Step Past Your Current Conundrum (of which there's sure to be one) to Serve Others

'If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.'    Iyanla Vanzant

Stepping Past Your Current Conundrum (of which there's sure to be one)

No matter what you're going through; no matter what the past; it's time to open yourself up to all the marvels of creation you have to offer the world as you step past your current conundrum. 

Our struggles strengthen us and give us something to push against while growing our hearts and compassion for others. Why waste one of the world's greatest assets--your active participation? Why hide your gifts from the world? Who are you to horde your talents?

Take the Focus off You--Put it where it Belongs

Don't let self-doubt or feelings of inadequacy force you into hiding. When you discover you've retreated from the world feeling shameful about being defective or inadequate, take one small step a day to come out of hiding.  Get the focus off YOU and put it where it belongs--on how to best serve others.

Ask yourself: 

💓How can I best serve the world, my community and my family? 

💙What is one thing I can do today to contribute to those around me?

💚What one thing can I do today to better position myself for serving in my community?

💛What is one thing I can do today to make a difference for one person?

Using Your Strengths to Serve Others

Stop fixating on your inadequacies. When you take the focus off you and put it on serving others instead, you'll stop ruminating on your weaknesses and fears and allow your life to naturally emerge out of your strengths and caring for others.

'Compassion is the unfettered yearning that responds to the world with noble heart, the understanding that others are just like us. Radiating from basic goodness like the sun, compassion lifts us above self-involvement and brings us out of the Dark Age. Just like the sun behind a cloud, it shines through our self-centeredness.'       Sakyong Mipham

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Susan J Meyerott loves helping people become more fully themselves, particularly those working through anxiety, life and career transitions, relationships, and self-esteem issues. She provides a nonjudgmental, growth-oriented environment for you to become the person you’re meant to be—while appreciating the richness of who you already are. Learn more at Lightarted Living Blog

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Adversity is a Powerful Teacher

You're not the first person to lose or hate your job and you won't be the last. As much as we hate to admit it, adversity is a powerful teacher, nudging us on to greatness. 

Choose to embrace adversity. Check out how some of the greats who've struggled before you have come to terms with adversity.

Be Strong. Friedrich Nietzsche said, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." 

While being unemployed and struggling to find work or struggling to stay in a dead-end job  is uncomfortable, you can find your strength and purpose through the process. 

Walt Disney wrote, "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Break Records. Writer William Arthur Ward wrote: "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." 

Steve Jobs was spurred on to achieve more after being fired from Apple. Don't let your situation break you; let it spur you on to greatness.

Reveal Your Talents. Horace said: "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." 

Look past your self-doubt and self-consciousness to discover your talents. Let the discomfort motivate you to dig deep to unleash your hidden talents. 

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace

Become a Better You. "Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with," wrote Thomas Carlyle. 

You are a jewel being polished by your struggles. Accept this truth and you'll become the gem that shines.

Courage means to Take Heart

Do you know the origins of the word 'Courage'? First known use of the word was in the 14th century. The word courage   has been traced  back to  corage (Middle English;, curage, quer, and coer  meaning  heart (Anglo-French); and cor (Latin) meaning more at heart.

Synonyms for Courage: great heartedness, guts, gutsiness, hardihood, heart, heroism, intestinal fortitude,  moxie, nerve, prowess, stoutness, valor, virtue

Take Heart in Your Struggles

Find Great Heartedness within Yourself

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Listening for Stillness

To Bathe: 

To Wash Sadness from the Mind

Tracy Gibbons

Releasing the Hurts of the Day 

Who doesn't need soft reminders to wash away the sadness and hurts of the day? We all need ways to refresh our spirits, listen for stillness, and quiet ourselves at the end of a long day or trying week. 

Do you have something that works for you?

Visual, musical, or poetic prompts can serve to focus and calm us, while helping us 'listen for stillness'.

If you don't have something in your environment serving to prompt you to 'let it go' at the end of the day that helps you to start the next day refreshed, consider three prompts I use and consider creating your own.

1. Art in the Bathroom

When my young daughter, Tracy, painted the girl with the sad eyes 15 years ago I added the description  'to bathe' that a friend recently shared with me--'to wash sadness from the mind', and I hung it in my bathroom where it still hangs as a daily reminder to 'let it all go'. I love getting daily inspiration from my daughter, and I am reminded of her every time I see the picture. 

Hanging a positive calming reminder in the bathroom gives you daily exposure.  If you see a calming message enough times it seeps in and sets you on a positive life path. 

2. Colorful Affirmation Hearts

I began creating water-colored affirmation hearts as a way to provide uplifting messages to family, friends and co-workers going through difficult times. I soon discovered the uplifting effect it had on me to create and share them. I am uplifted and calmed every time I share these with you.

Pick out one affirmation heart to contemplate a day. Keep it simple and focused. Make your own or find what you need in this blog.

William Blake's Voices of Children

Susan J Meyerott

3. Poetic Art in the Bedroom 

This poem by William Blake is the ultimate calming poem for me. It hangs in my bedroom where I see it first thing upon waking and last thing before lights off. It creates utter stillness in my soul. This poem says everything is well in the world. 

When the voices of children are heard on the green,

And laughing is heard on the hill,

My heart is at rest within my breast,

And everything else is still.

William Blake

My heart at rest within my breast and everything else is still

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