23-213 From Within #3

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Today’s Mandala Message: Keep Passion Alive

This week I’m working through Principle #38 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Fuel Your Success with Passion and Enthusiasm”. I set my intention today to ponder keeping passion and enthusiasm alive. Canfield shares: “So how can you maintain passion and enthusiasm every day? The most obvious is to spend more time doing what you love to do. …that includes discovering your true purpose, deciding what you really want to do and have, believing you can do and habit, deliberately creating your dream career, delegating as much as you can that is not your core genius to someone else, and taking concrete steps toward the attainment of your goals.”

I consider myself truly blessed in that I get to do what I love to do every day. And yet, there are some days it’s a struggle…mainly because I let fears and limiting beliefs get in the way…especially the one where I feel like I’m not successful unless I sell my art or make money from it.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be able to sell more of my art…I just have to remember that the selling of the art doesn’t make me successful…creating the art in the first place is what makes me successful. Otherwise I’d only be creating art that I thought would sell versus creating art for the sake of the art, ie from a place of authenticity.

A good mindfulness practice would be to spend some time today doing what you love to do.

So what about you? Is there at least a few moments a day you can dedicate to doing what you love to do? Are there steps you can take to make that happen? Is there more than one way you can do what you love to do?

“Your work
is to discover your work
and then with all your heart
to give yourself to it.”

— Buddha

Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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An Invitation

I invite you to color along with me this year as part of what I’m calling “The Year of Self-Exploration and Expansion” with all of my “Mandalas of the ___” (day, week, month, year). If you’re interested in more of a self-exploration approach to coloring, check out my “Coloring Mandalas as Meditation”. You can download this mandala at MandalaoftheWeek.com.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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