Every once in a while I come across a site that inspires me, so I'll record the address on a post-it note hoping to find time to go back. The following sites are this month's finds. I thought you might like to check them out for some warm fuzzies!

I guess at this stage of my life I'm getting tired of waiting for someday ..... the someday when everything is going to fall into place, where bounty abounds and I put out my full-time healer sign on the door - never to look back again to my 9-5 job that currently sustains me and my family. When do I start living the life I was meant to live and following the passion of my heart and soul's purpose? What have I been waiting for all this time? What has stopped me from following my dreams - fear of failure, fear of success, the relationships I knew I had to leave behind? When will I stop living this life for everyone except me? I wonder why I always thought everyone else's issues were so much more significant than mine and why I kept putting my goals off. I started playing the lottery. I figured I'm lucky enough and I really needed a big break so that I could get on with the happily-ever-after part. I wasn’t even greedy about it. I didn’t need the recent windfall of $340 million. I would have been perfectly happy with just a few million. My dreams as a whole seemed so big, almost like a story book fantasy. Is that possible? What about these relationships in my life that no longer served a purpose? Why haven't I let them go in peace? Was I afraid of spending some time alone? And what about the healthy body I've been meaning to have - oh yeah and my spotless house? I had high hopes of hiring a cleaning service, a nutritionist, a cook, a personal trainer and someone to clean up after my pets and if they wanted to write out my bills too, well that would be icing on the cake. I swear I'd have it all if I just had more time.

Trust

"Believe in yourself, and have faith that God and the angels are with you. Ask them to help you to lose the fears that block you from enjoying full faith.

Your angels know that you've been disappointed in the past. These experiences may have eroded your faith in yourself, other people, or even God. However, the angels remind you of the importance of holding on to your faith.

The angels wish to emphasize the value of self- trust. They know that you, like everyone, have made mistakes in the past. However, these mistakes have not eroded your true nature. You still have omnipresent God within you, and God is infallible. The angels ask you to trust in God and to trust in them. They will help you trust yourself."

~Taken from "Healing With the Angels" cards by Doreen Virtue. Published by Hay House.

~The following is a reprint from an email I received recently. I think it speaks volume's! ~

"A friend was telling me the other day about how she was talking to her mother on the cell phone as she was driving on her way home from work, when suddenly her mother said, "You know, you never call me except when you're driving around. It's as if you're squeezing me in and don't want to take the time to call me properly when you're at home."

Well, needless to say, my friend was taken aback. She never thought of it that way before. Have you had an experience like that? It seems as if we often don't give our full attention to people when we communicate with them.

I know, for myself, I often find myself doing some other task, like watering the plants or washing dishes, as I talk on the phone to someone. Maybe it's because we tend to get caught up in the idea of "multi-tasking," and we feel we just don't have the luxury of doing one thing at a time. (And wouldn't you know it -- nine times out of ten, when you split your attention as you multi-task, all of those tasks you're trying to squeeze in aren't done as well as if you had simply devoted your full attention to one and got it out of the way, and then proceeded to the next.)

But no matter what, our communications with others deserve our full attention. After all, it's how we connect to others, develop relationships, and share information and a part of ourselves. As the author Herman Melville has said, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

As for me, I'm rethinking how I communicate. How about you?"

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Who is toxic in your personal life? Is there someone whom you absolutely dread having to be around? Try as you may, you cannot please this person, evoke a sense of pride from this person and sometimes, it's impossible to get anything but negativity out of each encounter you have with this person. How do you feel after having spent your time around her? Do you feel good or more often than not, do you leave her feeling "less than" or perhaps "put in your place"? Do you go out of your way to guard your words so as not to bring any wrath upon your head? Do you sacrifice your own happiness in order to keep the peace with her?

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