Four Stages

Hello Friends,

Every time I come to this blog, I come to share. It is my intention to facilitate a continuous awakening to your inner power. I have come across this video and recognize my own personal awareness after watching it. I believe it is a very powerful tool and hope you all find it worth further conversation. Please leave your comments at the end of this post to continue the journey we are all sharing.



Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.

Finding Your Joy

Where is your Happy Place? Really, we all have one, but have you been there lately? Think of the one person, place, or thing that brings you unlimited, overwhelming joy and happiness as you recall that precious moment when your heart and soul soared in complete freedom and splendor. I hope you don't have to look too deep for this experience.

Your "Happy Place" might be when you first held a newborn child in your arms, or when you found that perfect romantic spot to share your love, or maybe a quiet walk along the white sands of your favorite ocean...it could be anything. But it will be your "Happy Place".

Take some time each day to go there in your mind and experience that joyful moment. Lift yourself from the everyday stress and struggle you are feeling. Wash yourself in this joyful experience and refresh your spirit.

Take time for you each day. This will refuel your spirit and give you strength beyond words. Your power lies in your finding your joy. Give it a try. If you are having trouble finding your joy, this link may give you a boost.

Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.

Happy New Year 2009

Today I wish everyone the Best of All Things for this new year 2009! I am taking the following message directly from Insights which you are encouraged to sign up for. It is free and the messages are thought provoking. Welcome Everyone to 2009!


Take a Year-End Attitude Inventory

It's a wise custom to end an old year and begin a new one with serious self-reflection. What did you learn this year that can improve your life and make you a better person?

Start by examining the way you think and feel about your job, your relationships, and yourself. After all, the single most important factor in personal happiness and your impact on others is your attitude.

In the geometry of life, the axiom is "positive attitudes produce positive results." They make success more likely, failures less harmful, pleasures more frequent, and pain more bearable. Some people tend to bring warm sunshine wherever they go; others bring cold chills. What do you bring?

To find out where you can improve, take an honest inventory of your predispositions, the attitude you're most likely to start with.

. Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic?
. Do you tend to assume the best or expect the worst of people?
. Is your first instinct to be empathetic or judgmental?
. Is your first instinct to be supportive or critical?
. Do you send the message that you enjoy life or that you're barely enduring it?
. Do you come across as the captain of your own ship or simply a passenger?

Wherever you are on the positive-attitude spectrum, think how much better things could be if you were more consistently and self-consciously optimistic, empathetic, supportive, grateful, enthusiastic, hopeful, and cheerful.

So why not resolve to think, act, and speak more positively about yourself, your family, your coworkers, and everyone else in your life?

Michael Josephson


Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.

Releasing the Past - Moving Forward

We are fast closing the 2008 year and stepping forward into 2009. What does that mean to you? Eleanor Roosevelt said, "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." I ask you, can we really embrace the beauty of our dreams when we continue to cling to our past?

I have a strong belief that, in order to move forward into our dreams, we must learn to release our past. There is little "happy" in dragging the past into the future. This is definitely baggage we should check and leave somewhere. But, why is it so difficult for us to release the remains of yesterday and move forward with our lives? It's not as though we enjoy being stuck in those painful and frustrating moments of drama. Yet, often we carry painful memories with us year after year. We seem stuck in the ugly murk and the longer we remain stuck in our dark past, the more the fear and misery control and wound us.

Let's think of some of the things that cling to us as we move into the new year: divorce, abuse, death, losing a job, being passed over for the promotion, being taken for granted, financial failure, disfunctional families, forclosures, evictions, drugs and alcohol, glass ceilings, terroism, elections, war, a stolen parking space, muggings, rapes, car crashes, failed health, etc. These are all dark, distressing, and disappointing experiences. Were these times horrible? Did they cut deep wounds into our spirits? Yes.

It is understandable that we would have trouble letting go of these memories, as they are a part of us. Yet, often, they are not just a "part" of our life experiences, they have become the biggest part. The very mention of the unhappy memory triggers the fear, anger, and pain we have attached to that rememberence. We seem to move through our lives in normal fashion because the painful moments have been pushed down, buried. However, they resurface when the our so called button is pushed. At that moment, all the original emotions come bursting from the murk. Why? Because we have decided to hold on to them instead of taking responsibility for them.

I'm not saying we are to take responsibility for the events themselves, but to take responsibility for the way we handle our emotions resulting from these events. We have choices. If we fail to make a choice, then the negative energy surrounding these painful events and memories will continue to rage out of control. Recognizing this truth will give you the power to step away from the event and to move forward. Remember, the more energy we give to the memory, the longer it will stay with us and the larger it will become. Release yourself from the prison like hold these past experiences have on you.

Now, the big "HOW" appears on the horizon of our lives. Is this an easy process? Not usually. However, to be rid of the pain, we must experience, face, and walk through the Terror Barrier* connected to the event. Today, I want to give you some tools to help in the process.

1. Acknowledge the pain: Allow yourself to feel what you avoided the first time around. Don't hold back. Let all the emotions run full course. Cry, scream, write it out. Tell that person exactly what you think about them. Don't hold back, no one is going to see it but you. You are in control here, not the event.

2. Forgive: Forgiveness may take time. It is not an overnight happening. You don't just make a decision to forgive someone and then everything is ok. It is a process, a choice that may take practice. Realize that forgiveness benefits YOU, not the one who hurt you. By refusing to forgive the other person, you are keeping yourself where they put you: in the victim's role. Forgiving someone does NOT mean you are condoning what they did. It does not mean you absolve them of their guilt. It means you no longer hold yourself at their mercy. You release the hold their actions have on you. You cease to give any energy to the feeding of this event.

Often we feel we have moved on, but if a memory can continue to cause you fear, anger, or pain, the healing has not happened and you can not move on to your dreams. Someone once told me that the difference between avoidance and letting go is in the choice. Avoidance is a subconscious act of fear while letting go is a healthy, conscious decision.

As we look forward to our New Year, lets spend some time making a conscious decision to face our Terrior Barrier* and move through the fear. Our dreams are waiting.

Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.


*Terror Barrier, (noun) a mythical wall of fear that stops all progress and forward movement.

Welcome The Holidays

With the holidays upon us, there will be mixed feelings among us. As a child it seems very exciting to have the festivities, but as we grow older, conflicts occur and hard feelings exist between family members. How will you deal with your conflicts? Let's try an experiment with visualization. Use your imagination and get creative. Napoleon Hill told us in his book Think and Grow Rich, that we can have anything we want as long as we are very clear in the desire. When we talk about being clear, it is important to give great detail to the result you are hoping to achieve. I call this switching channels. You are no longer going to be involved with the old movie you have been watching, experiencing, and living. You will switch channels and it is up to you to write the script. Think about what you want your relationship to look like. How do you feel in this new movie? What wonderful conversations are you having? Put your energy into a very positive script. Focus on this new movie, feel the joy of being in this new movie, and believe that it is all possible. A great deal of mending can occur with a simple channel switch. Start attracting the things you want in your relationships with family during these holidays. Stop putting your energy into the negative; you only attract more of that. Welcome the holidays with a spirit of joy and gratitude and enjoy your new movie!

Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.

Risk

Risk...here is a word that brings different emotions to the surface for many people. How do you feel right now when I ask if you are a Risk Taker? It often depends on the belief systems you were given as a child. Children are often controlled with fear tactics and for good reason. We don't want to see our children touching a hot stove or getting into a car with a stranger. These early lessons set up the basis of our beliefs and how we handle many things in our lives when making decisions. As a teacher, I would like you to know there are positive alternatives for educating without using these fear based methods. However, I'm not here to discuss child rearing today.

The choice to take a risk in your life depends on your fear level. How uncomfortable are you with change? Most people by nature do not enjoy change. We have a comfort level which creates a sense of security. This security may be felt in your financial world, your professional career, individual health, spiritual commitments, or personal relationships. Security often breeds complacency. Do you take things for granted? Are you learning and growing? It is said if we are not growing then we are dying. That sounds pretty harsh, but really, think about that.

Helen Keller told us, "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Perhaps changing the way we experience fear is the beginning step to taking risks. Begin to recognize your fear of something as a new possibility of personal growth. Stepping through your fear is like walking through the door of opportunity. There may be discomfort in this movement, but with faith, belief in your personal power, and your knowledge of the Universal Laws, the journey is worth the experience.

Often the "fear" is of failing. But, what is failure? Failure is part of our learning process. It is never a final moment...that is unless you stop doing or you die. In my High School classroom, I encouraged the students to make mistakes and to bring them to the entire class for discussion. It was in the mistakes that they learned new ways of moving through problems, situations, and possibilities. Outside of our classroom situations, we as adults can develop a support system, a mastermind group, to present our mistakes for discussion. Learning about our relationship with fear, mistakes, and failure will teach us to be positive risk takers. Our decisions will be made,not with abandon and disregard as we often envision a risk taker, but with understanding and power. As Robert F. Kennedy put it, "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Understand the fear we feel in taking a risk is a positive push in the right direction. It is not necessarily a "fight or flight" instinct.

I once heard a high wire circus acrobat say, "To take the risk can be compared to life on the wire, everything else is just waiting. What are you waiting for?

Linda Kick here, wishing you Success in all things.

Life Changes

Thanks for being so patient. I am back. James Ray was amazing and has great words of wisdom for each of us to hear. Remember, always use your intellectual faculty of "reason" to decide what works for you. No need to keep anything that doesn't fit into your dreams. We are not sheep and do not need to follow anyone. You make your own decisions and take responsibility for your own life results.

Speaking of which, I just came back from a cruise (YES, IT WAS WONDERFUL) with Bob Proctor. Traveling through the Caribbean and finally a few days in the Florida Keys. Working with my intuition and imagination, I am packing up and will move to the Keys in the very near future. So, life is changing and it is my thoughts that are creating this new result. This may seem like a big decision, moving from Calif. to Fla., however, in personal development, it is all about taking the risk, growing, and moving past the fear of change. If we are not growing, we are dying.

What kind of risk are you taking in your life to grow? Look at each day and do something new. Now be grateful for this growth and your new life change.

Linda Kick here, wishing you SUCCESS in all things.