This is great advice.

   Have you ever been around a couple where one person constantly nags and rags the other person?  It’s horrible to be around because it feels like it will never end.

  That’s because nagging and carping are not solutions. Instead they’re symptoms of resigning to the fact that things always have to be the same. In other words, the nagging person has decided that the other person will never change.

   Another Bucky quote!

   This one goes hand-in-hand with yesterday’s “Our power is in our ability to decide.”

I’ve added this one because Fuller reminds us not to cede to our surroundings, including our inner mindscape. Instead he inspires us to look around at what needs to be done to make life better, happier, lovelier, easier, and more comfortable.

   I used to fear making decisions because I thought if I made the wrong one my life would be destroyed.

   Worse, I figured that I had to stay loyal to my decisions, even after they’d proved themselves to be not the best.

   The step I always forgot was this: In every moment I had new opportunity to decide on something. For example, if the traffic is slow, which causes me to decide that I’ll be late, the next moment I’m alive gives me a new opportunity to decide. I can

   Trauma can seem like a stain that can’t be removed. Plus it’s debilitating, and can be so paralyzing that it’s near impossible to experience gratitude, to think of a positive affirmation, or to think of an intention you’d like created in your life. Ultimately, trauma and re-traumas when triggered can wreck havoc on your life. I know.

   I know because I’ve had to recover from a drowning attempt by my birthmother and then the subsequent thirteen-year sexual abuse by my (adoptive) father. It took me at least twenty years, but I still have to protect myself from being re-traumatized.  I cover my eyes a lot at

   In my last post I wrote about body movement as a way to release trauma from your body because the effects of trauma hinder your ability intentionally create what you want in life.

   Another hindrance is stress. You know the adage: Under stress, you regress.

    Stress can cause your thinking to get crooked, your judgment to go haywire, and your attitude to decline.  Just

  Besides stress and trauma, the third obstacle to intentionally creating what you want (i.e., a happy life) is negative energy. It doesn’t even have to be your energy. It could be from the people around you. Or it could be in your environment.

   But help is on the way.

   MindBodyGreen provides 7 simple tools to clear negative energy from your space. It includes things like: bathing in salt

   Have you made your vision board yet? Putting it off may mean putting your life off.

   Intentions, conscious or subconscious, are the blueprint for your life.

   To help steer your life in directions that make you happy, it’s important to consciously set intentions that do just that.

   One great tool for you to consciously setting positive

   Want another way to amplify your intentions? Try feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement as a tool for creating good chi or energy.

   While I’m not suggesting you become a feng shui expert, I do suggest you use some of its tools to focus on intentions you want to create. And not just any old intention. I’m talking about intentions you find hard to achieve.

   For example, if you have issues with love relationships, or