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Changing Your Life Begins With Changing Your Mind

We can change our lives through the power of choice and faith. By choosing what we want to come into our lives, we are changing our mind about our current reality. I feel that this is such an important fact to know because it affects the quality of our lives. In other words, our choices impact our destiny.

So in order to have our desired destiny, we must first decide what we want. We should be in the driver’s seat and choose where we want to go instead of wandering aimlessly and letting life happen to us. As we make our choices, we then use our faith by praying to receive our hearts’ desires. Our prayers are solidified through our belief that they will be answered. For example, visualizing ourselves as having already received our answered prayers is a way to exercise our faith, which helps to attract our desires.

Our lives will then begin to change as our requests become manifested. These manifestations result in a new life because we initially changed our minds about how we wanted our lives to be. This should give us hope because we really do have the power to change our lives if we first change our minds.

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Listen to Your Heart

Your heart speaks to you in its own way. It tells you what you should be doing all the time. Many people call it intuition, which is our way to know what Jehovah wants us to do. He communicates with us through our hearts. This is a wonderful gift He has given us that should be utilized to assist us during our journey. Our hearts serve as our guides that will lead us to the right places when we choose to follow our God-given guidance.

Our hearts give us a nudge or a feeling or a thought directing us to do good things, and it is up to us to listen for it and to listen to it. Through the power of choice, we can then make the right decisions. This also results in living without regrets of not doing something that would have had a positive impact on our lives.

So the next time your heart speaks to you, take that divine opportunity and respond accordingly. By listening to your heart, you will experience what Jehovah has in store for your life. Listen to your heart because it knows where you should go and what you should do.

Ms. Mujiba Salaam Parker

Email address: mujiba@mujiba.com

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The Application of Knowledge is Power

It is often said that “Knowledge is Power”, but it is not altogether true. Just because we know something does not make us powerful. We become powerful when we apply knowledge to our lives. This message is very powerful because it has the ability to change your life so that you can live as abundantly as you want.

My previous motivational messages have described how we can listen to our hearts to guide us in the right direction, sow seeds of success for an abundant harvest, achieve our individual definitions of success, choose our divine destiny, and change our lives by changing our minds. These messages provide knowledge on how to access our power through faith and choice. The real power comes when we apply the knowledge from these messages to our lives. When we do this, we can live life on a higher level, one that is in concert with Jehovah and more abundant.

Our level of abundance will be directly proportionate to our level of faith. This is because we use faith to successfully attract our desires. Through faith, the more desires we receive, the more abundant our lives will be. Apply this knowledge to become more powerful and live an abundant life.

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The Power of the Universe - Achieving Goals

By: Yvonne Perry

Sometimes it feels like I’m too busy; I have more irons than I have fire to put them in! Other times, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It is in character for me to juggle several things at once. In fact, I think my photo is in the dictionary next to the term “multi-tasker.”

As a freelance writer and podcast host, I stay busy writing for clients and interviewing guests. However, there are a lot of other things that typify a day in the life of a freelance writer. There’s marketing to be done, leads to follow up on, blogging, writing for article directories, interacting with my writing team and other writing groups, phone calls to make and emails to answer. Each of these presents a new opportunity just waiting to be discovered. But, wait! Do I really need to sign up for everything that comes along?

Opportunities come for a reason. They give us choice and add quality to our lives as long as we choose the ones that are right for us and say “no” to the ones that don’t move us toward our goals. Setting goals is very important in any business. I’m not keen on setting goals that describe where I want to be ten years from now—to me that would be limiting my creativity. What if I set my goal too low or change my mind? I would only be setting myself up for disappointment. I’d rather focus on short-term or daily goals such as:

* Finish chapter two in Mr. Smith’s book

* Follow up on Jones brochure

* Invoice client A for ad project

Each night I take a few moments to be thankful for all I was able to achieve that day and then write down in my “intention journal” my wishes for what I want to have happen the next day. I write things in present tense even if they haven’t yet occurred. This might not be the to-do list you would expect. For example:

* I am enjoying every moment of my day

* Everything goes smoothly for me; I have ease of well-being

* I am inspired to complete a writing project today

* Mr. Jones pays me on time and is pleased with my work

* Interruptions do not bother me

* My mind is clear and my body is healthy

This form of goal setting leaves room for the Universe to work on my behalf because I have not made demands on myself or my Higher Power, but I have made my requests known.

The next morning before I go to my office I take five minutes to go over my wish list in a meditative mode in which I ask for guidance and help to do what really needs to be done. You might be surprised how mysteriously this works. My day really does go smoother and I do get that second chapter completed. Either I was not interrupted at all or I was not rattled by the interruption because the distraction was actually a manifestation of another intention. Perhaps it was Mr. Jones calling to say he had mailed me a check! These items on my list are not only my goals; they are backed with a vibration that has helped create events to my liking.

While I am a very task-oriented person, I don’t want to be a workaholic. I could easily work 16 hours a day. After all, it’s hard to quit work at five o’clock each day when you are already at home! There’s always one more email to read or one more thing I want to put on my intention list for the next day. Still, I find that when I set my intentions and work toward my daily goals, I accomplish the important things and I’m ready to leave my to-do list in my office and enjoy another part of my life.

Article Source: http://www.meditationsforwomen.com

Yvonne Perry is a freelance writer and the owner of Write On! Creative Writing Services based in Nashville, Tennessee. She and her team of ghostwriters service clients all over the globe by offering quality writing on a variety of topics at an affordable price. If you need a brochure, web text, business document, resume, bio, article or book, visit www.yvonneperry.net While there sure to subscribe to the RSS podcast feed and the free monthly newsletter about writing, networking, publishing and marketing. Read more on Yvonne’s blog at yvonneperry.blogspot.com.

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