The underbelly of resistance is fear.
Fear is a highly motivating emotion that will always tell us what we value the most and what we need to do.
The more afraid we are of the change that presents itself, the more sure we can be that it is absolutely necessary for our personal or professional evolution.
Winged by faith, take the leap and soar to the heavenly vistas of living true. 🦋
When we change our inner world of thoughts and feelings, our newly aligned behaviour begins to effect our outer world and we awaken to what we innately know that ‘yes’ we are a spark of the divine creating the moments of our life. 🦋
Nothing can trigger you except for your own perspective.
Nothing can restrain you except for your unruly imagination.
Nothing can control you except for your own unquestioned beliefs.
You are the source that reacts to people, situations and the world.
You are the decider, determining the quality of your experiences. 🦋
When we change our thoughts we change our world, we create a new reality. 🦋
Thoughts inspire feelings. Change your thoughts and you will feel differently. Yes, but you can’t really change your thinking until you are aware of your thoughts and you understand them. 🦋
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes. Everything moves. Everything revolutionizes.
‘I choose to be me’ is every self-empowered woman’s mantra, philosophy and religion.
Metamorphosis is the magical lesson that butterflies teach us … change promises growth … new beginnings … a fresh start … before we can truly engage with the new … we need to let go of the old and outdated … when we transform our perspective of who we are … we herald in new thoughts, attitudes and behaviours that inherently give birth to new possibilities and experiences … the one constant adage of nature … everything is always changing …
~ Judit e. Szabo
You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life.
It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend or new acquaintance.
You don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small.
It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change.
But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and “continues” to treat you in a harmful way, they have to go.
~ Danielle Koepke
With the right attitude, stress can be a great motivator to get something accomplished, resolved, changed or perhaps to step back. As in all situations, our perspective determines our experience. If we are experiencing relentless stress, it is a signal that it is time to make a decision, to start moving, creating, communicating or to unplug. You know what to do. Do it.
~ Judit e. Szabo
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
~ Jim Rohn
What do you need to rebuild or transform?
The situation(s) in your personal life or professional domain that persistently cause the greatest stress, pain or drain.
~ Judit e. Szabo
How to Change? Keep moving forward on the contrasting continuum.
~ Judit e. Szabo
We all know that one courageous choice we need to take a chance on, to change a challenging or unsavory situation, for the better.
~ Judit e. Szabo
Are you living a life you are proud of?
If not … do you have the courage, strength and perseverance to begin again?
Yes you do.
It’s a choice.
~ Judit e. Szabo
To change anything we must be absolutely clear about what it is that we are committed to experiencing, accomplishing or attaining. Clarity of vision defines our focus while a blurry vision will undoubtedly give us random results.
~ Judit e. Szabo
The key to changing the world, to changing your life, and to empowering those around you is authenticity…the willingness to be yourself…the willingness to be vulnerable…the willingness to feel…the willingness to live…by eradicating the judgment that you’ve imposed on yourself and society has opposed on you.
~ Panache Desai
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimize the trauma of change in our personal lives.
~ Hugh Mackay
Artist: Unknown
Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now, and then write out the details of your soul’s vision for this part of your life.
Take a few minutes to write it all down.
~ Debbie Ford
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
~ Amelia Earhart
Artist: Fay Ku
Every person must follow her own process.
No one else knows what is right for another.
There is no goal in living our process, except to live it.
Our processes can change.
Our lives can change as we participate in the process.
Our only requirement is to trust the process and live in faith.
Our responsibility is to live out what our Creator asks of us.
To live our lives.
Living our process demands a deep spiritual commitment of being one with one’s life.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Artist: Stephen Dell’Aria
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don’t blame the lettuce.
You look for reasons it is not
doing well.
It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun.
You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have
problems with our friends or family, we blame the other
person.
But if we know how to take care of them, they will
grow well, like the lettuce.
Blaming has no positive
effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument.
That is my experience.
No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you,
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Artist: Cami Rodriguez
If you don’t create change, change will create you.
~ Unknown
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ Victor Frankl
Change is the only constant
~ Proverb
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~ Henri Bergson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
~ Mary Engelbreit
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
~ Unknown
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~ Confucius
Our only security is our ability to change.
~ John Lilly
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Artist: Michael B Edwards
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
Photo: Alatna River Valley
Photo Credit: Michael Christopher Brown
Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.
Both thinking and feelings are essential, and both are found in successful organizations, but the heart of change is in the emotions.
~ John Kotter and Dan Cohen
We but mirror the world.
All the tendencies present in the outer world
are to be found in the world of our body.
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies
in the world would also change.
As a man changes his own nature,
so does the attitude
of the world change towards him.
This is the divine mystery supreme.
A wonderful thing it is and the source of
our happiness.
We need not wait to see what others do.
~M.K. Gandhi
Appreciative Self-Inquiry:
What change do I wish to see in my own world?
Written
on April 12, 2012