The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

Why Delay the inevitable?

Everything has its own time. Whatever your dream or desire may be, it will arrive at your doorstep only once in an ideal form. What I’m talking about is the combination of things, situations and relationships that align themselves in a “perfect storm”. In this case we’re talking about the elements necessary for you to make whatever it is you desire become a reality.

This perfect alignment only happens once.

Quite frankly, the majority of us never prepare ourselves to recognize the “perfect storm”. The time comes, the opportunity presents itself and then passes us by. Over time our dream or desire turns into a fantasy. An interesting story we tell others over tea and coffee…

Do you ever get a second chance?

Yes. But once you’ve turned your back knowingly or unknowingly on the ideal set of circumstances, you have short-circuited the process you initially set into motion. Keep trying from this perspective and you will end up with a second or third rate version of what you desired. It will be full of compromises, much more difficult, have many more unintended consequences and require an enormous amount of time and energy. It won’t be easy and the outcome won’t be the same.

This is how you grow.

It’s ironic that your inability to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate, actually triggers the inner-growth process. That is, as long as you don’t give up on your dream or desire. Now begins the inner growth which will one day allow you to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate! This time you’ll trust yourself and take action.

What I’m saying here is, sometimes you choose (consciously or unconsciously) to do things the hard way. You want something in life but your ego keeps getting in the way. “It’s my way or the highway!” happens to be the first rule of the ego. It’s the “my way” part that causes you to be blind to the obvious and then follow the path of the “hard way”.

Just remember: If you let yourself learn from your “hard way” experiences, it gets easier. You stop making the same mistakes over and over again. You begin to “see” more and you trust yourself to a greater degree.

You’ll never get the same “perfect storm” of an opportunity twice in your life for a given dream or desire. That’s impossible ..but you may be able to recognize a second chance that will still get you to where you want to be. With more time, effort and expense on your part. Yes, a second chance is always possible. It will be different than the original “perfect storm”.

It will appear to you in direct relation to the degree in which you allow yourself to recognize and act upon your truth. Getting yourself to the point to where you’ve evolved to where you can recognize the second chance is what’s going to be the challenge.

Your ability to see the truth of any situation, relationship or thing always mirrors the quality of your intent.

-Bob Baran

Especially when you tell someone you’re going to do something and you find some excuse to get yourself out of it…

There you were, eyeball to eyeball, making a commitment that you already knew you weren’t going to honor. Instead you chose to say and act in a manner which you thought would hide the lie you were telling.

But, this is nothing new is it?

You’ve had a lot of practice with your “outside face”. You’ve hidden what you really feel and what your true intent is behind your mask, your entire life. You then use your power to rationalize to justify how you acted. You rationalize telling a lie. Once again, nothing new.

Then you come face to face with the “real deal”

Someone who sees who you really are.

This person will appear to accept you at face value. He or she doesn’t judge you out of hand. This makes you feel comfortable. That’s when you let your guard down, just a little. Now you begin to set your own trap.

You see, the person operating from honesty and pure intent, who says what he or she means, and does what he or she says, will always lead you into a situation which forces you to make a commitment. This is how truth will always set you up …to redeem yourself or expose your lie.

The commitment is often a “put up or shut up” kind of situation. It requires, time, energy and money on your part. If you were actually honest the commitment would be second nature, a natural extension of who you claim to be. You would either do it, or not do it. You would never say one thing and do another.

The commitment forces an inner confrontation between who you wish you were (how you want the world to see you) and who you really are…

The good news

The person operating from honesty and with good intent will have rapidly eliminated you from his or her life. Ironically, you actually eliminate yourself through your actions. Allowing someone to create a situation which forces him or her to act on their real truth, is fastest way to find out if they are “the real deal”.

From the perspective of the individual who is operating from good intent, many time wasting and distracting relationships, situations and things are avoided. Honesty and commitment are the most powerful tools an individual has to recognize and avoid energy wasting distractions.

The funny thing, is that the fear, uncertainty and doubt which the dishonest person has to confront as they begin to rationalize their lack of honesty, is all self induced.

The person operating from good intent will always have something good come from the relationship, situation or thing. Not counting the knowledge that he or she has once again avoided and prevented yet another “empty suit” from taking up space in their day-to-day reality…

In my case it’s often a great idea for a blog or article!

Next!

Bob Baran

I’ve talked about gratitude before and I’ll talk about it again. It’s one thing you can always do. If you’re looking to improve your life, your outlook or even someone else’s attitude toward you.

Yesterday, I said I was grateful for the life I live and asked if you were grateful for yours. Well, are you? Have you tried being grateful for your life?

Gratitude! Such a simple and yet effective tool. It is one that you can easily use everyday. All it takes is a moment to stop and say to yourself, “I am grateful.”

Make a list.

• I am grateful for a sunny day.
• I am grateful for the rain.
• I am grateful for (blank).
• I am grateful for (so and so).

You get the picture.

Or you can just look around you and exclaim your gratitude for what you see that maybe you didn’t notice before.

• I’m grateful for that tree.
• I’m grateful I made that traffic light.
• I’m grateful I didn’t get in a wreck.
• I’m grateful I got to see the sunset.

Again, you get the picture.

The power of gratitude is in recognizing that your life isn’t all doom and gloom. There are many things to be grateful for. Look around your life and see what you haven’t noticed lately. Recognize and be grateful for the good in your life or your challenges.

Just be grateful. I’ll bet you’ll have a different outlook on your life after a few days of consciously being grateful and really looking at what is good about your life. The strange thing is… You may even find the people around you responding to you in a different way.  You will feel differently about your life.

If you’d like more details about gratitude you can go to an article that Bob wrote located on our site at: http://www.intentionalprosperity.com/gratitude.html

Take care and have a grateful day,

Gwen Baran

Is there something you keep trying to accomplish, some goal you haven’t been able to reach, some achievement that keeps alluding you, what is your biggest challenge?

We all have them. Even Bill Gates, with all his accomplishments and all his money, I bet he still has challenges he hasn’t been able to conquer. It’s one of those things that we all have in common. Challenges are a human commonality.

We’re here, therefore we’re challenged.

Are you going to do something about your challenges? Or are you going to sit in front of your TV and let your dreams dry up and die?

Face it, there will always be situations where you have to overcome something. It may be a limiting belief. A weight problem. A bad hair day. Challenges come in all shapes, sizes and with varying degrees of urgency.

What one step could you take today that would reduce your challenges and get you closer to your dream? You actually do know what it is. It could be something you’ve been putting off for a long time. Remember when we talked about putting something on your list? You can read that post here…

Figure out or face up to that one thing, one step, you could take to get you closer to your dream and take it today!

Make your challenges, your biggest challenges, work for you.

Take care and call if you’d like some help. Mountain time 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Monday through Friday or email anytime: prosper@intentionalprosperity.com

Gwen Baran

It’s late this Sunday afternoon and I’m just in from moving the water around. As I wandered over the 3 plus acres, Bob and I live on, I was thinking, “This is prosperity to me!”

The sky is blue, the sun is soaking into my muscles and the view… oh, the view!

This is prosperity to me: Being able to live where I want. In a place that brings me joy and feeds my soul. Being able to walk my land. Being able to own a small piece of the marvelous, mystic of Montana. Being able to enjoy the day!

Having the time to watch the birds; finches, sparrows, doves and more around the bird feeder and splashing around in the bird bath.

Having the time to garden. Fresh veggies; lettuce, radishes, snow peas and onions straight from the garden to the table. Yummmmm…..

I am so grateful for the life I live.

Are you?  Are you grateful for the life you live?

Living on the land is healing for me. It reminds me of the connection I have with Mother Earth. We all have that connection. So many lose it living in the city. I did for a while. Living surrounded by concrete and asphalt. If you live in a city, find some time this week to spend in a park or zoo. Be safe and reconnect with Mother Earth. Maybe she’ll remind you of what you’ve been missing.

When you take that time to reconnect, think about this: What is prosperity to me?

Have a marvelous day!

Gwen Baran