23-244 Say Yes to No #6

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Today’s Mandala Message: Determine What’s Truly Great

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 what’s truly great versus what’s just good. Canfield offers a four-step process to help determine what’s truly great.

Step One: “Start by listing your opportunities—one side of the page for good and the other side for great. Seeing options in writing will help crystalize your thinking and determine what questions to ask, what information to gather, what your plan of attack might be, and so on. It will help you decide if an opportunity truly fits with your overall life purpose and passion or if it’s just life taking you down a side road.”

I do find myself wondering if what I’m doing is a waste of time, a distraction, or a side road versus what’s truly in alignment with what I want to create for myself. Sometimes I fool myself into thinking I’m really busy working on my projects, when the reality may be that I’m doing these things because they seem easier, are in my comfort zone, and more importantly that because I have some fear about my bigger goals and dreams, it’s safer to do these other things.

I plan to work on Canfield steps over the next few days. And I’ll share the remaining three steps tomorrow.

A good mindfulness practice would be consider what opportunities of yours are truly great.

So how about you? Are you aware of the qualities of your opportunities? Are they good? Are they great? Can you easily discern the difference?

“Luck?
I don’t know anything about luck.
I’ve never banked on it
and I’m afraid of people who do.
Luck to me is something else:
Hard work –
and realizing
what is opportunity
and what isn’t.”

— Lucille Ball

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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