Ask Yourself

With the beginning of a new year, are you happy with your life
the way it is now? You just set new goals and resolutions for
2003 but are you satisfied with where you are now?

This is a serious question that you need to ask yourself. You
can't get to where you're going if you don't know where you've
been. You need to appreciate what you have now in order to be
able to receive more.

You want more money to flow into your life but are you grateful
for what you have now? True it may not be as much as you would
like to have but doesn't it pay the bills now? And if not all of
the bills, doesn't that money help in some way?

Instead of looking at the negative aspects of life - turn them
around and find the positive part. Just like a battery,
everything in life has a positive and a negative side.

Your outlook on a potentially negative situation can alter your
future. By focusing on the negative parts, say you have an older
car in need of minor repairs, you're causing more negativity to
fall into play. Like attracts like. So the more you focus on
the bad things - your car isn't running perfectly - the more bad
things are going to happen.

The flip side of that is if you choose to focus on the good
things, you attract more goodness into your life. If you
acknowledge the fact that you have a car and even though it
doesn't run in perfect condition anymore - it does get you where
you need to go everyday. Being grateful for what you have and
showing it opens the doors for new possibilities.

You're unhappy with the way you're body is shaped. You want to
change the way you look You want a little less here and a little
more there. Have you stopped to thank your body for the
thousands of daily miracles it provides to keep you going on a
daily basis? The human body is a miracle and yet we complain day
in and day out about what we don't like about it. But thanking
your body for what it does for you is very beneficial.

Stressing over your body image only causes more stress - not a
new look. You might get into the gym for a week or two but after
that it's back to the same routine. But appreciating and
admiring your body for what it is now will lead you to take steps
to improve on it. And these improvements won't be lead by your
ego but your heart instead, so these will be permanent
improvements in your lifestyle and body.

Once you begin to love your body a chain reaction starts - you
begin to love your body, then you love your self and then you
start doing things that benefit your self and your body by
exercising more and eating healthier foods.

So it all depends on how you look at things. There's a negative
and a positive side to every situation. As the new year begins,
ask yourself which side do you want to focus on in your life
situations.