The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

The neat thing about our celebrating the new year is that we give ourselves permission to “let go” of the past year. It’s kind of like unloading the weight of “what was” you’ve been carrying around with you.

Thank goodness many of us share a cultural tradition of doing this at least once a year. It is hard to imagine that in many parts of the world nobody lets go of anything. In fact, generations of people maintain their ancient anger over situations which have no direct relevance to their current reality. Blaming that situation for the problems they and their ancestors have faced through time.

Many of us have similar situations which have taken place during our own lifetimes.

Traumatic events which altered the course of our lives. Maybe we have brought closure and resolution to those situations. If so we are able to view them in a unemotional manner.

One the other hand, if we are still haunted by emotional ghosts from past memories, it may be time to consciously minimize and dissipate the residue of those incidents. Like it or not they continue to play a role in your day to day life.

Unresolved issues control your attitudes, opinions and beliefs. Your life will never be your own until you break the emotional chains that continue to bind you to unresolved memories.

There is one powerful process which enables you to break free of the “mind control” of unresolved memories… Forgiveness!

Forgiveness is the principle of consciously stopping two primary activities which sustain an unresolved memory:

1. Replaying the memory as a “what if”. What if this or that could have happened, how would things have turned out different?

2. Seeking retribution, justice or some manner which will assign the proper blame to the participants of the situation.

In both cases you are attempting to change history.

You can’t change history, you can only change your perception of it. Forgiveness is the process of exercising your power to change how you will consciously relate to your past. You can either learn and grow from your past experiences or you can choose to continue to use your past as an excuse for not fully engaging yourself in the present.

Reliving a past traumatic experience or “denying it” takes you away from focusing your attention on “now”.

Forgiveness is doing something for yourself. It is the only “selfish act” I know of that is always in your own best interest and the best interest of those around you… and in some cases may be the only “good” that can possibly come from past memory.

You have the power to free yourself from the closed loop of an emotional prison. You just have to recognize that it is for you to decide to use this power. Use it! Forgive yourself and forgive anyone else you feel has wronged you. It does not change the reality of the past actions… It just gives you the ability to put into perspective your role in those actions while giving you the ultimate power to once and for all determine how that memory will resolve itself.

Forgive what has been and embrace what will be!

-Bob Baran

Is it just me or is time moving faster?
I’m not talking about some kind of incremental one zillionth of a second thing because of the expanding universe. What I’m talking about is our daily allotment of time. You know, the amount of time we perceive we have during the course of a day in which we are able to accomplish things.

Like many people I have a routine.
I wake up, have a cup of coffee check emails, news, etc and then commence my work day. The problem is I’ll work on a couple of things look up and five or six hours just passed by!

Then I go back to work, look up again and another two and half hours have gone by! …And I don’t feel like I really got a lot accomplished.

Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon?

I consider myself highly focused and productive. It’s just that over the last few months I’ve “felt” a slowing down of productive activity on my part while my perception of time seems to have sped up.

I feel like it’s taking more and more time to get less and less accomplished. The unnerving part is that the days really do seem to be going by faster. My perception of what used to be a week has now turned into two or three weeks.

I noticed this because I may have to put a project on hold while attending to something else and then have this rude awakening that it’s been two or three weeks when I finally get back to it.

I’ve talked to other people who have been having similar experiences. I am very curious as to whether or not this is a widespread phenomenon.

Looking back over the past few months I’ve put out more quality work than at any time in my life. Yet, I feel like I’m operating in slow motion while the days are going by faster. I’m going to investigate this phenomenon and see if it’s job related, age related, actually happening on a large scale or just me.

If this has been happening to you let me know. It would be interesting to see what the common threads are!

-Bob Baran

What is abundance to you? You do know you have the ability to define it for yourself? Don’t you? Well, you do! Just like prosperity, abundance is subject to your interpretation.

Do you think abundance is out of reach? Perhaps it is just like a bad hair day. Instead of bemoaning that your hair looks awful, try this… You close your eyes and then you open them and say, “Okay, my hair doesn’t look the way I’d like it to today. But if I look at it from a different angle, perhaps it’s not so bad. It just doesn’t match my expectations of how I’d like my hair to look.

The same approach can apply to your life. Instead of bemoaning your current fate, look at your life from a different perspective. Here’s an experiment you can try… Close your eyes and think about your life. What feelings come up? If they are negative and self defeating you are going to have more challenges in your life.

Now open your eyes and say to yourself “Okay, my life is not the way I want it to be today. I’m not where I wanted to be at this point in my life. I’m not happy as I’d like to be, but I am willing to look at my life from a different viewpoint. I’m willing to accept where I am right now. Maybe it’s not so bad. Maybe it doesn’t meet the expectations I have for my life, but I’m willing to be happy here.”

This doesn’t mean you have to stay wherever you are, unless you are truly happy there. If you can accept your current situation and be happy in it, even if it is not where you want to be, things will start to change for the better. Just by the simple act of acceptance, you can make your life more abundant.

Acceptance is one of the steps to self-awareness. When you are self-aware, you will be able to determine what is your true passion in life. Finding and following your passion unlocks all the abundance you can imagine and more. If you are passionate about what you do then everything becomes easier.

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I’ve been using the phrase “trust yourself” for more years than I can remember.

The funny thing is that what I’ve been saying all along is actually “trust your intuition”!

It’s that inner voice inside that speaks in the language of feeling. It may also be the sudden glimpse or vision of something which does indeed take place at a later time …Intuition speaks to us in many ways. The problem is we often don’t know whether it’s our intuition or our imagination!

You see, your intuition is a part of your imagination.

They both reside in the right brain or quantum mind. Think of it a the part of you that has unlimited abilities so it’s not surprising that it may be possible to confuse “what you want” with an intuitive feeling. This is why many people don’t trust their inner voice/intuition because they have probably trusted the wrong message.

This is a common occurrence because intuition can be subtle nudge …It’s only when the “alarm bells” go off that we tend to pay attention to it. In order to be able to discern the difference between real intuition and your preconceived notions you must learn to “hear” the more subtle inner language of intuition.

This is going to require some trial and error but the payoff is more personal power and confidence.

It allows you to bring all of your abilities to the table of life.

-Bob Baran