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When You’re “Prepared For The Worst”

My note from the universe addressed a disturbing habit with which I’m very familiar. It said:

“Rebecca, it does little good to say you want something and then “just in case” prepare to do without.”

What makes us do that? Decide that we want something, perhaps even envision it and determine that you’re going to do whatever you can to make it a reality . . . then almost immediately begin working on a “plan B,” maybe even to the point of saying to ourselves, “if I don’t get it, though, this is what I’ll do . . . .”

Stop that. Continue reading “When You’re “Prepared For The Worst””

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When You’re “Shiny!”

I’m going to get to spend some time with some of my girls today! And we’re going to have a wonderful time together. The song stuck in my head this morning? Shiny Happy People ~ remember that song? I heard it on Jeff 92 the other day; first time in years, and it goes wonderfully well with what I’ve been thinking the last couple of days, when I went to sleep last night and when I got up this morning, about how Esther Hicks talks about how it takes 17 seconds, only 17 seconds of holding a particular thought or emotion to draw more of that thought or emotion.

Like calls to like, birds of a feather, and so on. This is more true of the things that you think, the thoughts that you keep in your head than it is of anything else. It’s also one of the ways that you’re so powerful ~ only it’s so common to us we don’t realize how powerful we really are, how powerful the thoughts we choose to think and the emotions we choose to feed energy into really are.  Continue reading “When You’re “Shiny!””

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When You’re “Awake at the Lectern” . . .

For a very long time I’ve been a very good student. I’m good at paying attention and taking notes and organizing information so that I can refer back to it easily, even making notecards and developing strategies for easy access to what I’ve learned for the inevitable quiz or test or paper that I would write.

All that translated very well into teaching – so well, I think, that there was a point early on in my teaching career when I was able to identify what it was that suited me so well about it. Teaching at the university level gave me an outer structure for my days and weeks and years. And I had been so thrilled to go back to school – to go to university after having quit high school when I was 16 ~ that when I became a teacher to help pay my way through grad school, the transition was a natural one. Continue reading “When You’re “Awake at the Lectern” . . .”