Monday, March 30, 2009
Work and Play
Work and Play are the same to me.
Life is a playground of opportunity to learn and grow, to serve and know we are creating our experience.
Whether I am “working” or “playing”, creating or relaxing, as the world defines it, I am a happy learner.
In my reality, I fully and freely experience all life activities as my conscious choice.
I am free to choose to work or to play.
I am free to have fun or despair.
I am free to enjoy or resent.
I am free to learn or to ignore.
I am free to be responsible or to be a victim of my circumstances.
I am free to choose the timing, the environment and the associations I want.
I am free to allow others to define me and my choices.
I am free to live in the past or in the future and forgo the opportunities right now.
This freedom stuff is a responsibility that I can only experience if I am awake and willing.
With freedom of choice I recognize that it is only fear and judgment that restrict me.
With consciousness I know that I am allowing externals to control my mind and my choices.
With the realization that no one and nothing can harm me unless I allow it, I am free to choose.
Ahhhh! So now I am aware that when people respond to my life choices—full of good stuff, some call work, they are reflecting on their own choices, duties, obligations, fears and judgments.
Others can only be able to understand at the level of awareness they have in their own life experience.
I can respond to others questions, comments and judgments answering their Real questions.
Am I as happy as I seem to be doing all that I do?
My life is an open field that I choose each day.
I use every moment in a way that is meaningful and productive to me.
By living each moment fully, I am fulfilling my purpose which keeps me happy and enthused.
I love to use the wind to teach and inspire me.
I enjoy reality TV to observe all the diverse ways human psyche’s respond and react.
I love the lessons in ACIM because it keeps me on my toes in being response-able.
I am strengthened, empowered and clear when I stay fully conscious.
Life works FOR me, when I do the work within me.
Keep my mind clean and clear to hear that which benefits All.
I am called to a life of joyful service and contribution and so it is.
Waking, sleeping, laughing or weeping, I am One with All.
Loving my life, just the way it is.
Betty Lue
Do you have the life you choose?
What have you allowed to limit you?
Are you willing to undo of past choices and choose again?
Purpose Exercise
To bring your purpose to life, you need to make a declaration of your values and describe the things, people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
List 5 answers under each set of questions.
What do I love to do?
What makes me the happiest?
What is my secret ambition?
What has given me the most satisfaction in the past?
What excites me about life?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What am I good at?
What have others told me I was good at?
In what areas of life have I excelled?
What are some of my strengths?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What is important to me?
What would I be willing to sacrifice for?
What do I stand for?
What would I commit myself for regardless of the obstacles?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What was I born to do?
Where in life can I make a difference?
What unique opportunities have been placed in my path?
What specifically does God want me to do?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
Based on the answers above, develop a short paragraph outlining your purpose.
Take the three top priorities from the four areas to which you just committed answers.
Construct a statement that explains what you are beginning to sense in your purpose.
What is important is to commit to something in writing.
Your purpose can be anything you want it to be and it can include anything that is important to you.
My Purpose Statement:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Life is a playground of opportunity to learn and grow, to serve and know we are creating our experience.
Whether I am “working” or “playing”, creating or relaxing, as the world defines it, I am a happy learner.
In my reality, I fully and freely experience all life activities as my conscious choice.
I am free to choose to work or to play.
I am free to have fun or despair.
I am free to enjoy or resent.
I am free to learn or to ignore.
I am free to be responsible or to be a victim of my circumstances.
I am free to choose the timing, the environment and the associations I want.
I am free to allow others to define me and my choices.
I am free to live in the past or in the future and forgo the opportunities right now.
This freedom stuff is a responsibility that I can only experience if I am awake and willing.
With freedom of choice I recognize that it is only fear and judgment that restrict me.
With consciousness I know that I am allowing externals to control my mind and my choices.
With the realization that no one and nothing can harm me unless I allow it, I am free to choose.
Ahhhh! So now I am aware that when people respond to my life choices—full of good stuff, some call work, they are reflecting on their own choices, duties, obligations, fears and judgments.
Others can only be able to understand at the level of awareness they have in their own life experience.
I can respond to others questions, comments and judgments answering their Real questions.
Am I as happy as I seem to be doing all that I do?
My life is an open field that I choose each day.
I use every moment in a way that is meaningful and productive to me.
By living each moment fully, I am fulfilling my purpose which keeps me happy and enthused.
I love to use the wind to teach and inspire me.
I enjoy reality TV to observe all the diverse ways human psyche’s respond and react.
I love the lessons in ACIM because it keeps me on my toes in being response-able.
I am strengthened, empowered and clear when I stay fully conscious.
Life works FOR me, when I do the work within me.
Keep my mind clean and clear to hear that which benefits All.
I am called to a life of joyful service and contribution and so it is.
Waking, sleeping, laughing or weeping, I am One with All.
Loving my life, just the way it is.
Betty Lue
Do you have the life you choose?
What have you allowed to limit you?
Are you willing to undo of past choices and choose again?
Purpose Exercise
To bring your purpose to life, you need to make a declaration of your values and describe the things, people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
List 5 answers under each set of questions.
What do I love to do?
What makes me the happiest?
What is my secret ambition?
What has given me the most satisfaction in the past?
What excites me about life?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What am I good at?
What have others told me I was good at?
In what areas of life have I excelled?
What are some of my strengths?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What is important to me?
What would I be willing to sacrifice for?
What do I stand for?
What would I commit myself for regardless of the obstacles?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What was I born to do?
Where in life can I make a difference?
What unique opportunities have been placed in my path?
What specifically does God want me to do?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
Based on the answers above, develop a short paragraph outlining your purpose.
Take the three top priorities from the four areas to which you just committed answers.
Construct a statement that explains what you are beginning to sense in your purpose.
What is important is to commit to something in writing.
Your purpose can be anything you want it to be and it can include anything that is important to you.
My Purpose Statement:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________