Yesterday's affirmation
was “My courage, curiosity, confidence & creativity lead me to
new & exciting opportunities to increase my abundance.”
A while back I found I
was getting bogged down & frustrated with my affirmations &
lost focus. I was spreading myself thin; trying to get too much done
with my special sentences. I hit upon the idea of assigning each day
of the week a particular focus so that I could make sure I was doing
what I needed to do & give each area for improvement my full
focus for an entire day, knowing that the others were going to get
taken care of later in the week. It seems to be working miracles.
Wednesday has been
designated “Widen your horizons Wednesday”, a day for focussing
on affirmations for new, exciting & beneficial opportunities.
Today I got three...
Following my support
group meeting on Saturday I got in touch with an agency called
Positive Assets who can assist people with mental health problems get
back into work. I got a lovely call from a lady called Rachael who
said that I may not for the criteria to receive assistance directly
from them, but gave me a ton of helpful advice & hints for stuff
to be getting on with just in case.
A conversation about my
plans at the morning school gate drop off got me an offer of advice,
guidance, potential access to a local business network & some
knowledge about applying for grants to get my plans up & running,
something I'd never thought of before.
Bumping into an
acquaintance in the doctors reception led to a conversation about
computer training & free courses on computing & web site
design. Something I'll need to get done to make Jato fly.
Which all got me thinking
about something I used to credit all my good fortune &
achievements to; serendipity. I used to put all the good things that
happened down to serendipity, simply being in the right place at the
right time, opportunities miraculously opening up, goals being
achieved just when I needed them. I didn't & wouldn't take any
credit for them myself, that seemed somehow uncomfortable & not
at all correct. Taking credit for anything good has never sat well
with me.
Now I've done some
essential & overdue rewiring & maintenance on my ailing
thinking organs when reflecting on past victories I can see that all
my achievements have come about from my effort, my affirmation &
manifestation when I needed it most. When I really needed to, I could
pull off the tricks I'm now using every day to get what I needed.
Then I realised my mistake. By attributing all my hard won
achievements to serendipity I was giving away my own power. By not
acknowledging my own hard work & winning strategies I'd
completely dis-empowered myself. So I'm going to stop talking about
serendipity, she's stolen an awful lot from me & sneakily kept
the praise & credit when she had no right to. Get thee to gaol
serendipity, you are banished.
I'm grateful for a full
day, grateful for the help offered by folk, grateful for the effort &
courage I put into dreaming that my plans might be possible, grateful
for convincing myself that I can move forward, grateful for the idea
of writing “opportunities” on every shopping & to do list.
I'm grateful for all the
good things that “Thankful Thursday” is going to bring too.
