Be honest.  Chances are that any area in your life that you are unhappy with, is an area where you have settled for less than what you believe you deserve.  Or perhaps you may have settled for believing that you deserve less than what you do deserve.

That’s right, you get to choose what and how much you deserve in this life.  And you definitely get to choose what you believe about what you deserve.  Take a look at your beliefs.  What do you settle for right now?  In what area of your life do you deserve more?  And why do you deserve more?  Is it a right that you have as a human being, or have you done something to deserve it?  Here’s a neat thought:  We are all created equal, right?  So then, we all deserve the same as everyone else, right?

So, Happiness?  You deserve it.  Love?  You deserve it.  Peace, and Joy, and Health, and Abundance?  You deserve it.

Now that we’ve taken care of those limiting beliefs, by replacing them with beneficial beliefs, let’s take a look at why people don’t have what they deserve:  It’s because people settle for less than they deserve.

Do you see a vicious cycle here?  People don’t have, because they believe they don’t deserve to have, so they set up their lives in such a way as to keep them from getting the things that they don’t think they deserve to have.

First change your beliefs about what you deserve, and then stop settling for anything less than you deserve.

Want relationships that are drama free?  Stop settling for those relationships.  Be better than that.  Persist until you find the relationships that you deserve.

Want more money in your bank account?  Stop settling for the circumstances that keep you in your present condition.

Do you want to be healthy and vibrant and full of energy?  Stop settling for feeling like a run down, overweight, flesh eater.

See the pattern emerging?  In order to stop settling and achieve the results you want and deserve, a LifeStyle Change is required.  If you want to be healthy, than going on a diet will never work.  You have to live a healthy lifestyle.  If you want abundance, you must live an abundant lifestyle.  If you want loving relationships, you must live a loving lifestyle.

You can’t grow good fruit from a bad tree.  You have to have a good tree to grow good fruit.  The fruit comes from the tree, so if you don’t like the fruit of your life, heal the tree, don’t try to heal the fruit.

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This year I want to say yes to the opportunities that Life presents.  No more waiting for things to happen to me, no more passing up on things because I’m in fear that I might miss out on something else.  I want to jump in the River and be in the Flow this year.  I want to follow my heart and live as One with everything.  I want to practice “You are Me also” in everything I do.  I want to experience more in this single year than I have in all my previous 26 years of life.

What is this going to entail for me?

I’m going to have to stop living in fear, and begin living in love (not just in word, but in actual deed as well).  No more worrying about things that ultimately don’t matter like food, clothing, and shelter.  If I want to do something, then I want to do it this year!  No more talking about it, or daydreaming the thing to death.  It’s great to have dreams, but I’ve evolved to the point where I’m ready to create reality out of my dreams.

And what about you, dear Reader?  What will your year be like?  Will you end up in the same place, having gone nowhere and done nothing?

I often joke with my friend that there’s no way 2009 can be worse than 2008 (I went through a lot of painful growing), but it could be, if I don’t use what I’ve learned from 2008.

Ultimately it was 2008 that inspired me to live my 2009 in such a way.  As a celebration of making it out of 2008 alive.  And I hope I’m still celebrating living in 2010, but I’m not worried about it if I’m not

Whatever you’ve decided 2009 will look like, I hope you that you make it a beautiful reality.  Don’t just wait for Prince Charming to come swoop you off your feet this year, become a Princess first, if you want a Prince.  (and vice versa for all you guys out there, if you want the girl of your dreams than first become the man of hers)

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Today, in reading, I was reminded that Life is the greatest teacher of all. There’s simply no substitute for life experience. Borrowed wisdom is rarely appreciated or listened to. Since I was a young boy, I’ve always had to learn my lessons the hard way. Often insisting on doing something my way, until the pain of my way was just too much to bear any longer.

It took me about twenty years, but I finally learned the lesson: Lessons not learned, will be repeated.

Looking back I see this rule applied to my life in a dozen different places, but the ones that hurt the most were the relationship lessons that I refused to learn the first time around. Often not even recognizing that I needed to learn anything at all… I used to just think that it was somebody else’s fault, or fate… anything that would allow me not to take responsibility. One of the lessons learned was to respect myself and to stop holding on to things I had no control over (like other people). There were lots of lessons like that, all rolled into just a few relationships.

I can see now how I should have learned the lessons the first time around, when they were presented to me in friendships that needed to be cleaned out of my life, but apparently my way was better, and it took until I had almost gotten engaged to a girl before some of those lessons were learned the painful way.

Most lessons in life usually start out being taught gently. In our busy, hectic, ego-controlled lifestyles however we rarely seem to hear the still small voice gently teaching us the better Way. The Universe is much like my father was, he would start out asking me to do something… pick up my room, or mow the lawn, or something… and I would say ok, and then go about whatever it was that I wanted to do as soon as he’d left. It wouldn’t take very long before that normal voice, asking me to do something, was now fully raised and projected at me, and the consequences of not doing what I was originally advised to do were suddenly painful. Like I said before though, I had to learn the hard way back then. It’s funny to me now, but around my teen years I actually prided myself on having to learn the hard way! I guess the lessons just weren’t painful enough yet for me to listen.

With every situation in life though, there is a lesson you want to learn from it… that’s why it’s in your life at all. Instead of pointing fingers or trying to analyze what caused this in your life, try asking yourself, “What am I trying to learn from this?” Begin to seek out the lessons in your life and learn them, and stop the cycle of screw up, rinse, and repeat. There will always be another lesson to learn, but it won’t be the same lesson… you will be able to grow and move on. You will be able to restore the flow to your river of life that has been dammed up by this particular lesson.

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