so when opportunity appears you recognize it and invite it into your life!

Namaste,

Suze

Have you ever given someone you care about great advice – only to have them ignore it and do something else? You KNEW if they’d only listened to you, they would have successfully navigated the challenge and moved forward with ease…why won’t they listen?

Our conversations are filled with it. We observe, and then we advise. We look to others for suggestions, and then discount it because it doesn’t fit, or it seems impossible. Why is that?

We all come to situations and circumstances with our own perceptions. A client I was speaking with this week told me “But I can’t trust people – they always say they are going to do something, and then they never follow through. I wish they would just do what they say they are going to.”

After re-patterning she realized she had actually stopped trusting herself. She’d made promises to herself and not followed through letting fear get in the way. She had a couple of choices – she could beat herself up and put herself down for not following through,  she could continue to let fear take her out of the game, or she could use the situation and take her own great advice…

Perhaps you’ve found yourself in a similar situation…

• I forgive myself for believing I have to stay stuck in this situation.
• I give myself permission to think about what I would suggest my best friend do if they were in this situation.
• I can stay stuck, or I can follow my own great advice. I choose to follow my own advice!
• I am free to try on what I would suggest to someone I care about. In the next 2 hours I will….
• I know what it feels like to move forward with ease – it happened when I …
• I am listening to what I would tell my good friend, and applying it to myself – this moves me forward!

Last week I suggested that you just stop, unplug, have a nap. I took my own terrific advice, and asked CTR to air a replay. I’m looking forward to being back, live on air this week, and chatting with you from3 -4pm (MT) Thursdays on ctrnetwork.com or catch any or all of the archives whenever you have time to listen.

Know you can re-pattern anything you choose!

… in fact you already ARE, simply by reading this. Your mind is incredible – let’s maximize your potential by letting it work for you. Go ahead, listen to the advice you are giving someone else, and then apply it to yourself. It is fun to take your own terrific advice…and it works!

Namaste,

Suze

“Slow down, you move too fast

 You’ve got to make the morning last.

Just kickin’ down the cobblestones,

Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy”

- Simon and Garfunkel The 59^th Street Bridge Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc

• I forgive myself for believing I have to keep pushing.
• I give myself permission to just be.
• I can push, or I can just be. I can’t do both at the same time, so I consciously choose to “just BE”.
• I am free to unplug form email, voice mail, texting, TV… and just be with myself – take a nap, go for a walk, curl up and read a book.
• I know how good it feels to just Be…it happens when I listen to Simon and Garfunkel’s The 59^th Street Bridge Song
• The only one who can Be me is me…I am just Be-ing me.

It’s whimsical, it’s fun and it will take all of three minutes and 12 seconds…go ahead. Choose to stop and give a listen to what’s REALLY important!

Namaste,

Suze