23-241 Say Yes to No #3

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Today’s Mandala Message: Create a Stop-Doing List

This week I’m working through Principles #42 and #43 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Just Say No!” and “Say No to the Good so That you Can Say Yes to the Great” respectively. I set my intention today to ponder the idea of creating a stop-doing list which Canfield shared from Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great”. Canfield states that “by creating a stop-doing list as well as a to-do list, you bring more discipline and focus into your life.”

Here’s a quickly put together list of things that would be good for me to put on my stop-doing list:

  1. stop checking my emails so often
  2. stop spending so much time on Social Media
  3. stop giving away my services for free
  4. stop putting off important projects
  5. stop going to bed so late
  6. stop hiding myself from the world…time to put myself out there more
  7. stop believing I’m not good enough, or that what I do is not good enough
  8. stop eating so much
  9. stop working so hard…it’s okay to take time off
  10. stop putting off self-care…and get a hair cut

A good mindfulness practice would be to consider those things that would benefit you to stop doing.

So how about you? Are there things you do that are out of habit and yet don’t serve you? Looking at your day, what can you stop doing that would help you to be more focused and disciplined?

“Nourishing yourself in a way
that helps you blossom
in the direction
you want to go is attainable,
and you are worth the effort.”

— Deborah Day

Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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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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