Today you will explore the impact of each action you take. You will get down to when your action is actually a reaction and how you can avoid it.

Pitfalls:

An action is any activity representing a positive movement. It unfolds and projects outward when it generates from good creative energy within. When you are in action, you always grow spiritually. A reaction, although still a motion, is an act that causes you to recoil backward. It exerts a reverse force opposite to your natural flow. It is usually the result of triggering an emotional attitude. In other words, you have been ticked off. In this state-of-consciousness, your action will be reactive. You may be charged with anger or resentment toward the cause of your reaction. Whatever the reason, it separates you from your own centered balance. It is as if your own energy has been hacked and now you are allowing this same cause to use you for its own convenience. Anything you do while it is ruling over you will not produce any beneficial results. The only remedy is to snap out of it. The sooner you clarify this, the sooner you can compose yourself and get back on your feet. Do not let anything use you. Put your action to good use.

Solutions:

Here is the not so obvious truth. An action can also be passive conduct. You could be operating actively through your thoughts or energy without even showing it. As long as you are engaged in a clear and positive activity on the inside, your action could be preparing you to open up and produce great results. You could be collecting your thoughts or clarifying your plans even though it may look as if you are at a stand-still from the outside. What if you are passively-negative – boiling on the inside but acting cool on the surface? You have turned into a time bomb – waiting to burst. This is a negative reaction and will not go unnoticed. Everyone around you will feel this energy. Distinguish the slightest difference in what motivates you. Let the more creative and beneficial inspirations move you into real action. Obvious or not, they will always play out for your best interest.

Today you will look at the rules you abide by. The main standards you apply in your own life will be revisited as you reconstitute the system of regulations you have been adhering to. What is the best criteria to use when setting the foundation of what rules your life?

Pitfalls:

Do you ever feel as if someone is pulling you by the nose to go in the direction they want you to? This may be because you are adhering to the standards they have adopted and are not following your own. This would be a good time to revisit who is ruling your life and make some new decisions to better serve you. It is not uncommon for a person to comply with parental or societal standards throughout their early development. Later on, you begin to realize you are your own person and can create and establish your own set of standards. Why do you need to do this? As long as you are playing by rules made by others, you will be pleasing them and not yourself.

Solutions:

Your state of consciousness and your intuition points you to what is right in any given situation. At different stages in your life, you need to clarify the standards which embody your basic principles. Although you may adopt some of the ones from your environment, you still need to decide what works for you and what does not. The true criteria is: be loyal to yourself first. Replace what is expected of you with what you want to have. Take the responsibilities others have put on you and turn them into opportunities for yourself. Only comply with what allows you to be yourself. Bring out from within what you truly believe in and establish this as the outer law to follow. You need proper procedures on how to enforce it. Create your own processes to execute the new standards in a way that is doing justice to you. Reconstitute your life to live it your way.

Today you deserve praise and a big plum for all of your tireless efforts. Why is accepting rewards in your life so important? And why not give them to yourself more?

Pitfalls:

If you have ever been criticized, put down or ridiculed, have you allowed this to tarnish the way you feel about yourself? It is time to realize if someone else either blamed you or showed disapproval, it is primarily because of their confusion. Telling you what you have done wrong does not do anything good for you. If they were balanced and really wanted to help you, all they needed to do was inspire you by showing you how to do things better. Your self-acceptance comes from you. It does not depend on the approval of others. You do not need permission to be yourself. Learn to be selective about what comes your way. Disregard any negative opinions and feel at home with who you are. At the same time, be open to receive all of the positive backing and energy flowing into you.

Solutions:

You need to give yourself credit and encouragement. Honor yourself and enjoy the fruits of your continuous creativity. You make a lot of things happen every single day, even if you do not realize right away how important it all is. Feel comfortable with your own trust and support. You are a pure treasure when you discover your own golden nugget. You can move mountains when you give yourself a decent chance. Life is giving you a bonus today. Accept it. Enjoy the great ability you have to use your own inner power. Be on guard to protect yourself from anything trying to take away your incredible value. Stand up for yourself and take the plum!

It is time to do some opportune planning and clarify the most beneficial strategy to put all of your energy to its best use. Today, get to the bottom of what it means to be tactical. How can you discern the most prudent way to get organized?

Pitfalls:

Your energy flows at the speed of light. Time flies when you accomplish what you need to do. Everything works seamlessly and smooth like singing a song. If you are experiencing anything short of this, guess what? Somehow, you must be using your energy in an improper way. Unless you are careful about what you are doing, you may be leaving room for interruptions in your flow. If things are not done in the right place and in the right timing, then you are working against the energy. Even when you are trying to use care and do a diligent job, if it is not working like a charm, face it – something needs adjusting. You can either drag it out until you get even more frustrated or you can take a moment to be tactical and find a desirable balance with skillful actions and productive operations. The choice is yours.

Solutions:

Look at your day as a project. You are the leader in control who has to manage and coordinate everything. How are you going to approach it? Using business energy helps you clearly discern the facts and consider your best strategy. Always have in mind what is important. Keep the main thing, the main thing. Use your own experience to know what does work and what does not work in order to make sound decisions. Be sensible to your own needs and diplomatic with others. Be vigilant with your resources. Find shortcuts to save time and factor in re-checking points throughout the day to revisit how things are playing out. Be suave in communicating to those who need to be on board with what is going on. With this tactical approach, you will soon be running your life like a mean clean spiritual machine!

Today, take delight in all of your experiences. Your positive energy will triumph as you rejoice like never before. Is there a way to enjoy your life even more?

Pitfalls:

All the good and not-so-good things in your life compete for your attention every minute. Since the not-so-good things need to be handled in order for everything to go smoothly, more often than not, you may try to fix them first. If this turns out to be your rule-of-thumb, even before you have had a chance to relax and enjoy life, you may already feel wasted. You may end up feeling disillusioned or dismayed. While there are many things to be grateful for, you may not take an opportunity to experience them. How can you turn this around? Never make your personal issues a top priority. Make sure to enjoy yourself first. Then, give the proper attention to the rest as needed. How can you manage to remain happy when something is hanging over your head? It is possible when you learn detachment.

Solutions:

How many times have you heard people give you a report on their day or vacation while highlighting every single trouble they had? Almost everybody does it. Even TV news stresses on the negative occurrences rather than the positive. They know their ratings will plummet if they focus on the bright side of life. Is it a surprise you may be wired to think that unless you have to deal with something unpleasant you cannot justify feeling gratified or pleasing yourself? Well, here is how to get it straight. Give yourself permission to be in a wonderful mood and make this your dominant vibe. Schedule your plans around what makes you happy while keeping them in the spotlight. Discount any not-so-cool things you need to deal with as secondary and fit them around your more important priorities. This way, they can never take you over. You can easily handle them on the side while being in a totally awesome mode already. Do yourself a big favor: relax, delight and rejoice. You will notice the good things will increase and the rest will get insignificant and dissipate. Decide to start being more loyal to yourself today. Wear that big smile of yours all the time!

The ultimate reason you are dealing with any matter is to conclude it successfully. You need to be results-driven to accomplish anything. What helps you conclude things easily?

Pitfalls:

If you put your effort into something but did not finish it, this could make you feel as if your time was wasted. Not being able to carry things through may mean you lack patience or stamina to persevere through the challenges along the way. Is being involved in the process the only thing that matters? Or do you really want to bring things to a successful conclusion? The final phase shows how well everything was already done. This gives you the total picture of how it all worked. If completing things matters, you will soon realize you need to prepare from the very beginning.

Solutions:

The best way to conclude anything properly is to set the energy before you start it. If you really want to make it happen, it will. Having this perspective will keep you much more organized throughout. Building a solid foundation will help things go smooth and bring them to a natural easy conclusion. If you are unsure or unclear, or just want to see what will happen, you will not go very far. If you do not know what you want in the end, how would you know if you got there? Being decisive adds extra stability to bring things to a positive result. When you mean business, your eye is on the target and it is harder to get distracted. Think practically and always simplify. Conclude what has not worked well and start with a fresh outlook on how you can do it better the next time. Then, see it through with grace and ease.

Your beingness is the state of your energy in the present moment. It is not what you do but who you are spiritually. How can you celebrate your real true essence?

Pitfalls:

There is an assumed expectation in any society for you to be this, that or another way and to do certain things in order to be considered adequate. If you do not fit into this established norm, you will be looked down upon and this may cause you to feel as if there is something wrong with you. There is no truth in this. The reason you may not fit in this little box is because spiritually you are free. You are likely to be more open than others who cannot understand you. It is who you are – not what you do – that underlies the total you. This is why you are a human being and not a human doing.  What you do in a specific instant does not always reflect on who you are inside. There is so much more than what meets the eye. Your beingness has been formed through what you have experienced in every one of your lifetimes since the beginning of time. What has shaped you goes so far back that no one could ever trace who you really are in order to understand you completely. You are unique and invaluable – just the way you have become so far.

Solutions:

You are the only one who has the full view of your entire beingness. No one else could possibly know you as well as you do. If you have been turned down from a job interview or rejected by a friend, or society frowns on you because you are not the 9-to-5 type, how much do they know about the real you? Whatever criteria they are using does not even begin to define you. While they may not know all of you, you do. It is up to you to show them your best side and stand up for yourself without getting disappointed if someone cannot fathom who you are inside. This is why you need to stay connected to your own innate beingness. Trust it, feel solid about it and open up to show the best of what you have. Celebrate yourself and invite everyone to the party. Enjoy it and let your life be a joy to others. Just be the being you are and allow your beingness to come through.

What an opportunity you have today to resolve anything that is not going in the way you would like. Everything is subject to change. How can you change things for the better?

Pitfalls:

Sooner or later, you need to resolve any situation that does not work for you. It cannot be sustainable since your positive energy is not there to support it. There is no need to spend time suffering or complaining. Do something about it. The sooner you start looking for a solution, the easier it is for you to find it. It has to work for everyone involved. Otherwise, the person who throws a wrench into the whole thing will not leave you alone. To create the best outcome, do some fact-finding and explore all of the options. Ask yourself: what are the possibilities? What will work? When this becomes clear, communicate it to everyone concerned and make sure they understand it. If they need to come up with part of the resolution themselves, encourage them to do so. No matter what, there is always a way to resolve anything.

Solutions:

Looking for the magical solution requires a positive desire to find it. This needs to be done with respect and true concern. The mere presence of the spirit to want it organized better in the process of seeking a win-win for everyone will bring it about. At this point, you are half-way there. As long as you are sincerely trying to configure how it could work and you are not giving up, you will find your solution, even if others may refuse to cooperate. This is because even a little bit of positive energy can overpower a whole lot of negative. There is no need to live with things you are not completely happy about. By looking into the ultimate conclusion today, you will start to resolve everything in your life easier than you thought.