How Grateful Are You This Thanksgiving?

To my friends and people who read this blog, a popular holiday in America is approaching: Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Why? Because Thanksgiving is the time we gather with our family, friends, and people close to us to celebrate each other, life, and share with a spirit of GRATITUDE.

What are you grateful for this year?

A loving family?
Great friends?
A new job? Or, how about an old job that steadily pays the bills?
A growing company?
Creating something? Making music, art, love, money, people smile? It can be so many things?
Children laughing?
Thanksgiving pie? (In honor of my Aunt Katie who passed this year, I couldn't resist this one!)

Whatever you are grateful for this year, make sure to share it with those you love and those around you.

If you'd like to learn more about Thanksgiving, or even have a little laugh, check out my post Thanksgiving from 2007 called "A Little Thanksgiving Blessing."

May it be blessed with gratitude, love, joy, and happiness again this year! And, if you live in a country that doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, why not give it a try? You might find the practice quite beneficial to enjoying your life.
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Guru Mat Zo's Rascal's Guide To Enlightenment on AspireNow Radio Show

"The Rascal’s Guide to Enlightenment" with Mat Zo, Holistic Comedian, on the AspireNow: Seriously Fun Self-Help Show:

In case you missed this hilarious special guest, we talked about ways to become enlightened, and many silly, witty, and funny acronyms poking fun at the self-help, yogi-centric community. Hey, if you can't laugh at these things, you'll never manifest anything!

Learn more about Mat Zo at his website: http://www.gurumatzo.com/

Also, visit the A-Blog or visit: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/37792 and click on the AspireNow show, then scroll to the show you want to hear. Also, make sure to click the "follow the show" box if you're listening from Talkshoe: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/37792.
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When Love Doesn't Fade Away

Have you loved someone, moved on, but noticed later that this person seems to still be present in your thoughts? I have. Love memory sometimes creates an interesting phenomenon that results in a reappearance or memory getting triggered from time spent, familiar activities, certain sayings, shared experiences (music, events, conversations, destinations), and more.

Lately, I've even found that a certain woman who I loved dearly keeps popping into my dreams. This is happening AFTER I thought I had done all the processing of the break-up, cutting cords, and moved on. Do I have an easy explanation for it? Actually, no, I don't. All I can say is that a part of me still feels very strong love towards her. I may always love her.

Can you relate?

If this is your situation, you really are faced with several questions, where you might ask "Does this mean..."

1. ... you have unfinished business?
2. ... you simply had a profound experience; learn and live from it?
3. ... you are still in love and belong together?

If the answer is #1, you may not be able to complete your "unfinished business" at this time. For example, if either of you have moved into a new relationship, whether dating or married, it may preclude any discussion or experience to find out why the love, feelings, thoughts, or other concerns haven't faded away. Even if neither of you are in relationship, there must be a door to communication. One party may have an interest, but if the other party shut the door you really ought not seek to reconnect until THEY reach out to you. That's my take at my current situation. If the dreams really mean something, the Universe/Spirit/God/Nature all have a way of directing us to "bump" back into each other in a random way at the right time. Trust that time and nature to direct you towards what is best for you and don't force it.

If they DO reach out to you, don't be rude and push them away. Hear them out and see what they have to say.

If your situation is #2, well, this is life. Sometimes, people may still affect us but if they were impossible to live with - or even date - then it is for the best to learn from this experience and grow from it. Incorporate the positives into your new life and make sure to avoid previous mistakes either in communication or ways you expressed your love. As long as we grow, we're living life and becoming our best self every day.

If your situation is more #3, then I have one simple question: "Have you BOTH expressed a desire, willingness, and interest in redeveloping a loving relationship together?" If the answer to this question is a resounding "Yes!" then go for it! Give love a chance... more than one couple split up only to find out years later that they really did love each other the most. I wish you both the best in learning new ways to resolve differences so that you stay together in your effort to grow your love together.

When love doesn't fade away, don't fret. Life is full of experiences. Sometimes the experiences will stay with us through our memories our entire life. There's nothing wrong with remembering someone we loved dearly. Enjoy the memory, and cherish the love you once shared together.

I feel strongly that love is an action word. If we feel love, we often need to reach out and act. If you pulled away because you were hurt, perhaps enough time and healing has transpired to reach out to the person you used to love. You just might be surprised what love awaits you in your future.
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Is Your Reality Matching Your Dream?

Are you achieving your dreams? No?

It isn't always an "automatic" that we're going to achieve all of our dreams. Maybe a job or career decision didn't work out the way we'd hoped. Perhaps a relationship went South instead of going past the Altar. Maybe our health set us back. Whatever the reason, at times we need to regroup and take stock of what is going on with the dream we had for our life and reality of what is actually occurring.

I recently did this with my own life, and decided a change was in order. I'd already changed my relationship, but as I took stock, I decided my career wasn't quite what I wanted it to be. So, I focused on how to help others where I knew the most, loved what they did the most, and felt I could help the most. That led me to a new opportunity as VP Sales for a technology firm. It is an opportunity for me to help them launch this company - something that matches my passion. It is an opportunity for me to regroup what I'm doing with AspireNow and ARRiiVE, and an opportunity to providing more funding while buying me more time with what I do.

In the meantime, once I made that change, I then could step back and review AspireNow and ARRiiVE.com in new light. Now, I've decided to make ARRiiVE purely about innovation in business launch. That's it. The selling programs I've offered there will be spun into a separate website, called "Concepts of Selling", the team-building process I've been working on will be spun into "SemanticCollaboration.com" with the software I'm building spun into another name.

You see, sometimes, when we adjust one area of our life, it frees us to adjust other areas, too. I chose one adjustment to lead me to another, then another, and then another. Each one of these adjustments is a way for me to focus the energy of each business or activity into what it really needs to become.

What can you re-tool in your own life? Is it time to dump one activity and replace it with something that better matches your dreams?

I'm not just talking about work, either. In my own adjustments, I also found more time to refocus my energy on my band, and that is thriving again over at http://www.myspace.com/body with many new gigs, a video, completing a CD, and more.

Take stock of your dreams. Then look at the THREE most important things you need to manifest to make your dreams reality. Then go DO THOSE THREE THINGS. When you do this, your life will improve, your happiness will increase, and you will feel much more fulfilled in living your path to match your dream with your reality.

Tools to help you achieve dreams:

Orange Peel Dream Board Software:



AspireNow's Life Purpose E-Workbook:

AspireNow's Life Purpose Workbook Life Planner

Become one of the 20% of people who live on purpose, and live the dreams you've always wanted to live. You can do it!
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Learn to Say "No" and Set Boundaries to Increase Balance

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Learn to say "no" once in a while!

Often the feeling of overwhelmed comes after saying "yes" to too many people, events, and activities requiring our personal time and attention.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, why not say "no, not this time, but please consider me in the future" as a response to enable you to clear some time off your schedule. If you're not getting the time to exercise, meditate, pray, or find other personal time, you're likely going to overwhelm yourself and hit a level of stress.

Boundaries are Useful to Maintain Balance

If you find people walk into your bedroom without knocking, maybe you need to put a lock on the door and a sign that simply states "Knock before entering." People get the message if you draw a boundary AND if you back it up by enforcing it.

Perhaps co-workers invade your office space without knocking or announcing themselves, you can tell them "You know, I'd like to discuss this. Why don't you schedule some time at 1:00 pm with me today?" This will enable co-workers to start respecting your time.

Are you giving yourself more than you can do?

We might want to blame others when we set the schedule ourself in the first place. If this is your situation, I recommend you stop blaming others and give yourself fewer activities. Almost every time I find myself overwhelmed, I gave myself a deadline that I didn't have to meet, or I demanded I do several things more than I could manage. Don't set yourself up to fail. This will cause stress and make you feel swamped. Instead, schedule in breaks, schedule in stress relief, and schedule one third the events or time slot. This will enable you to recover balance in your life.

Try these simple techniques and see if your life doesn't become more balanced, relaxed, and enjoyable.
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AspireNow Show Resumes September 30

This is just a quick memo that we'll have no AspireNow: Seriously Fun Self-Help Show this week. We'll resume our regular scheduling September 30th at 5PM PST.

In the meantime, why not dial in to our ARRiiVE Show (see: http://arriive.blogspot.com) this Wednesday at 2PM PST or listen to one of the archived AspireNow shows at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/37792.
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Blessings For New Orleans

Yesterday, the hurricane named "Gustav" slammed into the Louisiana coast at a category 2. The water surrounding New Orleans rose to the top of the levies - then held.

A prayer for the safety of the recovering city of New Orleans was answered today.

In honor of that moment and also in honor of Labor Day, we are rescheduling our broadcast of the AspireNow show and will broadcast on Thursday, instead of Tuesday, this week.

Stay tuned and I'll announce more in the next day or so...

Scott Andrews, Founder
AspireNow.com
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