Well, I was given an idea to create one of these for myself. But there was a twist to what I was going to create. I took a blank piece of paper, in the middle I wrote: "I AM Grateful For". Then each day for 30 days I wrote something I was looking to manifest into my life. I wrote each manifestation as a gratitude statement like I had already had what I was trying to manifest. As I wrote each new statement, I felt the gratitude and happiness from having each item. I would write each item, then reread the previous days, and then meditate on the page itself.
This was an absolutely amazing experience! Because of this amazing experience, is why I decided to share it all with you. I learned about myself in this experiment, plus I also built the habit of being grateful for something different each day. Being grateful is something we all have to learn to really experience in this life because you will be rewarded for your feelings.
Life is an amazing thing and we should all cherish it and just love it the way that it is. If we can make changes for the better, go for it. Love your life and everything the universe gives to you and it will get better every single day. I know I love my life every single day, no matter what life decides to throw at me that day. I know that I can handle anything that is coming towards me with ease because the universe is on my side and I'm grateful for all the lessons I've given to learn so that I can become a better person.
I was recently introduced to this video of Joel Osteen's famous sermon about changing your "I am" and making sure you are using the right "I AM"s each day.
I absolutely love this sermon and have listened to it every day for the past 4 days, more than once each day. There is so much amazing information in just this half hour sermon. It is so perfect for changing yours or anyone's life. Listen to this sermon, send it to your friends. I am not preaching any form of religion here. I am sharing the underlying message of this sermon. You can go places you've never dreamed of before by simply changing your I AM.
I will admit that over the past few weeks I've been struggling big time. I've been searching for motivation everywhere - books, blogs, videos. Nothing seemed to really work for me. And I'm not trying to make excuses, but I also think Mercury Retrograde had a lot to do with this as well. But I'm ready to move on, find that motivation again, and achieve my dreams and goals. My get up and go really did get up and go a few weeks ago. I have had no motivation, felt extremely exhausted and just want to be alone. For the most part, I'm still lacking the motivation and have the exhaustion and still want to be alone, but this sermon has still changed so much that has been running through my head lately. I am blessed. I am achieving my dreams and goals. I am working hard. I've been working on the negative thoughts running through my head for what seems like ages. Most days they don't get me down, but the past few weeks have been horrible. And this message really pointed that out for me.
There is so much that Joel says in this sermon that really resonates with me. And so much I need to do still with working on myself due to past influences, mainly my parents programming of me. My mom is still going at me every day with her rude comments about how I am basically a failure. And I know this has a lot to do with how I've felt every day for the past few weeks. Every time I start having successes, I get broken down again by one or both of my parents and my path starts getting derailed again. I am done with this from this point forward. I know that I am achieving my dreams and goals, no matter what happens or who wants other things to happen in my life.
Life Joel says in this video, create your list of "I am" sayings that you can and are achieving. I have started to do this and change is already happening again. Nothing is going to derail me this time. I am achieving my dreams and goals. I have also decided to create an I AM vision board. I am going to type up all of my I AM statements and put them on a piece of posterboard. The more I read these over and over each day, the more things will start to change.
Change is something that is really actually easy. It is the thought about changing that takes so long to accept and act on. Making that change is instant as soon as the thought to actually change is accepted.
Change your life. Be a better you. Trust, believe, have faith. Life is amazing and getting better and better every day. But this is where you have to trust, believe and have faith.
